ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on irl shiny 3 days ago:
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 4 days ago:
I’m not sure what the point of lying about a requirement that you have which the employer intends not to satisfy is.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 4 days ago:
Keep in mind that the conditions before life formed were quite different than the conditions once it had already been established. Once life exists, there is a competition for resources and a new replicator will be unlikely to survive in an environment filled with far more sophisticated replicators that have had a head start.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 6 days ago:
If it isn’t a good idea now, that’s only because the technology isn’t sophisticated enough yet. I expect that something like this will be everywhere in the future and people then will wonder how we managed to survive without drones ready to respond nearly instantaneously the way that we wonder how people in the past managed to survive without police at all. (There was a lot more crime back then.)
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
I think that’s what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
I read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 week ago:
You can have equals signs on license plates? What do the cops do if they need to catch you? Do they put out an APB for emoticons?
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
I’m not saying that ice cream is healthier than a normal dinner, just that if I really crave it sometimes then the cost to my health of eating it periodically is actually quite low, whereas the cost of certain other desserts (like soft drinks) is relatively high. I’d much rather eat the pint of ice cream than drink six cans of coke, but the calories are approximately equivalent and the ice cream is probably healthier in other ways.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
Your points are valid, but I think that building AI has benefits beyond simply enabling people to use that AI. It advances the state of the art and makes even more powerful AI possible. Still, it would be good to know about the amortized cost per query of building the AI in addition to the cost of running it.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
I don’t see why this argument works better against AI than it does against microwaves. Those are used hundreds of millions of times a day too.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
With regard to sugar: when I started counting calories I discovered that the actual amounts of calories in certain foods were not what I intuitively assumed. Some foods turned out to be much less unhealthy than I thought. For example, it turns out that I can eat almost three pints of ice cream a day and not gain weight (as long as I don’t eat anything else). So sometimes instead of eating a normal dinner, I want to eat a whole pint of ice cream and I can do so guilt-free.
Likewise, I use both AI and a microwave, my energy use from AI in a day is apparently less than the energy I use to reheat a cup of tea, so the conclusion that I can use AI however much I want to without significantly affecting my environmental impact is the correct one.
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 3 weeks ago:
I know people whose grants have been put on hold and these people don’t even know if they have health insurance anymore, since grant money pays for that too. This is wild.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 weeks ago:
Depends on what you mean by “drastically”. The guy evangelizing to the rest of the company was claiming an increase in productivity of about 30%. I’d say that’s a big increase, but I wouldn’t use the word “drastic”.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 weeks ago:
Well I, for one, have gained a great deal of effective psychological advice from ChatGPT - advice that has significantly altered my internal state and is changing my life for the better. My friend (an experienced software developer) uses AI to review code and look up obscure syntax. According to him, it functions at the level of a “very well-read intern”. A scientific collaborator I used to write data-analysis scripts for almost never asks me for help anymore. She is very happy because Gemini is good enough to do almost all of what she needs. A digital artist I know often edits promising AI-generated pictures rather than drawing from scratch. A very no-nonsense coworker increased his productivity so much using Copilot that he voluntarily arranged to give a talk to the rest of the developers about how great it was.
All these are people I know personally. I don’t think an AI can write a B- paper (it can write something that looks like a solid paper until, as you say the sources are checked) but it’s already helping many professionals work more efficiently. For now, this looks like a warm-and-cozy “AI works together with humans rather than taking their jobs” scenario but every one of the people I’ve mentioned thinks that the technological development that lets AI take his or her job could happen any day now.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 weeks ago:
Pumping out a B- paper means being able to replace the average college graduate.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 4 weeks ago:
I get permitting these blogs as part of a commitment to avoid censorship - someone with non-mainstream but far less extreme opinions can look at them and say “If Substack doesn’t censor even these guys, it definitely won’t censor me.” With that said, I’m still surprised that Substack apparently doesn’t manually curate its push notifications.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy as a whole is more seems to attract neo-Luddites but I’m still surprised to see someone so against transhumanism in c/technology.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 5 weeks ago:
another couple for room to split it
You split your own wood? I’m in the USA so maybe it’s different here, but when I lived in a house with a wood stove, I bought my wood pre-split from a guy who presumably did it with a machine.
- Comment on And so it was 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 5 weeks ago:
Are there currently any government contracts put at risk by this? I didn’t think that the feds were major spenders on AI.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 5 weeks ago:
Predictable in the same way the inevitable leak of the people submitting their selfies in order to view porn is predictable.
- Comment on Don't forget America is committing the genocide too. 5 weeks ago:
Does Jeremy Scahill have insider information about the negotiations which the male newspapers don’t?
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying he’s innocent.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
The truth status of accusations is going to be correlated. If 90% of accusations against someone are definitely false, the remaining 10% are likely to be false too.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 5 weeks ago:
He’s got a point though. If you get to decide how many cookies to make and you know that if you decide to make too many cookies then you get the extra ones for free, well, then you’d be more principled than most people if you never deliberately erred on the side of making too many.
I’m in a weird position myself, because I know someone at a food bank who brings me expired food that the food bank would otherwise throw away. The local grocery store donates that food when it’s close to expiring and often the food bank can’t give it all away in time. The thing is that while the people the food bank serves are not likely to be lost customers for the store, I am. I would be buying food there if I wasn’t getting this free food, which is why the store doesn’t give such food away to just anyone. Technically, I’m not breaking a rule because the store doesn’t explicitly require the food bank to throw away the food I’m being given, but my point is that I don’t think I could be trusted to decide how many cookies to make.
- Comment on President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before' 5 weeks ago:
It’s not unreasonable to simply dismiss what Trump says entirely, but it’s a different matter to assign it a meaning other than the meaning that can be inferred from context. You’re just putting words in his mouth at that point.
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 5 weeks ago:
I’ve dated one person who could not bear to be touched at all in her sleep (but she insisted on sharing the same bed, which made things awkward for me) and another person who snored, but I think that humans probably generally sleep better together. It isn’t a sexual thing - look at non-human animals and how they often sleep cuddled up together. As a kid, I shared a bed with my grandfather (we lived in a small apartment) and I would fall asleep hugging him, and as an adult I slept better when I could cuddle up with my dog.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 5 weeks ago:
North star? More like noob star.
- Comment on He is trying his best, okay? 🥺 1 month ago:
This has killed the lobster.
- Comment on the living dead 1 month ago:
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.