ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control 4 days 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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) 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 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. 2 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 2 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' 2 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 3 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 3 weeks ago:
North star? More like noob star.
- Comment on He is trying his best, okay? 🥺 3 weeks ago:
This has killed the lobster.
- Comment on the living dead 3 weeks ago:
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 4 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly hard to guess.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think MechaHitler is a denier per se.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 4 weeks ago:
I admit that I would prefer an anime waifu who isn’t a Nazi but I’m willing to compromise.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 weeks ago:
Kill them with kindness.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 4 weeks ago:
Plenty of people want to inflict pain or see pain inflicted, as long as it’s on the right victims, and these people aren’t all on the right.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 4 weeks ago:
In my admittedly limited experience, women willing to kiss a guy are still often going to be reluctant to do something that they think might hurt that guy, even if the guy insists otherwise.
- Comment on Bricks and rubble 4 weeks ago:
the official app doesn’t have a way to save images from comments anymore
Even the web interface doesn’t make it straightforward to save images. “Open image in new tab” and “Save image as” don’t work.
- Comment on Russia says minister fired by Putin killed himself 5 weeks ago:
Gun-fired from life.
- Comment on Mages be like: 5 weeks ago:
You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 5 weeks ago:
What was the prompt? I’m not going to be outraged if it have you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn’t answer questions like that.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 5 weeks ago:
Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups.
