PumpkinSkink

@PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, they lose money on every prompt, even with the $200/mo “Pro” subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna post the Cory Doctorow quote

  “Take politics: One common refrain is that ‘‘I don’t even know what right or left even mean anymore, they’re just tribal identities.’’ Many years ago, I said something very like this to Steven Brust, who skewered me with his response:

  ‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most common reason I see people evade public transport fares is because they thought they had more money on their account than they did, the machine that accepts cash is broken, or they are literal teenagers. In all of these cases, I feel like taking the $1.50 hit is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna take. this opportunity to point out how stupid it is that 1 Calorie = 1kilocalorie. Actually my least favorite unit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. This is a way bigger problem with this article than anything else. The entier thing hinges on their AI-detecting AI working. I have looked into how effective these kinds of tools are because it has come up at my work, and independent review of them suggests they’re, like, 3-5 times worse than the (already pretty bad) accuracy rates they claim, and disproportionatly flag non-native English speakers as AI generated. So, I’m highly skeptical of this claim as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always like when people talk about potentially habitable exoplanets. It’s like “this planet is not literally on fire or frozen solid, and it’s atmosphere is 80% carbon dioxide with a measly 20% hydrochloric acid”. Like we’ve got a planet here that we’re struggling to not kill ourselves on from doubling the Co2 from 250 ppm to 500 ppm. We’re never getting to that other planet, bro. If we were gonna, solving climate change would be trivial by comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10001⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually how chromatography works. The mobile phase is 0.1% formic acid and 0.3% blood of the innocent.