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- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 days ago:
And when the current senior programmers retire the field of juniors that are coming to replace them will be much smaller.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 days ago:
Okay, but like-
You could just be lying.
You could even be a chatbot, programmed to hype AI in comments sections.
So I’m going to trust studies, not some jackass on the internet who says “trust me bro!”
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 3 days ago:
Mostly connections and luck based on the trash I hear that’s somehow popular.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 6 days ago:
The recent Medicaid cut to make a few hundred billionaire friends happier/richer was terrible propaganda. Doesn’t that contradict your point?
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 6 days ago:
That’s clearly a siren or some kind of merfolk.
Clearly this is their territory.
- Comment on What are the chances 1 week ago:
Imagine living in a world without being voluntold to do overtime every week.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
You say “everyone” but it’s still just other men.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 2 weeks ago:
People are organizing in their communities to patrol for ICE and respond to ICE raids, which is quite a bit like the Black Panthers “cop watch” and community patrols.
I know it’s not like when protesters burned down a police station in 2020, but things are happening.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
You literally called it borderline magic.
Don’t do that? They’re pattern recognition engines, they can produce some neat results but they really aren’t that impressive. This “borderline magic” line is why they’re trying to shove these chatbots into literally everything, even though they aren’t good at most tasks.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
Nothing that has been demonstrated makes me think these chatbots should be allowed to rewrite human history what the fuck?!
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally the least you can do, and doing the least possible is not good enough.
You don’t get to wash your hands because you voted for Kodos.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 3 weeks ago:
Looks like patients that receive hemodialysis treatment have lower pfas levels, so that actually might be viable!
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 3 weeks ago:
I know pfas levels are immediately lower after the donation. I’m not under the impression that pfas levels stay low for very long i.e. long enough to safely donate blood again.
Also, it’s kind of messed up that we’re donating contaminated blood. Is that good for the people that use our blood? Who knows!
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 3 weeks ago:
There are other ways to lower the amount of plastic in you. If you donate your blood you can measurably lower your pfas levels. Really just removing blood which carries plastic through your whole body will also lower your concentration of plastics.
I’m pretty sure regular blood letting is actually not great for you either.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 3 weeks ago:
No, it’ll go the way of carbon emissions i.e. the world “knowing” the problem but not taking action. Period. No action, at all, until we’re all dead.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 3 weeks ago:
You ever notice how every other animal manages to survive without water bottles? It was like that for most of human existence, before we figured out water skins and wooden cups and clay jugs.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
Revolution.
- Comment on Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays 3 weeks ago:
First you say “you’re not mad a GenAI as a technology, you’re mad at Capitalism” and then when I agree with you you move the goal posts to argue against it? Are you just arguing for its own sake?
It’s like I never left Reddit!
Talking to you was a mistake. You’re just trying to “win” the conversation, you don’t actually care about anything I have to say.
I’m done. You can have the last word.
- Comment on Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays 3 weeks ago:
And you can’t separate the technology from it’s historical and material context. We could say “capitalist LLMs” instead of just “LLMs” every time we talk about the technology, but is that useful.
- Comment on Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays 3 weeks ago:
The problem is capitalism, but the technology was produced under capitalism and you’re using this technology under capitalism. So, a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and all it requires is for poorly paid workers in Kenya to be tortured and forced to watch CSAM all day.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
I don’t see why the apple from a cashew can’t also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
So you don’t find something else to do.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
You talk about research, so I’m curious: has any nonviolent campaign succeeded without an accompanying violent campaign?
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Although “tree” is a common word, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.[1][2] In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.
Well damn, I guess strawberries can be trees and nuts.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Strawberries sure as hell aren’t nuts either but we’re playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 4 weeks ago:
about to
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren’t a legumtimate part of the family.
I dunno.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Like cashews!
I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.
- Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report 4 weeks ago:
