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- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 10 hours ago:
Touché, indeed.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 11 hours ago:
Oh boy! …Here we go, dropping a new Dystopia again! So… want happens when it is wrong?
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 15 hours ago:
These weird, creepy attempts at upboarding onto AI, sound like they are projecting FOMO onto people, for profit, of course.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 2 days ago:
Technically, no propaganda of any sort at all.
Counter propaganda or anti-propaganda is just differently angled propaganda. You cannot fix propaganda with more propaganda.
If you want to understand your mom, you need to see or read what she sees. Just telling her she is wrong is not going to help. Repeating that she is wrong is jot g9ing to help.
Plus as an adult that she is, you might not be able to dissuade her. Perhaps, you may have to simply not touch the topic when with her.
When I was younger, I naively used to think that if I had the facts or Academic papers or research to prove point XYZ on side l, that I would be able to argue valiantly against some people I used to know. Ha, I was so silly. I could literally point or give the proof to my arguments on a silver platter, down to page numbers or exact quotes, and people would simply not even bother to read them, because they were certain they were right. Some people just want to be Right, not Correct. Due to such worldviews being driven not by fact but by emotion. Fear, anger, bias, lies by omission, but usually peppered with some facts here and there, etc.
Trying to change them, will just end up in damaging your current bonds. Do you want to risk that? Maybe over time. But just focus mostpy on what you have and enjoy the time you have, over spending it arguing. Life is short enough as it is.
- Comment on Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say 2 days ago:
Farming has always been a bit precaurious, where bad seasons can fuck you up financially, and where needed hardware to remain competitive is extremely expensive to purchase and maintain. On top of that, if you are a smaller farmer you have to compete against other farmers, plus much larger companies. Either by selling your stuff yourself or selling it to them.
Keeping even a mini empire plus working the land can be difficult and time consuming. Plus, not everyone wants to be a farmer so your kids may not want to follow the trade which was not the case 50+ years ago. So, just lots of challenges.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 2 days ago:
Good on them. The use of AI in military applications conveniently gets next to 0 coverage both in these type of events and also in the general news media.
Same with drone warfare. Which should terrify us all. Imagine a swarm of 30-50 drones with small explosives attacking some public event? Hell. Even jist a couple. Sadly. It will happen one day, sooner than we think.
- Comment on At this point I think I would 3 days ago:
Maybe she might like it.
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 days ago:
Likewise, brother. But at the current rate, we are still a few years away. :-(
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 3 days ago:
Oh man, you got me there. ;-)
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 3 days ago:
Oh, hell no.
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 3 days ago:
True. For war plans use Tinder, or maybe Pinterest.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 days ago:
Exactly. :-/
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 days ago:
They didn’t capitulate. They were mostly faking it all along, friend. It made for good profit at the time and to get good Blackrock or Vanguard investment money. This is why despite putting rainbows in X, or FB, or YT, or LinkedIn profiles in the USA or in some Western countries, no company ever did that in any profile outside the West. It was all for show… and money. If they actually believe it they would have done so across the board. Yet they didn’t. They were just hoping most people wouldn’t notice. Many did. There was a meme RE: this floating around from years ago, too.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
Of course, they learned to code.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
He said it was an affront to life itself.
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 3 days ago:
I agree. Albeit there are some advantages, of course, I am 100% certain that in the aggregate, it will make people more stupid and gullible.
It is sort of obvious when you engage with the thought, and seek it to its natural conclusion: livescience.com/…/using-ai-reduces-your-critical-…