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- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 day ago:
Teacher got the worksheet from someone else and didn’t know the answer.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app 6 days ago:
If it had any value, Telegram would be paying Elmo for the privilege instead of the other way around.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 6 days ago:
Or just put the box 4" to the right, directly on the stud. Why on earth they thought it had to be exactly where it is is beyond me.
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 1 week ago:
No, French did not exist at the same time as the Roman Empire.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
So China has a smaller percentage of its population below 10k USD net worth despite having a 45% lower cost of living? That’s a pretty big difference in the number of people who can live comfortably. I’m willing to sacrifice people’s ability to be ludicrously rich for that.
- Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address 1 week ago:
“Qualified immunity” has very few qualifications.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
But it doesn’t know that it exists. It just says that it does because it’s seen others saying that they exist. It’s a trillion-dollar autocomplete program.
For example, if you take a common logic puzzle and change the parameters a little, LLMs will often recite a memorized solution to the wrong puzzle because they aren’t parameterizing the query correctly (mapping lion to predator, cabbage to vegetable, ignoring the instructions that the two cannot be put together in favor of the classic framing where the predator can be left with the vegetable).
I can’t find the link right now, but a different redditor tried the problem with three inanimate objects that could obviously be left alone together and LLMs were still suggesting making return trips with items. They had no examples of a non-puzzle in their training data, so they just recited the solution to a puzzle because they can’t think.
Note that I’ve been careful to say LLMs. I’m open to the idea that AGI/ASI may someday exist, but I’m quite confident that LLMs will not get there. At best, they might be used to offload conversation, like e.g. Dall-E is used to offload image generation from ChatGPT today.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
Which other guys? The couple thousand people who voted third party because they didn’t view Harris as an acceptable compromise between fascism and humanity?
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 1 week ago:
The PRC is also quickly catching up in semiconductors, and they actually build infrastructure, unlike the US. Sure, they have a massive wealth disparity and very obviously aren’t communist, but they’re doing a few things right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“This thing that’s happening reminds me of a different thing that’s also happening” isn’t exactly an unusual sentiment.
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 2 weeks ago:
It bugs me that people seem to think that dense living has to mean smaller homes. If you build up double-digit stories, you can have massive condominiums and still be far more dense than even the half-baked two- or three-story apartment buildings in my part of the US. Plus, when you don’t have a quarter acre to store your stuff, the extra space comes in handy pretty frequently.
- Comment on Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on doctors 3 weeks ago:
That depends on the surgery. Gastric bypass notoriously has weight requirements, but a gallbladder removal can still kill you if you’re too fat.
- Comment on Musk’s Colossus is fully operational with 200,000 GPUs backed by Tesla batteries — Phase 2 to consume 300 MW, enough to power 300,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
300 MW isn’t enough to power 300k homes, that’s only 1 kW/home. A microwave alone uses that, let alone a refrigerator. A single space heater is 1.5 kW.
- Comment on Using Roman numerals made this so much easier 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is one of the few communities not dedicated to AI where that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s a shitpost, it’ssupposed to be low-effort and kind of bad.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 3 weeks ago:
Take the adapter off, moron.
- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 4 weeks ago:
Similarly, e.g. two bi men getting married is a gay wedding, even though neither party is gay. The relationship can be described independently of the people in it.
- Comment on MTA wants AI to flag 'problematic behavior' in NYC subways 4 weeks ago:
Until it falsely alerts on someone they don’t like, and then they’ll beat the shit out of that person.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 4 weeks ago:
Making fun of Zuck and his chatbots is a good way to bond with friends.
- Comment on The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 4 weeks ago:
De jure, the restaurant has to make the difference up if they make less than minimum wage after tips. De facto, wage theft is about twice as much as all other forms of theft combined.
- Comment on The FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time. 5 weeks ago:
Trump on a streak of rare Ws. No more pennies and kicking Poilievre out of the Canadian Parliament.
- Comment on You can only use one for the rest of your life, which you choosing? 5 weeks ago:
Internal hex and Robertson are both better than Philips. Only slotted is worse. Pozidriv is also slightly better than Philips.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 5 weeks ago:
A reasonable person would not believe that that was made by the Presidents, though.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 5 weeks ago:
Republicans will talk about it, but they blame it on anyone who doesn’t have power.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 5 weeks ago:
Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid, Kirby…
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 5 weeks ago:
I tried a pair of earbuds with the same idea from AliExpress. They had the regular controls, but also worked as e.g. a camera remote. Very cool if it had done anything it was supposed to do consistently, but unfortunately it was not well-implemented. If the AirPods Pro 3 (which I was already strongly considering) have a case with a screen that isn’t much larger than the Pro 2 case, I’ll probably buy that model.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 5 weeks ago:
And send back telemetry and training data.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
I’ve met people who had enough but not too much. Never hurting for money, one vacation a year out of state but not out of the country, bought cars new but drove them for decades.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 month ago:
Trickle-down estradiol
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 1 month ago:
People have tried to politely call attention to the climate crisis for decades. They were ignored. Sometimes, you have to be chaotic to get noticed.