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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Ikr? Who buys salt and pepper pots with their weekly groceries?
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 week ago:
If they hadn’t had those two guys ready to smoothly cover the stage with a curtain, that could have been embarrassing. Close call!
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 weeks ago:
Kill the person who invented the trolley problem. It’s the only way to be sure
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 weeks ago:
I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn’t have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.
But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don’t work yet but seem exciting. But just because it’s inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn’t mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 weeks ago:
It’s like the dotcom bubble. Everyone got all excited thinking the internet would be the next big thing, change the world, revolutionize the way we do business. And it did. But not without a lot of hot air and snake oil getting sold along the way.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
If
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 3 weeks ago:
There’s a fine line between insanity and genius
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t think it will take long. When you look at all the grifts the American evangelists pull, and people fall for it every time, then you’ve got all these people thinking that Trump is anointed by God or some such crap. No problem at all in selling these idiots the idea that they have an instant always-on hotline to God via God’s chosen LLM. Then you’ve got them locked in to whatever psychosis you choose to construct for them.
- Comment on Same... 3 weeks ago:
You can be turned into a whole mushroom farm
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
To be fair it’s not just Microsoft doing that. I was looking at gym equipment the other day and some idiots were trying to build AI into a fucking home gym. Like I really need AI in my weights. AI is the product that everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy*
- not 100% sure about that, maybe it’s just me and everyone I know
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 weeks ago:
Here’s me getting all excited thinking a new Blender tutorial just dropped
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
Before I used Google Maps regularly, I would be more aware of road layout while driving and soon become capable of navigating any town I visited regularly, without a map. It’s weird to drive through a place I last visited twenty years ago, knowing that last time I was there I’d navigate based on memory, but now I’m completely leaning on that device to do it for me. That mental faculty might not be completely lost, but I don’t use it and I don’t suppose I would ever have developed it if I were learning to drive today.
Perhaps it’s an obsolete mental faculty, and a modern brain can free up those resources for something more relevant. Over the course of human history we have developed tools to use our finite mental resources more effectively, but never without a price. Socrates feared that the use of writing would weaken our memory and true understanding. I’m sure he was right, at least about the first part, but it was worth the price. Without writing, nobody today would know what Socrates thought about anything.
But with AI, we’re not enabling ourselves to do more and develop new faculties, because AI seeks to be our universal crutch. Perhaps under other circumstances it could be better, but the entities pushing AI want us to be compliant consumers hypnotised by a endless stream of advertising slop. Fundamentally, they don’t want to help us develop our potential. They want to replace us.
- Comment on See ya. 5 weeks ago:
I was expecting one of the boys to get complete mastery of the word “the”, then get the power of flight so he could leave the island. So disappointed.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 5 weeks ago:
And now you’re older still
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 1 month ago:
That’s still not doing it justice. If there were one person for every rational number there would be infinitely many in any finite interval (but still actually no more than the top track, go figure) but the real numbers are a whole other kind of infinite!
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
Are we talking about Albert Einstein in his prime, or Albert Einstein now?
- Comment on It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it 2 months ago:
Dropping the kids off at the pool
- Comment on It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it 2 months ago:
Don’t start no shit, won’t be no shit
- Comment on Sperm whale 2 months ago:
What a glorious event that would be. A 3D printed life size sperm whale. My only concern would be that this would be the moment we’ve peaked artistically, and as a species generally, and it would be all downhill from here.
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
Maybe it knows but doesn’t care. The general idea of meatbag anatomy is that they are full of soft squishy tubes and they die easy. Who cares about the details?
- Comment on Uhm 2 months ago:
At least it’s named correctly. Should be pretty rekt after the birth
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
But Dame Wontsomeonethinkof de Children saw a government report which says 65% of children under 5 have seen explicit videos of kittens being raped to death using power tools! Surely this constitutes an emergency which requires us to abandon online anonimity
- Comment on Fun fact 3 months ago:
Which is why there’s no sense in trying to fight it. It’s your dream, might as well go with it
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 3 months ago:
There was nothing like it at the time. Not even close. It was another world
- Comment on 3 months ago:
When shopping for clothes or shoes, you will find items in your size, and your preferred color/style. But never both at the same time.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 3 months ago:
We’re not excluding that, it’s between the left testicle and the potato
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 4 months ago:
I expect we’ll see a spate of Jewish sounding motorists getting trapped in the car with windows disabled and exhaust fumes diverted to the inside of the car (even though it’s electric, technology finds a way)
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 4 months ago:
You’ll also live better. It’s a sad indictment of society that people incapable of forming meaningful relationships, but able to buy some shiny crap they don’t need, are considered successful.
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 4 months ago:
Nobody is born an umpire, you become an umpire if you get bitten by one but umpire parents have electrical babies
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 4 months ago:
I’m sure you can get frozen spring rolls