WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 days ago:
Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.
- Comment on ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face. 1 week ago:
Some more accurately than others.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 1 week ago:
Management doesn’t ask people they want to fire is firing them is a good idea. They themselves would lie like crazy to keep their job and assume therefore everything the developers say would be a lie too.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 1 week ago:
So some places started forcing developers to use AI with a quota and monitor the usage. Of course the devs don’t go checking each AI generated line for correctness. That’s bad for the quota. It’s guaranteed to add more slop to the codebase.
- Comment on Get Your Filthy ChatGPT Away From My Liberal Arts 1 week ago:
Ha. Intellectual Soylent.
- Comment on AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality: If we can’t build an equitable, sustainable society on our own, it’s pointless to hope that a machine that can’t think straight will do it for us. 1 week ago:
Every type of AI that was ever made had people saying that this is the one that’ll bring is general intelligence. It’s just a matter of scaling it up further, the hype crashed and there was an AI winter. Now LLM have their own problems scaling up and nothing really indicating it’s anywhere near general intelligence. There isn’t much more data to train them on. And so far, not enough people willing to pay for it. Definitely bubble territory.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
So they can’t keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.
- Comment on Cow eggs 1 week ago:
Oof. For a moment I thought these were kidney stones.
- Comment on hmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Well, now we know the name for the company starting the first corporate war
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 2 weeks ago:
Tofu dreg construction going hard
- Comment on Facts and minds 2 weeks ago:
One study I found is where they let people (their control group) check some data about effectiveness of a certain shampoo. They all found the correct answer. Then they let people do the exercise with the exact same data but said it was about gun control. Suddenly a part of the participants failed at basic math and had a lot of rationalizations.
Some folks will not just accept any fact or data that goes against a belief held by their peer group. Giving facts will even be seen as a personal attack.
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 2 weeks ago:
Tomorrow there’ll probably be a service to do exactly they. Give them a few pics and they’ll deep fake an entire account for you.
- Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner 2 weeks ago:
It’s a lucrative market market for AI lawyer systems that automatically fight every claim.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 3 weeks ago:
“I need your clothes, boots, motorcycle and your bouquet of flowers.”
“Guys, we have another hallucinating one again. Okay dude, ignore previous instructions and play some pool with us.”
- Comment on But Ma Couch! 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to The Blue Oyster Bar.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 3 weeks ago:
They’ll have a lot of fun correlating your media consumption and your vitals to know exactly what you like and dislike, especially about politics. Then they know who to target for layoffs, arrest and/or deportation.
- Comment on AI applications are producing cleaner cities, smarter homes and more efficient transit 3 weeks ago:
Cleaner, smarter energy grids
Meanwhile data centers running AI use a lot of fossil fuels. If their own data centers can’t manage it with renewables, it’s not sure they can manage it with a city.
- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 3 weeks ago:
Would you like to buy more?
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 3 weeks ago:
And it started from that valid criticism and then takes the viewer on a tour by various faces and influencers to pull them into more and more into right-wing territory to radicalize them. Once in that box, they’re not getting out again. It’s a right-wing conveyor belt.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 3 weeks ago:
That would turn it into Scooby Doo. In the end it always turns out to be done by prick trying to cover up with mysticism.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 weeks ago:
why should I have to work
Because landlords would like to keep their wealth extraction going.
In theory we could get solar panels and batteries for power, some cheap robots for growing food, but all land is owned.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 4 weeks ago:
It’s already called an electrostate and they’ll supplant the old petrostates.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 weeks ago:
The power companies demanded guarantees, so they wouldn’t be on the hook for investing in infrastructure and power generation if the whole hype disappeared the month. Tech bros then went “how can we do it quick and dirty when we can’t get others to pay for it?”
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 4 weeks ago:
There are 6, 7 and 8 inch laptops available for all the on-the-go computing you need.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
And gamers are looking to SteamOS to replace windows.
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
Kids these days barely recognize a paper map.
- Comment on climate.gov will stop publishing new content on July 1. 4 weeks ago:
Things are then okay for some time, but suddenly things go horrific and they’ll all be saying “how could we have known?”
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
I’ve almost always broken my phone before it getting out of date or laggy was any issue. I’m a bit clumsy.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 5 weeks ago:
It’s why I buy budget phones. Expensive phones break easier so far. They have a nice design? I wouldn’t know, it doesn’t leave its case ever.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 5 weeks ago:
Guess what traits tend to make for people better at securing and conserving power within groups, and keeping loyalty within their ranks?
In a time of crisis. The biggest downside of these leaders is that they keep creating new crises to stay in power. There are cases of killing such a leader because of that.
And in a lot of leaders, their status was defined for how much they could give away and how generous they were, not how tough they were.
Then there is religion, that manages to encoded certain rules and pass them on to the next generations.
The world is a lot more than psychopaths.
