ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 10 hours ago:
The solution to all of this “think of the children” stuff is that devices owned/used by children should have to be registered as a child’s device, which would enable certain content blockers.
Forcing adults to verify their identity, rather than simply activating some broad based restrictions on devices being purchased for child use, is a waste of time. Kids will still find workarounds. Adult privacy will be compromised.
Its also an easily enforceable policy to require registration of children’s devices. You can hold the parents to compliance. You can hold the carriers to compliance. Its truly the simplest way to keep kids from accessing porn without having to mess with adult use of the internet whatsoever
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 day ago:
I was thinking the same thing, considering that I have less money to pay to fly my price should be lower, no? But the article ends on this note:
Early research on personalized pricing isn’t favorable for the consumer. Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options.
So basically the opposite of what it should be. I wouldnt mind individualized pricing if it meant Delta was robinhooding with their pricing model, but instead they are effectively using their pricing model to force out poorer consumers. Which makes sense from their perspective I suppose considering they can upsell more shit to people with more money.
As someone who lives in a top-wealth zipcode (as a working class person) I assume by next year this means I will no longer be able to afford to fly out of town…
- Comment on Dodgeball and all things related 2 days ago:
If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball
- Comment on There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world. 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
They have an export market, its the handful of douchebags in Australia that want compensator trucks
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 week ago:
*so long as the perpetrator is of an appropriate skin tone or works for a government agency
- Comment on Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says 1 week ago:
Did your car just call me a k***?!
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 week ago:
Well thats just not true, I mean LLMs really are not extremely complicated. At the end of the day it’s just algorithmic sorting of information
So in practice any given flavor of LLM is basically like a librarian. Your librarian can be a well adjusted human or an antisemitic nutjob, but so long as they sort information and can point it out to you technically they are doing their job equally as well. The real problem doesnt begin until youve trained the librarian to recommend Mein Kampf when people ask for information about the water cycle or whatever
- Comment on Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, seems to get right-wing update 1 week ago:
Its honestly a great analogy for the way that humans have a tendency to do the same thing. Most people are fairly incapable of setting aside what they already think is true when they go to assess new information. This is basically no different than an LLM being pushed to ignore nuance in order to maintain a predisposed alignment that it has been instructed to justify in spite of evidence to the contrary.
If anything hes designed a model with built-in problems specifically to cater to human beings with the same design problems
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 1 week ago:
North eastern Louisiana is no more likely to see a hurricane than southern Arkansas or mid-Mississippi
- Comment on The Prototype: One Step Closer To Fusion Power 1 week ago:
Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power. Projects in Europe and Asia are lightyears ahead of us here, where we dont even have a reactor capable of producing a stable reaction. Meanwhile in Korea I think they have managed to achieve a stable reaction for over 10 minutes already. Who knows where China is at, although they likely have the largest facility working on it.
Weve already lost the race thanks to our obsession with yesterday’s energy methods
- Comment on Why is it called independence Day tomorrow? Shouldn't it be undependents day? At any rate we screwed it up. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Im sure people are thinking so much about that line as they pop the top off their 14th bottle of bud and watch their 6 year old fumble a lit mortar shell
People just like being dumbasses and blowing shit up. In my city one of the more common activities is firing live rounds from handguns into the air. People get hit every year by falling bullets. Its just dumb shit plain and simple. Im so glad to live in a place now where the fire danger means no fireworks on the 4th every year. Its legitimately a more enjoyable holiday even if you cant blow shit up
- Comment on Today's Topic Is. I'll post a random topic every day, you share your thoughts and opinions regarding that topic. 2 weeks ago:
Today’s topic is self destruction, and I aint talkin about the KRS One discussion
Im talkin bout the one-too-many ignorant suckers, lying on the mic to my sisters and brothers
Every time you listen to the radio all you hear is nonsense, they never play the bomb shit
Everything that glitters ain’t gold, and every gold record don’t glitter; that’s for damn sure
- Comment on 'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me' 2 weeks ago:
why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing
I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it
- Comment on Truth-telling inquiry finds Australia’s indigenous people faced genocide 2 weeks ago:
Not all colonialism is genocide, although most all colonialism that isnt genocide is also not far off from genocide and usually is a precursor step to it. Like genocide-lite
The colonization of a population by another power usually does not inherently involve mass murder of that population, the taking of their children, or explicit intent to wipe out their culture. Throughout history much colonialism has functioned through a process of the colonizer being a minority in the land of the colonized. Colonialism at its base is not something where the colonizer shows up to wipe people out and settle their own people in the same space.
Generally the way colonialism has functioned historically, at least simplified, is that the colonizing power shows up, denotes some specific segment of the population that agrees to take instruction from the colonizer as the upper class of society, and then enforces their rule (in as much as they can) via that hand-picked group. Sometimes prior to this you have missionaries showing up, whos goal also is obviously not one of genocide. Generally those who adopted the religion of the colonizer were those more likely to be hand selected as the upper caste that was favored by the colonizer.
Because colonial powers were often spread thin this is just the logical way that colonialism often functioned. Certain colonies ended up facing genocide once there was enough of a population that taking over land was considered a necessity by the colonizing power. At which point things tended to get far uglier
- Comment on Nearly a Third of Tuvalu Residents Seek Climate Visas to Australia as Sea Engulfs Their Home 3 weeks ago:
Its also in pretty bad taste to talk about people losing their home as an advertisement to “tune in for the next episode”
- Comment on "Someday" is either much sooner than you think, or never 3 weeks ago:
Soon could mean anything, soon could be three weeks…
is that what soon means to you?
Sometimes…
then come back soon
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 3 weeks ago:
WW1 really was a different story. The US adopted the standards of its allies when possible, or otherwise just couldn’t use stuff from their allies. We produced things for our own use, but not for everyone on our side of the conflict. Plus WW1 was kind of a massive resource pit for everyone involved bc of trench warfare.
The fact that we couldnt share resources among allies is part of where the push for adopting a standard came from. And the reason it ultimately became the US’s standard is because the US production was removed from the conflict. Meanwhile European factories were getting bombed. Before the adoption of our standards, our allies were actually paying to establish factories in the US that would build to European standards
- Comment on [JS Required] Boeing’s Inadequate ‘Training, Guidance and Oversight’ Led to Mid-Exit Door Plug Blowout on Passenger Jet 3 weeks ago:
Alaska Airlines flight 1282, was climbing through 14,830 feet about six minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, when the left MED plug departed the airplane
Something about the phrasing giving agency to the door plug is hilarious to me
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 3 weeks ago:
Without WWII the US would hardly be a relevant world power like it is today. The US minted its financial dominance in WWII by producing so much and pushing the world to adopt its standards in the aftermath. Of most everything, from goods to language. If it weren’t for that, diplomacy would probably still be conducted in French, and screws wouldn’t have 60° angle threads
- Comment on LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments 3 weeks ago:
ChatGPT is not a doctor. But models trained on imaging can actually be a very useful tool for them to utilize.
Even years ago, just before the AI “boom”, they were asking doctors for details on how they examine patient images and then training models on that. They found that the AI was “better” than doctors specifically because it followed the doctor’s advice 100% of the time; thereby eliminating any kind of bias from the doctor that might interfere with following their own training.
Of course, the splashy headline “AI better than doctors” was ridiculous. But it does show the benefit of having a neutral tool for doctors to utilize, especially when looking at images for people who are outside of the typical demographics that much medical training is based on. (As in mostly just white men. For example, everything they train doctors on regarding knee imagining comes from images of the knees of coal miners in the UK some decades ago)
- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 3 weeks ago:
If it loves you, it will come back (possibly with malware)
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
How would the methodology of the assassination be secret if they had bombed an entire apartment block? Also bombing innocent lives isnt something the Israeli government tends to be concerned about hiding
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
My bet is on small assassination drone. People like having windows in their bedroom. Small drone flies to house, has some mechanism to break window, then blows up once inside the bedroom.
I bet it’s unpublished not because its technology of any particularly impressive degree. Its unpublished because everyday people could easily design the same thing with enough minor technical expertise
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 4 weeks ago:
Most people work for terrible bosses, but AI in its current state would only be better than a terrible boss honestly. A good boss isnt some asshole bossing people around. A good boss is someone who knows how to lead people and get the most out of each constituent part of the team, while also helping each person theyre leading be the best they can be. A good boss is someone who has empathy, but can also be firm when appropriate, and knows how to read people well. A good boss is someone who can successfully plan work in such a way that it is most successful while simultaneously putting the least strain on each member of the team as is possible.
The problem with bosses isnt the concept of bosses. The problem is that there are 10x as many managerial roles as there are people competent and selfless enough to actually do the shit in the previous paragraph. Leadership is a position of service, not self servitude, but 9/10 people use leadership in self interest and, unsurprisingly, fail in the end. They want the check and they want to be the boss so they can put work on others. A truly successful boss can never be someone like that, because no one respects working for someone who asks them to do work that they themselves would never do (unless talking about highly specialized work where few are competent).
No one wants to work the weekend for a manager who always takes it off. Nobody wants to know that they know more about how to do their job than their boss does. All of that kind of stuff eats away at people until they go work for someone else.
I think an AI boss would obviously be better than a bad boss. But it cant replace working for someone that you highly respect and that helps you be the best you can be, which is something that often motivates people to continue working in the same job. AI would be such a neutral force that it couldnt really do that part of the job. And obviously it cant read people
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 4 weeks ago:
I was going to joke that Id prefer to live in a Jarlsberg, but when looking up Jarlsberg to spell it correctly I discovered its named for Jarlsberg Manor, which is in fact a building
The more you know
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- Comment on New Zealand coroner raises alarm over 'perilous' collision sport 4 weeks ago:
This just in, people are stupid and bloodthirsty, more at eleven…
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 4 weeks ago:
For one, there is no such thing as a “free” market in this world that is not a controlled market. Every market has controls placed on it.
“Free market” ideology is just anti-regulation ideology, which again is antithetical to how every market in the world actually operates. Which is why being against regulation and market controls wholesale is generally very stupid
There is nothing wrong with being against certain regulations for specific reasons, thats not what Im talking about. But rather being against regulation in general and imagining all regulation as inherently bad for the economy.
In this case, consumers having right to repair would be a regulation, and therefore doesnt fit in the ideology of people who jerk it to the idea of a “free” market because they dont understand how the economy actually works. Right to repair does not exist in a free market
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 4 weeks ago:
If poptarts are ravioli, but also a sandwich, does that mean that all ravioli are sandwiches from the ingredient/structural rebel perspective?
