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- Comment on If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web? 3 days ago:
LLM: Something like what somebody might say.
Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)
- Comment on South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth 3 days ago:
Good luck suckers. Easy mark, easy money.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 4 days ago:
I find Linux far easier to use than anything else because most decent distros come with all the software I want, or it is trivial to install, and it’s all free.
Most of that software is available for Apple or Windows, but it’s a PITA to install. Giant waste of time. And money, of course. And of you install Windows, you gotta manually disable all the shit advertising.
All of that without needing the command line, even.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 4 days ago:
Interesting you should ask. It turns out that LineageOA has an entire page giving you options of compatible devices…
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 days ago:
Right, which makes it just as bad. Wikipedia had enough proofreaders. You don’t need AI for that, because the need is already filled.
This is entirely different from a book writer who is going everything solo and has exactly one publishing window.
And writing feedback software has existed for decades. So AI adds nothing new. Again it is snake oil. It is always snake oil. Except when it’s bait and switch, to pretend it wasn’t snake oil in the first place.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 5 days ago:
800 is fucking huge tho. Big city folk can easily fitinto 300 if living alone.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 5 days ago:
Maybe they oughta unionize. Lol.
- Comment on The march of time 1 week ago:
Historically this was not true. There were times when it wasn’t any month at all! History is wild.
- Comment on AI’s Impact on Job Growth: AI is poised to displace jobs, with some industries more at risk than others. Is the paradigm shift already underway? 1 week ago:
The bullshit continues. Ride that bubble, JPMorgan, you do that.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 week ago:
Right. You don’t get it. You hear people talk about a new technology but actually they haven’t talked about anything, they are trying to sell you snake oil, but you convince yourself that you understand what they mean, and that it’s somehow meaningful.
We could talk about the history of AI in software development, you know it goes back decades, and there are legitimate areas of research. But the bubble that people are riding right now, they are throwing LLMs at the general public and pretending those LLMs are good enough to replace large swaths of the current workforce, but that’s not going to happen because it won’t work, because that’s not how those models are designed. And then the snake oil salesman, they do classic bait and switch, and they start talking about expert systems and minor improvements to them, as if that is something new.
But even if my prediction is wrong, what that actually means is that people shouldn’t need to work full-time jobs anymore.
To be fair, if your argument is that some day AI research will be legitimate and no longer snake oil, then you could easily be right. But there’s no good reason to think that day is going to be in the next few years, rather than the next few decades or even the next few centuries.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Betrayal at Krondor. A huge world for exploring, at a time when that didn’t exist.
Chrono Trigger. The replay value is so high.
Wolf 3D or Doom or Doom 2 or Quake 3, for similar reasons.
StarCraft, at a time when BattleNet was small and the ladder rankings and fights were all global.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
We can bet on a lot, but when you’re betting on human lives, you might get hit with a massive lawsuit, right? Try to bet less.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
On what grounds? Only certain things can be appealed, not “you’re wrong” gut feelings.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
More than one person can be at fault, my friend. Don’t lie about your product and expect no consequences.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
If Tesla promises and doesn’t deliver, they pay. That’s the price of doing business when lives are on the line.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 weeks ago:
Yes. There are a few legitimate non gambling non crime uses. But those are typically very minor transactions. The problem is that it is somewhat anonymous and not refundable. It turns out that we really do want those features for almost all medium-high price purchases. Otherwise the thieves and scam artists will jack our shit.
- Comment on Creative writing 3 weeks ago:
As a teacher, I feel the opposite. I think the teacher now has entertaining stories that they can show to co-workers about how messed up the kids are these days. It’s a kind of therapy for everyone involved.
The only tricky point is when kids write things that are NSFW and then you have to require that they revise them to be SFW, when many kids are not good at understanding the difference, and specifically why it matters in a school environment.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 3 weeks ago:
Your framing is inconsistent with the information provided in the story. Actually, I think your version is more deceptive than the original, although both could be made more transparent, too.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 weeks ago:
You got to love the author of that article. If you want the lights to turn off and on normally, maybe people should use light switches. Those aren’t going to break due to software downgrades, those don’t require Gemini or internet connections.
And I understand, there are rare situations when throwing the internet at your home appliances can make sense for solving niche problems. Those situations definitely exist, but for almost everyone almost all of the time, but it’s pretty fucking easy to turn lights off and on.
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 4 weeks ago:
So they are not intelligent, they just sound like they’re intelligent… Look, I get it, if we don’t define these words, it’s really hard to communicate.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 4 weeks ago:
I think there’s two basic mistakes that you made. First, you think that we aren’t experts, but it’s definitely true that some of us have studied these topics for years in college or graduate school, and surely many other people are well read on the subject. Obviously you can’t easily confirm our backgrounds, but we exist. Second, people who are somewhat aware of the topic might realize that it’s not particularly productive to engage in discussion on it here because there’s too much background information that’s missing. It’s often the case that experts don’t try to discuss things because it’s the wrong venue, not because they feel superior.
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 4 weeks ago:
What a terrible headline. Self-aware? Really?
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 4 weeks ago:
Hey, it’s good at fake apologies! As good as the CEO, no doubt.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 4 weeks ago:
You don’t, but AI does.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 4 weeks ago:
You say “mistakes” I say “features”. That’s what they wanted, right? Humans are not accountable, couldn’t be helped, that’s life.
- Comment on Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high? 4 weeks ago:
X weeks. :-)
- Comment on At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. He can do almost any single act he wants. But depending on what it is, the response could possibly come back to bite him in the ass.
Like his fucking around with Epstein or his claims of ending various wars. He fucked around and is in the process of finding out. But he’s rich, so he won’t get locked up, because that’s how the justice system is designed.
In reality, most of the world doesn’t respect him, including most of the U.S. And like any scam artist, he caves when he has no other choice, and then lies about it. So, is the U.S. totally fucked? We’ll find out, won’t we. There’s no guarantees in life. And it also depends how white and how male you are, too.
- Comment on YSK Employers do NOT verify your total work history unless you're applying for a government position. 4 weeks ago:
This also depends on the country and the industry. For many American jobs these days, your previous employer might be opening themselves up to a lawsuit if they said anything bad about you, so many companies now will at most identify the duration of your employment and your job title but nothing else.
The point is not that a former employee would necessarily win a lawsuit, but they could bring one and the legal bills alone would be significant, therefore many company lawyers will say to just shut the hell up when asked any questions about performance.
- Comment on Novels and Movies Offer Closure. Video Games Should Too. [The New York Times] 5 weeks ago:
Fuck the Times. Classic shit article.
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 5 weeks ago:
What is your baseline? Did you really live thirty two years never talking to a woman before? More information would be good.
And what are your goals? You’re hinting at something romantic or sexual but didn’t say anything clear on that subject.