andrewrgross
@andrewrgross@slrpnk.net
- Comment on The Jobs AI Is Replacing the Fastest 4 weeks ago:
Researchers following the adoption of AI predict around 92 million jobs are projected to disappear by 2030, even as roughly 170 million new roles are expected to emerge, McKinsey & Company has found.
What in the fuck does this mean?
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
Return? /s
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Also: from a practical perspective, how on earth does one keep this a secret?
‘Alright sweetie. Dinner is on the counter. If you need anything Becca next door said to just knock. Promise me you won’t stay up to late, okay?’
‘Sure Mom. But where are you going?’
‘I’ve told you sweetie: don’t ask questions. Bye!’
That makes no sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Most people tend to overestimate how universal their own experiences and reactions are.
And to clarify, this applies to you AND to the people you’re disagreeing with (and myself as well!).
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Good advice is context-aware. Is often about offering guidance to help someone assess their situation from a third-party view.
For instance, if you asked me how to give good advice to a stranger I wouldn’t say “tell them to get more sleep and exercise”. I’d say to focus on helping them figure out what their goal is and what their options are. You see the difference?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Growing up, my mom owned a women’s lingerie store on the main commercial street in the heart of our neighborhood. My teachers and classmates bought their bras and panties from my mom, and everyone knew this. Obviously, this isn’t exactly the same as sex work, but I can tell you I was served well by the fact that I never grew up inheriting want awkwardness or discomfort.
Live a truth you’re not ashamed of and share that truth with your kids at an age appropriate level. You don’t need to be graphic, but tell your kids you work at a club. Tell them you’re a stage performer. If they say, “do you strip?” You can say yes or you can say that stage performances are for an adult audience and you would rather not discuss the details. But of you acted ashamed, you’re giving your kid that shame. As a parent, one of the most important things is that we be the kind of people we want them to be. If you don’t want your kid to be brave/confident/proud/kind/patient/etc. you gotta try and live it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you mind me asking if you’re a parent or caregiver and if so what age you interact with?
I think your take is pretty moderate and reasonable, but as a dad to a five year old I feel that trying to preserve a child’s “innocence” feels misaligned with trying to preserve lifelong hope and faith in goodness. I feel like preservation of innocence implies growing up is an inevitable process of disillusionment. Does that make sense?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
What’s your point, though?
Do you think op is making up salacious posts for attention? Do you thick they’re overly sexual, and should curtail that?
I’d like to know what you’re thinking specifically.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t believe you could really meaningfully deter their operations through casual poor performance. I think either you’d have to directly sabotage them or you’d have to be complicit.
I do think everyone should flood their applications systems with time-wasting fake applications, but actually interviewing and getting hired is unlikely to be productive.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 2 months ago:
I want to set aside my skepticism that this philosophy can be separated from misogyny.
Even if it could, it hurts the practitioner. This is a philosophy of nihilistic abandon and self-harm. If someone has adopted a radical belief in their own hopelessness and worthlessness, and the associated beliefs that life for them can hold nothing but suffering, that person is in crisis and needs help. There isn’t a healthy version of that, and we should consider those people at great risk and in need of assistance.
It does hurt someone. It hurts the person who is adopting these views.
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 2 months ago:
Also, not only do they rely on “just vision”, crucially they rely on real-time processing without any memory or persistent mapping.
This, more than anything else is what bewilders me most.
They could map an area, and when observing a construction hazard save that data and share it with other vehicles so they know when route setting or anticipate the object. Not they don’t. If it drives past a hazard and goes around the block it has to figure out how to navigate the hazard again with no familiarity. That’s so foolish.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 2 months ago:
This is a genuine concern that we should recognize.
I’m about 99% confident it isn’t, but considering it is the kind of caution we should all be exercising these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Respectfully, this title gets under my skin.
Why so doomer? He might veto it. It wouldn’t be surprising. But why are you declaring a loss prematurely?
Don’t hope for things there’s no chance of. Fight to change the chances of things, and if you fail try and fight again and again until you win.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 3 months ago:
This headline reads like 2025 news Mad-Libs:
“<Proper noun> is using <Latest fad> to <Verb> <Ideological alignment adjective> <Conceptual noun>”
Try it:
“OpenAI is using Hydroflasks to destroy Catholic exceptionalism”
“Mark Cuban is using cryptocurrency to monetize white supremacist hope”
Good times./s
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 months ago:
Thanks, I think so too.
I’m trying to expand on it a bit, because I think what’s still missing is a sense of stakes and grandeur.
What if the backdrop is that Croft (or similar protagonist) is working with a team that is uncovering new and valuable discoveries that reveal the art and culture of ancient people that were largely absent from history. It’s showing that some earlier group had settled an ancient valley prior to the arrival of a group that is culturally significant to a current regime. And as they’re making these discoveries, it’s becoming increasingly contentious politically among some faschy nationalist government (a la Orban, Erdogan, etc.)
Over time, they begin to face mounting pressure to secure the sites quickly before a rival team is sent in specifically with the goal of damaging them and stealing artifacts so that these finds aren’t able to be studied. And the protagonist, as the first person who the team relies on to safely document and preserve the site, is soon persued by a goon squad, allowing us some urban platforming levels as you work towards a final confrontation.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 3 months ago:
I wonder what it would look like to try and resolve some of these problems in a way that still provides a satisfying platformer experience.
Like, what if instead of these ruins being a bunch of traps with some key magical artifact that she heavily disturbs while passing through, what if the game was a platformer where you had to essentially erect scaffolding and lay down tarps in advance of a bunch of the rest of a team? And the goal is to basically use climbing and athleticism to navigate the environment without disturbing an incredibly fragile environment?
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 3 months ago:
Can you demonstrate how you would have composed the question?
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 3 months ago:
I think people overthink spending money on things they don’t support. I think stealing it is justified, but If you’re doing academic studies or learning how to deprogram people, go ahead and buy a Nazi’s book if you have to.
That said, if you’re looking to argue with Holocaust deniers, trying to defeat them by studying their arguments is a classic blunder.
Conspiratorial thinking is rooted in social maladies, and attachment to a theory is a downstream effect. You can no more talk a Holocaust denier out of their belief with evidence than you can fix a broken watermain by sand bagging the street. If you’re trying to deprogram someone, you’ve actually got to learn how to get them to open up about the background experiences that led them to look for these answers and then find ways to help them find alternative hobbies that obviate their need for the conspiracy.
It’s a much slower process, but if that’s what you want to do, read up on that and don’t bother wasting money on Irving’s book.
- Comment on "Stringy" parts 3 months ago:
Agreed.
There’s also not much reason not to use supports. A tree support wouldn’t as much time or material at all.
Everyone needs a little support sometimes.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 3 months ago:
Oy. I really don’t want to see what happens when we’re faced with an actual challenge. This is… yikes.
- Comment on Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza 4 months ago:
Also: this article omits serious context about what the IDF does with the information Microsoft is describing!
Over a year ago, 972 wrote an explosive expose on IDF ai targeting. It’s all pretty blunt. A general name Yossi Sariel wrote a book describing how AI could automate industrialized killing, and these plans were put into practice to deliberately target civilian infrastructure when entire families were sitting down to meals. The tools included Lavender, which composed target lists that pretty much included any male over 14 and Daddy’s Home, which tracked targets generated by Lavender and generated strike plans when it determined that the target was at their home.
There’s no good reason why the Independent left this out. A general literally wrote a book about this, and it’s been a year since this information came out.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 4 months ago:
Yo I self host a Nextcloud server and I don’t know what an apk is. Please stop being a gatekeeper. Grandma Ruth deserves alternatives to big tech just like the rest of us.
All freedom to all the people. These tools aren’t supposed to be some special privilege for 1337 hackers. They should be ubiquitous.
- Comment on Behind the Scenes Bloopers from The Making Of 'Patrick Starship Enterprise' 4 months ago:
Okay, thank you.
- Comment on Behind the Scenes Bloopers from The Making Of 'Patrick Starship Enterprise' 4 months ago:
I’m confused. What’s this a blooper reel for?
- Comment on Eggs 4 months ago:
This is an amazing shower thought.
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 4 months ago:
I think animal affection – particularly for cute, non useful animals – is an extension of our infant protection drive.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 4 months ago:
The same ones listed in the article. Property ownership, speech, privacy, etc.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 4 months ago:
I feel like the rise of corporate personhood is the elephant in the room this article seems to avoid acknowledging.
- Comment on bewCloud is a modern and simpler alternative to Nextcloud and ownCloud written in TypeScript 4 months ago:
I just set up a Nextcloud server this weekend, and this is the second time since I’ve heard people complaining about it.
I guess I should try some of the alternatives.
- Comment on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' 5 months ago:
I specifically said I wasn’t.