Yeah! We gotta give people the choice to work or die due to lack of medical care! That’s never been done before! What’s that called?

By my limited understanding that might be feasible right now in utero, which obviously is not exactly what we want.

I think that maybe in the future we could change someone’s sex when they’re older. Honestly I think it’s maybe just the matter of research on this not being focused on genetic changes after the womb.

What’s sad is that this is a consequence not just of this admins shittiness but of a long enshittification of our government.

Not only do government jobs pay a mediocre salary until you get really really far in the org, a fact that only gets worse as the idea of a middle class lifestyle gets gutted, but for decades now, working a government job has become less and less prestigious. It used to be that there were always plenty of loonies who found pride in being a “public servant” and thought the best place to use their genius was in government.

Now, as we see, there’s no one in these positions with even cursory knowledge of how these programs work.

And there’s definitely no millennials or zoomers fresh out of tech school that would debase themselves to working in government who would be able see these flaws in two seconds.

The joke response is that building your own PKMS is the final form of procrastination.

The frustration for me is that I use a PKMS all the time: Google Keep.

Cause what I want from a PKMS is a note book, maybe with a way to tag each note, but only if it’s convenient. The cardinal sin of any PKMS is lack of access. I don’t want my PKMS to show a loading screen when I open it. I don’t want it to bury me in options about what type of note I want to create. I don’t want my PKMS to be loaded with so many features that it takes a second or two to switch screens.

I want it to be easier than the effort it would take to carry a note pad and pencil in my back pocket, and it’s astounding that it’s rare and sad that I have to resort to Google’s blessed tendency to abandon projects like Keep to bare minimum functionality for me to get the app that I want. Will I use Keep for 30 years? Idk, but I’ve been using it for a decade so far but knowing Google it’s any day now that they’ll just announce that they’re canning the whole thing.

Solution? Store 8 booleans in 1 byte.

Modern is defined as the current year of whatever writer coined the term. So after writing about the “modern” day for a century…

This is a really interesting paragraph to me because I definitely think these results shouldn’t be published or we’ll only get more of these “whoopsie” experiments.

At the same time though, I think it is desperately important to research the ability of LLMs to persuade people sooner rather than later when they become even more persuasive and natural-sounding. The article mentions that in studies humans already have trouble telling the difference between AI written sentences and human ones.

Filament died of cringe 😔

I don’t just forget the to-do list. I remember it 3 days in, remember what’s on it, and get so stressed about it I decide that I can just not look at it and it will probably be fine.

When they say “raise the bar” they just want to make a hornier dating sim.

It’s both. He’s difficult to work with, but also his acting is so bad he makes most movies he’s in worse than they could be.

Plenty of Hollywood actors are assholes, but if they’re good enough at acting they’re forgiven. Jared Leto is not good enough to get away with it.

It’s semantics. The difference between an llm and “asking” wikipedia a knowledge question is that the llm will “answer” you with predictive text. Both things contain more knowledge than you do, as in they have answers to more trivia and test questions than you ever will.

80% of police work could be done better by trained social workers.

Yeah, they’re not trying to foster left vs right, they’re trying to foster all right-wing with in-group fighting.

Some More News had the right take on this: all these companies just dumped (either in investment or development) (hundreds of) billions of dollars into AI development.

The problem is, we’re still 10-15 years away from AI being actually useful in gadgets and stuff. But these companies want to get paid now, so they’re shoving the cheapest, shittiest “functional” AI onto the market just to try and recoup some losses. And it’s painfully apparent it isn’t working.

The problem with every organization app.

“It worked for me! Now all my projects are organized and it’s so much easier than when I was keeping everything in my head… After I was able to sit down and focus for a day to import all my data and organize it and set up the program to tailor to my application and now that I go back to it to reorganize my new info every week…”

Should have said “yous guyses”

Seriously, the world is full of soma in the form of social media and electronic entertainment. It’s a choice to take it and it’s a widely acknowledged and socially acceptable thing just like the book

Keeping your money out of the AI grift was a good idea but doesn’t deep seek imply that powerful AI is coming even faster and cheaper than what was already being promised?

Like what?