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Sometimes it is a bunch of Indian guys pretending to be AI!

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Being Jack Dorsey, I’m going with the latter.

I thought the whole redemption and trying to be a better person thing was well communicated as part of the game. She didn’t shy away from saying how horrible she was in hell.

No search engine or AI will be great with vague descriptions of niche subjects because by definition niche subjects are too uncommon to have a common pattern of ‘close enough’.

• narrowing down keywords for an unfamiliar topic
• getting a quick intro to an unfamiliar topic
• looking up facts you’re having trouble remembering (i.e. you’ll know it when you see it)

I used to be able to use Google and other search engines to do these things before they went to shit in the pursuit of AI integration.

Nearly everyone has many opportunities they have never taken because they choose not to. How many older people have never

• ridden a motorcycle
• gone fishing
• gone hiking
• knitted
• cooked a complex meal
• gone sailing
• been skydiving
• read a lengthy book series
• played in a local sports league
• coached children
• painted a house
• painted artwork
• sculpted anything
• built a simple things out of wood
• built a complicated thing out of wood
• welded
• taken a canoe/kayak/inner tube down a river
• gone white water rafting
• travel (all kinds!)

All of these things are accessible to the average physically fit person into their 60s. Even the ones that don’t often have special access options for those with disabilities.

But people frequently choose not to try some things because they assume they won’t like them or because of construction concerns, but they also overlook a lot of free or nearly free experiences that they could always try. I haven’t even done all of the things in my example list!

LLMs are like a multitool, they can do lots of easy things mostly fine as long as it is not complicated and doesn’t need to be exactly right. But they are being promoted as a whole toolkit as if they are able to be used to do the same work as effectively as a hammer, power drill, table saw, vise, and wrench.

The biggest issue is the need for families to have two incomes to support a houshold. Unemployment would plummet if single incomes for the working class were feasible again,since unemployment is based on looking for employment.

Basically if jobs had living wages and we had universal healthcare we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Not sure how detailed you want to get, but the two that I know of off the top of my head are looking for exoplanets and signs of where humans used to live. Here are a couple of easy reads on the application.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2019/11/identifying-exoplanets-with-neural.html?m=1

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/groundbreaking-ai-uncovers-lost-ancient-945182

Useful medical applications are similar, where the pattern matching can be used to narrow down what to look for, but there is a human step afterwards to verify.

Flip a coin, write things on note cards and draw randomly, ask someone which one to to, or any other method of making a choice. The hard part is making that decision and not letting yourself get stuck thinking about what you could have done instead.

Although I have had solid success in using mindful meditation to work on making decisions and sticking to them, it gets really hard when things are stressful and this weekend wasted half a day with decision paralysis despite taking meds and starting the decision making progress. It won’t always be successful, but it sure helps to work on making decisions and sticking with them.

Now I’m sad.

Paying focused attention to your senses, surroundings, and thoughts. Unlike meditation that tries to change how you feel, mindfulness is letting excess thoughts go so you can focus on what happening right now.

Helps when things feel overwhelming and is the only meditation my ADHD self can do.

Aggressive dogs on leashes often pull themselves free or drag their owner close enough to start violence with other people and other dogs. Well behaved dogs tend to avoid confrontation.

It isn’t saying that any dog couldn’t be suddenly aggressive any more than saying any random person couldn’t suddenly become aggressive. Odds are higher that a dog who is frequently aggressive but on a leash getting close enough to bite or scratch than a well behaved one not on a leash.

While I am perfectly fine with the leash laws being enforced, not being on a leash when well behaved isn’t asking for trouble. Leash laws are there to address less well behaved dogs and the fact that it is impossible to know how well behaved a dog is the first time you meet them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

People should queue up when there are more people than things to interact with, and generally they do. I don’t care if someone lets someone with one thing ahead of everyone else as long as it still moves along. I would hate for ad hoc queuing to have enforced rules because doing it ad hoc is better overall and adding rules would make it more cumbersome.

It is required to have dogs on leashes here, but sometimes I see one off leash and if it is well behaved I don’t care. They should be on a leash as a best practice, but leashed dogs that are aggressive are worse than a well behaved but unleashed dog so I let the unleashed and behaved ones slide. The unleashed and aggressive ones are the worst.

There are a lot of things where it is best to do something a certain way in general, but when it doesn’t directly address the underlying issue or there are exceptions then I don’t get upset. Like people should use crosswalks properly, unless there is no traffic and they have no real benefit…

Pretty sure that it is one of those things that does happen rarely, but people tend to assume everyone is doing it as an excuse to dismiss the homeless problem.

If I understand and agree with the reason for being upset, yes.

Like I agree with banning peanuts on airlines because of allergy issues and think people who are upset about that are wrong so their being upset doesn’t impact me at all. Although I am not able to have an abortion, seeing people being upset that their rights are being denied does make me upset as well.

Then there are tons of things I either can’t relate to or understand and I don’t really care either way. There are lots of things I think people should choose to do voluntarily, but don’t want it to be required. I don’t get upset when I see people not do those things, even though they really should.

There are a massive number of scientific research and other pattern matching positive uses that all involve using the AI to help narrow down what to focus on. All of those use AI as a way to filter and group information, not as the end result like the current trend is for the AI being shoved into everything.

Heck, there are some positive uses that could be made with the right guardrails like as a supplemental tool when learning a language (with an educator for oversight!) or as a natural language output for something that is created through an algorithm that returns accurate results.

Mainly, the exact opposite of what is being forced on everyone right now which is inaccurate slop that is full of errors but presented as reliable and helpful.

Or they have dry hands that catch on stuff like microfiber cloths. I hate touching them when my hands are dry and rough from doing yard work or woodworking, but no issue when they aren’t.

Yeah, morons who believe anything wealthy people say. Just like Musk.