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@ AFaithfulNihilist @lemmy.world

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  • 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst

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  • These kinds of questions are strange to me.

    A great many people are using them voluntarily, a lot of people are using them because they don't know how to avoid using them and feel that they have no alternative.

    But the implication of the question seems to be that people wouldn't choose to use something that is worse.

    In order to make that assumption you have to first assume that they know qualitatively what is better and what is worse, that they have the appropriate skills or opportunity necessary to choose to opt in or opt out, and that they are making their decision on what tools to use based on which one is better or worse.

    I don't think you can make any of those assumptions. In fact I think you can assume the opposite.

    The average person doesn't know how to evaluate the quality of research information they receive on topics outside of their expertise.

    The average person does not have the technical skills necessary to engage with non-AI augmented systems presuming they want to.

    The average person does not choose their tools based on what is the most effective at producing the correct truth but instead on which one is the most usable, user friendly, convenient, generally accepted, and relatively inexpensive.

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  • A lot of those things have a business model that relies on putting the competition out of business so you can jack up the price.

    Uber broke taxis in a lot of places. It completely broke that industry by simply ignoring the laws. Uber had a thing that it could actually sell that people would buy.

    It took years before it started making money, in an industry that already made money.

    LLMs Don't even have a path to profitability unless they can either functionally replace a human job or at least reliably perform a useful task without human intervention.

    They've burned all these billions and they still don't even have something that can function as well as the search engines that proceeded them no matter how much they want to force you to use it.

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  • Every particle accelerator that has been built has paid for itself in research value. There's basically nothing that comes out of AI research except the need for a bigger model.

    The comparison is poor. Particle accelerators are science, LLMs do not produce science.

    That's not to say that we couldn't build LLMS that would be useful for scientific purposes but we're not. That is not the function or the goal of the people building these things.

  • Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he's warning of a "Reichstag fire moment."

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  • anti-Israel sentiment is not the same thing as terrorism apologism. But being pro Israel demands being an endorser of child murder war-crimes and terrorism.

    You can't support Israel right now without being the bad guy. That doesn't mean that there aren't other bad guys, but there are no pro Israel good guys.

  • ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji

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  • How are you supposed to dislike something if you don't understand it?

    It's not like AI is intrinsically harmful bad or evil. This pursuit of simulated sapience seems to be generating endless numbers of delusional pathologies and harmful externalities but using computational logic to answer questions and scour databases is objectively a wonderful development.

    You may not remember the internet before Google showed us that there was another option beyond simple boolean search, it's a shame that the owner and inheriter class are willing to sacrifice absolutely everything in the pursuit of a monopoly on labor.

    It's a government failure, induced by capitalism at the expense of everybody for the benefit of a very small number of people.

    It's still an adapt or die situation. Just because these LLMS won't be with us forever (because no matter how many resources you put into them they'll never be conscious or able to actually tackle novel problems), doesn't mean you can live in ignorance of them and hope it'll all blow over.

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    Most US college students oppose letting controversial speakers on campus

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  • Charlie Kirk getting shot today probably will change the calculus on insurance for these kinds of events.

    Also Republicans are such incredible chicken shits that they might all start driving around in Pope mobiles after this.

  • Nothing to see here

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  • This is the restaurant bombing scene from the movie Brazil which came out in 1985. Please watch it. It's fucking awesome.

    It's definitely one of my favorite movies but most of my friends refer to it as that long slow creepy movie with the strange dreams.

  • Nothing to see here

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  • Photo of novelty check suggests Epstein ‘sold’ Trump a woman for $22,500

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  • Literally on a boat using 'the implication'

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    Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor

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  • Stupid is as stupid does.

  • Wildfire veterans furious at DHS claim that raided crews were not firefighters

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  • Firefighters tend to be motivated to do good. The job doesn't attract many of the anti-social types you find in law-enforcement and politics that would be motivated to 'retalliate' or play favorites.

    For better or worse, good people don't typically seek revenge and are not inclined to justify collateral damage (which is one of the chief risks of fire).

  • The world if christian lived by christian values

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  • The sermon on the Mount and specifically Matthew 5:18 I think or something like that explicitly says that nothing from the law has been removed or invalidated by Jesus.

    This is a common sentiment in American Christianity but it doesn't really seem to be backed up by the text.

  • Fair point

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  • If you feel that your politics are getting in the way of your romantic life, maybe you could reexamine your politics rather than forswear romance.

    Then again, considering your reasoning here, maybe everyone is better off with the choice you made.

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    Do you think trump croaked?

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  • The volume of the power vacuum in the Republican party would likely be audible from Europe.

  • Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action

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  • I wish there were consequences for the government if they are caught lying.

    I wish someone actually could hold governments accountable for that kind of thing.

  • Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action

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  • It should be on the government to validate that their raid at dawn of a civilian household was above board and completely justified.

    Until the government provides an airtight evidence-filled dossier on exactly why they fucking did what they did I'm not going to believe a goddamn thing they're saying and you shouldn't either.

    People in positions of power should be required to justify themselves. I have never met a competent person who can't explain why what they are doing is necessary.

    I have met a lot of incompetent people who insist that they don't need to explain themselves while they go and fuck shit up.For some reason they always seem to be in charge.

  • Gavin Newsom is Not a Progressive

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  • Neoliberals Don't oppose fascists.

    He will work with the fascist to come up with a compromise that the fascists can live with. That probably means sacrificing vulnerable groups and rallying around right wing talking points.

    He is right wing. Gavin newsom is just right wing. the fact that there's a uneven deeper more belligerent right wing out there doesn't mean that he is somehow an alternative to it.

  • How I use virtual desktops

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  • If you swap one and four, That's how I use the monitors on my desktop

  • After uproar, 'South Park' pummels Trump again and hits at JD Vance, Kristi Noem

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  • 25 minute episode makes a headlines everyday until the next episode comes out which oddly enough isn't each week because of how culturally relevant the episodes are the fucking president threatened their network.

    I don't know that there's ever been a more culturally relevant show... Even back when they're only like three channels.

  • Age verification

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  • Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks, But these two gum shoes are picking up the slack...

    THERE'S NO CASE TOO BIG NO CASE TOO SMALL WHEN YOU NEED HELP JUST CALL...

    CH CH CHIP AND DALE'S RESCUE RANGERS (when there's danger) You know it never fails, once they're involves somehow whatevers wrong gets solved! CH CH CHIP AND DALE'S RESCUE RANGERS!!