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  • I could give that korok some loads to bear

    ᴳᵒᵈ ʷᵃⁿⁿᵃ ᶠᵘᶜᵏⁱⁿᵍ ᵈⁱᵉ ⁿᵒʷ

  • The shackles of sexism, racism, and homophobia do not simply fall off when you accept class consciousness. These are still fights for awareness which must continue to be fought. Otherwise, we risk allowing toxic mentalities into our midst, which will only serve to alienate and expel our minority brethren.

    The cages built by the state which cordon us off from one another exist in the mind, but they are very real in impact. We must fight by destroying the cages in each of our thoughts, and pass our knowledge to others so they can do the same. That is the only means to stand as one.

    Let's also not forget that there are very real shackles placed on many groups - many real cages - which we must work to destroy as well.

  • Listened to the 'If Books Could Kill' episode on 'Going Infinite' by Michael Lewis. Despite Lewis being a blind fan of Sam Bankman-Fried, he makes him sound like an absolute sociopath. I think that sure Sam might've been the fall guy and some other dudes should be in jail too, but I also think that he absolutely has some serious mental problems and probably shouldn't be allowed to run a business ever again.

  • There's definitely self-selection happening. A paranoid individual is more likely to feel the need to buy a gun. A person who wants control over others is more likely to feel that same need. A person with malicious or suicidal intent is more likely to feel that same need.

    Meanwhile, it's entirely a coin-toss on whether a sane, responsible individual actually feels like they can/should own a firearm. I think as we get into worse civil unrest, we will inevitably see more individuals feel that they have no choice but to arm themselves, but for the time being it's going to the less savory folks rushing to buy.

  • General Electric was there too

  • Is it possible to get the joke at runtime using the spectre exploit?

  • The 'document' part also seems to be insanely hit-or-miss from my amateur experience. Self-documenting design/code is... well, not. Auto-generated documentation is also usually just as bad IMO. Producing good documentation really is a skill in and of itself.

    Also small personal opinion: If your abstraction layers or algorithms are based off a technical concept, you should probably attribute that concept and provide links to further research, to eliminate future ambiguity or in case your reader lacks that background. Future you will probably thank you and anyone like me who immediately gets lost in jargon soup will also be thankful.

  • I think a good solution would to just have that script autogenerated by the flatpak, honestly.

  • There is often a very limited market for underperforming hardware, which is how RISC-V chips will be starting out. There is a large amount of accumulated knowledge about, and workflow to accommodate, already established ISAs.

    Due to most companies being publicly traded, taking risks is much less common, since a drop in profits could see a massive portion of the company's funds get pulled, or more likely the CEO being yanked by the board. So they play it safe and choose already established architectures.

  • I never claimed that the current software didn’t use machine learning

    This is not AI.

    This is your straight statement, and your only argument was saying it was done before AI was used in it. That's a poor argument. That's like arguing that self driving isn't AI because remote control car piloting existed.

    Automated image manipulation vs having 100s of hours in Photoshop. That's AI vs what came before. Inputting a source file and getting a manipulated file after some amount of time, vs hours of meticulous work trying to get minor details right.

    If we want to compare oldschool manipulation vs AI Manipulation, then yes, fakes now are on par with the insane skill of some image doctoring artists - you're just looking for different things - but it's at an exponentially lower cost than hiring a professional. Compare AI to itself, though? It's night and day. Early AI manipulation was atrocious. And modern AI manipulation is only going to get better. That is all due to breakthroughs in AI. imagine what the hell will happen when Sora becomes usable by anyone.

    Machine learning has taken an originally hard thing to do and made it cheap and easy. Now, any schmuck can pump out doctored footage in an afternoon. That's why the AI porn is big- you can pay dirt cheap and give the model photos of any random woman and it'll make porn of them - and that fact has turned it into a much more viable business model than before, that's currently creating massive amounts of non consensual porn fakes- exponentially more than before.

  • You are pulling a no true Scotsman fallacy here. AI has always been a somewhat vague term, and it's explicitly a buzzword in today's systems.

    This AI front has also been taking the current form for more than a decade, but it wasn't a public topic until now, because it was terrible up until now.

    The relevant things is that AI is automating a normally human-centric practice via extensive training on a data model. All systems I've mentioned utilize that machine learning practice at some point in their process.

    The statement about the deepfakes is just patently incorrect on your part. It is a trained model which takes an input, and outputs a manipulated output based on its training. That's enough to meet the criteria. Before it was fairly difficult and almost immediately identifiable as AI manipulated. It's now popular because it's gotten good enough to not be immediately noticeable, done fairly easily, and is at the point where it can be mostly automated.

  • If we're talking only about LLMs, then probably the biggest issues caused are threats to support line jobs, the enshittification of said help lines, blatant misinformation spread via those chat bots, and a variety of niche problems.

    If we're spreading out to mean AI mor generally, we could talk about how facial recognition has now gotten good enough that it's being used to identify and catalogue pretty much anyone that passes a FR-equipped security system. Israel has actually been picking civilian targets via AI. We could also talk about "self driving" cars and the compeletely avoidable deaths they've caused. We could talk about how most convolution network AIs that identify graphic imagery and other horrific visuals use massive sweat shops to sort said graphic images for pennies. We could also talk about how mimicry AI has now been used to create both endless revenge porn of unwilling victims, and also faked the voice of others to try to scam them or make them not vote. There's plenty of damage AI as a whole has done, even if LLMs are the most minimal of all of them.

  • Before Helldivers? Lethal company.

  • There's literally a section titled 'why use UTC - not TAI?'.

  • I've just said 'fuck it' and switched all my clocks to UTC. I don't even care anymore.

  • Well, the reason people argue it's a racist argument is that Paul Ehrlich's book, 'The Population Bomb', was explicitly racist and advocated forced population control on less developed nations, and his talking points are consistently the most used throughout the conversation. For a full breakdown, I'd recommend listening to the 'If Books Could Kill' episode covering it.

    What most arguments boil down to is either vague gesturing that the world capacity is nearing what is sustainable by the earth - a claim that is still very unproven and widely refuted - or claims about populations ballooning exponentially - These claims have historically been most leveled at African and Asian countries, most notably China and India.

    The solution to this problem is also explicitly problematic most of the time, since the only solution to too many people is less people. Very rarely is this solution suggested in western countries, since the claims are only leveled at nonwestern nations with issues of poverty. These solutions are almost always to rob these nations' people of their reproductive autonomy.

    At the end of the day, I think that the actual solution has nothing to do with population, and everything to do with developed nations hoarding their wealth. If we actually made pushes to bring impoverished nations up into a healthy state, we already know that as QOL goes up for individuals, the number of children they have declines (the key reason is still debated). Just that would potentially be enough to cease global population climb.

    We could also be greatly cutting emissions from developing countries by actually helping them develop emission-free methods of power and production.

    There is also still much improvement to be made on how we farm land, how we harvest the crops, how we consume those crops, and food waste reduction, so I also don't by the argument that we can't make enough food.

  • Colleges explicitly advertise themselves as means of getting training for specialized job markets. They directly partner with companies to provide internships. A college degree is required on the majority of job openings in STEM, regardless of the opening.

    This was not a distortion of colleges - it was a full societal push to make colleges more useful to the general public in the 1940s, which directly lead to an explosion in the number of colleges, mostly in the form of community colleges. Since then, the major purpose of colleges has been vocational training first and foremost.