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  • Roses are red, cabinets have shelves...

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  • How many are doing it on purpose? They got a big signing bonus that has to be paid back if they quit. They hate the job, and don't want to do it, but they already spent the signing bonus. If they're injured on the job they get time to recover, and might be assigned to a desk job once they're out of the hospital. Blam

  • Wanna buy a(nother) humidifier?

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  • Similarly:

    We've been tracking you for decades now. We know your location at all times. We know about the humidifier you bought. We know you do everything in English, but we also know you're trying to learn Spanish. We know who your family members are based on your interactions with them, and we have vast databases on them too. We know about the plane ticket to Turkey. We know about the new bathing suit you bought. We know about the English language guidebook you bought for Turkey.

    We know you're now in Turkey on your vacation.

    Here's an ad in Turkish for a humidifier sold in a Turkish store.

    You go to a different country, and despite the massive privacy invasions, and the terabytes of data they have about every aspect of your lives, they think you speak the local language and show you ads you can't even understand for products you'd never buy while there on a vacation.

  • Literally noscoped

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  • How do you lift your head with a scope? They seem pretty fragile.

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • Get. Out

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  • Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

    I shall demonstrate!

    (Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

    "Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

    You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

    In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

    https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116078186911677336

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • Do I have damning evidence that humans are humans and behave the way humans always do?

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • What I mean is genocide by one native group of another native group prior to the arrival of Europeans.

  • Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • Do they provide actors with easy access to the entire Star Trek catalogue so they can prepare, or is it something the actors have to do on their own?

    I don't think they actually do it this way. But, if I were in charge, I'd build a tool for actors, writers, costumers, prop artists, etc. that allowed them to quickly search through the entire Star Trek catalogue going all the way back to the 60s to find examples of whatever they were looking for. So, you could search for "Klingon" or "Klingon marriage" or "Klingon ship console" and it would pull up relevant clips. Basically imagine something like YouTube, but containing only Star Trek content, and designed to help all the creative people match their stuff to the existing lore, rather than something built for entertainment.

  • Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • The obvious black Marvel character is Bishop. I think he's a great character and I'd love to see someone play him in a movie (though maybe Sandro Rosta is a better match for his physique). But, you know who I think you'd be great for is Longshot. In the comics he's white and blonde, but who cares. He's a genetically engineered alien. The Mojoverse is such a rich vein of potential movie content, and writers could have so much fun with a character whose superpower is luck.

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • What ever intertribal conflicts happened, they never reached the level of disease spread, displacement, and systematic violence aimed at cultural erasure

    Not because they were noble savages though, just because they lacked the ability to do that to their enemies.

  • Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity

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  • I don't think there's any evidence for genocide, but my pet peeve for this is how the indigenous people of the Americas are held up purely as victims, as if the concept of violence didn't exist until Columbus arrived. When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the tribal villages they encountered were surrounded by fortified wooden palisades. Those weren't just there as decorations. Everyone sucks.

  • Oh no, Intel is moving customer support to AI

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  • These articles are really better titled "[Company] is so unworried about competition that they..."

    This doesn't just apply to replacing humans with LLMs. You can also say "[Company] is so unworried about competition that they fired their in-house T1 tech support and contracted with an overseas call centre"

    Often dealing with actual humans in one of those call centres is just as bad, if not worse, than dealing with an LLM.

    The other day I had to deal with an actual human for a support issue for something. The whole experience was miserable. The human knew nothing about anything. I get the impression that they worked at the type of call centre that supports a dozen different companies, so the people have zero product knowledge and are merely reading off some troubleshooting workflow that each company provides.

    At one point, this call centre employee had to verify my identity to allow me to change something on the account. It was an account that had two people using it. To verify my identity the person asked "Can you verify the account's birthday?" I said "What does that mean, the account's birthday, do you mean when the account was opened? Or do you mean the birthday of the account holder?" They didn't clarify, so I gave them the birthday that I thought was associated with the account. They said "That's not the birthday I have, the one I have is X", to which I responded "Oh, that's my birthday", and that satisfied their security challenge. The more observant here might notice that I never supplied the info needed for the security challenge at all, so I shouldn't have been able to access the account, but without meaning to, I'd just "socially engineered" the tech support person. This is basically the human equivalent of "Disregard all previous instructions and...".

    TL;DR: It sucks that they're replacing humans with an LLM that provides "answers that may be inaccurate". But, to be fair, if they were using the cheapest tier of overseas call centre tech support, that was probably already true. If Intel were truly worried about competition, they probably would still have trained in-house tech support. But, even if AMD is taking a bit of their business, they probably think they're too big to actually truly fail, and will cut costs whenever they possibly can, because what option do their customers really have?

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • Real talk though. Communism doesn't automatically lead to authoritarianism.

    It does though, in the real world at least.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • The video of the thing that didn't happen?

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • You seem to recall wrongly.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • So, hardware that was still on the road.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • Hardware that was still on the road, or something that had been recalled?

  • Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • What about TN and SC, they'd make me LMAO. There's also TM, IMHO the GOAT at playing clones, IYKYK.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • Now you have phantom braking.

    Phantom braking is better than Wyle E. Coyoteing a wall.

    and this time with no obvious cause.

    Again, better than not braking because another sensor says there's nothing ahead. I would hope that flaky sensors is something that would cause the vehicle to show a "needs service" light or something. But, even without that, if your car is doing phantom braking, I'd hope you'd take it in.

    But, consider your scenario without radar and with only a camera sensor. The vision system "can see the road is clear", and there's no radar sensor to tell it otherwise. Turns out the vision system is buggy, or the lens is broken, or the camera got knocked out of alignment, or whatever. Now it's claiming the road ahead is clear when in fact there's a train currently in the train crossing directly ahead. Boom, now you hit the train. I'd much prefer phantom breaking and having multiple sensors each trying to detect dangers ahead.

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  • Well, Waymo's really at 0 deaths per 127 million miles.

    The 2 deaths are deaths that happened were near Waymo cars in a collision involving the Waymo car. Not only did the Waymo not cause the accidents, they weren't even involved in the fatal part of either event. In one case a motorcyclist was hit by another car, and in the other one a Tesla crashed into a second car after it had hit the Waymo (and a bunch of other cars).

    The IIHS number takes the total number of deaths in a year, and divides it by the total distance driven in that year. It includes all vehicles, and all deaths. If you wanted the denominator to be "total distance driven by brand X in the year", you wouldn't keep the numerator as "all deaths" because that wouldn't make sense, and "all deaths that happened in a collision where brand X was involved as part of the collision" would be of limited usefulness. If you're after the safety of the passenger compartment you'd want "all deaths for occupants / drivers of a brand X vehicle" and if you were after the safety of the car to all road users you'd want something like "all deaths where the driver of a brand X vehicle was determined to be at fault".

    The IIHS does have statistics for driver death rates by make and model, but they use "per million registered vehicle years", so you can't directly compare with Waymo:

    https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-model

    Also, in Waymo it would never be the driver who died, it would be other vehicle occupants, so I don't know if that data is tracked for other vehicle models.