technocrit

@ technocrit @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Gestapo USA lemmy.dbzer0.com

The grift is too damn high.

3d ago

Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales

Where I live, they own a big chunk of all the shitty beers at shitty gas stations. They're a major reason why independent breweries are almost nonexistent.

Fuck Heineken.

3d ago

Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales

How will humanity survive without the vital services offered by (checks notes) Heineken?!?!?

3d ago

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive.

So where can I download my fave albums?

4d ago

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

https://www.statisticshowto.com/sampling-with-replacement-without/

This is the difference between randomly choosing songs and randomly choosing songs without repetition.

Both are random but the later is much better for humans.

Of course there are other possible methods of choosing. It seems like Spotify is doing some kind of weighting from another comment posted here.

4d ago

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

The point of these apps is to leech as much money as possible.

An opposing goal would be to make the app better for users.

4d ago

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

This is spotify. It's just a music player. The overwhelming bulk of the code was probably written like 20 years ago by a 15 year old.

4d ago

Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Is that supposed to be impressive? Spotify is among the dumbest, shittiest apps. It's literally just a music library player.

Spotify doesn't exist because it's some genius app. It exists because of legal control. They have no reason to make the app better. Indeed their shitty capitalist motives continue to enshittify the app.

4d ago

AI hype is such bullshit. Who cares if Anthropic was 'used' in a military operation? I'm sure Outlook search was 'used' in this military operation

That's exactly why they use these apps. The primary application is abdication of responsibility for atrocities.

"We were just following ~~orders~~ the genius of 'AI'..."

4d ago

physical walking proof racism is fake

A thousand white guys with degrees couldn’t stand up to him.

Nobody was trying to stand up to him. Some white dudes literally invited him to their university.

Discovered ~~the~~ a formula for pi.

FTFY. There are many methods for calculating pi. Some are thousands of years old.

Said math was the language of the gods.

It's not. It's literally a formal language made by people.

Best mathematician since euler.

That's subjective but I would put a number of people before this guy: Cantor, Godel, Turing, et al.

None of these people are gods.

Died at 33 because they couldn’t fucking accept being made the fool.

He died because there's no cure for TB.

racism is fake

"Race" is fake. Racism is very very real.

5d ago

Conservative lawmakers plan to investigate Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show

"plan to"

5d ago

Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

Just when you thought matplotlib was safe from the drama...

5d ago

Yet another reason to hate on the worse DB in existence

Don't forget the support for genocide.

5d ago

Yet another reason to hate on the worse DB in existence

"intelligence" <---> incompetence

5d ago

The United Kingdom will cut funding to fundamental astronomy and physics research by almost a third.

Yes, I have a "terminal" degree from a decent school in a related field. As I've said, I'm very unimpressed with the vast majority of "research".

It's the uneducated and the "educated" who worship these grifters. It doesn't require an advanced degree to see through this. An advanced degree might even be an impediment.

5d ago

The United Kingdom will cut funding to fundamental astronomy and physics research by almost a third.

Ofc this bro thinks his job is "fundamental". Give me a break. It's about time to cut back on the grift. I mean "string theory" alone has been a waste of endless resources. Fucking CERN. Not to mention the endless, ceaseless service to the MIC. They'll surely be prioritizing violence and death still (aka "national security"). People mindlessly support all this because "science" (aka scientism).

Whitey on the Moon

On the other hand spending money on "economic growth" is surely a waste as well. Just accelerating inequality and planetary doom.

6d ago

Will the AI bubble burst will actually help?

technocrit @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6d ago

I am a replaceable human who has no value.

Come on, homie. You have value. It might not be much on the capitalist scale, but it's massive on a social level. You gotta resist letting this miserable evil system define you. Find your own value.

On the other hand I can see how it's hard to "find your own value" when you're impoverished. But that's all the more reason to resist a system that feeds off impoverishment.

7d ago

Anthropic Insiders Afraid They've Crossed a Line