Kinda embarrassing that so many people are still into AI
I made my mind up on this shit years ago when I realized no one has made positive cashflow on this. Who cares how much it’s being deployed? The users aren’t making more money. The orgs that adopt it aren’t making more money. And the AI companies themselves aren’t making any money at all.
No one has ever made a dime off of AI/LLMs, and no one has a plan that will lead them to profitability. This is all hype
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Very silly complaint:
MacOS has autocorrect at the system level, which I turned off because I don't like it. But certain programs (right now, noticing it in Reminders) still have autocorrect within them. In these programs, it's impossible to turn autocorrect off. I guess Apple just assumes everyone leaves this on all the time but I don't, dammit.
MacOS has autocorrect at the system level, which I turned off because I don't like it. But certain programs (right now, noticing it in Reminders) still have autocorrect within them. In these programs, it's impossible to turn autocorrect off. I guess Apple just assumes everyone leaves this on all the time but I don't, dammit.
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Cybernetician & thalassophile. Most posts auto delete. Just shytpostin 4 the rev 🔥 "One of the most vicious partisans in the labor movement." -- real quote from a real hater!
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Why do people give two weeks’ notice when they quit even though jobs usually don’t give two weeks notice of firing/layoffs
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Anyone who has any faith in the US police/court system to do anything positive is... far more optimistic than I have ever been.
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@resipiscent @anderseknert Come to think of it, this is probably the greatest time to get a bored ape ever. Look, ma, I'm timing the market
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@anderseknert People are like "you're a luddite!" and I'm like YES, YOU'RE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND, now please leave me to my flint knapping
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@HeavenlyPossum man that’s an even bigger L than Musk sinking $40bn into twitter. At least people used twitter. Yikes
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Whoever came up with the system “if you don’t allocate all of your yearly budget, your budget will be smaller next year” is responsible for so much human misery and wasted money
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People talking about “what the next administration needs to do” are a lot more confident about the next administration than I am
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“THIS IS NOT A PAYWALL. It just acts exactly like a paywall and is actually just a paywall where you pay with data instead of cash.” — pages that are about to get thrown into archive.ph to get around their paywall
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LLM boosters: This is trained with all of the text and code on the public internet!
People who can fucking think: So it's extremely low quality, then?
People who can fucking think: So it's extremely low quality, then?
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“The truth is that homes deliver enormous non‑financial value — stability, community, belonging. Those are reasons to buy. But as financial assets … They are expensive to maintain, difficult to trade, impossible to diversify, and usually purchased with significant leverage. The investment component is real but volatile … It is the predictable outcome of society promoting an undiversified, illiquid, highly leveraged asset as if it were the ultimate life goal.”
https://archive.ph/XqCEb
https://archive.ph/XqCEb
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I'm not saying the Democrats WANT to lose the next Presidential election, but they are weirdly attached to Gavin Newsom, and that makes me think they definitely don't want to win.
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“LLMs won’t just disappear?”
You sure about that?
https://killedbygoogle.com/
What makes AI any different than any of this shit? It’s actually losing far more money than most of these things did.
You sure about that?
https://killedbygoogle.com/
What makes AI any different than any of this shit? It’s actually losing far more money than most of these things did.
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@Njord it’s been years and I have never been impressed by a single use case. I don’t see how people can trust any of its output now, but whatever.
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@eloy 20 years ago my small college just hired programmers/web devs to make anything they needed directly (with one login for everything!) and this was so much better than the current system. Now I’m back in school at a much larger college and they outsource everything to like nine different tech companies and it’s so confusing.
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Lying is wrong. However. The only fringe benefit I can see from the proliferation of AI/LLM shit is now it’s very easy to tell who I can get away with lying to: all the people into AI/LLM may be intelligent, but they lack capacity for critical thinking.
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Wow it finally happened to me!
An elder in my community approached me asking for help about digital security and privacy!
I feel like being on here kinda prepared me for the conversation. I thanked him for asking me about it, and talked about how there's a lot of ignorance and people preying on that ignorance.
I asked him what, specifically, he was worried about, and we talked about effective ways to mitigate those risks. Honestly it was great
An elder in my community approached me asking for help about digital security and privacy!
I feel like being on here kinda prepared me for the conversation. I thanked him for asking me about it, and talked about how there's a lot of ignorance and people preying on that ignorance.
I asked him what, specifically, he was worried about, and we talked about effective ways to mitigate those risks. Honestly it was great
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Cybernetician & thalassophile. Most posts auto delete. Just shytpostin 4 the rev 🔥 "One of the most vicious partisans in the labor movement." -- real quote from a real hater!
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Ran into another friend who works for a piano moving company. His crew is half white guys and half latino guys. ICE was following them in their work truck. They pulled over, had the latino guys wait in the truck, and the white guys got out and made fun of the ICE agents until they drove off.
I imagine those cowards decided they could find some easier targets than a bunch of cut guys who move pianos all day.
I imagine those cowards decided they could find some easier targets than a bunch of cut guys who move pianos all day.
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@julieofthespirits I agree. Obviously ICE and DHS need to be defunded, disarmed, and disbanded, but that's not nearly enough. The USA needs comprehensive immigration reform: a return to the open immigration we used to have, combined with a general amnesty for all immigration violations.
Anything less is just a continuation of the status quo.
None of this shit should have been illegal in the first place!
Anything less is just a continuation of the status quo.
None of this shit should have been illegal in the first place!
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@hehemrin @cstross Honestly, it's not enough for just me to not have access to this useless LLM/AI crap, I would love for it to be less available in the broader society, too. I'm already sick of dealing with people whose brains have been cooked by this shit, and we're only a couple years in.
The opposition to AI is no longer just practical but now also ideological.
The opposition to AI is no longer just practical but now also ideological.
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@syntaxxor @Chloe @liv Many (most?) non-USA airline companies are highly subsidized by their local governments and essentially do function as public transit
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@the_spc @tshirtman @mariyadelano Honestly? That actually sounds so much more arduous and frustrating than just learning how to program (I say this as someone who taught myself to program. I'll never be a software engineer but I can do plenty of my own stuff).
If you actually learn how to program, you can fix your own mistakes. If the AI thing doesn't work, what do you do? Keep trying with different prompts? Then that's no longer faster.
If you actually learn how to program, you can fix your own mistakes. If the AI thing doesn't work, what do you do? Keep trying with different prompts? Then that's no longer faster.
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