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TIL polar bears are fucking _massive_
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Beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia in English
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TIL polar bears are fucking _massive_
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Beaver is also a slang term for female genitalia in English
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race to the bottom with no other participants
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I cant think of a single thing they can build in the hands of a crazed idiot that wouldnt be better built in the hands of a trained professional.
Ai should, at most, be used to automate tedious, low risk work that anyone in the field could do, but would rather avoid. Examples like protein folding or brute forcing math proofs, really just things that can easily be programmed but are more grunt busywork than anything.
It should NOT be used for developing new features in code, discovering or finalizing math proofs, and most certainly, human expression via art.
Ai's exclusive use should be to free humans to pursue passions, either by reducing work hours or tedium, ideally both.
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Windows 11 is failing as an operating system
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Once. It takes time and energy once, because its a new thing. This is true of all new things. If you want to go to a new library, you have to learn the route or address, drive there, get a new card, and find the books/places things are. The dewey decimal system is the same, but no ones really using it and the help desk is likely in a different area.
So, with installing a new operating system, you need to know how to install an operating system, follow the instructions, and then use the operating system.
Its almost exactly the same effort. Some people will need to learn how to drive, or the bus route, or whatever, but thats expected.
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Also very fitting for ADHD
I miss tutorials on the start screen.
Also minecraft books are a good idea, but lack the "hey btw youre gonna get busy and drop this game for 6 months and have no idea what your goals are. Care to take a note?"
My solution is a captains log after video game sessions, but i forget sometimes
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This is the future
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Its not just ___ its ____.
But fr, in academic fields its certainly helpful to have super human pattern recognition. In most fields, however, its just slop generation. Creative fields and now even code are being flooded with garbage and I dont think we'll be able to fix it. Sure, some places are benefiting, but on the whole its just a massive black hole of hand-holding and flooding that we'll be cleaning up for decades.
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Tin foil not needed
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Brown people can move rocks, you guys! Aliens didnt put things up your dads butt, he just got a little adventurous and is closeted.
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Aristotelian slavery
A lot of people just lack critical thinking skills and imagination. A lot of people like being at the bottom of hierarchy. A lot of people like when people they dont like suffer, even if it means they do, too. A lot of people are religious. All of these things are plagues on our society, and a lot of them are done on purpose by those in power.
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Technology picked the wrong sub genre to follow
Outlaw ai and give the eggheads performance enhancing (and lip staining) tonics!
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We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop.
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We bulldozed the cities to make way for cars. Boomers built car centric cities and voted for car centric infrastructure despite all evidence showing this was a really bad idea. Instead of improving public transport, they elected to add more lanes and remove aidewalks to the tune of millions or billions. Every time. Again and again. Through the entire US and honestly, world
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Anon experiences a glitch
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Ive definitely woken up from dreams where i was getting ready for bed, and had to walk myself through my day back to bed. Like, i had a dream of an entire day
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I don't fucking *want* "infinite personalized music", I want music conceptualized, created, and played by human beings.
There very much are people who view music as background noise and only listen to walmart radio-esque drivel. I remember hearing that an acquaintance listened to "whatevers on the front page of spotify" and has never made a playlist or noted a song/band as better or worse than any other.
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Quick, someone release Chatbot 2000!
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I honestly love this idea unironically because its not really 1.0 until the bugs are gone and all desired features are present. If there are ever 2.0 plans, those are actually 1.0 plans and you were further behind than you thought
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I don't fucking *want* "infinite personalized music", I want music conceptualized, created, and played by human beings.
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My only reason for not doing so is the insane like 20 minute long ad breaks after every 3 songs. Id rather listen to an ai generated playlist than ads
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AOC: "ICE is a new agency, created in the surveillance-state establishment after 9/11. ICE is Palantir. ICE is AI. ICE is facial recognition. ICE is surveillance. And ICE is coming after you..."
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It only really functions if the judge got enough sleep that day, your defender was paid well and is a good person, and you're not a minority. More negatives if the jury is feeling particularly bored or youre in a rural area. A lot of urban areas have some pretty shit judges too.
Its about 100 coin flips weighted towards whether youre actually guilty or not.
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Another year, another set of papers disillusioning me
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Capitalism rewards greed and antisocial cheats and shortcuts. Once youve won capitalism, you make a bunch of movies about how to be the better person and win without violence. Then you develop unmanned drones that can kill from miles away autonomously.
You now have the masses soft and ripe for exploitation, and those that rise up are quickly eliminated
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Simon Pegg on the Cornell Rapists
If you are a man, you probably wont rape someone. However, if you were raped, it was almost certainly done by A man. You can blame the individual, for sure, but you can also blame the people who know these things about a rapist and continue to associate with them, or fail to teach their sons how to react, or fail to dissuade locker room talk that can lead to dangerous thoughts, or fail to sufficiently shame manosphere creators/followers.
Toxic masculinity is a male issue, and more importantly its everyone's issue. It takes a villiage and all that
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They're really gonna put The Onion out of work
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Went from "beardo weirdo" to "tranny radical weirdo" myself
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We can do it again
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There are dozens of us!
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They're really gonna put The Onion out of work
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Also trans women -- notoriously amazing tech skills
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They don't think it be like it is, but it do
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"Its in the bible" "Go read a dictionary" "The Quran literally says..." "Yeah but the comics say..." "Yeah but in the manga..."
Youre absolutely correct, these people have no idea what theyre talking about.