

Others joined in: “Yep, I’m canceling as well, this is asinine.” Soon after, moderators locked the Reddit thread and removed the original post.
Yeah that checks out
Others joined in: “Yep, I’m canceling as well, this is asinine.” Soon after, moderators locked the Reddit thread and removed the original post.
Yeah that checks out
the main function of the contemporary media: to convey the message that even if you’re clever enough to have figured out that it’s all a cynical power game, the rest of America is a ridiculous pack of sheep.
This is the trap.
-David Graeber, The Democracy Project
That’s implying that the quality of information from other sources is always better, but I’m saying that’s sometimes not true; when you’re trying to figure out the syntax for something, documentation and search engines have failed you, and the traditional next step would be to start contacting people or trying to find the answer in unfamiliar source code, sometimes a LLM can somehow just tell you the answer at that point and save the trouble. Of course you have to test that answer because more often than not it will just make up a fake one but that just takes a few seconds.
There are some situations I’m going back to search engines as a first option though, like error messages, LLMs seem to like to get tunnel vision on the literal topic of the error, while search results will show you an unintuitive solution to the same problem if it’s a very common one.
You’re no better off than if you did an internet search and tried to figure out who’s giving good advice, or just fumbled your own way through the docs in the first place.
These have their own problems ime. Often the documentation (if it exists) won’t tell you how to do something, or it’s really buried, or inaccurate. Sometimes the person posting StackOverflow answers didn’t actually try running their code, and it doesn’t run without errors. There are a lot of situations where a LLM will somehow give you better answers than these options. It’s inconsistent, and the reverse is true also, but the most efficient way to do it is to use all of these options situationally and as backups to each other.
I don’t buy it, I think they’re going to betray those people too eventually. Although maybe there will be a pitstop at “white christian ethnostate”
It sounds like what they want to do is write an essay from extensive personal experience (presumably the topic of the essay is being critical of the education system), but since that isn’t accepted they have to find articles about the same topic. IMO there is nothing wrong with writing an essay based on personal experience.
Disappointing but not surprising that the chosen solution to increasing swaths of the population no longer being supported by our economy is concentration camps. I honestly don’t think it’s that far fetched that the endgame here is they literally kill us all while acting like it’s our own fault, and the America of the future is just robots and genetic clones of billionaires.
It honestly sounds like the person tweeting doesn’t even know how the database got deleted. Maybe it was commands they entered themselves without knowing what they do. Then got the AI to admit responsibility and be apologetic.
What’s wrong about it? It seems like the obvious assumption that running into intelligent alien civilizations, them figuring out that we exist, would be extremely dangerous.
What are the criticisms? Genuinely curious, have no idea what problems anyone might have with it, other than some quotes from the Ubisoft exec trying to act like implementing user run servers is borderline impossible
Asked students what we wanted to spend our time in his class doing, actually followed through, and was then fired.
I don’t think I would be a very impartial juror if I were on this case
This is just being a freelancer, with extra lying.
Well thanks anyway for sharing what you know
I guess for me the ideal would be, I can install linux on it and run a MotionEye server. Second best would be it doesn’t connect to remote servers by default and has a well documented local api.
Pointing a gun at someone is dangerous. Pointing a moving car at someone is dangerous. We are gentler on car accidents because almost everyone relies on them and they are so normalized.
Is that a wrong approach though? I don’t have to point a gun at anyone to visit family, but practically I do have to get behind the wheel of a car. That can be fixed by being rich, but not everyone can be rich. The reason people drive despite the inherent risk to themselves and others is more about infrastructure than poor personal choices. I think it might be better to focus on solving the infrastructure problem than being more willing to put people in prison for driving mistakes, because the latter isn’t going to deter people from driving when most of us basically have to in order to live a normal life.
Like you said, it’s societal negligence. With guns, owning one is truly optional for almost everyone, and I think it’s reasonable to impose a much higher standard of personal responsibility on their use than with basically anything else. If you have a gun you better be capable of always using it correctly under pressure or else you should not have chosen to have one and criminal liability makes perfect sense.
What tech do you think is going to be introduced?
Designer pandemics
Are there any good ones that are local network only or open source etc? I like the idea of them except for the part about becoming part of Amazon’s spy network
To me whether this comic is being fair hinges on stuff like, how many people are being intentionally murdered with cars but the killer gets off easy because of the method? How many accidental gun deaths are prosecuted more harshly than they should be? I don’t actually know the answer to these. It does seem relevant that guns are a tool designed for killing.
I wonder if the real reason credit card companies have been responsive to these groups is the potential for lawsuits that drag payment processors into them, which is a result of various shitty laws that have been passed to generally empower these sorts of regressive trolls to do so. If so petitions from the other side might not be as effective, because they can be sued for providing services to the wrong people but not so much for cutting off service, and there’s not much actual risk to them even if a lot of people are mad about the latter.