CuriousRefugee
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My thoughts, ended up being longer than I meant, but here:
Paying attention to the loudest voices, you will think we’ve split into two societal groups: those who use AI and think it’s absolutely perfect and will save humanity (“sheep”), and those who deny it has any uses whatsoever, is morally abhorrent, and is going to end mankind, either through war or through decay (“luddites”).
Most people will be in the middle. We will slowly learn what LLMs are good at doing, and what’s it bad at doing, and it’ll be messy. People will lose their jobs, but then some companies will realize that AI can’t actually replace those people, and some services/products will get dramatically worse/enshittified. Others will begin making a living through the use of AI, some adding great value to society and others just creating slop that a small but big enough fraction of the masses will consume to keep it around. People who are smarter at separating the good from the bad will laugh at both the luddites and the sheep.
One or two AI companies will fail and there will be massive turmoil and fallout for them. But most will either slowly reduce expectations or succeed moderately over time. Generalized AI will turn out to be way harder than some thought, and consciousness a way bigger leap from LLMs than predicted. There will be a loud push to implement safeguards, and it will be mostly ignored by politicians. However, there will be some progress on energy and water concerns, leading to large differences between countries/US states in terms of regulation. AI will turn out to be mostly bad for kids.
There will be several huge successes - a huge medical cure/vaccine, or an amazing technological invention/improvement, probably some kind of multi-disciplinary discovery. The people who drive it to completion will acknowledge it wouldn’t have occurred without AI, but humans were mostly responsible, but the media will claim that AI invented it out of whole cloth. There will also probably be some high-profile failures, like car crashes or critical server outages, maybe even leading to deaths. Luddites will seize upon them as if they’re apocalypses, and sheep will dismiss them as anomalies. The truth will be in-between. Most people’s lives will not change drastically.
- Comment on bit rude, innit? 1 month ago:
They’re minerals, Marie!
- Comment on Restaurant the not good :( 1 month ago:
Rocket is another name for arugula, the leafy green veggie. I only know this from watching British food Youtubers, so I think it’s a regional name
- Comment on Anon has a tip 2 months ago:
I use DDG, which works for about 90% of my searches, but when it doesn’t work, I go back to Google, often in a private window. I do agree that Google is still just, I dunno, better?
- Comment on New life 2 months ago:
A møøse ate all of my pøtatoes
- Comment on yoooo 3 months ago:
What is this scene? Vaggie looks like she’s on a pirate ship! Maybe from when she’s singing the duet with Camilla in season 1? Whatever it Takes I think? I’m just trying to remember why she would be on a pirate ship, but sometimes the animation goes by so fast I miss things
- Comment on Definitely how it went for me 3 months ago:
I built my first computer in college with a friend helping me. It didn’t turn on, and we spent 3 days troubleshooting, switching out components (including the power supply) until we realized that the outlet we were plugging into was on a switch. We felt like morons
- Comment on sad but trueueh, yeahh 4 months ago:
My dad and I quote this all the time, and no one ever knows what we’re talking about! Peter Sellers is phenomenal!
- Comment on A heartwarming classic! 5 months ago:
And their Instagram, before the motorcycle pics so you have to login or cheat, is www.instagram.com/cobabeda99/
- Comment on Check yourself before you rex yourself 6 months ago:
Oh, that’s the famous Sherlock Holmes fanfic author, right? And occasionally Batman fanfic!
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 6 months ago:
Better than jumping the shark
- Comment on It's just science. 7 months ago:
No! I’m sure we’ve aged like a fine milk. Strongbad is timeless!
- Comment on It's just science. 7 months ago:
I recognized this immediately. I hope Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith is doing okay
- Comment on Florida ounces 7 months ago:
Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it’s 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!
Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it’s brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that’s optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that’s not better than your silly metric system!
- Comment on Day 365 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing (One Year Anniversary!) 8 months ago:
Congratulations on 1 year! I don’t read every day, but I’m glad when I do. Quite a commitment! Thanks so much for your contribution!
- Comment on Get yourself a real man. 8 months ago:
The true Golden Path was the lizards we met along the way
- Comment on Cursed 8 months ago:
If there was a god, I’d imagine them designing the universe and giggling like an idiot when they made math.
- Comment on To enjoy life without any fear 8 months ago:
Plot twist: the cat put up the sign
- Comment on 9 months ago:
I had an old school friend I visited in Chicago, and her apartment had a locked door in her bedroom against the back wall, and her landlord had just said “it’s not used, just ignore it.” It didn’t even have a doorknob, so she had just ignored it for like 3 years. The building had been there for like 100 years.
Naturally, after some alcohol, I convinced her I could lockpick it, and we pushed her bed to the side and I spent about ten drunken minutes picking the deadbolt. We finally got it open, and discovered it was a straight-up small elevator! None of the lights or buttons worked, and we were worried about it falling, so we got out of there.
To this day, I’m not sure if it was an old building elevator for residents and her room had been a hallway, or if it was some kind of (very small) service elevator, or something for the ADA (handicapped requirements). But it was absolutely fascinating.
- Comment on There it is, that funny feeling. 10 months ago:
Apply Directly To The Forehead.
- Comment on Classic SMBC: Funding 10 months ago:
Newton’s blessings on everyone!
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 10 months ago:
Obviously AI slop! No one is able to spell flourine correctly twice!
- Comment on Renewable energy means we can stop setting money on fire, silly billy 11 months ago:
I think it’s because the camera angle is different, but he also does to me. Or else it’s some secret de-aging technique, which definitely uses a heat pump.
- Comment on Pronunciation is important 11 months ago:
Ahem… … … gif
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 11 months ago:
