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@Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! Yeah, that’s too great to change :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how common it is, but anyone can book a performer. They advertise their prices for private shoes quite openly usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m enjoying thinking about it, but I just don’t understand the constraints you are interested in, or assuming. If all human labor is replaced, then I’m already envisioning what is in essence an entirely different planet. Resources would be gone, politics are reorganized around supporting and building this AI takeover, and then re-aligned again once there is free time. I’m thinking of what is the cost of that — are we spread out on multiple planets, and on earth no one works? Is it some dystopian earth with the humans left there having nothing to do? Is it a utopian future, where humans have all the free time in the world, and we had did figure out how to solve the resource problem. I’m not trying to deflect your question or not answer, I’m actually really trying to answer it and consider things but see an AI takeover completely tied up in a whole host of other issues. I’ll read through the other comments and see what others are thinking. Thanks for the thought-game for this Sunday though :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of this is kinda what I’m getting at too — it’s such a far fetched question, that it almost doesn’t matter. We are making so many assumptions (since this is not something remotely feasible at the moment) that it’s all completely up on the air.

  I think maybe a different question might be: is there EVER a point where we are able to defend from an alien invasion. Which I’m not really sure what that answer would be. I think it’s not a technology question, but more of a political one since it would require a massive solidarity movement to unite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your question assumes a disconnect between labor and AI systems. AI is built on mounds of cheap labor already. It’s going to have to replace things like mines and miners and a TON of labor all the way up the chain (including data center upkeep). It we can do that and build this thing capable manufacturing the autonomous robots that replace human labor, then humans would be in a pretty good place technology wise to defend ourselves. We’re also talking like many many many years in the future when we could do this. We’re far more likely to run out of resources and be forced to be a multi planet species to seek out this dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh this touches close to him. I got into pgfplots since it would generate plots in latex at compile time and keep fonts consistent, etc. plots looked amazing though.

  The worst was when a colleague couldn’t get a pdf to upload into a google doc, so he just made an ugly ass bar chart in excel for the final draft since that was easier. The only reason he could do that so quickly was because he could read the data so easily from the plot I made. Ugh. Still burns

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re right — body armor of some kind. He’s scared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone go check on Cincinnati? I think they might be having some mental health issues.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I was just thinking of full on 3-way flavor in ice cream form. I can kinda see how a hint of the spice could be interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone go check on Cincinnati? I think they might be having some mental health issues.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a lover of Cincinnati chili (Gold Star) and graeters … this sounds like an abomination. 🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs to thee, but none for me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, and add in ever increasing journals and submissions, and you are correct!

  (Or pass them along to grad students who take it extremely seriously)

  The entire peer review system is somewhat of a mess since publish or perish and citation indexes have been embedded into promotion and tenure as metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Afruleca⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, looks like they DeMorganed to avoid parenthesis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs to thee, but none for me!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For professors it’s somewhat included but in the pay structure and an expected part of service. So you could argue that it’s not necessarily “free” time, but it’s not a great argument. Reviewers should still be paid and not expected to do this for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best anti-work movies?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Salt of the Earth

  It’s more pro-labor and unions than anti-work, but is absolutely amazing, and there’s a cool story about production getting banned and the actors in the movie are the actual people from the incident. Totally worth watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here as well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also reading an article about nutritional quality of food itself has been declining over the last 50 years. So to get the same nutritional amount, you need to eat more food period.

  There’s also bigger systemic issues about food access that is driving people to “choose” it. Lack of time, cost, availability, transportation all factor in that are beyond a simple idea if a person having a pure choice between two equal (or even somewhat equal) options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this pit used for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not rice. That’s farmed on huge fields and have (in USA at least) telltale levy lines which are used to control flooding the fields. Poke around in northeast Arkansas and you should find some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if I finish my coursework over the summer, how is graduation handled?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You earn you degree once your last courses end. So if there’s a summer term, you’ll have competed the requirements for the degree at that point and can say so on jobs. Your transcript will reflect this.

  However if you are talking about the ceremony, most schools don’t have a ceremony at the end of summer and will have these students choose to walk in the December ceremony (if one exists) or the bigger may ceremony. Or choose not to walk at all.

  The specific details are going to vary from university to university though.