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- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 21 hours ago:
Or perhaps the “benefits” should be from government and not employer.
- Comment on The American Dream, minus 60% 23 hours ago:
Obviously, we aren’t giving billionaires enough wealth to create jobs.
- Comment on Back to the future 1 day ago:
Looks like it is genuinely rotary dial design. Those aren’t buttons, they are holes. The text is on the black background, the clear plastic above it has holes cut out. There’s quite a bit of thickness to that plastic and it’s some distance from the black backing. Looks very much like a rotary phone looked, though understandable that most folks haven’t seen one up close.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 days ago:
I’ll second the volunteering, though I never really feel comfortable socializing among the volunteers, it still feels good actually doing something I think matters, but at the same time know I’m utterly replacable and no one would specifically need me to do any of it.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 days ago:
Have a colleague who went from over $300k/year to like a $50k/year job. Basically something to vaguely keep the lights on while his savings took care of itself. Way too young to retire, but he figures he can be ok with his savings and bonuses he had over his high paying career.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 2 days ago:
Never wanted to climb the ladder, but it was the only way I could really get better pay.
The higher I go, the more I can’t stand the conversations. Being straightforward is a career killer. Competing with folks that talk big without knowledge, knowing I need to carefully balance working with them while making sure my ass is documented and covered for any blame when they screw up and want to throw someone under the bus.
I have generally still loved talking to the “grunts” and customers. People who have real problems and doing real stuff without so much office politic crap going on. Not people trying to write blog posts to try to sound smart without actually doing anything or actually knowing the material.
- Comment on Who says romance is dead? 1 week ago:
Well, the guy was leading the police on a chase, so it’s probably true for that.
And she was intoxicated and they only investigated after the crash, so probably true there too.
- Comment on We must end rough sleeping but hostile architecture must go too 1 week ago:
That was one of the most odious tracking management UIs I have seen. Unless you want to accept everything, then you would have to invest quite a bit of effort in multiple tabs…
Screw that.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
Problem is that is too indirect. Imagine trying to do that intricate work on sight alone. Like trying to do stuff with numb hands. Without tactile feedback, we are useless in a lot of these tasks. But the tactile feedback is not instrumented. To the extent that machine learning works, it needs to have all the inputs and outputs instrumented, and feeling is left out.
We can see something done and have an explanation and internalize it and then ‘get a feel for it’ later. But AI doesn’t currently feature this ability to really translate that sort of instruction to an entirely different set of sensation.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
It’s not about the machinery struggling with gloves, it’s just the difficulty of capturing the data when a human really needs to touch/feel.
Like that ‘friction test’, the point is when they use machine learning, they want to feed all the inputs and outputs from the human operator. They don’t have a good way of capturing ‘feel’ (you can have a camera to capture what eyes see, you can have microphones to capture what the human hears). Similar on human inputs, for a car, they can instrument the pedals and steering and they pretty much got it all. If a human hand is doing something, well, if the human is local they might be able to make a glove to capture all that, but our sense of feeling can be fouled so easily that trying to instrument it tends to ruin it. If the human is remote then you can just get controller style inputs.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
In most demos, yes. Though they have managed to do things that vaguely seem correct, in very specific tasks in very controlled environments and often showing a behavior you wouldn’t want.
Like for example, they got it trained to pull out a dish rack and put a dish in, and push the rack back in. Then a human pulls out the rack and the robot pushes it back in. Which they like to show as it responding to the environment, but in real life the human wanted to do something with the rack, why would the robot incessantly keeping it from being out be desired?
Another one where it could pick up clothes, so long as the clothes were within a set square meter and the background was solid white.
The remote control is the mechanism to try to train them to work independently, but it is a tall order. To get the relatively more straightforward movement of operating a car, they took millions of miles of data to feed it. These robots are aiming for far more intricate work and have a severe lack of access to training data.
Further, imagine any task that becomes very difficult just by putting on gloves. Congratulations, there’s a task machine learning can’t help with, because they don’t have tactile in the input loop.
- Comment on Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds 1 week ago:
In part you have the “gig” economy to thank.
Pretty much everyone can be nominally working as an Uber, Lyft, door Dasher, etc. You might have no guaranteed work in any given time and even weeks without pay, but you still count as “employed”.
So if you are stuck, you might as well sign up with one of those and get what you can from it. Before you would have been clearly unemployed but now it’s super easy to end up counted as “self employed”. So the unemployment numbers just never go up like they used to even when reality is more like the unemployment going up
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 weeks ago:
It’s a fair position, as far as they are concerned, they haven’t seen it in action, at least not for very long. So they are waiting to see if it pans out as promised.
- Comment on Subtitles 2 weeks ago:
It’s not the creators intent, is the closed captioner. The director does not play a role in what guess into the closed captions generally.
- Comment on Why didn't Luigi ManGioni go to trial? Why not get a better deal knowing the prosecution would have to pony up some serious plea bargain? 2 weeks ago:
They can’t count on a jury that hates insurance companies. You would be surprised how many folks might be neutral on it, and jury selection can spend as much time as they want trying to find those people. Last time I might have served the lawyers dismiaaed essentially the entire jury twice over before accepting and that was over some anonymous little civil suit.
With respect to the family man angle, well there’s not much to be done on that front by the defense. “He was a dick who had it coming” isn’t a legal defense and even if attempted, people would probably think it is a bad look to try to smear the reputation of a dead man.
On the Internet circle jerks, a folk hero getting off seems really neat and with enough celebration seems even probable. Reality is not so.
Just wish it cut both ways, that health care executives be more accountable for lives lost due to their misbehaviors.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 3 weeks ago:
Dude lamenting women not being attracted to intelligence checks out as he use a picture that clearly focuses on a woman’s intelligence.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 3 weeks ago:
For example, everyone knew the gallows were for Mike pence, but that doesn’t mean that Mike pence was doing the wrong thing… In that occasion…
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 3 weeks ago:
“resounding success” but given up as a bad idea.
The fact that it could possibly “work” was not really in question, it was whether it would be worth the costs and drawbacks. It was not.
But either way you are right, space even worse than water with no benefit compared to ocean.
- Comment on Certified post about shit 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had what was described above, like once every 3 to 5 years. Terrible pain lying on the floor in the middle of the night hoping for relief with each attempt. Then a generally miserable day and then all good for the next few years.
By the time I’m at the doctor, nothing is wrong, so they just kind of shrug. Best they can do is guess that either it’s some random bad luck with some food or some stress reaction (half the time it’s at a place like a hotel, and I almost never go to hotels).
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This along with the changes to de-emphasize things like watch lists or even “continue watching” is basically the providers seeing how much they can influence users to watch what the provider wants instead of trying to cater to the users. If they find that people rarely navigate away from whatever ‘top 10’ or ‘for you’ suggestions, well, that means they have a great deal of freedom to only provide what is convenient for them and still get most of their revenue.
- Comment on r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but based on experience, when the scalp is just sporadically putting hair out there, it’s pretty much always better to go all-in and shave it. Trying to make the most of remaining bits of hair is a lost cause. If you have some reasonable parts of your scalp still putting out volume, then the hair can look ok as long as it doesn’t grow out too much.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
A good lesson for people that seek to assert absolute authoritarianism over folks. Corner folks too hard and given no viable alternative, desperation drives unexpected outcomes.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 5 weeks ago:
That second one is familiar. I’m pretty sure that I got pulled just in case I was drunk, but they had to say “speeding” because I was not driving erratically. Country cops on a nearly empty stretch of road with nothing to do…
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 5 weeks ago:
Pretty similar to my experience in the US.
Generally, a 15km/h speeding won’t even get you stopped. Once I got pulled over ostensibly for about that much over, but it was 2 in the morning on a weekend on a country road so I’m pretty sure the officer was just using the speed as a fishing expedition, and came up with nothing worth the paperwork over.
Another time got pulled over for ostensibly speeding, and when the officer asked if we knew how fast we were going, I started tapping on the screen to try to pull up what would have been dashcam footage, and the officer fairly quickly decided to leave us with a “you just be careful now”.
Like you said, at no point did I get particularly pissy, on the first I was a teenager who had never been pulled before and was just being super deferential, and even with the dashcam I was genuinely checking if I had such a thing because it was a new car and I wondered if I could access the camera recording (I heard that in a crash it would have recorded something, but evidently without activating or crashing it, it wasn’t there). But never said that I doubted him, just that I was going to see if I could see how fast I was going.
If the whole scenario is low stakes and the officer is not stressed, my experience has been like yours. Only time I personally witnessed a pissed off cop was when I got rear ended by someone going about 90kph when I was in a traffic jam and the officer was very pissed at the person ramming a stopped car.
Of course the challenge is that it might be high stakes without your knowledge.
- Comment on Me_irl 1 month ago:
I want to agree, but have to acknowledge that, realistically, they won’t even know all the things that need to be addressed before the huge userbase starts poking it.
Back in the day games were limited and the gameplay was generally fairly constrained, making fairly comprehensive QA at least plausible. Now things are so open ended there’s no way a company hits all of that.
Though I’m not sure every game needs to be that open ended…
- Comment on Me_irl 1 month ago:
I went to look it up, evidently it was the Commodore 64.
But judging from the context, they wouldn’t have even bothered. They knew and made a change to just force an unsatisfying game over. They had ample opportunity to fix it even after release (logistics easier than NES roms), but didn’t bother.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, saying that folks who get going with AI can get into a feedback loop. Wow, this seems like a person except it likes every idea I have and never ever challenges me. Then they recalibrate to a more lower friction world.
Already happens in online communities where folks tend to get ban-happy over anything that doesn’t perfectly fit a community’s vibe. People got a bit more insufferable when they could find the most like-minded communities to endlessly reinforce their own views. AI takes it a step further by always being able to be that like-minded peer, no matter what your views are.
It’s even worse if people get hit with this a lot during their formative years, but people stay a bit malleable after growing up. Certainly some upbringings bring you closer to going all in on AI flattery than others and having a further “starting point” makes things more likely and faster, but even fairly reasonable people can go a bit nuts.
You also see it with power and wealth. I’ve known folks that at least seemed fairly grounded with a healthy relationship with being wrong or losing turn into quite unlikeable, self-centered folks after having a bit of success and excessive external validation from sycophants.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Well I try to be easy to talk to, but I’m not going to be “What a clever idea” to everything brought up to me no matter what, so I won’t be as “nice” as a GenAI chatbot ever.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Of course that’s true, the issue is that when folks are surrounded by “yes men” (or AI equivalents), they lose perspective and suddenly a lack of flattery is enough to be in the “douchebag” category. Some reasonable social friction is important to keep people from going way off the rails.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
One problem is AI interactions moving the goalposts of what folks may perceive as ‘douchebag’.
An AI providing sycophantic reinforcement at max makes someone being vaguely skeptical of you feel, by comparison, like they are being a ‘douchebag’.
Sometimes, it’s best if people in your life aren’t always acting in a way that seems supportive and positive in the moment. For example if you are having a paranoid delusion, you need a reality check rather than what feels like external validation.
Talking to yourself keeps the perspective hopefully grounded, you know who you are talking to and how full of shit they can be. The magic of AI seems to peel that grounded perspective away for some folks.