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If “wrong” breaks things, then late is better than early.

We can’t really say what this means. Maybe heavy AI use caused companies to perform better and grow. Or maybe the type of company that went big into AI was the type of company that was getting investments and growing because of it?

To the boardroom class, employees are tools as well.

What makes you think they will succeed?

In my experience, fresh wood splits much easier. I prefer a big splitting axe. But mostly the wood I use isn’t terribly gnarled or wide.

I think it’s also just that there’s not that much it makes sense to automate in the home. I run Home Assistant, and I do not have much of the typical home stuff on it. Why would I want to automate lights? My cat feeder has a timer already. I’m not about to get a smart lock and can’t imagine why I would want to automate one.

The useful things I do use it for are:

-heating control to take advantage of cheaper electric rates (I’m on 15 min spot pricing)

-automatically setting EV charging times to optimized cost

-a remote to start and stop a water pump to water plants in the garden, optionally with a timer

-a remote to consolidate a couple of lights that I want to turn on and off simultaneously to watch movies.

That’s it. Controlling my pool heater would be good but unfortunately it has a safety that trips if the power is interrupted. I’ve been using this system for years and simply cannot think of much else I want to automate.

You could both be right.

Sure it would, for heartrate-based training.

It’s like a trucking company bragging about how much fuel they’re using.

Same experience, I thought using chatGPT to find some fairly specific things to buy would be a slam dunk, but it couldn’t provide links half the time and also failed to hold to criteria like shipping region etc. I would tell it to give direct links and it would mostly just say ”go on Amazon and search for X”.

There’s a special type of frustration when an LLM is close to being useful but just… isn’t.

When someone tells you about the hard times in their life and you find out they just made it up, you probably feel upset about it. Same thing. The experiences people have matter.

If you play at a casino, you’re statistically guarantee to lose money, edge cases not withstanding. Do you see casinos closing down because people stop playing?

It’s hardly a free option, by your numbers it’d be a 20-30% discount.

That's because the things we built on weren't slop

Small business?

I don’t know that I agree that it’s only now become acceptable. Successful artists have long employed others to aid in their work - see e.g. Leonardo and his studio assistants who helped paint probably large parts of some of the paintings attributed to him.

Would it be more legitimate if the artists didn’t employ anyone else in the process?

As someone living in a country where Abloy locks are used everywhere, I’m interested to hear what’s wrong with them

It was Latin...

This is very nice, not just for finger/mouse painting! I tried it on my Cintiq and it was actually a lot better for me than brush stabilization usually is - I think the logic is the same as seen in e.g. Krita, but the visualization of the cursor and where the paint will appear is very helpful. Usually painting software doesn't have such an indicator of where the actual stroke will be placed and when it will move.

I once held my breath for 5 minutes when I was 14, sitting in class. I suppose it’s possible I was accidentally breathing through my nose a little as I wasn’t underwater.

It seems hard to believe it was not intentional!

That would be a compelling argument if procreation was somehow primarily driven by a need for people.

As it is, we already have quite a lot of people and they’re not going anywhere, however many terawatt-hours we pump into AI.

The ”not perfect” part really kind of ruins it for me. I can’t trust the LLM search’s answers and have to go find the source anyway, so what’s the point?

I’m seeing people in chats post stuff like “hey I didn’t know this word also means this!” when it really doesn’t, and invariably they have just asked an LLM and believed it.

The Roman destruction of Carthage seems like a pretty clear genocide.

The US can always pay their dollar-denominated debt by printing more dollars. It wouldn’t be a case of being unable but of being unwilling to pay.

What about recommended posts, do you still get all that junk in your feed?

Why not make something new instead? Why is the impulse to use AI to generate more of the same old stuff we’ve already seen, just with a different look?

The statements from the Finnish law enforcement agencies are basically that there is no evidence that the cables were intentionally cut. Then there’s reports citing “sources” in agencies that the incidents are thought to be accidental.

Basically, I’m not sure the reporting is properly distinguishing between “no evidence of wrongdoing” and “it was an accident”. It wouldn’t be surprising that it would be very difficult to find evidence that an anchor was intentionally dragged across a cable vs. accidentally.

Isn’t this kind of like saying the solution to robocalls is not having a phone?