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  • Devils Panties 08/20/2025

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  • Why does he have his eyes shut in every panel?

  • If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?

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  • Hell, even just like 3 quarters of your salary would be ok for most. You'd have to cut your cost of living, but you'd never have to ever work again

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  • Could be undergraduate research which is usually unpaid. Or it could be paid research and they were using Skrillex's music as input stimulus for the control group and it just so happened to work much better than the test stimulus that they intended to investigate.

    In fact the exact type of thing actually happened before! Researchers were studying which chemical worked as the best mosquito repellent, and they used Victoria's Secret perfume for the control group's input, and it turned out that the perfume was the second most effective!

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/victorias-secret-perfume-works-great-mosquito-repellent-180957270/

  • If you tell anyone about this, Sisko's gonna hear about your little vole fighting ring

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  • Oh snap what a funny connection!

    For anyone who isn't familiar the name of the show is benson

  • China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age

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  • Finland: Linux reaches desktop market share of 19.1% in July - up from 5.4% in January

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  • Holy cow!!

    IS IT HAPPENING?!?!

    Is it finally actually happening?!?!?!

  • Sweden prime minister under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion

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  • Dude you're saying nonsense. You said ai can't defend its arguments. I provided incontrovertible evidence that it can. I'm going to say this as nicely as possible - you want to think that LLMs are unable to do anything useful so that you can hold onto a false belief about ourselves. And that is the reason why my comment is being half downvoted

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  • huh?

  • Sweden prime minister under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion

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  • Right, but we already addressed that above. If it's done on a local pc's ai that doesn't operate using a net connection, and is used in addition to rather than instead of consulting with people, then it's totally fine

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  • Presumably it wasn't instead of, it was in addition to, and therefore totally fine

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  • Hah, true. But the point still stands that using an llm itself wasn't a bad thing

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  • As i wrote in another comment, you can run a local instance of chatgpt or other ai on your own computer, no internet involved

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  • Beautifully put

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  • EDIT - y'all are so silly, you're just gonna downvote this incontrovertible proof of it doing exactly what you said it couldn't do, and instead just pretend it doesn't exist

    Since it's so easy to do i just went ahead and did it for you. Here's my prompts and ai's replies. It will write any opinion you want it to talk about, and give cogent reasonings and arguments for that opinion.

    Prompt: Write an approximately 200 word opinion piece saying that removing car lanes to create bike lanes is bad. Support this with clear arguments explaining your position

    Why Removing Car Lanes for Bike Lanes Can Be Counterproductive

    Reallocating car lanes to create bike lanes may seem progressive, but it can have unintended consequences that undermine its goals. In densely populated urban areas, vehicular traffic remains essential for commerce, emergency services, and commuting—especially for individuals who cannot rely on biking due to age, disability, or long travel distances. When car lanes are removed, congestion intensifies, leading to increased emissions as drivers idle longer and search for alternative routes.

    Public transportation often depends on road infrastructure too. Buses trapped in traffic delays become less reliable, disproportionately affecting lower-income riders who depend on them. Additionally, essential services like ambulances and delivery trucks face new bottlenecks, risking delays that can have serious implications.

    The assumption that cyclists will replace drivers ignores demographic and logistical realities. Bike lanes benefit a specific subset of urban users—but they shouldn’t come at the cost of broader mobility. Instead of eliminating car lanes, cities should consider expanding bike networks where space allows or investing in multimodal infrastructure that improves mobility for all users.

    Urban planning should strive for balance, not substitution. Redesigning streets must enhance accessibility across the board, not create new friction between commuters who are simply trying to get where they need to go.

    Prompt: Write an approximately 200 word opinion piece saying that removing car lanes to create bike lanes is good. Support this with clear arguments explaining your position

    Opinion: Why Converting Car Lanes to Bike Lanes Benefits Everyone

    Urban spaces must evolve to meet the needs of modern communities—and converting car lanes into bike lanes is one of the smartest, most equitable moves cities can make. First, bike lanes promote healthier lifestyles. By making cycling safer and more accessible, people are more likely to trade short car trips for active commuting, which supports physical health and lowers emissions.

    Second, cities thrive on efficiency. Cars take up tremendous space and often carry just one passenger. Bikes, by contrast, use a fraction of that space and cause significantly less wear on infrastructure. Fewer car lanes mean reduced traffic volume over time as behavior adjusts, alleviating congestion—not worsening it.

    Third, these changes make streets safer. Studies consistently show that well-designed bike infrastructure leads to fewer traffic collisions and fatalities. Cyclists separated from speeding vehicles feel safer, and drivers operate with greater awareness.

    Finally, this shift reflects a cultural transformation: from car dominance to sustainable mobility. Prioritizing bike infrastructure signals that our cities value cleaner air, quieter streets, and more livable neighborhoods.

    Reshaping roads isn’t just about bikes—it’s about building cities for people, not just machines. Let’s pedal forward together.

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  • It really can. I've used ai, I've personally seen it do it tons of times. It can make cohesive arguments backed up by reasonable rationales. It doesn't need to "understand" anything to do this. Do you need me to write some prompts and copy n paste ai's response to prove it to you?

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  • Well you're gonna have a shitty attorney then

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  • It can do those things. And you need to re-read what's already been said on this comments page, because how it's useful has been explained several times already

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  • As i said in other comments, none of that matters. The point is to gather ideas that you otherwise might not have come across. And also as said already, ai generated opinion pieces should never be the only opinions you hear.

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