Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)L

Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

Posts
13
Comments
2995
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Yes, little Wilfred?

    Jump

  • A long time ago I took the Army General Classification Test to help a friend who needed test subjects for some kind of psych class. Almost every arithmetic question was about cigarettes... Bob has $1.50, cigarettes cost 50 cents a pack, how many packs can Bob buy?

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • As somebody pointed out, you can choose to use AI search engines or not.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • I have no problem with protests and strikes but I'm not okay with sociopathic actions. Spreading misinformation isn't a "protest" any more than spreading anthrax is a "protest". Those are sociopathic.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • People have actually been doing what they describe, specifically to screw up AI, without regard to side effects.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • Satire is fine, misinformation is not fine.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • Actually you forgot to tell the Internet and social media apart.

  • Removed

    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

    Jump

  • Correct, but people do get value from a public road system existing. For example, I "use" roads when stuff gets delivered to me, or when a fire truck shows up to put out a fire at my neighbor's house. My point is that when we do tax people for driving we're carefully metering it for one group of people and charging another group a flat all-you-can-drive amount, which unfairly taxes people who don't drive very much.

  • Removed

    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

    Jump

  • The point is that the state did the emissions testing (which included an odometer check) for years and years and civilization didn't collapse. The fact that something isn't zero effort is no excuse for precisely metering gas tax for one group of people and using a single number for another. That's sloppy and unfair.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • Your rationale doesn't change that dirtying the data pool is dirtying the data pool. Choosing to engage with LLMs or not doesn't change make non-AI searches ignore nonsense data.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • So the rationale of chemotherapy - poison the patient, but poison the tumor more. Ok but shouldn't that require consent from the patient?

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • It's everybody's responsibility not to spray piss in random directions hoping some of it will hit somebody they hate.

  • Does anybody else feel like everything is off lately? What have you noticed is different?

    Jump

  • I agree up to "forever". People with too much wealth and power tend to feel invulnerable until they find out they aren't.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • Not sure if you're saying AI searches and non-AI searches look at two completely different internets or what.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • Well I don't. So apparently you don't have psychic powers. Comments on what I said are welcome, personal attacks belong on reddit.

  • Removed

    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

    Jump
    1. No, I'm talking about Washington state. How other states do it is none of my business.
    2. No, I never said taking odometer readings was simpler than collecting a flat fee, I said it was fair and a flat fee is unfair.

    Charging a flat gas tax would be simpler than metering every gallon of gasoline sold, but it wouldn't be fair, and we don't do that. So why should we do it for EVs?

  • Removed

    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

    Jump

  • When Washington state used to do emissions testing we would take our cars through a place every 2 years where they put test equipment on it. If they could afford to run that whole operation I really don't see why it wouldn't work to have electric cars stop at a licensing office once a year for an odometer reading, and base the elecric car fee on the mileage. So simple. There's no excuse at all for charging all EV drivers the same flat fee no matter how much (or little) we drive. For me the annual fee is twice as much as the gas tax I would pay if I drove a hybrid. That kind of sloppiness is unconscionable.

    edit: emissions testing was every 2 years not every year.

  • Removed

    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

    Jump

  • I pay over $250/year for that privilege in Washington state. The goal is to make up for the gasoline tax I don't pay - which is fair in principle, because gas tax is used to maintain the roads we all drive on. What's not fair is that it's a flat amount. I drive less than 6000 miles/year. The electric car flat fee is approximately the gas tax a Prius driver would pay to drive twice that far. So to drive an all-electric car I'm being taxed twice as much tax as if I drove a hybrid. Insane.

  • Does anybody else feel like everything is off lately? What have you noticed is different?

    Jump

  • Yes I've been noticing that for years. Talking about it is always well received on social media.

    I've also been noticing people's attention spans and analytical skills deteriorating, as they take as little time as possible to process an item, make a superficial judgement that confirms what they already think, and continue scrolling. The goal of information consumption seems to be to process as many little items as fast as possible, spending as little time and brain power as possible on each one. But talking about that on social media isn't usually as well received.

    One thing that never changes is people's selectivity about problems they're willing to face vs ignore.

  • Fictional "Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology" has infected Google's search AI

    Jump

  • That means it's infected EVERYBODY's searches. And everybody is cheering, as if peeing in the pool is ethically pure behavior now. Or do people not understand that AI uses the exact same data we do?