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MyBrainHurts

@ MyBrainHurts @piefed.ca

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  • Whoops, weird omission! Soccer/football depending on where you live.

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  • Finally said yes when a coworker kept asking if I'd like to sub on her co-ed low level team.

    A dozen years later, I'm in better shape than ever, have made a whole bunch of great new friends from all walks of life and really look forward to most days. (I'm a glutton, so I play 3 times a week, so by definition almost half my nights are amazing.)

  • Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure

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  • An ethical shoe company pivots to... AI? Those are some weird synergies.

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  • There was another account like this with a similar name. Did you/it get banned?

    Something feels very off here.

  • An Oligarchy of Old People

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  • It's amazing what happens when a group has an incredibly high voter turnout...

  • This brave lil goof is giving me another chance

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  • Thank you, she absolutely has been. We just woke up from a multi hour nap together, no nap is as good as a nap next to a purring kitty.

  • This brave lil goof is giving me another chance

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  • Oh yeah, fully agree. Even when she was angry with me she wanted to be nearby.

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    [Meta] New Rules, and New Future

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  • Thanks, much appreciated!

    Modding a big community is a herculean effort but needed if we want the fediverse to thrive, so thanks for stepping up to the plate!

  • 1 in 5 Americans to use AI to help file taxes

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  • Believe it or not, there are people who aren't you who struggle with stuff.

    Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you'll see what I mean.

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  • Heck, I think there aren't many people who meet that criteria. You'd need some sort of vegan, who doesn't use any tech made possible with child miners who obviously doesn't wear sweatshop clothes and probably doesn't live on stolen land etc...

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  • I take it you've never helped someone who struggles with bureaucracy and government forms.

    I've helped folks with tenancy, tax and applications. Usually, the issue behind the given issues is that everything feels very intimidating and the forms/support document are written in "government-ese".

    If there's a tool that can help explain this stuff, without a multi hour phone wait, I'm all for it. Not everyone has a resource like myself that they feel comfortable asking. Especially when, there's a sense of shame in being an adult who cannot navigate these things, yeah, I fully understand and can appreciate why 1/5 would want to ask an LLM for help.

    You'd be surprised with the stumbling blocks people face. Just because you know how your deductions etc are supposed to work does not mean most people do. I find it's really useful to consider things not from my perspective but from the least fortunate.

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  • Like I said, not everyone has the same resources I do...

    But this doesn't seem worse than googling questions and not everyone can spend hours waiting to talk with the Irs/Cra etc.

    It just seems that sometimes folks are so determined to be anti LLM that they refuse to see how it could ever help anyone.

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  • The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.

    If you can't afford a professional, these don't seem particularly unreasonable. I certain wouldn't recommend feeding all your info into chatgpt etc but for a simple filer, asking an LLM for explanations or possible deductions seems fine.

    Not everyone has access to the same resources that I do, so I try to picture it from others perspectives.

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  • I don't know the organization so can't speak to the source or their methodology but they do note:

    The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.

    All of which seem pretty reasonable. If you don't have the money for a professional, at least checking with something that is right more often than not with some basic questions seems perfectly reasonable.

    From the reactions above, it seems people are assuming they're just asking chatgpt to do all their taxes, which doesn't appear to be the case.

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  • Neither the article, nor source make a distinction as to whether it's a general purpose LLM or purpose built software.

    So it really depends on the question that the poll asked, which as far as I can tell, is not shared.

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  • I mean, a lot of tax stuff is automated. Mine are pretty straightforward so turboTax handles a huge chunk of the work...

  • Picking up a salve from the pharmacy to deal with the chronic pain this caused

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  • Nowadays when I watch movies from my youth, I can't help but do the math about how many years its been since then and then the equivalent number of years before that movie.

    It's a very depressing game.

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  • Hmmm, I could've sworn my Firefox had ublock origin on windows but I might've screwed something up etc.

    I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth though!

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  • I used Firefox on windows with as much anti as stuff as I could find but they still snuck through.

    I'm okay considering it a Linux miracle.