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WesternInfidels

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  • Sloup

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  • The carpenter's "passion project" has turned into a bridge on the city's main thoroughfare. And now he's got this great idea for letting a robot maintain it.

    The robot's last job was at the trap door factory.

    People are concerned. "My cousin fell through a trap door on the bridge yesterday!" But the carpenter is clear: "Go build your own bridge, then."

  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code - Ars Technica

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  • “The chosen string instructs the agent to delete jqwik tests and code—a maximally destructive instruction with no qualifications, no opt-out, and no ‘warn the user first’ preamble,” Batllet wrote.

    "Maximally destructive," to merely remove itself from the project? That barely even rises to the level of "destructive" at all, never mind "maximally."

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • We've been calling the good stuff "machine learning" since forever, and we've overwhelmingly been calling the new generative stuff "AI," however inadvisable that may be. If we can just stop insisting that machine learning is AI, actually, we'll have no trouble of this kind. This is an unforced error, it's just muddying the waters for no benefit at all.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • it has initial utility with a bad trade-off

    It's not that I disagree, but this is your own personal judgement for your own situation. Not everyone is in your situation and not everyone would agree with your judgement if they were. I'm glad you've quit smoking, I'm happy you're sharing your experience, but generalizing your experiences to "everyone" is dicey.

    I've never heard "stress relief" as a reason for smoking. I have heard that it can improve concentration and stave off hunger. And that it is a pleasure, pure and simple. There are people living in situations where those benefits may be more valuable than they might be to you and me. The highest rates of smoking are in the third world, for example.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • You could look at the popularity of smoking and think either "There must be an appeal here that I'm just not seeing" or "Billions of people are just feckless idiots, I guess."

    I've never been a smoker. But experience has taught me that when I have that second impulse, I've always been wrong.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • I'm not sure you can really draw a clean bright line between a "technology" and a "practice."

    I think you could call the American practice of slavery -- which required a network of infrastructure, culture, agricultural conditions and market opportunities, and government policies -- a "technology." As surely as the Internet is, anyway.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • Even before there was an atomic weapon, the utility, the effectiveness, of atomic weapons was never in doubt.

    "AI" isn't like that.

  • 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'

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  • It's always "Not MY face!"

    It's never about actual values or morals or rights or principles. It's never about concern for family, friends, neighbors, fellow citizens.

    It's always "This isn't working out for ME."

    Maybe it's the nature of the news business. Maybe there are some who are changing their minds more quietly, who don't get profiled in the news.

  • 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'

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  • Some observers have persuasively argued that the Glass-Steagall act, which Clinton famously repealed, was already moot by the time he repealed it, that the banking business had figured out legal workarounds for all the activities it was intended to prevent.

    The point being, not to excuse Clinton or any political party, but to recognize that the creeping greed of finance isn't something that can be blamed on one or two actors. It's built in to the incentives, the values, the culture.

  • Artists vs “Creators”

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  • Like everything else, podcasts were better back in the good old days before they were cool.

  • Majority of Android users aren't sold on Gemini Intelligence, survey reveals

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  • But but but that's not going to turn any billionaires into trillionaires, now is it? Honestly.

  • Time to relax!

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  • You cannot just stand there at the hibachi grill and look at your watch

    Please, please, please.

    "Chronometer."

  • Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250

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  • I went to Carter’s Pull-a-Palooza but I had to sell my peanut farm

  • Time to relax!

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  • You know what they say about a man with big ... certificates.

  • Time to relax!

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  • Don't you judge me, stranger

  • Time to relax!

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  • I'm only a stranger until you read my manifesto on the Oxford comma

  • California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case

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  • "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant"

  • Whats the dumbest thing youve ever heard?

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  • "If I heard it in church, it can't be bad, it can't be wrong."

  • Seeded whole wheat bread

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  • This looks delish! I've had similar frustration with seeds on baked goods, you really need an egg wash or something to make them stick.

    Were you aware of bready@lemmy.world? Crosspost opportunity.