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  • Good, the children yearn for the lithium mines. /s

    Maybe I should re-train from computer programmer to lithium miner?

  • Not the person you asked, but I'd guess it's multi-factorial. First that LLM-based summaries ARE generally higher quality than the pre-LLM summary tools output. Second, that LLMs are being given away free at point of prompt and are easily found; while summarizing tools have existed at least since 2000 (MS Word contained one), they were not easily found and usually involved purchasing some larger software collection, or a onerous install process. Third, everyone* hates** reading: if you've ever has user-support as part of your job, you've probably has at least one user where the message they read to you off of their screen tells them exactly what to do, but they chose to call you before really reading the message.

    Also, I'm not sure what "long" is. It can be really hard to keep enough attention on something though 100s of pages, especially when it's not trying to be engaging and is rather dry.

    To OP, I would say that you might want to rethink using an LLM summary for any decision process. The LLM architecture makes "hallucinations" inevitable so eventually you are going to read an LLM summary that says the document includes something that it does NOT.

  • We already had (pre-2020) all the automation we needed to work less than 20 hr/wk and produce all the necessarily calories, fresh water, and housing for everyone. But, instead we chose to turn a few people into decabillionaires and continue to bicker over the scrap like we weren't in a post-scarcity society.

    LLMs, transformers, convolution layers, characteristic tensors, etc. all have some legitimately novel uses, but all the big "AI" product lines are unethically developed, irresponsibly deployed, and dishonestly marketed.

    If you want an ethical chatbot, I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apertus_(LLM) .

    I don't know of a ethical model that's good for images or code, yet, but I know people are working on them. The IBM Gemini models are getting close, but I don't know if IBM will ever get the training data completely "clean" / open / free.

    I've been told that StarCoder is an ethically-trained free software model, but some of my research ( https://mot.isitopen.ai/model/StarCoder ) contradicts that assertion, and I've not looked into it deep enough to resolve that conflict myself. (IMO, we don't actually need automated code generation, we need to write less code in better languages with better tests and more reuse; but you may not agree.)

  • If you ignore or are blissfully unaware of the negatives -- and all the companies behind all the major product lines do their best to hide and minimize them -- then it's easy to find utility. Basically everyone I know IRL actively chooses to use AI for something. Both CRAP (Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures) and code generation are very common.

    When I point out the ethical issues, I am generally dismissed entirely ("they'll fix that" or "my impact is small") or counter with something about quality ("it works now" and "it's getting better"), which I find is beside the point.

  • I'm not normal, but I'm guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there's more casino / gatcha games, too.

    • Gaslight
    • Gatekeep
    • Girlboss


    Once there was mysterious gas arising from a crack in the ground. The gas was flammable, and when lit the light emitted turned anything illuminated into a female. No where else was this magic found, so fortifications were built around the crack to control and protect it, and they were staffed strongly and continuously. There was but one designed access point, and but one person that controlled the opening and closing of that access point: the girl-light gas-keep gate-boss.

  • I don't think that's 100% true. The guy that famously (posthumously) plays Yorick ('s skull) is not anonymous. (I just have problems with remembering names.)

    Also, posthumous organ donation isn't necessarily anonymous.

  • Same: Little brother got Bumblelion. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure it got destroyed by a dog at some point.

  • I still have an Ele-roo stuffed toy in good condition.

  • Borders

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  • If you look closely, it's hard to find a "border" in the picture that isn't crossed.

  • Putting aside the problems in the current system, let's not call Thiel's system a justice system until we can see some results and verify they are just, 'k?

  • That's basically the start of the Shadowrun dystopia. There were a lot of other things that "went wrong", but when the government removed the liability from private security that has been protecting a hazardous materials transport from workers attacking it in the belief that it contained foodstuffs, it legitimized the "megacorp": a corporation sufficiently powerful to impose their own legal system on their private real estate.

    EDIT: In the previous histories the "Seretech Decision" was on 1999-10-26. Sources: 1 2 3 Looks like "6th edition" retconned the fictional history to start 2001-09-11 (Never Forget), so it's unclear what and when the equivalent event is. Source: 4

  • Upvoted because the headline is funny, but it's not true or at least hyperbolic. The third paragraph in the article gives it away:

    The device, which resembles the lid of one of Prego’s pasta jars, seems to be more of a one-off doodad than an indicator that Prego is making a serious foray into being a tech company.

  • I strongly recommend finishing "She-Ra and the Princess of Power" and/or "Amphibia".

    I'm a sucker for a Strong, Female Protagonist, and really anything by Lee Ostertag (partner of ND Stevenson) or Brennan Lee Mulligan.

    (EDIT: Updated name; didn't know about the name change when I first posted. Added parenthetical connecting second paragraph to the first.)

  • TIL, thanks!

  • stones

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  • IIRC, some jackdows (both male and female) seem to just like "pretty" rocks and will maintain a cache to visit irregularly.

    Source: Trust me, bro.

  • If gravity could ever overcome expansion, then there would be some period where expansion was happening, but the rate of expansion was decreasing, eventually followed by expansion stopping, then contraction happening and the rate of contraction increasing. There would not be any period in which the rate of expansion was increasing.

    (When you throw a ball up, after you release it, there's a period of time when the ball is moving up, but it's speed is decreasing, then it reaches the apex, and it start falling down and it's speed increases until you catch it. There is no period where it upward speed increases.)

    Current observations show not just that expansion continues, but that the rate of expansion is increasing.

    (Not only has the big bang thrown the ball, but the ball's upward speed is increasing.)

  • It's not Tuesday, but we got TACO!