OmnipotentEntity

If you floss regularly your gums won't bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.

For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn't going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.

Describing a phenomenon is different from endorsing it.

Mamdani signed an executive order (printed in comic sans) eliminating bed time for New Yorkers so that they can watch the Knicks in the playoffs.

Not to be contrarian, just running a Matrix server is awful, and Matrix has been plagued with security issues in the past, including basic crypto gaps due to lack of domain understanding in the implementation, which is shocking for what is touted as a security first project.

Moreover, I don't know of any acceptable alternatives.

I'm generally one of the first people on any FOSS bandwagon. I've been using Linux as my daily driver since 1999. Matrix is not simply "not as good" or "not up to feature parity" as alternatives. It is in my opinion unacceptably bad and the project leads seem to be actively hostile to efforts to make it better.

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

I miss Mitch Hedberg

In English? Seems a little bit sus.

Ask for more injera. It's cheap, they have a lot of it, and they'll probably be happy to provide you with more gratis.

That being said, sure you can just eat it with your hands if it isn't too hot.

Not sure I care overly much about the fate of the amoral corporation getting fucked over by the fascist regime. They're both juggernauts, and I would love to see them damage each other.

Remember, the falling out wasn't about the morality of the unsupervised spicy autocomplete killing people, it was about who had the liability when the AI went inevitably wrong. Had the DoD accepted the liability, I'm certain Anthropic would have sold the the stupidest version of skynet imaginable.

https://jmail.world/thread/0f7fac62a94c1d9a989c769d770dbb1a?view=inbox

Smh Tom. You should have known better.

My understanding is that the Gobi Desert has historically been expanding due to desertification of the surrounding grasslands, and the project to plant trees in this area was to halt or reverse this process. In other words, the ecological destruction was already occurring.

But double check me.

AI is something to be genuinely worried about. LLMs are a bubble, yes. They're not great at what they've been shoehorned into, yes. They're a disaster from a security standpoint because of this, yes.

But LLMs are not the totality of deep learning or computer AI, and may not even be the future. We have our artificial inanity bots that do the spicy text auto complete right now, but that's not going to be forever, no matter what Microsoft, Google, and NVidia want you to think for right now.

Artificial intelligence is a problem that has a solution. I cannot tell you how long it will take, but I would be very surprised if I wasn't personally around to see it, which means we need to begin preparing for it now. We need to build systems and structures now that don't carry the inevitable logic that if the riff raff are unnecessary for those in power, then they should be kept docile, ignorant, powerless, and ignored at best, and purged at worst.