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And it's worth noting that you can't automate the interesting parts of a job, as those are creative. All you can tackle is the rote, the tedious, the structured bullshit that no one wants to do in the first place.
Are you saying that this used to be the case and acknowledging that it's no longer true with modern AI? Because it's demonstrably not true for modern AI and is the entire reason people are fearful.
Honestly, this post is so far out of the loop, part of me is wondering if it's AI generated.
Rainworld
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All living things are trapped in "The Cycle", and no one likes it, they all want to die and be free of the burden of living. They called this "The Big Problem".
To try and find a solution to "The Big Problem", people* built 3 AI that would constantly be running to try and compute a solution to The Big Problem. This requires a ton of energy, and an ocean's worth of water to keep them cool. The AIs are generating so much heat that it evaporates oceans worth of water, resulting in periodic violent rainstorms (thus the name of the game). People moved to structures built above the clouds to be safe from the rain.
One day, one of the AI finally solved The Big Problem, notified the other AIs that it was solved....and promptly died before sharing it. The remaining two AI (named "Looks to the Moon" and "Five Pebbles") continue to iterate on solving the problem, but both have all but given up hope.
You play as a Slugcat, a species specially evolved by the AI to squeeze through pipes and keep their systems clean.
*I said "people", but I don't think it's ever established what planet you're on or what race of creatures built the AI.
There is a ton of detail I'm skipping...
...but when you start the game, you are merely trying to survive and explore a living ecology full of hostile creatures. The game doesn't care if you understand any of the lore, it doesn't care if you "finish" the game, it's just there to be experienced.
Totally, this headline is not nearly sensationalist and misleading enough for my taste.
“I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either,” he said. “When we disagree with a person's thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in a debate.”
That is a wild statement. He's all but equating "cancelation" with violence.
Also, he definitely doesn't disagree with or abhor anything Fuentes says. They just want to market the same shit to different audiences.
Cool, I didn't know it was smart enough to undo the copy, that's good to know/hear.
If coding is the means to an end they want, they will learn it.
I started learning how to program because I wanted to mod Halo 20y ago. Gaming is often a motivator. I had a co-worker who started in the 80s, whose only option to play games on his C64 was to type up a bunch of BASIC from a magazine. He had to take care not to make any typos, then play the game, and then didn't have any persistent tape to save it to, so he just lost it all on a reboot. Turns out, if you're "forced" to type code in all the time, you start to figure out which bits do what, and you start changing it to behave how you want.
"Hacking" could probably work as a motivator, though with great power comes great responsibility.
But yeah, a kid won't be interested in programming unless they see it as their only option to do what they want to do. PICO8 might be a good entry. Or something like Minecraft modding.
In BIOS/UEFI you will likely see multiple bootloader options, one for windows and one for Linux (I think mint's is called "ubuntu" by default). Choose the Linux one.
Merging the space after your Data partition is easy. Merging the space before it is slightly less trivial, but doable. GParted is your friend. It has the ability to grow an NTFS to the right, as well as slide it to the left. The slide is copying everything over though, so it will take time.
(Note that if you are mounting Data in your fstab using the string /dev/sda4 and you delete the partitions before it, you will likely need to update your fstab.)
Personally, I don't think you need to go as far as unhooking your Linux disk and live booting, but I understand being unsure about it. If any data on these drives is your only copy, that's your first mistake. Back up your data elsewhere (rule of 3, ideally). Then just use gparted carefully.
Afterwards, you'll need to regenerate grub to get the extra boot options to go away. Should be straight forward on mint.
It's gonna feels so good deleting all those nonsense windows partitions.
Edit: I glossed right over your links to your updates saying you had already done all of this lol. GG glad it went smooth for you! Also, I am surprised canceling the NTFS slide mid-copy didn't break anything lol. You might want to back that up and format the whole drive just to be safe. Never know when you'll find the files that were corrupted by that....maybe run an fsck on it.
If you're gonna do it, can you please do it right and make it at the bottom of the ocean?
Reddit also has a bunch of similar communities with overlapping topics. That's not a Lemmy thing.
I prefer the Fediverse to grow organically. If that means everyone reads this thread and suddenly unanimously decides that we need to change how we organize topics across instances, so be it. But I don't think that'll happen, and that's fine too.
If it can't survive organically, then it can't survive.
Hold up, what did I read into it? I directly quoted you and asked for clarification on whether you currently believe that is the state of AI, or whether you're saying that's what automation used to be.
If you're saying that's what automation used to be, then we agree. But if you believe that modern AI can only do the "tedious bullshit no one wants to do", that's literally not the case.
Sora 2 is generating realistic video of anything you want given just a text prompt, rivaling the best VFX artists.
Hollywood is currently clamoring to "work with" AI celebrities who don't exist, with a synthetic voice, singing songs no one composed with lyrics generated by an LLM. Why give a cut to a pop artist or band if you can synthesize it from nothing?
The education system has been completely upturned because every assignment can be completed by an AI, and there's no way for the teacher to detect it. And it's having a measurably damaging effect on students' intellect.
A popular quote floating around right now is, "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
And right now I literally can't know if someone is running an AI with the prompt: "respond to this comment as though you are an out of touch older American who still thinks the capabilities of generative AI are limited to simple automation of tedious tasks no one wants to do anyway." And you don't know if I'm an AI with the prompt, "respond to this comment like a condescending tech literate young adult who is afraid of the impact that generative AI owned and funded by an oligarchy is going to have on every aspect of their future."
I honestly feel stupid even bothering to type any of this out. I'm surely being had.