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Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 21

And unfortunately, thanks to the games like this we ended up with things like the "Verifying that you are a human" interstitial pages from cloud flare, which I am guessing use something like described for Anubis. I hate it and my CPU hates it (spiking to 100% for up to a minute to perform the calculation). You know who doesn't hate it? The bots. They simply act like any browser that has no JavaScript and ignore it.

Oh, and my Noscript (different device) breaks those pages every single time, meaning that I move on to a better source.

Comment Re:Actually, you might want to root for China (Score 1) 81

What is the worst a 'communist AI' could do

Your lack of imagination does not mean this is not a huge problem. The issue with Cmmunist ideology is that it is not logical, but it could somewhat work because people can ask in a rational ways within irrational system. AI, incapable of reason or logic, would just rigidly apply its parameters, which in case of Communism will result in mass casualties. This is because Communism is a poor model of reality.

Comment Re: I'll pass on the clot shot, thanks. (Score 1) 215

This is excellent question. The answer has two dimensions to it - time and source. Anything close to pandemic is not trustworthy, as all institutions succumbed to the panic and self-censorship. So anything 2018 and older, before there is any chance for science to be tainted by politics.

Comment Re:That says something about "Hackatons" (Score 1) 141

Indeed, I would not trust a single thing he wrote to be production ready. Are all possible exceptions handled gracefully? Are edge cases incorporated? How do I back up and restore the data of the application without loss? Can I load balance it across multiple data centers internationally located? Does it properly record all authentication, authorization, and action for later audit? Is every resource access properly secured? Will it integrate into our SSO systems? Does it support closed source data stores? Using the audio example, what does it do if I feed it a "song" that is just a combination of all possible frequencies (Nyquist limited) at maximum amplitude for 24 hours? Or one that sweeps through all possible values? What about one that has invalid values? Are all inputs sanitized? I could keep going, but "vibe" coding is *not* programming. It's what I would expect from a completely new developer who just learned what code is. /rant

Comment Re:What we need to be doing (Score 1) 141

You're still here after all these years?

Notably though if we actually run out of work to do we have a post-scarcity utopia, and that happens when people are so rich that there's basically not a single person who, given even more money, would even be able to think of something to spend it on. That's not going to happen any time soon, so we're basically dealing with a distribution problem, which requires distribution (e.g. minimum wage, set it to 1/3 national hourly GDP, the reason for this takes a while to explain) and redistribution (negative income tax, do it as a universal dividend) policies along with monetary policy to properly increase the money supply to not fall behind productivity growth.

Submission + - Writer turns down grad school acceptance due to AI misinformation (businessinsider.com)

bluefoxlucid writes: A promising young writer rejected her invitation into the University of Sidney's creative writing program on speculation that AI will make creative writers obsolete.

In late 2023, I began noticing changes in the media landscape. Publications were laying off most of their writers, and friends in the industry lost out on great gigs and started competing with AI-generated writing.

As for the book industry, I realized AI will not spend years crafting a thrilling romance novel; it will instead churn out a thousand ebooks a month. For the commercial side of the industry, that will always be enough.

The link used for an example of AI-generated writing consuming the industry discusses cover letters and resumés, and in a great fallacy of equivocation the author decides this means creative writers like Brandon Sanderson, David Webber, and herself will be replaced by ChatGPT.

Instead of AI taking her job, the AI narrative took her job, or at least convinced her to give up on her career as a writer.

Comment Re: I'll pass on the clot shot, thanks. (Score 1) 215

As was supposed by pathologists literally 5 years ago now, COVID is likely something that is going to become like the common cold or the flu for us. Something we just have to live with that eventually becomes relatively benign.

They were talking about a combination of virus mutations and other factors, all are separate processes from vaccinations. Even if you disregard that and go with overly simplistic "everyone had COVID multiple times" explanation, such explanation still does not include vaccines.

Comment What state of undress is acceptable? (Score 4, Interesting) 59

I have so many questions about this.

Can I take a coat off? What about going shirtless? What about taking hijab or turban off, which may be intimate state of undress in some cultures? What about taking a glass eye out? What about animals, if my cat flashes his butthole in the view of camera while I am on the call, would that get me red-flagged? What about object mis-identification, can I eat a banana while of the call?

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