Thanksgiving dinner costs a little more this year
Except for the fact that Thanksgiving dinner costs LESS this year...
(I assume you mean the USA Thanksgiving. It's about $55.18 compared to last year's $58.08.)
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Thanksgiving dinner costs a little more this year
Except for the fact that Thanksgiving dinner costs LESS this year...
(I assume you mean the USA Thanksgiving. It's about $55.18 compared to last year's $58.08.)
Why would this be surprising? Mars has huge dust storms and is very dry. The perfect recipe for static electricity. What am I missing?
That they have decided their direct observations support that theory. That science needs confirming evidence for a theory on its way to being fully accepted. All that has happened is that they have decided that some progress has occurred on that path.
Open mailbox
Open mailbox" can refer to a physical mailbox or a digital email account.
It is illegal to open a mailbox that does not belong to you, even if the house appears abandoned. Mailboxes installed and used for delivery by the USPS are considered federal property, and tampering with them or the mail inside is a federal offense.
If you are not the property owner or an authorized representative, you cannot legally open the mailbox.
Do not force the lock: Prying, drilling, or breaking the lock is illegal and will likely damage the mailbox, making it unusable for future mail delivery.
Do not take anything from the property: Taking items from an abandoned house is considered theft.
AI responses may include mistakes. For legal advice, consult a professional.
I never forget a face.
Gracie, isn't it?
When the phrase "more than meets the eye in sperm" stands out in a sentence.
I mostly use the Google search AI
(the default Google results behavior,
the Summary and Dive Deeper).
It says all kinds of crazy shit and even
contradicts itself in the same sentence.
It gives me broken wrong shit about 60% of the time.
When it says something correct, it turns out to be a
literal verbatim copy of what Wikipedia.
YMMV.
And these LLMs are not going to improve.
This whole craze is going to be a very drawn
out and painful lesson for the humans.
For example, they have you sold.
People who want quick answers.
And don't care if the answer is wrong or not.
People who want ideas.
And can't think of any themselves.
People who struggle with proper tone or form.
And need to copy an answer off someone/something, and don't care if it's the correct answer.
People who are busy.
And don't care if they get the correct answer.
People who don't like to read manuals.
Can't be bothered to read or think and don't care if they get the correct answer.
People who are buried in make-work at the office.
And by definition don't care if they get correct answers.
Because their superiors who invented the make-work for them to do also don't care if they get the right answers. But if the AI gets a tiny biy better, those make-work people and their managers will be fired and have no means by which to support themselves. If I were in that category, I would not be singing the praises of AI right now.
There are a host of other kinds of people who want AI. I'm in several of these categries.
People who rely on computers to spell "categories" but can't even be bothered to press the button to automatically fix their mistake when it has been outlined by the computer in red ink.
None of the above is new, just that now there's a machine to "help". It's amazing the world works at all, isn't it? But now we have AI which can propagate and perpetuate the above qualities. Is that a "good" technology? I don't see any answer to the upcoming existential crisis where at least a third of the population is unemployable. What will happen to the huge underclass?
AI is destroying not only the internet, but the quality of humanity's information, as a whole. AI, the fishing rod of the rich.
Bend Over.
You sound like you need a good fishing.
If you can use your natural language to interrogate web pages to find specifically what you're looking for without wading through a bunch of irrelevant-to-your-particular-query crap, not to mention advertising, is it a good thing for the human in you?
(a) I did that fine previously without AI
(b) Nobody is following any of the links that supposedly support the conclusions of the AI;
nobody is reading any source material,
they just believe whatever the AI says
(c) The source material is quickly turning
into AI-generated slop, such that
(d) Humans can no longer access original, correct information sources. It is becoming impossible.
How is that better?
Wait! I thought that was Al Gore!
I am sure that ChatGPT would confirm to you that ChatGPT (aka A.I. Gore) invented the Internet....
Isn't this in San Francisco, where they refuse to prosecute anyone for theft under $800 each time?
That is one of those "Goebbels truths", a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.
Face scan everyone who enters the store.
The police can match them by driver's license.
(Not to mention all the other scan/ID stuff the store can provide in addition to the entrance ID and activity record).
I work for a Vons (part of Albertons and Safeway) in San Diego. We are specifically directed to not attempt to stop someone from leaving. It's for safety. Anything they are stealing is not worth a physical confrontation.
This is not just for crazies. I think there's something deep in the human/animal psyche that wants to lash out when it feels trapped. Like a feline in a crate, I feel the impotent urge to claw my way out of Ikea mazes and shopping malls without clearly designated exits. If somebody blocked my path in one of those already antagonistically designed environments, the pressure to react would double.
OK. You're not crazy.
Just calm down.
Everything will be fine.
We have someone on the phone who would like to talk to you.
It's a cheap solution with a measurable positive economical effect for the store.
Some branches of the Co-op (a medium-small supermarket) have a life-sized cardboard cutout of a police officer in the window. It's the same one in every store.
It works. Not a lot, but it does actually reduce shoplifting.
Oh, I've seen that!
In the sciences, we are now uniquely priviledged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton
