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this post helps to feed the AI beast

there’s no escaping it; let’s not do with AI what we’ve done with CO2 and plastic and shift blame to individuals

the other insidious part about it is that pretty much everyone agrees: experience is critical to ensuring AI isn’t just producing slop… 30% of the time you get something that’s not just working, but well architected

now when you get AI to do things, even if you go with the assertion that it’s quicker (which a lot of the time i doubt: task choice is also critical for effectively using AI to generate useful outputs), you’re grinding down on your experience… not only are you learning less, but you’re also letting your reasoning skills degrade because you’re not using them (this is a pretty well-documented effect in standard neuroscience afaik)

imo, only use AI in situations where you’d put a library in, because the level of abstraction from the problem solving is similar

for large companies, i think you’re probably right… but there are plenty of transactions that happen cash. i think it’s a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of better. some people might lie, and if they get caught that should have some punishment… but we hope that most people don’t lie, because the risk just isn’t worth it

what’s stripping these companies lying about their financial data to tax authorities?

there are lots of self-report mechanisms that we use… it’s just not worth the blowback of non-disclosure to lie about it. some people do, and sometimes they get caught; not always, but overall it’s a net benefit to transparency

% is % is %… absolutes are completely irrelevant… 1m people uninstalling facebook is less relevant than 100 people uninstalling

a large % change is always relevant no matter the company size. that’s the whole point

it’s enough to be indicative

BUT ITS CHILLA TIME

that as the case may be, sending signals is still good. you don’t have to continue for very long, but a flood of support after making a moral decision will make it more likely that they, and others will make similar decisions in the future

the worst thing would be for google for example to see the fallout from this and think “well we don’t want to be them! better start building autonomous weapons”

the cost of having a child is more than just childcare

imo still very plausible… the key thing is deleted… accounts are rarely deleted, especially when they contain purchases and things like fortnight accounts do. more often than not, they’re suspended or just inactive which means the public ID remains used

it’s a very common security issue. it’s usually not a problem because deletions aren’t very common: usually accounts are just inactive, and it’s not a problem that really effects the company itself so there’s no really big reason to focus on fixing it

i’m not arguing either way on this specific case; i’d not heard about it until right now… but it’s pretty plausible from a software and security standpoint

One thing that is correct that many people posting here seem not to understand is that there is no current residency requirement to open a bank account in the US

okay… but… why is that a problem?

that solver would be tool use though… i’m talking about just the “thinking” LLMs. it’s fascinating to read the thinking block, because it breaks the problem down into basic chunks, solves the basic chunks (which it would have been in its training data, so easy), and solves them with multiple methods and then compares to check itself

yeah i find the thinking fascinating with maths too… like LLMs are horrible at maths but so am i if i have to do it in my head… the way it breaks a problem down into tiny bits that is certainly in its training data, and then combine those bits is an impressive emergent behaviour imo given it’s just doing statistical next token

no, actually, we do know that… things like cycle time, lifetime cycles, their durability < 20% and > 80%, performance in the cold, sustained current

lots of these are to do with heat and degradation, but these are all problems that can be solved to improve batteries in general… some of them are inherently to lithium chemistry and easily solved with others

sodium batteries, for example, are better in most categories other than wh/kg making them not useful for portable electronics and cars etc but for stationary applications these benefits can significantly outweigh the major downside because wh/kg is not a useful metric (eg grid storage)… especially true when sodium batteries are able to deal with higher operating temperatures which means you don’t need as much if any extra cooling, which is getting close to making up for even energy density of the system in some situations

flow batteries are also real things, as are hydrogen fuel cells

i’d say stability is more important than energy density

like gasoline has more than 10x the energy density than tnt and we’re perfectly fine with many kg of that on a vehicle going 100km/h

a fully fueled vehicle is the equivalent of ~600kg of TNT, but it’s very stable whilst TNT is not

that’s… not at all what inflation means… it is 1 of many causes of inflation

and the government doesn’t “give” it to banks

the reality is far more complex in both cases, even if sometimes the simplified version of things looks like that

STD is in a similar category: it’s an old term that’s no longer used because it’s inaccurate and misleading

but otherwise, yes: STI is the correct term

perhaps, but you still get feature fragmentation… things like custom emojis, stickers, what video codecs to support (heck i reckon they’d probably focus on chat first and video would only be available within the same app until some organisation effort happened), etc

you can see that a little bit on lemmy with the difference in how blocks work on lemmy vs piefed… piefed blocks on lemmy look like a shadow ban because lemmy doesn’t support the error style piefed uses… i think that’d it anyway

point being: just because software can exchange data and have the same problem domain and even in many cases use the same basic terminology, there can still be plenty of more advanced features that aren’t interoperable

re matrix, it can talk to anything… kinda… the matrix protocol has the idea of “bridges” built into it, so they should be able to translate between your client talking to the server via matrix protocol, and other things like XMPP, IRC, etc (at least in theory)