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  • "Can I use my Sick Day to take a half day Friday to start my 24 hour Star Wars marathon this weekend?"

    "So, Rules as Written, absolutely not. But.... we're gonna go with the Rule of Cool on this one. See you Monday."

  • damn

    Jump
  • Strokes can break your brain and fundamentally change your personality and values. Idk if that actually happened here or if he was always actually a piece of shit. It doesn't matter ultimately. He's a shithead now.

  • That has always been the two big problems with AI. Biases in the training, intentional or not, will always bias the output. And AI is incapable of saying "I do not have suffient training on this subject or reliable sources for it to give you a confident answer". It will always give you its best guess, even if it is completely hallucinating much of the data. The only way to identify the hallucinations if it isn't just saying absurd stuff on the face of it, it to do independent research to verify it, at which point you may as well have just researched it yourself in the first place.

    AI is a tool, and it can be a very powerful tool with the right training and use cases. For example, I use it at a software engineer to help me parse error codes when googling working or to give me code examples for modules I've never used. There is no small number of times it has been completely wrong, but in my particular use case, that is pretty easy to confirm very quickly. The code either works as expected or it doesn't, and code is always tested before releasing it anyway.

    In research, it is great at helping you find a relevant source for your research across the internet or in a specific database. It is usually very good at summarizing a source for you to get a quick idea about it before diving into dozens of pages. It CAN be good at helping you write your own papers in a LIMITED capacity, such as cleaning up your writing in your writing to make it clearer, correctly formatting your bibliography (with actual sources you provide or at least verify), etc. But you have to remember that it doesn't "know" anything at all. It isn't sentient, intelligent, thoughtful, or any other personification placed on AI. None of the information it gives you is trustworthy without verification. It can and will fabricate entire studies that do not exist even while attributed to real researcher. It can mix in unreliable information with reliable information becuase there is no difference to it.

    Put simply, it is not a reliable source of information... ever. Make sure you understand that.

  • The "funny" thing is, that's probably not even at Elon's request. I doubt that he is self-aware enough to know that he is a narcissist that only wants Grok to be his parrot. He thinks he is always right and wants Grok to be "always right" like him, but he would have to acknowledge some deep-seeded flaws in himself to consciously realize that all he wants is for Grok to be the wall his voice echos off of, and everything I've seen about the man indicates that he is simply not capable of that kind of self-reflection. The X engineers that have been dealing with the constant meddling of this egotistical man-child, however, surely have his measure pretty thoroughly and knew exactly what Elon ultimately wants is more Elon and would cynically create a Robo-Elon doppelganger to shut him the fuck up about it.

  • The quintessential symbol of heroism, of 'The American Way', Superman, was created during the rise of fascism and nazism by two Midwestern Jewish boys, one of whom had immigrated from Canada and whose parents were immigrants from Russia and The Netherlands. In the story introducing their character to the world, he saves a wrongly convicted woman from execution, stops a wife beater from killing his wife, and stops a slimy lobbyist and corrupt senator from roping the US into a war with Europe. i.e. it acknowledges that the justice system gets it wrong, that women can be abused and endangered by their husbands, and that congress has a huge corruption and bribery problem. Sounds pretty fucking woke to me. And a few years later had him literally punch Hitler. The idea that they didnt have anything to say with the character about prejudice, about immigrants adopting their new home and being adopted in turn, about politics, is fucking laughable... "too woke". No, Dean, you're too ignorant to think that he ever wasn't "woke".

  • When the real fight comes, the Nazis will have morons running the show, while the Resistance will have the smartest, most experienced people in the world.

    Happened before. Jews were round up and killed or fled Germany, and their "Jewish sciences" like the work of Einstein were taboo ot outright rejected. So when it became apparent that nuclear energy could be harnessed to make a bomb, the Germans were on the back foot and had no one with expertise in the theory necessary to build it. Germany fell before the bomb was ultimately built, but it would have turned the tides of the war immediately had they not, as we saw.

    The problem now, though, is that most of the world powers already have enough doomsday weapons to destroy all of humanity 10 times over so... even as we get more precise and efficient and effective at taking out specific targets from afar, all it ever takes is for one mad man with a legion of nukes to end it all, and guess what we have...

  • For her, it's just who ever most recently said a thing she liked vs who who ever is in charge and can be blamed for all the things she doesn't like. She's probably never met a government official she couldn't blame for a cloud blocking her sunlight, and never met a politician that lies if the things they're saying sound nice.

    PS. That's not aimed at Mamdani, just Shirley Wong and those who behave like her.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world

    What Undecided Voters Look Like To Everyone Else - Dropout

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Trying to earn a record for "youngest person to <insert a thing>" is just an IRL speedrun