I went to 15+ schools before I graduated highschool, and depending on where I was I was either put into “gifted and talented”, the “extended learning program”, “fast path”, or “Accelerated Track”. Every place had a different philosophy of how to deal with kids who already knew how to read and do math.

Sometimes I would end up in a class with a bunch of quiet bookworms who wore church clothes every day and other times I would be surrounded by rambunctious and highly enthusiastic nerds.

Usually we would play computer games or play games designed to make us engage socially, but sometimes we would actually study interesting stuff in a deep way.

Every one of these programs seems to be a totally improvised and locally unique program. Nothing from the words they used for things to the books, brands, or activities seemed to have any consistency. Since I usually moved in the middle of the school year I would often see multiple versions of each grade’s program.

It made me really glad I didn’t grow up in a small town. Those people are getting screwed.

A lot of people want a good tool that works.

This is not a good tool and it does not work.

Most of them don’t understand that yet.

I am optimistic to think that they will have the opportunity find that out in time to not be walked off a cliff.

I’m optimistically predicting that when people find out how much it actually costs and how shit it is that they will redirect their energies to alternatives if there are still any alternatives left.

A better tool may come along, but it’s not this stuff. Sometimes the future of a solution doesn’t just look like more of the previous solution.

These kinds of questions are strange to me.

A great many people are using them voluntarily, a lot of people are using them because they don’t know how to avoid using them and feel that they have no alternative.

But the implication of the question seems to be that people wouldn’t choose to use something that is worse.

In order to make that assumption you have to first assume that they know qualitatively what is better and what is worse, that they have the appropriate skills or opportunity necessary to choose to opt in or opt out, and that they are making their decision on what tools to use based on which one is better or worse.

I don’t think you can make any of those assumptions. In fact I think you can assume the opposite.

The average person doesn’t know how to evaluate the quality of research information they receive on topics outside of their expertise.

The average person does not have the technical skills necessary to engage with non-AI augmented systems presuming they want to.

The average person does not choose their tools based on what is the most effective at producing the correct truth but instead on which one is the most usable, user friendly, convenient, generally accepted, and relatively inexpensive.

A lot of those things have a business model that relies on putting the competition out of business so you can jack up the price.

Uber broke taxis in a lot of places. It completely broke that industry by simply ignoring the laws. Uber had a thing that it could actually sell that people would buy.

It took years before it started making money, in an industry that already made money.

LLMs Don’t even have a path to profitability unless they can either functionally replace a human job or at least reliably perform a useful task without human intervention.

They’ve burned all these billions and they still don’t even have something that can function as well as the search engines that proceeded them no matter how much they want to force you to use it.

Every particle accelerator that has been built has paid for itself in research value. There’s basically nothing that comes out of AI research except the need for a bigger model.

The comparison is poor. Particle accelerators are science, LLMs do not produce science.

That’s not to say that we couldn’t build LLMS that would be useful for scientific purposes but we’re not. That is not the function or the goal of the people building these things.

How are you supposed to dislike something if you don’t understand it?

It’s not like AI is intrinsically harmful bad or evil. This pursuit of simulated sapience seems to be generating endless numbers of delusional pathologies and harmful externalities but using computational logic to answer questions and scour databases is objectively a wonderful development.

You may not remember the internet before Google showed us that there was another option beyond simple boolean search, it’s a shame that the owner and inheriter class are willing to sacrifice absolutely everything in the pursuit of a monopoly on labor.

It’s a government failure, induced by capitalism at the expense of everybody for the benefit of a very small number of people.

It’s still an adapt or die situation. Just because these LLMS won’t be with us forever (because no matter how many resources you put into them they’ll never be conscious or able to actually tackle novel problems), doesn’t mean you can live in ignorance of them and hope it’ll all blow over.

I don’t even know what the hell this list is. Calling romancing the Stone in Indiana Jones knockoff is bizarre.

If you swap one and four, That’s how I use the monitors on my desktop

The main character is sort of the prototypical modern incel rage fantasy.

I really enjoy this movie it has a lot of awesome scenes of outrage at normal life, but much like the fight club movie or the novel ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I feel like people often get the wrong idea about what problems it identifies in society and why the main character is a deeply unhealthy response to a sick world.

Whenever you see far right wingers extol the virtues of socialist policies you can know that they’re only doing this for popularity and cover.

When they get in office they will miraculously never make progress on any of the socialist promises but all of the fascist ones happen to stay top of mind for them.

If anything the history of typos and edits should clear any air about whether or not this was me!

I’m not talking about the openly bigoted chuds out there I’m talking about the regular rank and file Americans who decided there was no room to question the the horrors we expanded from the shadows and filled every corner of our media with.

Formerly kindly everyday american morons didn’t just watch it, they cheered. They scolded they youth for thinking we were entitled to the bill of rights. It was fucking bizarre who swallowed the bait.

After the 2000 election it was obvious that Republicans played by different rules than Democrats.

After 911 this country lost its fucking mind. Like millions and millions and millions of people just became fucking psychopaths. All of a sudden everybody was willing to split hairs on torture, child murder, forced starvation, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, double tap drone strikes The list goes on.

We became completely fucking insane. It was obvious at that point this is where we were headed. That was when I realized I needed to register as a Republican. Democrats don’t care about my primary votes if they even hold one but in my youthfully naive hope I entertained the idea that you could democratically affect anything.

Aside from the extra good feels of getting to vote against Donald Trump multiple times, The only real benefit is that I get visits from local Republican party officials and they think I’m one of them.

I always put on my home accent and complain about liberals but I don’t think they understand that they are just liberals of the God bothering type to me and I seek to dismantle them from root to stem. … … But please tell me about this canvassing operation you have in my town… What kind of cars are they driving? Just curious

Or this is the fall she was brought in for…

My ideal Duke nukem plot would basically just be some hypermasculine caricature that starts a normal day and is faced with increasingly insane excuses for ultraviolence at which he performs exceedingly well.

He’s not scared, He’s not bored, He’s not brooding, He’s having a fucking day, and he’s all out of bubble gum.

Despite the ever-increasing Gore and violence he never has to say or do anything problematic, just fucking brutally uncompromisingly violence against people that super duper obviously need it.

Comical masculinity instead of toxic masculinity. Nothing even needs to change about his character.

I’ve seen two this year.

I’ve seen More bald eagles land in the yard year than I have seen lightning bugs.

I don’t understand why they would take a story and then adapt it into a TV series that says the exact opposite.

I see this happen a lot with TV shows where the people who are making the show genuinely don’t seem to give a shit about what was in the original work.

I get the impression that people who buy intellectual property rights to existing works actually hate those works and their fans and would like to remove the themes, motifs, and messages of the original work from the common culture altogether.

It really will but not because it’s so functional that we can’t compete with it.

It’s going to cause mass unemployment because the imagined potential end of labor is so lucrative that it’s worth just about any price. Since the people who will own it don’t have to pay most of that price they are of course willing to force it into every single space out there to further externalize research and development costs onto an unwilling public.

They genuinely don’t care what is spent, broken, or lost in their pursuit of infinite wealth.

My friend said if I was a mega Man boss I would be “Do-man” because I’m willing to do the leg work to make shit happen including the basic research!

It means that I have a tremendous catalog of useless facts. They keep the unregulated useful facts in line…

Yep that’s pretty fucking horrific.

I think that’s case closed.

If we’re done here can you turn off the lights on your way out?