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  • Most of the people promoting it whole-heartedly are doing it for the sake of “profit at any cost”. There would have been a reasonable way to approach it and incorporate it into our lives. But destroying everything while forcing people to use it for stuff it isn’t even good at, while founding it on stealing so much stuff, and having a race to see who can make their AI 1% better than the other AIs at the small cost of burning down the planet exponentially more for each 1% gain… that was not the approach that would get the people behind you.

    It’s not even AI that is the problem, as always it’s people. Selfish people. AI “can” be useful, but not useful enough to justify the cost they forced it to have. That’s the main problem, that they stole initially, then the next biggest problem, that they fired so many humans and replaced them with AI, when AI couldn’t, and still can’t, replace them. The next biggest problem, that they are pursuing it so hard at any cost, and the cost is insane, in so many metrics. Next, that they force people to use it to justify that cost, even when the people are telling them, and the metrics are showing, that using it is making them worse at their job.

    But AI -is- technically useful. There are things it can actually help with, quite a bit. Just not as many things as the bosses are trying to pretend it can be good at. And ignoring the costs that can never be justified, the product that exists if thinking about it in a vacuum can be used responsibly, but so many people don’t. If you are using AI responsibly as an individual, your job shouldn’t feel easier, just less tedious. If AI is making your job easier now, you might be paying for it down the line. Never get AI to do for you, something you couldn’t have done on your own. Make sure you know what it did, and if you can’t figure out how it came to a conclusion you didn’t forsee, you better figure it out. Cuz it might be wrong, and it’s important to know if it was, it’ll always sound really confident, right or wrong.

    But yeah, how useful it is in the few select areas it doesn’t suck at, ends up being largely irrelevant in the grand scheme, since it can never pay off what it costed, and is still costing. And that statement is even still true if we limit ourselves to only considering it’s literal financial cost.

    So, in conclusion, yes. AI is gonna feel very right wing right now. Profit at any cost.






  • Simpsons created it. In the episode where jebediah springfields quote “a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man” is scrutinized for “embiggens” not being a word. They say it’s a perfectly cromulent word. Which itself was not a word, but given the context has a clear meaning. And people decided to start using it as a joke, and then enough people used it, it eventually became real.

    Technically all words work that way, but this feels just that little bit more artificial. There wasn’t really a need for it, we have words for that context already, so it wouldn’t have naturally spread. But it’s still fun to have watched it happen over time, knowing it was probably gonna happen even though it shouldn’t have.

    Edit: the details may not be exactly right, it’s been nigh-on 30 years now since I’ve seen that episode, but that’s the gist of it, from what I recall.






  • The trouble and difference with the Harambe situation is that he was disobeying his handlers and riled up by what he thought was a crowd angry at the kid(he likely wouldn’t have thought the crowd was scared of what he might do, since he knew he was being helpful and didn’t have presence of mind to consistently realise others might have different opinions than his own). So he wouldn’t let go of the kid, and would have likely been defensive if handlers tried to come in and get the kid. He also was large enough that if they tranquilized him, he could have easily crushed the kid just by slowly passing out on him. They unfortunately had to take the only guarantee they had and shoot him at a moment when he was far enough from the kid that he wouldn’t fall on him.

    Harambe also didn’t have any previous experience with taking care of kids, gorilla or otherwise. And believe me, that makes a huge difference. While the kid ended up mostly ok physically, he was dragged around by his ankle, through water and over rough terrain.

    Nobody wants to kill a zoo animal. Especially not beloved ones. Especially not while they are trying to be nice.




  • That is generally the impetus behind religious institutions disdain for it. Their best chance to increase their numbers is through indoctrination of the children of their current members. Conversions rarely occur, despite how much they are talked up when they do.

    They are, of course, wrong to think that. Toys, in practice, generally increase intimacy and likelihood of a couple having children. But not as much as being raised your entire life being told that it is the entire purpose of life and if you don’t have as many kids as you theoretically could, you have done yourself a disservice. So as long as they conflate the results, they will keep assuming they are correct in doing both.



  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldtoGaming@lemmy.world•Some gaming history
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    I will say, the colors chosen for the set do make it look a bit like a colorised photo now. Though it’s hard to say how much of that is the original color on set and how much was lost to the camera back then. It was tough to light/balance stuff well back then. Especially if they changed cameras, or if the set was made with a different camera in mind either way.

    Behind the scenes footage always looks different back then from what aired. Not just from lack a of post-processing, like it would now, but also a lack of “pre-processing”, lol.