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  • This is exactly how I view LLMs and have used them before.

    These people in these scenarios aren’t going ‘Amazon buy my gf a gift she likes.’

    They’re going, please write a letter to my professor thanking them for their help and all they’ve done for me in biology.

    I don’t know of anyone who trusts AI enough to just carte blanche fire off emails immediately after getting prompts back either.

    The fear and cheapening of AI is the same fear and cheapening as every other advancement in technology.

    • It’s not a a real conversation unless you talk face to face like a man say it in a group write it on parchment and ink pen and paper typewriter telegram phonecall text message fax email. E: rip strikethroughs?

    • It’s not a real paper if it’s a meta analysis.

    • It’s not it’s not it’s not.

    All for arbitrary reasons that people have used to offset mundane garden levels of tedium or just outright ableist in some circumstances.

    People also seriously overestimate their ability to detect AI writing or even pictures. That dude may very well have gotten a sincere letter without AI but they’ve already set it in their mind that the student wrote it with AI as if they know this student so well from 10 written assignments they probably don’t care about to 1 potentially sincerely written statement to them.

    If people like that think it cheapens the value, that’s on them. People go on and on about removing pointless platitudes and dumb culturally ingrained shit but then clutch their pearls the moment one person toes outside the in-group.

    It just feels so silly to me.

    IT’S NOT ART UNLESS IT’S OIL ON CANVAS levels of dumb.

    It’s not altruistic/good-natured unless you don’t benefit from it in any way and feel no emotion by doing it! You can’t help the homeless unless you follow the rules! You can’t give them money if you record it.

    In the end, they still got that money. But somehow it devalues it because instead of raising two people up higher, you only raised one? It’s foolishness.

    People also seriously overestimate other’s abilities and cheapen what their time is worth all the damn time.







  • People talking shit about Andrew but I’ve had seriously weird issues with Windows throwing out odd permissions errors on seemingly basic shit on files that are 0kb after restarting and doing all sorts of basic troubleshooting including CMD Prompt and Powershell guides only for none of them to work.

    It reeked of virus but never was. Just weird stupid shit that wasn’t easily explained, should’ve worked but didn’t, or various other things that the allmighty Lemmings here think is just beyond a google apparently.

    FWIW I’m pretty sure it was straight up related to corrupted files in weird shared folder spots.

    You have to pretend they don’t exist and never think about them again after hiding them then hopefully never remember or just reinstall because it’s been a couple years and probably good to do anyway.









  • ricdeh 4 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

    Just wait for the nuclear shills to flood in and claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. No, it is not. Uranium extraction devastates entire landscapes, the construction of nuclear power plants is too expensive (even for SMRs, as the article explains), ergo electricity prices will climb, it is a hugely wasteful use of so many tonnes of concrete (concrete manufacturing is heavy on the environment too), it creates waste that will still haunt us for hundreds of thousands of years (finding geological structures that are guaranteed to be stable that long is difficult), and relative to the initial construction and set-up effort, they don’t provide that much energy. We already have methods that can provide us plenty enough electricity that are entirely sustainable by leveraging large-scale atmospheric aerodynamics as well as the largest nuclear fusion reactor at our disposal (the sun). There’s simply no need to go nuclear.

    Brought to you by fossil fuel propaganda filtered through renewable resource advocates who would also lose out to nuclear energy.