The world tends to find that having an extraordinarily wealthy parent makes its own luck.

Exactly. Unfortunately “move fast and break things” has some disadvantages when it comes to driving in traffic.

I know three.

In fact, come to think of it, I only know two trans women, so I know more trans men than trans women.

Normally I’m not a fan of children’s malicious compliance because often the kid is just misinterpreting some useful instruction from am adult, and malicious compliance is so much more delicious if the order comes from someone being unreasonable.

This is great, because the school admins were just being jerks.

Utterly malicious compliance with malicious rule.

That one was pleasing.

Er, three lates is a written warning, three written warnings is a suspension, and three suspensions gets you kicked. I make that 27 lates to get kicked.

I am British and I love this.

Fantastic video, but it winds me up when they add padding to a phone video to make it landscape, as if no one in existence might possibly be viewing their phone-generated content on a phone.

See, this is what’s wrong with society today.

I’m happy to let mods carve out a bunch of niche communities with their own preferences. The fediverse is a big place. If you don’t like instances that are protective of LGBT+ folks you’re cutting it down a bit, but genuinely, you seem to be deliberately picking topics that troll the specific community you’re posting on, then you complained that they took it down. Post where your post will be welcome, stop complaining when you post where you already know it’s not. Reddit and twitter are pretty right wing and troll friendly. Maybe you’ll be happier there.

Top troll trolling.

But if prices don’t go up, the profits won’t increase! Why doesn’t anybody think of the poor shareholders, trying to barely eke out an income from their holdings?

The pedantic nerd in me wants to compare half of the building with the woman, or just the bit right next to the heart to the bit right next to the cabinet.

Summary:

538 guy posts that red states have worse mortality from covid than blue states because of lower vaccine uptake, having previously tested the claim for confounding factors.

MUH FREEDUM medic claims that he should have controlled for age because red states are older on average. 538 guy points out that that’s barely true and that in the oldest four states, the red/blue mortality split is stark. He then shows his working for controlling for age and shows that the correlation is almost exactly as strong.

It turns out that, in a statistical fact that should surprise no one at all who isn’t a conspiracy theorist, higher vaccination rates against covid are the biggest determiner for covid survival rates, and in a statistical fact that should surprise no one at all who kept up with the news, the republican party, and Donald Rump himself managed to persuade their gullible followers that covid was some sort of scam and the vaccine was dangerous.

My reaction was to wonder why the republicans would mislead their voters to their deaths in such numbers, but then I remembered that the republican party doesn’t give a shit about its voters, it just wants to mislead them into voting republican. If it gave a shit about its voters it would have very different policies.

You know that a LLM is a statistical word prediction thing, no? That LLMs “hallucinate”. That this is an inevitable consequence of how they work. They’re designed to take in a context and then sound human, or sound formal, or sound like an excellent programmer, or sound like a lawyer, but there’s no particular reason why the content that they present to you would be accurate. It’s just that their training data contains an awful lot of accurate data which has a surprisingly large amount of commonality of meaning.

You say that the current crop of LLMs are good at Wikipedia style questions, but that’s because their authors have trained them with some of the most reliable and easy to verify information on the Web. A lot of that is Wikipedia style stuff. That’s it’s core knowledge, what it grew up reading, the yardstick by which it was judged. And yet it still goes off on inaccurate tangents because there’s nothing inherently accurate about statistically predicting the next word based on your training and the context and content of the prompt.

Yes, LLMs sound like they understand your prompt and are very knowledgeable, but the output is fundamentally not a fact-based thing, it’s a synthesized thing, engineered to sound like its training data.

I don’t know why you want to use an AI to purchase goods and learn about products. That’s what the current www is really really strong at. Lots of people are spending an awful lot of money to make that information really easy to discover, and popular search engines definitely prioritise that information.

Also, if an AI is to give you price and product information it’s going to have to be reading live web pages, which will of course be full of ads. SEO will become AIO/LLMO. There is no end to the time and money advertisers are prepared to pour into getting products in front of users. The irony is that you seem to want to view products and you have this weird perspective where you’re keen to avoid ads for products so that you can view marketing information about products without the ads.

It’s already fairly hard to tell without knowing some good websites or reading through to conclusions and using some common sense whether a review website is honest or biased. I don’t know why you think an AI with access to the Internet will filter out fake reviews and content crafted to lead you to specific products over others.

Also, downloading and configuring your own AI is unlikely to be the way the “AI revolution” comes. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and other mega corporations will be funding the “AI revolution” and will not sit idly by allowing their kingdoms to crumble.

The number of people who will be saved from the corporations that run the online world by open source grass roots AI will be smaller than the number of people who are saved by Linux from proprietory products and SAAS.

Yeah, everyone will get used to using an AI to interact with the web, but it will be freely supplied by a corporation, and I PROMISE you the enshitification of AI has been long planned before we even reach step one of making it awesome for the masses.

You didn’t scroll as far as the “total earnings in your lifetime” and “total earnings of a doctor in their lifetime”, then, I take it.

How would anyone die of avoiding aspartame? Perhaps you might consider the possibility that you may be overreacting.

That was good information, thank you.