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Comment · 2 months ago
It's close to 100% of carry out/counter service establishments. This advice isn't practicable.
Comment · 2 months ago
Annoying tons of people so some small percent buys your stuff is a shitty thing to do. Their winning more than they lose from being shitty isn't something we have to offer an alternative to.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'd strongly recommend you read back what I've said and what you've said. The idea that I've presented anything "very passionate" while you've just been "nuanced" is a little silly. Read it. Please.
Comment · 3 months ago
Obviously it’s not “perfectly consistent”. There is at least a bit of incongruity in these three, no? A sniff of something off? Also, I’m not conflating anything. I asked you to say more on a couple of things you said in your comment. No need to be absolutist or argumentative about it.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can you spell out a bit more how these three thoughts live together consistently for you:

1) The price is insane

2) The price is a work of great financial engineering

3) The price isn’t a scam

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
examples?
Comment · 4 months ago
> eacher uses AI, creates lesson plan -> AI creates assignments -> Teacher gives assignments to students |

Up to this point, it's actually completely fine. LLMs do an excellent job up to here.

> | Teacher grades with AI -> Principal uses AI to monitor teachers progress.

Again, this is probably mostly fine. Assuming they are taking it seriously, this is also fine.

> Students use AI to do assignment

This is singularly the section of the loop that AI has no place in. The ENTIRE point of the education system is for the students to learn how to use their brains to accomplish tasks.

Comment · 4 months ago
I feel like in the context of AI in education, "wisdom through dogma" still doesn't capture it. It's not even wisdom nor dogma, but something in the form of wisdom developed through something in the form of dogma. "Wisdom" implies you actually believe it and embody it, but students don't believe it or embody it as much as just pass it along to finish the assignment. "Dogma" implies there's a coherent logic of accepted doctrine, but the output is more a stretched and morphed version of the most generalized doctrine imaginable.
Comment · 4 months ago
So you think they weren’t getting paid for this? You think they just freely mention corporate food companies purely for users benefit?
Comment · 4 months ago
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2619/BillHistory

SECTION 1. The General Laws are hereby amended by inserting after chapter 93L the following chapter:-

Chapter 93M. Massachusetts Data Privacy Act

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:

...

“Sale of personal data”, the transfer of personal data in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration by the controller to a third party; provided, however, that “sale of personal data” shall not include: (i) the disclosure of personal data to a processor that processes the personal data on behalf of the controller if limited to the purposes of the processing; (ii) the disclosure of personal data to a third party for purposes of providing a product or service affirmatively requested by the consumer; (iii) the disclosure or transfer of personal data to an affiliate of the controller; (iv) the disclosure of personal data with the consumer’s affirmative consent, where the consumer affirmatively directs the controller to disclose the personal data or intentionally uses the controller to interact with a third party; (v) the disclosure or transfer of personal data to a third party as an asset that is part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction or a proposed merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction, in which the third party assumes control of all or part of the controller’s assets; or (vi) the disclosure of personal data that the consumer: (A) intentionally made available to the general public via a channel of mass media; and (B) did not restrict to a specific audience.

Comment · 4 months ago
>literally hundreds of orders of magnitude slower

I'm sure this is just a slip of the tongue (finger), but the idea of being a numerical googol times slower is funny.

Comment · 4 months ago
Imagine taking up a hobby of drawing, then bemoaning the existence of a printer. Or learning spanish, and bemoaning google translate. Or trying out woodworking, and bemoaning IKEA.
Comment · 4 months ago
From the article this one links to:

>Microsoft has been piloting Scout as an internal tool for employees it was calling “ClawPilot,” since March. ClawPilot—and now Scout—are part of “Project Lobster,” which is a Microsoft plan to bring the popular OpenClaw AI tool to its Microsoft 365 suite of products in a way that nontechnical people can use.

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