irishcoffee

Where I landed was as such: I hated the very concept of AI. My post history, if you look, deliberately referred to the tech as LLMs, and I mostly still do.

I've been behind the 8-ball at $dayjob, for reasons I don't have a say in, nor does anyone in my entire CoC. Vendors are delayed, we have hard shipping deadlines on our end.

Work pays for an expensive "AI" sub. I used it because I'm in a jam and deadlines are tight.

It worked. I'm a decent engineer/programmer. The tech saved me a month, at least. I think the money around all this tech is wrong and bad, but in a vacuum the tech works.

Well since you mentioned it, I posit that most of the financial issues the world is facing today is because the GFC wasn’t allowed to occur, it’s been a slow bleeding out ever since.

Have you kept up with the financial status of France and GB? Read anything about the riots?

Squishing the budget deficit for 1 cycle in 2 years.

The point of the law was to generate money for the state to fund the same mistakes France and GB are currently reeling from. Reducing power had nothing to do with it.

Oh. Maybe make a country people want to live in instead of flee. I didn't realize it came across as a riddle.

Read between the lines. None of this is surprising, none of this was an accident. LLMs do what they are instructed to do.

> The US definitely has some culpability for making other places harder to live in.

You didn’t answer my question. :)

Oh man, they answered the question in the beginning:

> The reason, according to the researchers, has to do with the information environment AI systems can access.

Amusingly:

> The researchers also found that incorporating X search amplified left-leaning recommendations in Japan, the opposite of expectations based on the U.S. discourse environment.

I guess “something” meant a vetted web of trust. My children will be better off if they don’t need to learn to navigate the internet cesspool, so either you’re wrong and it sucks for them, or you’re right and it sucks for them. Either way, well-played! Very clever!

Account created date + … something?

Oh wow, hi! I think my biggest “gripe” with docker is that everyone grabs it as a hammer and views many problems as a nail. Am I way off base with that? What was your original vision for how docker might be used in the wild?

I actually enjoy sports gambling, and since its been legal and the apps hit, I have won more than I've lost over the past what, 3-4 years now. Not a lot more, but enough to where I haven't had to deposit money in a few years. Call it an entertaining hobby, my goal isn't to make real money, just to feel smug about being smarter than the odds-makers.

I completely agree with you. Watching gambling ads makes me irrationally angry. They should absolutely, 100% be banned from advertising, similarly/identical to cigarettes. Nuke them from orbit.