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I noticed a problem in the "AI is our future!" crowd.

What they do, does not really interest me. With that I mean it is nice that they can solve many problems as-is, and that will probably become more important - but I am just not interested in looking at AI project. It is totally meaningless to me.

In the past, when you, say, have a project written by a real human author on github, this could be interesting. With AI generated projects, I just don't have the slightest interest in "connecting". I also don't think to be the only one; you notice this on youtube too. Some people no longer have an interest in AI-generated videos and avoid them. I am curious when the AI hype phase will go down; right now it seems to not come down but I think it eventually will.

> Supposedly very technocatric governments end up being more corrupt than average

Hardly. But it depends on who is on board.

Corruption exists everywhere. Do you think that Vukic was less corrupt? I am pretty certain you will find many people in Serbia who want to fix the country. Other Europeans would ask: why let only poor countries join? They drain money from richer countries. Switzerland and Norway will never join and they know why. Hint: there is a reason they are rich. Second hint: they got rich without the EU.

Which country got rich with the EU? I don't know of a single one. Germany was already wealthy before the EU was founded. France is now in debt crisis from which it can not escape, so it will drag the whole EU down.

AI skynet slop is murdering people left and right.

The problem is that the explanation given here makes only little sense. I am not going to rely or depend on AI slop, so there is now one less option for me.

I think humans need to stop believing in AI slop as the new religion for everyone. Some people have a complete anti-AI policy and pull it through, too.

I used to watch Star Trek TNG back in the 1990s. Patrick was great as Captain Picard.

I did notice that in the latest Wolverine he seemed to be doing not so well with his physical status, looking quite frail and his voice was also no longer strong as it used to be (that was in Logan 2017, so already 10 years ago). Dementia is kind of eating away at the neurons.

Evil is what Evil does.

Does any of us have any insight in Google manipulating the world?

I notice this with ruby right now, where claude took over development. But it is not confined to just ruby. AI slop eliminates human contributors. Why would I want to even try to interact with AI slop meta-designing software? If I go to another developer and ask "hey many, how did you add this great feature #123"? I'd get the reply "claude slop". Wowsers. Now tell me this is healthy to a community ...

I wonder how people work with omarchyslop (the linux distribution spam-slopped by DHH). Do they have any real community outside of paid fanboi accounts? If so, how do they interact? I feel that there is no real exchange of e. g. code since claude slop just autogenerates that. It must be strange for them.

Google successfully trained this human to click on ads.

Thankfully I never see any ads - ublock origin kills these off. That includes the horrible UI choices Google made on its search interface. A custom ublock origin rule filters away the pointless "others also searched for pink cats" while I was searching for epic skyscrapers. Evidently Google tries to link-lose me here, wasting my time.

Google Search sucks nowadays.

What is even stranger, though, is ... the alternatives suck even more.

I don't know where to even start. Take qwant. Well, first check they do is "are you a bot". That's wasting my time. I am not a bot. But, while this may be a minor annoyance, qwant also yields crap results. It does, however had, which is quite interesting, also yield results that Google search does not yield. I had some good results here with regards to images. But in general, searching the www for useful information, really took a dive in the last 5-10 years. And a HUGE dive. Many people noticed this. There are tons of webpages pointing this out. And videos on youtube too (owned by Google, the monster that ruined its search engine).

I am surprised google search still yields any money to Google, considering how crap it has become. In the past I could even read webforum entries in behind the "you must be logged in". I did this, for instance, on a text-based MUD I retired from many years before that, but I was still curious what kind of changes they made. Then google removed that feature - and many more - deliberately. That was when Google decided to cripple its search engine. Then came AI slop and slop-degraded the remaining rest. The nuclear slop holocaust eradicating useful information. Thankfully Wikipedia still exists, and while it has several issues, quality-wise it is a blessing compared to what we typically see nowadays.

The only question I have:

Should I use H.264 or H.265?

Well nano pico atto ... the name makes it comparable. Why would you expect people to not draw that connection?

I think the main take-away is that vi/vim is too complicated for many folks. I use nano a lot on the commandline. For quick editing it is so much more convenient than vim.

> Everyone experiences chemotherapy differently. Just as every body is different, so is the reaction to the chemicals that are killing the cancer.

Well, this is true, but generic chemotherapeutics target pretty much all cells. That's why there are so many side effects.

There are some partial work arounds, e. g. targeting some specific cells via monoclonal antibodies, but even these have side effects. I understand the rationale of stopping uncontrolled cell growth, but chemotherapeutics are hugely damaging to all cells, not just cancer cells. And it is often unclear whether these have a really profound positive impact. For instance, if you kill 80% of the cancer cells but the cost is that the other cells are significantly weakened, leading to a death due to that, then you have a trade-off that isn't so great.