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I, for one, have learned more about Odyssey from bsky discourse than I did in highschool. Consider yourself redeemed, y'all (but please do cut down on the insults, it's just a book and a movie)

Clearly you must hate (Trump's vision of) America.

It's not that I don't want to have friends, and let's leave it at that.

Problem is, I'm also neurodivergent, and for that reason I have trouble making friends.

Absolutely do just that; I don't know about others but I could use some vicarious success right now. (plus it's always nice when nice things happen to nice people)

It would be really swell if that was the case, alas. (my parents would also punish us for asking)

It's fine, a useful tech is useful. Problems arise when a tech is useful for something bad (e.g. plagiarism) or when a tech is not useful for something but is sold as such (e.g. chatbot as a personal advisor).

That's probably the practical solution, yes, although it means I'm going to have to start using terms a lot of people have never heard about, such as "decision support", or "control" (which in this case means bringing a system to a desired state and not exerting dominance over it).

Tell me about it. I fucking specialised in decision support systems at the Uni. For all intents and purposes I'm an AI programmer by education. And they've made me hate (some) AI.

Think of it like this: - stock market good, stock market speculation bad - cryptography good, cryptocurrencies bad - email good, spam bad - politics good, Trump bad - AI good, genAI bad

Decision support systems and control algorithms are two extremely useful categories of software. They've been truly transformative and can even save lives. Present generation of LLM-based products, on top of having unique niche uses, is mainly a tool for a giant scam you shouldn't fall for.

Examples of "AI" in your everyday life that have nothing to do with LLMs: - autopilots - automated map navigation ("turn left in 200m" etc.) - industrial robotics - the thermostat in your shower - procedural map generation in Civilization - enemies in video games not standing still

This is your semi-regular reminder that "AI" is a blanket term that covers a wide variety of decision support and control algorithms, some of which have been around since WW2. People trying to conflate present-day LLM-based products with all "AI" are doing the shifting goalpost fallacy.

Miss Piggy: [turns a man into a pig. However, the sailor was already a pig, he was a pig the whole time, like all the other sailors, so the spell only makes him lose the clothes]

One of unexpected advantages of a protective netting of the kind that cat people install is the pigeons stay outside (partly because of the netting, and partly because the cats would tear them to shreds at first opportunity).

Miss Piggy: [turns a man into a pig] Pig: Cool! [shrugs and walks away] Kermit: [runs away screaming] Gonzo: Who was that guy?

Polish far right is crazy enough, stupid enough, and cruel enough to incite this kind of violence without even taking money from Putin. It's a big shame for the entire country.

"kocham ciebie" means "I love you" "ciebie kocham" is also grammatically correct but means "I love you as opposed to someone else I don't love".

In Polish we do this with the word order. The language imposes no inherent order on its own, and the conventions as to what counts as the default change over time. Arbitrary changes convey emphasis.

Out of curiosity, I googled him up (on my phone, hence Google, which I don't use on the PC anymore), and Google gave me his name, age, and "net worth". If I believed in God, I would ask them to never let anyone attach a "net worth" to me.