[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

The best? No, it does not have that reputation. Everyone knows it's mostly full of shit, with some good channels here and there. The biggest? Maybe, depending what you are talking about.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago
[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 94 points 15 hours ago

Universal health care is better than whatever you have, for 99.9% of the people 99.9% of the time. And it always was. And always will be.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago

That's a good start, but where do you draw the line? If I use a template, is that AI? What if I am writing a letter based on that template and use a grammar checker to fix the grammar. Is that AI? And then I use the thesaurus to automatically beef up the vocabulary. Is that AI?

In other words, you can't say LLM and think it's a clear proposition. LLMs have been around and used for various things for quite a while, and some of those things don't feel unnatural.

So I'm afraid we still have a definitional problem. And I don't think it is easy to solve. There are so many interesting edge cases.

Let's consider an old one. Weather forecasting. Of course the forecasts are in a sense AI models. Or models, if you don't want to say AI. Doesn't matter. And then that information can be displayed in a table, automatically, on a website. That's a script, not really AI, but hey, you could argue the whole system now counts as AI. So then let's use an LLM to put it in paragraph form, the table is boring. I think Weather.com just did this recently and labeled it "AI forecast", in fact. But is this really an LLM being used in a new way? Is this actually harmful when it's essentially the same general process that we've had for decades? Of course it's benign. But it is LLM, technically...

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 0 points 20 hours ago

So she's both a spineless liar and lacks substantive values? Voters who like that kind of candidate voted for Trump. Predictably. Welcome to politics.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago

Define the terms please. AI has existed for decades. What are you focusing on now?

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago

Ignoring him is not working for you, or you wouldn't be here. Either respond actively or distance yourself. If he's a narcissist, the former might work. If he's looking for a fight, the latter might work.

And he was your dad. If he doesn't act like a dad, though, he'll become "the jackass who fathered me". Which is sad.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 8 points 21 hours ago

Not a matter of perspective. If someone offers me a day but only gives me half a day, they fucked me over. It's not just the money, but also the ability to do other things that afternoon, because they were dishonest.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago

Don't get paid to care about spling

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

The Pirate Bay will always be with us.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 49 points 1 day ago

If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days...

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

Of course they wouldn't try to behave well. Remember that the bosses in this organization are all incredibly selfish. They are rich, they want to get richer, and f*** everybody else. Although the company itself might benefit from a positive PR campaign, none of these people individually would, so they're not going to push for one.

It's a strange kind of honesty about bad behavior. Everyone is so selfish that they can't even pretend as an organization that they would like to do the right thing.

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Can you think of any titles from real journal articles or essays that are eye-catching?

I'm writing a document for high school students taking an English writing class, and rather than create my own examples, why not use real ones? Several of my students have expressed frustration, and I have some guidelines and brainstorming tools, but what I don't have are two dozen neat examples.

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