agamemnonymous

@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They generate a lot less bullshit when deliberately trained on a specific dataset, and they’re only getting better with time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Fewer juniors means fewer seniors in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The next quarterly report is literally the only thing in the world that matters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tasks that are necessary but tedious. These are tasks that either consume the time of experienced professionals, or are offloaded to inexperienced professionals when payroll allows.

  Tedious tasks are perfect candidates for automation, especially when the result is much easier to verify than to find. This frees the experienced professional to do interesting work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main threat is to junior professionals. AI won’t replace “actual” jobs, but it certainly has the potential to reduce them by giving one person the ability to do the work of multiple people. This is almost certain to primarily affect junior positions whose grunt-work is offloaded to AI, thus reducing the number of qualified senior professionals in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That article says that a House Republican-led subcommittee came to that conclusion based on shakey evidence at best, made several other unfounded claims unrelated to the origin, and was criticized heavily by House Democrats. Their main piece of evidence was the Wuhan lab experimenting with distantly related COVID variants.

  I would not call that “confirmed”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I felt after S3, but I gave S4 a shot and it justified a lot of the decisions I didn’t care for in S3. Maybe S5 would’ve disappointed, maybe not, but it seemed like it was going to be the last season and I would’ve at least given it a chance to fully redeem itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me season 4 of Westworld changed it from “Too Long” to “Too Soon” for me, personally. I didn’t really care for season 3 when it aired, but season 4 made me more forgiving of it, retroactively. It seemed like they were setting things up in season 5 which required season 4, which in turn required season 3. Especially given the nature of the show, it felt like they were building some grand story which required these banal meanderings that would all make sense when they clicked into place at the end.

  Now I’m really curious what they were planning in 5 and it looks like we won’t get to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely, and both were very… different from the books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The daycare I went to after school when I was a kid had a few that got a lot of play, but the most obscure were a 1994 ABC Family animated rendition of The Secret Garden and a 1985 Hanna-Barbera Pound Puppies TV special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  V.34 is the one burned into my memory. I hear plenty of BIPs but nothing I would consider a BWOP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am and I’m drawing a blank. I remember kchshchshchchchchch eeeeeedle eeedllllllllle, then some croaking and various phone sounds, no bwongs though.