Being burned for witchcraft seems worse.

Excellent anti-death penalty here. A place like Texas would have already executed her.

I would agree with the sentiment but there is value in counteracting the pile on effect of the trolls by adding additional voices of reason.

What a ridiculous nothing. Removing a piece of information doesn’t make anyone more informed.

Source: Information theory

It’s really quite silly how you’re wearing the clown makeup and acting like the anyone who points it out are the real clowns

Just did a search on inventory for my area, cheapest is $55k

Literally is literally the correct word here.

There are not “figuratively more choices” since there actually are many more choices.

Fear of missing out is driving this entire market segment.

No one is sure what they might miss out on but that’s not going to stop the fear of investors.

Real estate’s gone to shit so they need to find some new place to move their money.

No. That’s just something you made up.

“Industrializing nations” are easier to address than the nations that have already industrialized.

The momentum behind existing industry is huge. Like a coal industry that is difficult to dismantle because of regressive political leaders.

For countries with no existing infrastructure it’s cheaper to go green than not.

Capitalists demand a return on their polluting industrial investments annd are the majority of the problem.

If an auto manufacturers started from zero today, they wouldn’t be creating gasoline engines.

Zero emission aircraft are next but that doesn’t mean the airlines are going to scrap all their existing aircraft engines and the pollution they cause.

1% of the world’s population is 80,000,000 people.

There is too much variance in a population that large to make any reasonable statements or suggest adjustments.

We already know that people living on pennies per day aren’t the problem.

We were all worrying AI was going to murder us to save us from ourselves; turns out it’s going to do it by literally burying us in CASM.

Asimov was wrong!

I’m assume sex trafficking as that’s the safe bet with his type these days.

No one becomes an informant just because. Curious what illegal activities he was caught up in.

The ability to generate plausible language was a lack of compute power. The actual programs running the LLM is not complicate.

The model that is produced is complex.

Its training required compute power that was not previously available but the math/code behind these systems is not complex. They are resource intensive. There is a difference that a layperson often cannot comprehend.

Yes. I’ve used them. I have used it beyond the point of it hallucinating.

I am also a software engineer and have deeper understanding of how these systems work than your average user.

The software community tends to approach these things with more caution than the general population. The media overblows the capabilities of these systems.

A more concrete example is autonomous vehicles which were promised for decades and even now with a form of them on the road, they are still closer to remote controlled vehicles than the intelligent self contained systems we have been promised.

The difference between predictive text on a smart phone and predictive text of an LLM is my smart phone is predicting what I am likely to type next based on things i have typed in the past, while the LLM is predicting what comes next based on a larger body of work from source pulled from all across the internet. The LLM is then tuned by humans. This tuning step is under reported.

The LLM is unable to determine the truth of its own output. I would argue that is a key to claiming intelligence but determining what intelligence means is itself a philosophical question up for debate.

There is an inverse relationship between the intelligence of a person and their amazement at what these large language models can produce.

Parlor trick is a perfect description.

People don’t get that these things aren’t anymore intelligent than their smartphones predicting the next word. The main difference is instead of a couple words it has thousands to choose from.

Half of the trick is how it uses the prompt to decided what words to start with.

Those of us that left don’t give a shit.

Stop straddling the fence and the problem goes away.

Sounds like you’re on Android but there are still options. I am no subject matter expert but there are many who are and they are just a quick duckduckgo search away. Good luck!

https://liberateyourtech.com/alternatives-to-google-maps-and-other-location-tracking-apps/

Forced? Not at all. Google happily complied.

Stop using Google products, people. There are alternatives for every service they offer. They haven’t invented anything new in over a decade