*at least I’m safe inside my mind *

BuT wE hAvE jOuRnAlIsTiC iNtEgRiTy. AlSo FuCk DaVe SiRoTa

Veterans affairs, healthcare services for veterans in the USA (one of few social healthcare systems in the US, notoriously underfunded and underperforming their services)

Like the gungan delegation in the senate moving to give Emergency powers to the chancellor

Seven nation army

Turbine should connect to loudspeaker to make this a closer system lol

TFW the “good” pile is the same as the cull pile

Imagine running a story about abortion and not adding any female commentary, racial equality and not boosting black voices. SMH

I know you’re making a joke about the typo but low key slow mornings are for sure one of the greatest subtle pleasures of life

I’m not mad at you at all, i basically agreed with you. i was just engaging in a more nuanced discussion…. Or trying to. the replies here seem fairly hostile so I think I’ll see myself out of this community.

Because I’m not arguing with OP, I’m largely agreeing with them. Generating silly images and doing school kids homework is not the promised land of AI the corporate overlords keep promising. But that’s not to suggest the field in general has zero uses. Crypto and AI are apples and oranges and while I’m not exactly sure what you mean by the arguments being the same, it would be possible for the same argument to be true for AI and not true for crypto, because AI has much more obvious use cases to benefit the common good.

I don’t disagree with anything you said but I don’t think the distinction was explicit in the OP hence my comment. It was a “yes and”

Also responding to a general anti AI trend in public discourse that I think is short sighted and inaccurate rather than specifically to OP

Almost no one in here would complain about more science spending, but would complain about capitalism (me too capitalism bad). What is the utility of going to space? It requires lots of energy but it’s still valuable. What about studying random new species in remote locations? The mating habits of microorganisms? And the common refrain is you can’t always know what the next discovery will be so sometimes you must be a little directionless in your approach because you might not even know where to look in the first place.

AI research is science, it’s academic. The problem is it’s been entirely co-opted by capitalist corporations, but that’s besides the point. AI research isn’t inherently not worth doing because a bad organization is trying to do it.

The ideal solution would be for the research money to come from governments and given to academic or other public institutions who will do their science in the open instead of in closed labs trying to monetize everything.

So I agree with your premise in general but it’s slightly more nuanced than that. Probably LLMs or stable diffusion used on a mass scale is little more than a toy and not worth the energy costs, but 1. It will get better, and in the case of language models, that could have profound impacts on society and 2. There are other kinds of AI use cases, such as alphafold and the materials research Deepmind published 3. There are other things being researched that are equally important that get little daylight, such as robotics and agentic AIs

Guess what? Flight Software usually uses ancient proprietary compilers for specialized hardware running an RTOS, rip 😢

Thank you for saying this. I have nothing else to say but an upvote seemed insufficient!

You can’t out plant meat cultivation indefinitely. Until GHG capture makes a generational leap or two in capacity the only sustainable solution to feed the world is vast reduction or total elimination of meat consumption.

Funky wunky wittle

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But olives are delicious

What’s the one thing you would want your average global citizen to know about the balkans?

Is there somewhere else you eventually want to live?

When people say they want to Balkanize _ does that bother you?

Who would win in a fight, a hot dog or a taco?

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