Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’
AFaithfulNihilist @ AFaithfulNihilist @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 368Joined 2 yr. ago
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They did such a great job of personalizing the mentality of a Starfleet officer with her knowing herself to be dutiful and capable even if nothing else in her memory was left to her.
"I fly the ship" as mantra resonates with me so much because when I feel lost I just remember that "I fix what is broken" and then I remember what I am and what I am supposed to do.
The lil Wayne stuff is so strange. Usually when some specific celebrity pops up in my feed I assume their publicist is rehabbing their image after some public incident or recently exposed private conflict. YouTube shorts isn't like that.
YouTube shorts seems to be exclusively just a pipeline to rightwing talking points and the unfunniest parts of stand up comedy framed to serve the same rightwing pipeline.
TikTok was designed to promote stupid, inane, and self-destructive memes to Americans (westerners in general).
It's the exact opposite of how it works in China. You would never see this kind of stupid shit on Chinese TikTok.
I'm sure there are plenty of people producing interesting stuff on TikTok, Just as with any user submitted content site, but that's not what the algorithm wants to make sure everybody sees.
The specific cases you mentioned are for food services not donations.
Donating food is protected by law. Serving food in public is not.
For what it's worth I don't think that these arrests were made in good faith either, but no grocery stores, restaurants, or food distributors have been arrested for donating surplus food.
This isn't true and is a stubborn myth with absolutely no underlying evidence.
Liability protections for food donors and non-profit recipients exist so long as the food donated is in compliance of federal food safety and labeling rules and is donated in good faith without gross negligence.
Some states call them food donation laws, other states call them Samaritan protection laws, but laws exist at both the federal and state level to protect people who are donating food.
They don't donate food because they don't want to. They don't want to because they are monsters.
Whatever these guys did to earn that, It must have been exemplary. Luxuries like this in prison are few and far between, so we know that these dudes are most likely very well behaved and agreeable.
I feel that long-term, the best case for the fediverse is for governments, schools, and other large institutions to make their own instances. It would prevent the collapse of threads or whatever corporate competitor from disrupting the ability of local governments to communicate important messages to people.
I look at this activity pub as everything that RSS could have been and more. I'm so super excited to see institutions getting involved in publishing readable and easily navigable web content!
STD gave me vibes that a boardroom full of old white guys in expensive suits had a conference call with the writers that went something like...
I 100% believe that this ham-fisted diversity bullshit is what happens when a board room of old white guys are just checking boxes instead of anyone actually trying to tell a cohesive story.
There are always going to be people that are offended by diversity, but if anything we've witnessed from the fan response to these recent Star Trek shows like lower decks, STD, Picard, and strange new worlds, It's that there's different ways of using diversity in a story.
Diversity that seems natural to the plot and diversity that seems to be the plot are treated very differently by different kinds of fans. The former seems to be well received even by people that aren't huge fans of diversity. The latter seems to be grating on a large number of fans.
What I think almost all of Star Trek except STD did very well is to use the infinitely diverse universe to tell stories about the human condition and the future of hope. Why I think STD failed at this is not for the inclusion or the diversity but because it made it the A plot repeatedly in a time when the society we are shown the universe through is supposed to take diversity=strength for granted.
Other treks wouldn't care that you are gay, black, trans, or the descendant of a bad man, but there was still inter species conflict and an intense fear of genetic engineering that created a context for exploring various modes and motives for conflict.
Discreet object recognition. Right now they can't answer the simplest questions that require counting discrete objects. Which to me implies they have no discreet object sense at all. They're just looking for word patterns.
I'll give you an example, If you were to ask one of these. "I was on my way to the store when I saw a sow with six piglets, how many feet do we have?"
We could have a lively debate about what potential answers would be acceptable. Maybe there's only 2 feet because the rest are hooves, maybe there's 30 because that's how many foot like appendages there are in total, but the answer it will give you will make absolutely no sense.
Chat GPT will be like, "11" or "15" and if you ask it any questions or follow up it genuinely does not have any answer for how any of these objects could be discreetly counted or partitioned. It can try to explain itself but quickly starts babbling nonsense.