AggressivelyPassive @ agressivelyPassive @feddit.de

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Cities are already about 5C hotter than the surrounding countryside. Adding this increase on top, means 7.5C.

4OC in the countryside is already bad, 47,5C in the city is deadly for a lot of people.

I think you underestimate, how deadly heat can be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Luckily, my flat (in Germany) is owned by the city so I'm kind of paying myself?

If you can't abort, you'll have to pull through. Complex problems require simplistic solutions.

In cities it actually does have an effect, especially in crowded ones. Millions of people in a relatively small area blasting AC "exhaust" out of their windows heat up the crammed air and in turn the buildings, streets, etc. which increases the heat island effect of cities.

Granted, it's not a huge effect, but it's measurable. First source I could find: https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/30/fact-check-is-air-conditioning-making-cities-hotter

Is your company as prestigious as Tesla (was)?

They sell a dream to young people. Some bite, some don't. But those who do, will become loyal servants.

It's the same strategy cults use.

And what is the result? Either you have to check the sources if they really mean what the agent says they do, or you don't check them meaning the whole thing is useless since they might come up with garbage anyway.

I think you're arguing on a different level than I am. I'm not interested in mitigations or workarounds. That's fine for a specific use case, but I'm talking about the usage in principle. You inherently cannot trust an AI. It does hallucinate. And unless we get the "shroominess" down to an extremely low level, we can't trust the system with anything important. It will always be just a small tool that needs professional supervision.

See, again, nitpicky details, even though we both know exactly what was meant.

Don't forget that most of these guys are petite bourgeoisie at best, mostly even lower.

They think 10k is a lot and they feel powerful and important because they are invited by russian state media. These are small men from small backgrounds, desperately trying to feel big. Unfortunately, they hit the right sentiment to resonate with a bunch of small people with delusions of national grandeur.

Oh, I'm terribly sorry that I didn't use the exact wording that the semantic overlord required for his incantations.

Let's recap, you only read the title, which by definition does not contain all the information, you wrote an extremely arrogant and absolutely not helpful comment, if challenged you answer with even more arrogance, and your only defense is nitpicky semantics, which even if taken at face value, do not change the value of your comment at all.

You are not helping anyone. No, not even others.

Even agents suffer from the same problem stated above: you can't trust them.

Compare it to a traditional SQL database. If the DB says, that it saved a row or that there are 40 rows in the table, then that's true. They do have bugs, obviously, but in general you can trust them.

AI agents don't have that level of reliability. They'll happily tell you that the empty database has all the 509 entries you expect them to have. Sure, you can improve reliability, but you won't get anywhere near the DB example.

And I think that's what makes it so hard to extrapolate progress. AI fails miserably at absolute basic tasks and doesn't even see that it failed. Success seems more chance than science. That's the opposite of how every technology before worked. Simple problems first, if that's solved, you push towards the next challenge. AI in contrast is remarkably good at some highly complex tasks, but then fails at basic reasoning a minute later.

To whom?

The closest one is about a trip over the Atlantic away.

It's absolutely opaque to me, especially the non-big-name brands barely get any reliable reviews and especially given the silicon lottery, I can't tell if every chip is like the reviewed ones.

If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

Honestly, that is the typical self-righteous stackoverflow response that is helping no one.

You know exactly what I mean, you know exactly how to treat the question, but you chose to play captain obvious of the second arrogance division and posted this.

Of course devices will fail at some point, what are you even trying to add here?

The problem I see is mainly the divergence between hype and reality now, and a lack of a clear path forward.

Currently, AI is almost completely unable to work unsupervised. It fucks up constantly and is like a junior employee who sometimes shows up on acid. That's cool and all, but has relatively little practical use. However, I also don't see how this will improve over time. With computers or smartphones, you could see relatively early on, what the potential is and the progression was steady and could be somewhat reliably extrapolated. With AI that's not possible. We have no idea, if the current architectures could hit a wall tomorrow and don't improve anymore. It could become an asymptotic process, where we need massive increases for marginal gains.

Those two things combined mean, we currently only have toys, and we don't know if these will turn into tools anytime soon.

Realistically, you don't. You can't really.

The only way would be to verify each account somehow.

I'm currently in the "Elvis getting fat" phase.

It's extremely complicated and I don't really see a solution.

You'd need gigantic resources and trust in those resources to vet accounts, comments, instances. Or very in depth verification processes, which in turn would limit privacy.

What I actually found interesting was bluesky's invite system. Each user got a limited number of invite links and if a certain amount of your invitees were banned, you'd be banned/flagged to. That creates a web of trust, but of course also makes anonymous accounts impossible.

Maybe that happens if you design a car like an iPod with a bunch of engineers living in California and Texas.

You can't block people. Who would you know, who registered the domain?

What you're proposing is pretty similar to the current state of email. It's almost impossible to set up your own small mail server and have it communicate the "mailiverse" since everyone will just assume you're spam. And that lead to a situation where 99% of people are with one of the huge mail providers.