Echo Dot @ echodot @feddit.uk

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I hate that argument because it's already been disproven. People use guns to kill people, often in heated situations.

If everyone wasn't wandering around with guns in their pockets all of the time then they wouldn't be the opportunity to shoot someone. Things would massively improve if the law was simply adjusted to not allow people to carry guns in public and they're only allowed to keep them in their house and other authorised locations such as gun rangers and designated hunting locations. The gun nuts will still be able to play with their toys, but the murder rate would drop.

The fact that they stopped due to volatility kind of proved my point.

I don't know what you're saying. If I charge a particular amount for a loaf of bread and then the cryptocurrency value drops halfway through the day then that person still has the bread but I now don't have the money.

The whole point of currency is to get away from the fluctuating value of exchange that everyone had to deal with when we used to buy things with gold and semi-precious stones.

I certainly wouldn't keep anything in cryptocurrency. I would transfer it to something stable.

I mean, it is worse

Most people shouldn't buy them until more places accept them for payment.

It's not going to happen. You can't price things when the value of the currency changes every 10 minutes.

They've been saying "AGI in 18 months" for years now.

The biggest thing holding back flying cars is that everyone calls them helicopters.

The big problem is that half the time the answer that you get is that you shouldn't be in the situation you're in so the question doesn't apply.

Well yeah, but here's the thing, if I ask the question it's because I am in the situation I'm in, and therefore need assistance. So telling me that the situation I'm in is not optimal is literally the least helpful thing one could do.

At least now I don't have to deal with the rudeners.

I do like the fact that when I ask it a question it actually gives me the answer, and doesn't tell me to refactor my entire code because apparently I'm a bad person.

You have to etch them with Eldritch potions on the mystical and long-lost island of Ti-wo-ann.

It's just that sometimes they don't respond to input.

taken decades before anything even resembling an AI existed.

The picture will almost certainly be taken on a film camera as well, so it's not even digital

You must have a pretty well-paying job because most jobs don't pay enough for you to really generate anything other than very mediocre savings.

If I were to try this I'd probably last about 4 months and then run out of money.

I just like the idea that previous administrations just delete all of the documentation on the way out, rather like a fired sysadmin worker deleting all their automation scripts. "Work it out for yourself"

I don't think image generators are really in the same category though. They'll have their applications but they're not going to be a fundamental change to society the way AGI will be.

It's like a really cold shower.

Duh,just rocket jump all the way to Kiev. If you go fast enough no one will be able to stop you.

Well one of the big problems with it is it's never properly configured. One of the most annoying things that it does is that it generates tasks only when previous tasks are closed, in theory that makes sense but really the result is that you close a task, and then you have to go looking in the ticket queue for the new task it's just generated, so you can close that one too. Total waste of time.

It already has script automation and has had for years so I'm not sure what AI is going to bring to the table.