jmp242 @ jmp242 @sopuli.xyz

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Ehhh, you could say the same thing about the US in a lot of ways (think Iraq invasion). People need something - I don't know what - to actually start an uprising. In either country, if you really try and start an uprising you're going to be crushed. I also think even in history (to my limited knowledge) most coups and the like were one elite overthrowing another, and I don't think the records of it making life better broadly is that inspiring. People are just constrained, and they either need to have nothing to lose (very few people in developed countries) or be extremely ideological. The extremists have trouble garnering enough support to actually do anything though.

So - while I'd love to see more accountability of governments, I'm not at all sure that not overthrowing a government says that much about the people as a whole.

Yea, I can just use SMS / Teams / Signal / email depending on the context.

Maybe my phrasing wasn't clear, but the areas where I said I didn't see it changing the trajectory much for the job, I meant that (as I mentioned with writers) the prospects already had lots and lots of competition and a very small percentage of people who'd like to do the job actually can make a living doing it. The numbers are already close to winning the lottery, I just don't see AI making it like wining the powerball (multi state lottery) a substantive difference to people trying to "make it" in that field. If I'm already at 1 in 10 million, I don't see that my decision making is going to be that affected if AI makes it 1 in 20 million. I don't think people make decisions in that way.

And for government interventions - do we subsidize writers now? If not, I just don't see it politically, economically, or even philosophically to make sense to do so because of AI.

I kind of feel like it's a bit overwrought - and not supported by current tech anyway. I could predict where the tech will go, but I don't think that's possible to do in a reasonable way over a useful time-span for this.

Lets look at the proposed affected jobs(I'll leave out the ones I just don't have enough knowledge about to even hazard a guess):

Interpreters + Translators: I haven't tried GPT for this, but I imagine it's likely not too much more affecting than google translate. For people and situations where machine translation is good enough - this has been happening for quite a while. I have my doubts that this will change the trajectory of that field. Translation seems like something that you can't "edit after the fact" - you have to do the whole translation anyway to see if the machine translation is right or missing important non-literal parts.

Writers and Authors: I can see this speeding their work up, and enabling people who might have story ideas and be a decent editor but not a good first draft writer to become authors. However, writers have been dealing with both lowered standards for technical writing and content glut for many years - I don't think this changes that appreciably.

Public Relations Specialists: I feel like this is massively devaluing the psychology and experience in PR. It might well replace press release writing, but I just bet there's more there than is obvious to everyone.

Tax Preparers: If you're doing fine with TurboTax - you've been doing this for decades now. If you can't solve it with existing traditional tax software, it's often because you just aren't sure about vague tax rules, or complex tax rules. And you usually want someone else to take on some liability and ability to represent you if you're audited. I don't see how GPT changes this fundamentally.

Mathematicians: Really? It's horrible at math.

Proofreaders and Copy Markers: Also really? I feel like for a while at least there's going to be more proofreading of the output of GPT for factual content and style.

Fair enough. Too many times I've tried to watch a TOS episode and just found segments drawn out and boring - at least some of the podcasts reviewing think it was to reach 52 minutes and they just didn't have the budget for that much content per episode or something. It was just OBVIOUS filler. The Corbomite Maneuver being one where they just keep cutting back to a counter over and over. The trouble with Tribbles had that 10 minute long bar fight - that's how they fit Trials and Tribulations into it so well.

And a lot of the negative of TOS was the budget / tech of the 1960s for a sci fi show. Or places where the production or execution just failed badly. I never thought The Alternative Factor was a bad story in the novelization, but once I heard Mission Log and others pan it as "not even a TV show" and I tried to watch it - I saw what they were talking about. The thing just didn't work IMO. Devil in the Dark worked amazing in a novel form, the Horta on TV was... I see where the jokes came from.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy worked really well on the show, that's true, but I think a lot of the other parts make it a difficult place to start.

I would recommend skipping TOS as a show, and reading the James Blish adaptations of it and TAS. They're great stories, but getting various production design and execution issues out of the way is IMHO a good idea. Maybe watch some of the classic episodes like Shore Leave City on the edge of forever The trouble with tribbles

Then watch the original 6 movies - these are pretty good and varied. (except ST V, which... you can skip, or watch if you're a completest or take as an alternate story, or whatever.) TMP is a little slow, and unique, but I think if you're into general sci fi, and are ok with it not exactly feeling like "Star Trek", it's quite good and sets up Spock a little.

Then TNG, DS9 are both quite good, though DS9 really ends up being arcs of arcs for the last few seasons, so you can't dip in and out the same way you can with TNG or TOS.

TNG Movies are with hindsight and time ... ~~~ average? OK?

Generations is generally panned, I think it was basically another episode of the series with a bigger budget, and a middling one at that. First Contact is fun, but don't think too hard. Insurrection is like Generations - I enjoyed it as it was, but it kind of re-made an existing TNG episode, and meh. Nemisis sets up the Picard show, but both are generally so bad that I can't really recommend it.

Honestly, Voyager is flip a coin. I watched it once - first run on air, never have been interested in going back for a rewatch, and doesn't really set up anything for future shows / makes some parts of future shows worse because of how much they screw up in the future shows.

Hot Take, Enterprise is worth watching, and I think air order works better here. Again, they can't help themselves but "ruin" some earlier episodes / stories from TOS / TNG because of fan easter eggs or whatever, so - watching it later as it aired makes it so you get what they're winking about. It also helps answer some lingering questions from other shows (if you care for that) in the 4th season. I will warn you, it's probably a straight average 5/10 so there's some lows, and very few highs - most episodes are ... OK. Then again, if you can get through TOS and TNG lows, you'll be fine here.

I think you can skip the 09 reboot series of movies, unless you really like JJ Abrams, lens flare, or some of the actors (or are a completest). Looking back, they're entirely forgettable and not that great sci fi action films.

Looking back, I'd take a hard pass on Discovery and S1 and S2 of Picard, unless you like pain and screaming at the TV (assuming you actually liked TNG and 90s trek). S3 of Picard is OK, IF you're super jonesing for more TNG no matter what. But really, TNG should have ended with All Good Things and left it there - that was a PERFECT ending, and they keep trying, and failing, to improve on it IMHO. So far, you can skip S3 of Picard and not have it affect anything else.

Lower Decks is surprisingly really really really good. Watch it.

Strange New Worlds is actually decent - and feels a lot like TOS in terms of episodic, random ups and downs in both good and embarrassingly bad episodes. It's another prequel, but again, I think watching in air order makes sense - especially as it's still airing new episodes, you can't watch it first really.

I took a pass on Prodigy - opinions are mixed, and future availability and new seasons seem up in the air. It's also a kids show from what I gather. I tried the first episode and was like - nah, not for me.

"Star Trek" homages - watch Galaxy Quest - that's amazing. The Orville S1 and S2 are really good TNG. S3 changed and I did not like it as much, and dropped it part way through. They started being "extra serious" and like 1+ hour episodes and it just was a drag to watch for me.

Interesting - I never thought of that, mostly because the overhead is kind of insane (and I don't actually think bitcoin is anonymous, but in this case good enough). I was thinking for your average person, they're going to pull out a credit card or debit card which is a hard ID. Certainly more than if they browse to startpage.com for instance.

I got work to pay for it. It is pretty good, and I like the lenses function (focus on just forums or other ways to sort). I can't say that it's necessarily better in general than startpage.com, which is anonomized google (gets you out of the filter bubble though). I feel like Kagi is very slightly better, maybe 10 percent at most.

I also don't love the hard ID they have on you for payment. They claim not to track you but they certainly can, and I'd argue better than Google can if you use startpage.com or whatever anonomized version.

Yea, I was never exactly in sales (Geek Squad in store employee is the closest I ever came) but I remember thinking everyone who was like lets get rid of commission in retail sales were very mislead. I still remember the difference in Sears employees in the 90s when I first got a PC and the salesman actually knew to look at the box of the game I was trying to buy and make sure it'd run on my PC before selling it to me. I also remember them knowing about the stuff they sold. This is because with commission, even in small towns you could make a career of it and you'd have actual experienced staff in the stores. As far as I could ever tell, the good salespeople wanted you to trust them, and not to just make a one time huge sale - they wanted you to come back again and again.

Once they all went to non-commission, I recall that being a "selling point" of the stores, but now all you had was a rotating cast of highschool and college summer workers who cared exactly as much as minimum wage paid them to care... i.e. not at all. And they occasionally became unable to even read the boxes they were "selling". It turned them into less efficient cash register attendants.

I use organic maps. Though I don't know how good the routing is. I tended to get traditional Garmin's and not hook them up to the Internet, and that seemed pretty safe, as they don't broadcast anything.

I want to see a car out there with it, and some years of it working...

The problem in the US is they can't give moving violations without someone there to testify. Usually that's the officer. If the officer doesn't show up, the ticket is tossed. I'm not really sure why they can give redlight tickets (unclear if that held up or not), but some of it had to do with if it was something that affected your license, or was a "violation" instead of a crime like a parking ticket.

The rest of the world isn’t interested in a one-stop-shop for anything and everything.

I'm not entirely sure this is true. Look at the constant posts and commenting on how people hate to deal with the complication of additional apps / sites. It's a major negative of the fediverse, it's one reason I think Signal shot themselves in the foot getting rid of SMS. It's why people keep using Amazon or Netflix even as they get worse and worse and more expensive. Heck, I'm not even immune - I wish we had one fast and cheap way to transfer money rather than Zelle, Paypal, various bank schemes, venmo and on and on. I wish we had a universal shopping cart thing like Paypal checkout more widely adopted vs making ever more accounts and typing in all my details for a one time order from a different website (and this is one reason why people gravitate to Amazon vs individual sites).

I'm not saying I'd like an all in one app, but I can see it potentially being interesting to people if it simplified their lives. I don't think Musk and X are likely to be able to do it, but I don't actually think there's no interest.

There are people who will tell you your car is a luxury toy because you won't move to Manhattan where you don't need a car to live (or a European or Asian city.) I'm just saying one persons necessity is another persons luxury. But OK, how about game consoles - those don't need to be created - do you feel a great shame for having any toy that isn't necessary?

I just think - people will commission yachts. You won't stop them. Given that - is it better to build a new fossil fuel one or an electric one? Because that's the actual choice here.

I'm not really thrilled about this. I don't like bio-metrics really. Plus masks. Also, I think a lot of these aren't actually 97% accurate. Marketing.

Well, I'm not sure I totally agree with this. Pretending to care is painting a diesel yacht green and saying it's now ... green. This is caring enough to change propulsion technologies. You might say it's excess, but that's a matter of opinion and perspective IMO. There are a lot of people who would argue with you that instead of electric cars we should just get rid of cars. Because to do otherwise is just showing off your excess. That more obviously doesn't fly because most people have way more familiarity with cars and see why they would want them compared to yachts. Where does this "we should just not produce this leisure thing" vs "we should improve the way we make and use this leisure thing to be better environmentally" end?

I actually am spending about the same amount of time on Lemmy as I used to on reddit, modulo interesting posts for me to interact with.

I mean, you're pointing out what I am - that over time AI has referred to very different technologies and capabilities.

It used to be - this is an improved texting client. Then they removed SMS, and I think people are drifting away which sucks.

I watched the first episode of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, and then kind of had a blog post that trashed it for whitewashing slavery took my enjoyment out of it. But now the second season is also highly rated - I wonder if I should go back and watch it?

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - the top MAL comment kind of strikes me as likely: "This anime is a cheap copy of My Next Life as a Villainess." If you're watching this, what makes this worth watching if I've already seen that?

Also, is MAL just overly negative in their ratings?