Pennomi @ pennomi @lemmy.world

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There’s nothing wrong with scientifically proving something that’s commonly known. In fact, that’s an important duty of science, even if it’s not a glamorous one.

In Python you can use 🍆 as a variable name.

Edit: oops, guess I was mistaken, you can use most Unicode but emojis are not valid.

How the hell is Starship pictured in an “early SpaceX” post? The problems with Musk have been going on far longer than any Starship hardware has existed.

I hope something rash does happen. Like, the kind of rash thing that cuts the number of idiots in this feud in half. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

Finding a job is like dating except if you are too picky you starve to death.

Is it in decline? I mean, I want to believe it, but I haven’t seen any hard data on that.

Indeed. And Shotwell will likely remind Elon they can’t do that and stay solvent. It wouldn’t be the first time she’s uncancelled something he’s decided to throw out.

Subdermal e-ink particles, perhaps?

Proof the universe wants you to be gay

What kind of moron doesn’t check the diff? Plus, modern AI coding tools explicitly show the diff and ask you to confirm each edit directly.

I wouldn’t let a human muck about in my code unchecked, much less an AI. But that doesn’t mean it’s useless.

As always, the specific situation matters. Some refactors are mostly formulaic, and AI does great at that. For example, “add/change this database field, update the form, then update the api, update the admin page, update the ui, etc.” is perfectly reasonable to send an AI off to do, and can save plenty of programmer time.

Why is it a good thing? The dude is out of office, and this is an enormous waste of resources.

Yeah we know top democrats downplayed Biden’s decline. And they replaced him with a younger candidate in response. That seems like a pretty normal thing to do. In fact, that’s what the Republicans should have done with Trump, seeing his obvious mental decline.

Protest MUST disrupt something or it will be ignored. That’s why riots and boycotts get shit done while normal protests fizzle out.

Every major social policy change I’m aware of was accompanied by riots.

Disrupting parliament is far less violent than a riot yet still makes the point effectively.

What?! The tariffs made American businesses uncompetitive? Who could possibly have guessed?!

I like their software philosophy.

• Use a common language
• Minimize dependencies
• Simplest possible architecture

I think being “uncreative” like this is a smart move for long-lasting software.

I don’t think I suggested it wasn’t worrisome, just that it’s expected.

If you think about it, AI is tuned using RLHF, or Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. That means the only thing AI is optimizing for is “convincingness”. It doesn’t optimize for intelligence, anything seems like intelligence is literally just a side effect as it forever marches onward towards becoming convincing to humans.

“Hey, I’ve seen this one before!” You might say. Indeed, this is exactly what happened to social media. They optimized for “engagement”, not truth, and now it’s eroding the minds of lots of people everywhere. AI will do the same thing if run by corporations in search of profits.

Left unchecked, it’s entirely possible that AI will become the most addictive, seductive technology in history.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Turns out it doesn’t really matter what the medium is, people will abuse it if they don’t have a stable mental foundation. I’m not shocked at all that a person who would believe a flat earth shitpost would also believe AI hallucinations.

People who like cute art more than gameplay.

Thank god for the red circle, I wouldn’t have known how to read otherwise.