radio waves dont have mass but do have relativistic mass. And you didnt clarify whether relativistic mass counted, so I’m going to go with radio waves. They travel at the speed of light. I am the winner. I’d like my nobel prize in literature now.

It doesnt matter if you are prepared or not, and once it happens you wont be around to feel anything about it anyway. So its not really worth worrying about.

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Edit: I’m an idiot.

Same here. Nobody knows what the eff they are doing. Especially the people in charge. Much of life is us believing confident people who talk a good game but dont know wtf they are doing and really shouldnt be allowed to make even basic decisions outside a very narrow range of competence.

We have an illusion of broad meritocracy and accountability in life but its mostly just not there.

I work in an company who is all-in on selling AI and we are trying desperately to use this AI ourselves. We’ve concluded internally that AI can only be trusted with small use cases that are easily validated by humans, or for fast prototyping work… hack day stuff to validate a possibility but not an actual high quality safe and scalable implementation, or in writing tests of existing code, to increase test coverage. yes, I know thats a bad idea but QA blessed the result… so um … cool.

The use case we zeroed in on is writing well schema’d configs in yaml or json. Even then, a good percentage of the time the AI will miss very significant mandatory sections, or add hallucinations that are unrelated to the task at hand. We then can use AI to test AI’s work, several times using several AIs. And to a degree, it’ll catch a lot of the issues, but not all. So we then code review and lint with code we wrote that AI never touched, and send all the erroring configs to a human. It does work, but cant be used for mission critical applications. And nothing about the AI or the process of using it is free. Its also disturbingly not idempotent. Did it fail? Run it again a few times and it’ll pass. We think it still saves money when done at scale, but not as much as we promise external AI consumers. The Senior leadership know its currently overhyped trash and pressure us to use it anyway on expectations it’ll improve in the future, so we give the mandatory crisp salute of alignment and we’re off.

I will say its great for writing yearly personnel reviews. It adds nonsense and doesnt get the whole review correct, but it writes very flowery stuff so managers dont have to. So we use it for first drafts and then remove a lot of the true BS out of it. If it gets stuff wrong, oh well, human perception is flawed.

This is our shared future. One of the biggest use cases identified for the industry is health care. Because its hard to assign blame on errors when AI gets it wrong, and AI will do whatever the insurance middle men tell it to do.

I think we desperately need a law saying no AI use in health care decisions, before its too late. This half-assed tech is 100% going to kill a lot of sick people.

I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons – except for you evidently.

yes but all the code will be wrong and you will spend your entire day chasing stupid mistakes and hallucinations in the code. I’d rather just write the code myself thanks.

agreed. People like to paint Musk as a technical genius but he’s really just a half assed product guy. Asking twitter devs to print out all their work showed pretty well that he has no idea how software works.

“Guy who sells rockets proposes launching a million satellites”

He’s a grifting idiot. He cant even get self driving cars working. Until he finishes that work he should sit in the corner with a dunce hat on and leave the talking to people who arent failures.

happiness

yes, except the bullshit cancer discoveries are always in Israel, and the bullshit chip designs are in china.

sounds like bullshit.

This is what happens whens when rich nerds get too much money.

How does one become a corporate troll?

Bob Ghandi by Ratatat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2gk46wfxIk

Hopefully Tylenol sues texas back for being malicious idiots.

Does blame itself matter though? Can we steer opinions with such a thing and make real change or is that ability an illusion, and blame a …verbal masturbation?

I’m starting to lose hope in the progress of humanity at all. I am pretty sure we wont solve our critical problems. We just arent capable of doing so as a group. And we will keep bombing and burning until the planet cant sustain itself any longer. We are not really progressing in our social infrastructure and philosophies at all-- we might as well be humans from 5000 years ago, only sedentary, holding iphones and bathed in chemicals all day.

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God no. Are you joking?

Religions are the absolute bane of human philosophy. Its prepackaged bundles of ideas that no one is allowed to challenge. Most religions are basically ridiculous and easily proved false. They serve to control. All of them were written by flawed people from long ago, and it shows.

The meaning of all writing is based on the time it exists in. Whats in the bible (and Koran, and Talmud) today doesnt mean what it meant two thousand years ago, and even then it was probably sketchy. Now its worse and getting more irrelevant all the time. But say that out loud in any setting except an anonymous internet chatroom, and everyone shuns you, at best.