wildncrazyguy

While I agree with your sentiment regarding people losing faith in their government, we have been on this road before a few times (antibellum era, William Jennings Bryan era, Joe McCarthy era). After a time of painful soul searching, we’ve always come back from these low periods. I have no reason to believe we won’t overcome it again.

Tangentially related to the title, one of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl3Ib11lIIA

This is like saying that LLMs are not AI, they’re just incremental probabilities to determine what the next most probable word is in a sequence of word combinations.

Machine learning is machine learning.

Did you read it to the bottom? They’re using 3D printing to build the organic shapes and have already done so to build space vehicles, airplane parts and dune buggies. It also mentions where parts are too complex to manufacture, they ask the AI to account for it and break it into components.

If you think people aren’t already using this for civil engineering, then I’ve got a bridge I want to sell to ya.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181129-the-ai-transforming-the-way-aircraft-are-built

I use it to ask questions I’d otherwise google, I also had it tell me some jokes and also present a list of interview questions for a candidate in our field.

That’s cool and all, but I do want my “show desktop” button back.

By God! (He?)'s broken in half!

Thank you comrade, may your bread lines always be full. Na Zdorovie

Maybe it was sold by the generals, and so the soldiers doing the actual fighting on the ground received inferior equipment, if any at all!

Oh no wait, that was Russia.

Am I doing whataboutism right?

People licking meat in here?

Subsidies - Unrestricted Capitalism

Choose one.

Their implies ownership, or are you using it to be cheeky? It’s in your second comment too.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

To name a few:

• moon landing
• banning CFCs
• German purity law

I agree with your sentiment that Israel has a right to defend itself. That said, I think the reason folks are saying you’re wrong is because Israel just bombed the hell out of Gaza, which killed fighters and civilians alike.

You don’t have to call it genocide, but killing indiscriminately is a pretty thin line.

I want to converse in a place where most people are civil and tolerant of ideas even if these ideas challenge their view of the world. People don’t have to agree, but I think most people should be treated with dignity and respect. Further, I would love to converse in place where people are rational actors and free thinkers, rather than just simply aligned and regurgitating their group’s thought leaders’ talking points. A place where people have been taught the scientific method, fallacies, how to discern most propaganda and advertising, and also have at least a minimum understanding of philosophy, psychology and sociology.

In other words, I want to converse in a complete fantasyland.

Joking aside, these arts were once taught to all students at most universities. I’m not sure if they are anymore, but the news paints a picture that they’ve been exchanged for more “employable” skills. I hope to see more pushback against those efforts.

But weirdly enough, the French transferred New Orleans ownership over to Spain so that it wasn’t lost as a spoil of war. The Spanish then governed it for 40 years before it was given back and then promptly sold to the US.

If Mussolini got the trains to run on time, why shouldn’t we?

From the top rope!

With paper manufactured from the tree!