pupbiru

this post helps to feed the AI beast

there’s no escaping it; let’s not do with AI what we’ve done with CO2 and plastic and shift blame to individuals

the other insidious part about it is that pretty much everyone agrees: experience is critical to ensuring AI isn’t just producing slop… 30% of the time you get something that’s not just working, but well architected

now when you get AI to do things, even if you go with the assertion that it’s quicker (which a lot of the time i doubt: task choice is also critical for effectively using AI to generate useful outputs), you’re grinding down on your experience… not only are you learning less, but you’re also letting your reasoning skills degrade because you’re not using them (this is a pretty well-documented effect in standard neuroscience afaik)

imo, only use AI in situations where you’d put a library in, because the level of abstraction from the problem solving is similar

it’s okay it’s there out of frame; it just has to be safe for meta platforms

if only it were that simple in a social and professional context

i’ll choose linux + a user age metadata standard that’s technically compliant + shit professional application that i have no choice but to use - over windows + exactly that same application any day of the week

one of the most valuable lessons i got at hyper expensive private school for high school was that in y11 and 12 (last 2 years for australia) was how to take a test

taking tests is a learned skill, and if everyone learns to do it that problem somewhat goes away

there’s always problems, but everyone benefited substantially from the proper training

certainly nothing to do with voting to allow it

sure, but if an application “requires” age verification for whatever reason, would you prefer the functional equivalent to clicking “i’m over 18 pinky promise” as a standard, or they use biometric data that they all implement differently and then there’s like 33.7 leaks in the next 6 months?

like the whole thing is bullshit, but a file on disk is a wink wink nudge nudge sure we are compliant bud

the true unix way: if you text editor you own the world

yeah i completely agree with that part… just i think in terms of costs i wanted to know for real if its a good argument, and figured id document it

yall have some of the highest per capita healthcare costs in the world, and some of the worst health outcomes among peer economies. “too expensive” and “better quality” are both terrible arguments based on the reality of the situation (lol reality… because that matters)

… but it’s also interesting to put into perspective: that $2b/day doesn’t even come close to healthcare costs (although… it’s not an order of magnitude off, so there’s that i guess)

for large companies, i think you’re probably right… but there are plenty of transactions that happen cash. i think it’s a case of not letting perfect be the enemy of better. some people might lie, and if they get caught that should have some punishment… but we hope that most people don’t lie, because the risk just isn’t worth it

quick estimate because i’ve seen this a few times:

australia spends ~$279b/y on health (~$190b usd)

australia is roughly the population of texas at 27.6m

us population is 340m

so all things being equal that’s $2.2t usd for the us population

so after 6y at war you could have had 1y of healthcare

ngl i was really hoping it’d be closer :(

(but of course this is bullshit anyway because yall already pay for healthcare, and lives extinguished vs lives saved etc etc… thus the “all things being equal” like circular cow in a vacuum)

what’s stripping these companies lying about their financial data to tax authorities?

there are lots of self-report mechanisms that we use… it’s just not worth the blowback of non-disclosure to lie about it. some people do, and sometimes they get caught; not always, but overall it’s a net benefit to transparency

me, not knowing anything about what this is and looking at the thumbnail before reading thinking they strapped artillery to the bottom and called it a day