Yea, probably… That, or they’ll blockade the St Lawrence and starve them out.

Perhaps the island of Montreal could hold out as a revolutionary enclave against the facist theocracy.

I wouldn’t even recommend using LLMs in place of search engines, since they make stuff up. If it’s providing sources, you can check those, but you have to be rigorous enough to check every detail, which just isn’t realistic. People are lazy.

The best way I’ve heard them described is “bullshit machines”, and I don’t say that because I think they’re stupid, but because they “bullshit” as opposed to lying or telling the truth. When you’re bullshitting, the truth is irrelevant, as long as it sounds good. That’s exactly how LLMs work.

So if there’s a problem that can be solved by bullshitting, that’s where an LLM might be the right tool for the job.

Last time I tried to use AI at work, it decided lobster was vegan.

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I like to show them this:

I kinda see liberals as generally fitting into two categories.

One is straight up horrible people who just want to maintain a decent image. (This includes like 99% of the politicians)

Two is generally well meaning people who just aren’t that politically savvy, and they hear scary stories about the “far right” and “radical left” so they figure “somewhere in the middle” must be the sweet spot.

I see this one got a couple of mentions, I’ll have to check it out!

Does anyone know a way to get the clipboard history on Linux?

Yeah…and I think there’s also a chunk of the non-techie population who are getting by with just their phones now.

I’ve just installed Mint as well. I am, perhaps, slightly more nerdy, but I’m also short on time to tinker with things, so it’s really nice to have a super simple setup process, with stuff like Spotify and discord just a click away. Now I just need to settle on a solution for graphic design/illustration software.

Oh man, this would be hilarious if it didn’t make me feel like I was having a stroke.

I kinda wish I had a gamepass subscription so I could enjoy cancelling it, but alas, I’ve already cancelled everything.

How do they think the sun works?

I agree with the “panic, not bubble” assessment, and although the medical applications are pretty cool, I don’t think there’s actually anyone who’s going to be “the next google”.

The only big opportunity I see here is the possibility of replacing humans with machines em masse, and I think there’s a certain kind of person who has a ton of money and is absolutely drooling all over this possibility.

But I don’t believe that’s where this is going at all. To replace a significant number of workers, they would need actual artificial general intelligence, but bigger and bigger LLMs are not a path to that. They’re smoke and mirrors that can look smart, but fundamentally are not and never will be.

I’m not immersed in this, so maybe I’m missing something, but as far as I can gather from listening to people who do know what they’re talking about, the the whole “AI” craze is basically a dead end, and the sooner investors figure this out, the better, because all of this money has been thrown into a furnace and is just gone.

I never cared for seafood. Always keep a little shaker of cesium next to my salt and pepper though.

Green is definitely a loyal Democrat voter. Look at that smug “I did my part” energy with the watermelon emoji.

Who even has time to play full price games? I have enough unplayed games piled up in my steam/epic/gog libraries to keep me busy for decades.

Perhaps along with de-industrialization; as more labour is outsourced, less labourers are needed.

“The West” is Europe and its colonies. Funny to assume anyone you don’t understand is brain dead.

People love to idealize the past…