stvltvs

978 karma · joined June 13, 2023

stvltvs··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner

It takes a few weeks to acclimate, so visiting for two weeks you experienced just the suffering before you would have adjusted. If you moved there it would feel different. Not pleasant, but different.

stvltvs··on Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me

The priming didn't prepare us to sympathize with robots that were built to plagiarize our art and literature and take our jobs.

Robocop is an interesting example where we sympathize with a cyborg but not the greedy corporate executives. Blade Runner has the same outlook. The Matrix and Ex Machina don't present AI as entirely sympathetic. Etc.

The priming has been a lot more nuanced than simply AI = sympathetic lifeform.

stvltvs··on Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me

Sounds like the book and the film are different works, so people who only watched the film can't misunderstand the book because they didn't read it.

stvltvs··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV

It's funny how we Americans jump to judging this vehicle by our own needs.

stvltvs··on The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

But the paperclips!

I'm skeptical about the existential threat of AI, but a lot of smart people have been beating that drum for so long that people are afraid.

stvltvs··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

Search your settings for Power Button, Side Button, or whatever. You should be able to change the setting for a long press.

stvltvs··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

And frustrating automated voice systems, support chat bots that go in circles, etc.

stvltvs··on Fox to buy Roku

Some of that extra cost is for the extra reliability the commercial displays offer, in case anyone wondered. They're designed to be on 24/7 for extended periods.

stvltvs··on Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

>you look back and see that almost nothing you've built is still in use, or will be for very long after you're gone.

Software development has more in common with agriculture than architecture. The code always needs maintenance.

stvltvs··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water

> unless data centers are being built in deserts or run off fossil aquifers the or other water constrained circumstance the waste is supurious.

In some cases, they are.

The Colorado River basin waters seven states and is in extreme drought. There are proposed data centers in the area that would require water from the Colorado or from already distressed aquifers.

stvltvs··on Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

> It's gonna click the wrong button and delete your account?

Yes

stvltvs··on CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

It sounds like you already know the answer.

stvltvs··on Do we need billionaires?

In other words, USAID was helping with the bushmeat situation and therefore ebola, but Trump killed USAID.

stvltvs··on SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

Exactly. The S&P 500 isn't a fund, but let's not pretend that inclusion in the index doesn't mean real money is at stake.

stvltvs··on What's gonna happen to software engineers?

How do you ensure that the output isn't BS if you don't know those areas? What value does it add to have a mathematical proof of questionable validity?

stvltvs··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

There are quite a lot of anti-AI sentiments expressed here.

stvltvs··on Objective metrics that change the most as we age

I hope everyone is getting their recommended screenings even if you feel okay. I learned I had a life-threatening disease because my PCP told me at an annual exam to get a routine screening.

stvltvs··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

I largely agree, but this discounts the personal value of keeping contact with weaker connections that we don't talk with often but still have some concern for.

stvltvs··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

This will go over great at weddings and birthday parties!

We need to fight for a better world, but that requires that we're not burnt out by thinking about our problems 24/7. We need some fun and joy to make the fight worthwhile.

stvltvs··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE

The trick is to get your friends and family to jump ship with you.

stvltvs··on New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

Is increasing housing the goal of the tax, or is it just raising revenues to balance the budget?

stvltvs··on Don't hijack my mouse pointer

Especially egregious when preventing pasting into a password field. Do they want me to have a weak password so that I can manually type it in instead of pasting it from a password manager?

stvltvs··on HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker

The Andes variant of Hanta is human transmissible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hantavirus-human-transmission...

stvltvs··on Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy

It often seems that police officers' most sacred duty is to protect the property rights of the wealthy.

stvltvs··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

"Sorry, I thought I heard you say _____, but that's all an unfortunate misunderstanding because otherwise you're in deep shit, right?"

stvltvs··on Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]

But are you even aware that you're infringing a patent? Is the LLM going to helpfully flag when it responds based on a patent?

stvltvs··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious

Answers are non-deterministic. The fact that answers vary doesn't mean there's been an update.

stvltvs··on U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets

Blind trusts.

stvltvs··on Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent

Looks like there's equivocation about "bankrupt" and "broke". To me you can be broke without going through the legal bankruptcy process.

stvltvs··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

Because at the end of the day, someone has to own the code, so some lines have to be drawn no matter how arbitrary they seem.

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