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  1. Comment on Health care AI, intended to save money, turns out to require a lot of expensive humans in ~health

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    Full offense to the AI bulls, it's pretty obvious what is actually going on here. AI is just the latest wrapper around outsourcing. All of the data is compiled by cheap workers overseas. The tech...

    Full offense to the AI bulls, it's pretty obvious what is actually going on here. AI is just the latest wrapper around outsourcing. All of the data is compiled by cheap workers overseas. The tech is interesting as a better frontend for information lookup in less structured data, that much is obvious. But who are the ones massaging the data? Who is fixing problems with data quality?

    All we've really done with generative AI is made those things a little bit more obfuscated. At its core it's the same outsourcing/contracting nonsense that companies have been trying to do nonstop for decades. It will have its uses, but companies that try to use it without considering its limitations and their specific use case do so at their own peril.

    7 votes
  2. Comment on Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South in ~tech

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    yes I am saying that it is a pipe dream to go "I would simply parent my children" when it is objective fact that conditions are worse for raising children than they were 30 years ago. if you want...

    yes I am saying that it is a pipe dream to go "I would simply parent my children" when it is objective fact that conditions are worse for raising children than they were 30 years ago. if you want people to parent children that actively you also need to go back to 1970s-80s levels of inequality where you could feasibly raise a child on a single income. I am not arguing in favor of a porn ban.

    10 votes
  3. Comment on Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South in ~tech

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    no, it's literally simple economics that parents have fewer resources than 30 years ago. you are expecting parents to do all this extra work when we have gone from it being reasonably feasible to...

    no, it's literally simple economics that parents have fewer resources than 30 years ago. you are expecting parents to do all this extra work when we have gone from it being reasonably feasible to raise 2 kids on a single income to needing both parents working multiple jobs. neoliberals go into histrionics about this every time but a big reason for America's problems right now is the lack of parenting that most kids get because the system is designed in such a way that only rich kids get parented.

    quibble about definitions all you want, but it is objective fact that austerity and capitalist acceleration as a result of lassez-faire economic policies (both core tenets of neoliberalism) have resulted in a world where double income households, where the iPad parents the child, are the expectation. is it any wonder parenting suffers when this is the case? I would like very much to live in a world where parents are given the resources to properly parent their children and make sure they don't get pornbrained and indoctrinated into rape culture. I'm just pointing out that people are quite often worse parents now because of very cold hard economic fact. I don't agree with porn bans, I think they're quite stupid. I'm just pointing out the obvious answer to "why don't parents simply parent their children?"

    20 votes
  4. Comment on Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South in ~tech

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    this would also require giving parents the resources (i.e. time and money) to parent their children which is simply unthinkable at this stage of the neoliberal death spiral

    this would also require giving parents the resources (i.e. time and money) to parent their children which is simply unthinkable at this stage of the neoliberal death spiral

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  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~enviro

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    passenger jets no but something tells me that private jet shootdowns would have people broadly responding "ok, so what?"

    passenger jets no but something tells me that private jet shootdowns would have people broadly responding "ok, so what?"

    4 votes
  6. Comment on My doctor emailed me back - Abigail Thorn in ~lgbt

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    this btw is why you should never get an autism diagnosis - other diagnoses like adhd can be genuinely helpful for example with getting stimulants or work accommodations. I have only heard of...

    this btw is why you should never get an autism diagnosis - other diagnoses like adhd can be genuinely helpful for example with getting stimulants or work accommodations. I have only heard of downsides for getting an autism diagnosis, unless you're trying to get disability.

    5 votes
  7. Comment on My doctor emailed me back - Abigail Thorn in ~lgbt

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    Yes, one of the things that gives me hope is that most people actually do genuinely believe that the government getting involved in healthcare, esp. healthcare for children, is freak behavior. And...

    Yes, one of the things that gives me hope is that most people actually do genuinely believe that the government getting involved in healthcare, esp. healthcare for children, is freak behavior. And Labour has already killed children in the UK with their transphobia. That's just objective fact, the UK media is trying really hard to suppress it but Wes Streeting has blood on his hands. And as time goes on this will become more and more clear and opinion about these barbaric policies will turn more and more.

    The other thing that gives me hope are the children. When my binary friends tell kids that they're men or women, they get it immediately. Kids that are too young to lie gender them correctly without a second thought. We have already won the culture war. It is just a matter of outlasting the dinosaurs.

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  8. Comment on My doctor emailed me back - Abigail Thorn in ~lgbt

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    This entire debate is totally nonsensical too. There's people elsewhere in the comments talking about how actually doctors should be allowed to deny you care for your own good as though this makes...

    This entire debate is totally nonsensical too. There's people elsewhere in the comments talking about how actually doctors should be allowed to deny you care for your own good as though this makes sense in the world we live in. IIRC you're Scandinavian and I personally know girls in Norway that have been gatekept with the most patently ridiculous nonsense that clearly only makes sense if you want to stop people from transitioning if they would not fit the mold of the Blanchardian HSTS True Transsexual.

    I think I agree with the poster that said all healthcare should be informed consent, with few caveats. If, hypothetically, someone were to use this to take HRT and get surgeries and then decide years down the line actually this was all wrong and they didn't think things through... Even discounting that this is genuinely hard to believe considering how long the wait times on changes are, if I am to take this hypothetical person at face value, I don't respect them. Choices and actions have consequences. Why should hundreds, maybe thousands of people die because a tiny minority of people have had their brains so thoroughly cooked that they can't reasonably consider the consequences of their actions? From a public health perspective informed consent is the only model that makes sense for healthcare.

    A large part of the debate that gets left unsaid is that society doesn't want you to transition. Society considers every single trans person a medical failure as of right now. Maybe there's a reality out there where transness is so accepted and normal that there really are a lot of cis people taking the wrong hormones and having a bad time. But the reality right now is that even getting to the point of asking your doctor is a step many trans people don't get to - further gatekeeping on top of that isn't to the benefit of the patient, it's for the benefit of a deeply transphobic society that would prefer there be one fewer visibly trans person in it.

    10 votes
  9. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    Right, I don't mean to act like I think this is totally useless or whatever. Clearly it has use in information retrieval - and the fact that it can do really really good autocomplete/boilerplate...

    Right, I don't mean to act like I think this is totally useless or whatever. Clearly it has use in information retrieval - and the fact that it can do really really good autocomplete/boilerplate generation is kickass. But this isn't really going to speed up programming - those are not the parts of coding that take up much time! - and its weird that it keeps getting touted as a fundamental paradigm shift when it seems a lot more like a nicer interface over extant tech.

    3 votes
  10. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    VCs and retail investors in NVDA imo. Datacenters are already talking about lowering demand for AI hardware, that's why hype videos like this are getting pushed out. I think some cloud provider is...

    VCs and retail investors in NVDA imo. Datacenters are already talking about lowering demand for AI hardware, that's why hype videos like this are getting pushed out. I think some cloud provider is gonna get left holding a huge bag.

    There's clear use to massive parallel vector processing, that's always been the case. I just don't think the market is as huge as the AI bulls want to believe. Maybe I'm wrong and intelligence is a natural result of sufficient complexity and we're about to have self aware machine intelligence. I just think extraordinary claims need to be backed up and tested rigorously and openai is anything but.

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  11. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    okay but this isn't actually anything new. you are describing an IDE with integrated documentation search or using Google or stackoverflow. these are not the parts of programming that require...

    The math isn’t exact, but it is probably underestimating it to say 4 out of 5 people had chatgpt or claude open on one of their monitors / were actively using ai to do whatever.

    okay but this isn't actually anything new. you are describing an IDE with integrated documentation search or using Google or stackoverflow. these are not the parts of programming that require thought or intelligence. I haven't yet seen an AI that can do programming beyond what's doable with vim snippets or whatever is the equivalent in your preferred IDE. That's cool, don't get me wrong, but I am far from the only person unconvinced about the worldchanging ability of even more high quality autocomplete.

    3 votes
  12. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    yes this is what I'm talking about. I'm of the opinion that openai is primarily an investment scam. it's clearly useful tech in some situations, but the valuation is utterly delusional. And this...

    But we've often seen with scientific research that there are many ways to subtly fool yourself. Also, AI algorithms will use whatever shortcuts they can find.

    yes this is what I'm talking about. I'm of the opinion that openai is primarily an investment scam. it's clearly useful tech in some situations, but the valuation is utterly delusional. And this is supported by online disinfo tools being more powerful than ever AND traditional search engines getting worse. OpenAI's valuation only makes sense if you think they're on the path and close to AGI, and I think it's equal parts copium and hopium to think they're doing that with a text transformer model.

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  13. Comment on o3 - wow in ~tech

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    I also don't think it's a coincidence they're releasing this now, as growth is slowing and market pressure is turning to expect AI companies to actually make money. 2025 will pretty clearly be the...

    I also don't think it's a coincidence they're releasing this now, as growth is slowing and market pressure is turning to expect AI companies to actually make money.

    2025 will pretty clearly be the year that they try to make money off AI instead of growing without regard for cost. This would not be the first time an AI company put out a hype video based on lies to try and pump up valuation - the industry is rife with it. I'll believe it when I see it and it actually works and doesn't just turn out to be several underpaid third worlders in a trenchcoat.

    13 votes
  14. Comment on Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix 2024 - Results in ~sports.motorsports

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    4 laps with debris on track and then nonsensical penalties. Wish watching indycar without ads was easier, this sport is run by total idiots.

    4 laps with debris on track and then nonsensical penalties. Wish watching indycar without ads was easier, this sport is run by total idiots.

    4 votes
  15. Comment on Do not buy NZXT | Predatory, evil rental computer scam investigated in ~tech

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    Subscription/BNPL proliferation is where we're seeing the most 'real' economic growth (in the sense that they are actually taking in a lot more money) that isn't looting an existing company,...

    It's also hilariously sad that companies have pushed the "own nothing and like it" motto so hard with subscriptions to everything under the sun that they think they can even get away with this bullshit for things like PCs. Our economy is so deeply screwed when young people are encouraged to rent a fucking COMPUTER if they can't buy one.

    Subscription/BNPL proliferation is where we're seeing the most 'real' economic growth (in the sense that they are actually taking in a lot more money) that isn't looting an existing company, speculation, or an outright scam. Kinda makes me nervous, honestly. Shades of 2006.

    9 votes
  16. Comment on How do you build strong online communities? in ~talk

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    The difficult part of moderation is finding that line between keeping things civil but also not going too far in that direction and sanding off all the rough edges and destroying the personality...

    The difficult part of moderation is finding that line between keeping things civil but also not going too far in that direction and sanding off all the rough edges and destroying the personality of the place. I've definitely seen 'good vibes only' moderation styles come from the admirable goal of keeping things civil turn into exactly that. But then, the opposite (allowing tons of ragebait engagement) is exactly why most social media is so unusable. It's a very fine line to walk.

    3 votes
  17. Comment on An antitrust advocate reflects on the US Democratic Party's cult of powerlessness in ~society

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    My genuine opinion on the Democrats is that they see America in collapse and see an opportunity for looting. Basically the entirety of leadership must go, those people are more interested in...

    My genuine opinion on the Democrats is that they see America in collapse and see an opportunity for looting. Basically the entirety of leadership must go, those people are more interested in courting donations from rich special interest groups (the last minute crypto push for example) than in leadership. they raised a BILLION dollars and still ended up 100 million in the hole? after all the stories about old people being scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

    The pollsters were pretty useless this cycle, but one thing was definitely true. The average gen z voter thinks America is a failing empire run by bad people, and I think that read is spot on.

    14 votes
  18. Comment on How To Train Your Dragon | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    I don't really care about their bottom line though. I care about art, and it makes sense if you give a shit about art and movies to not like actual slop. You're in a place for people who love...

    I don't really care about their bottom line though. I care about art, and it makes sense if you give a shit about art and movies to not like actual slop. You're in a place for people who love movies, why wouldn't they be upset about how a remake of a surprisingly good animated kids movie looks like fucking dogshit?

    Definitionally by the very nature of it being made something else wasn't. And that means we sacrificed a chance for actual new art to be created so that we could get more recycled garbage.

    5 votes
  19. Comment on How To Train Your Dragon | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    Presumably you like movies. One of the nice things of the past has been that even slop family movies designed for children, very safe movies with pretty strict guardrails, have at least allowed...

    Presumably you like movies. One of the nice things of the past has been that even slop family movies designed for children, very safe movies with pretty strict guardrails, have at least allowed some amount of creativity from the staff working on it.

    This has... nothing. They're basically just doing a shot for shot remake without ANY personality. even the dragon looks the same, only with a high res bumpmap. I don't even mind leaning on the same IP. But come on, this is like asking an AI for the live action version of a movie that already exists. What's the point?

    10 votes
  20. Comment on Maybe Bluesky has "won" in ~tech

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    PDSes are more akin to git repositories than activitypub instances. They're supposed to be dumb holders of your data. This is why the criticism doesn't make sense to me, because in an ideal future...

    PDSes are more akin to git repositories than activitypub instances. They're supposed to be dumb holders of your data. This is why the criticism doesn't make sense to me, because in an ideal future where ATProto has a strong community, you will be able to pay a few bucks a month for PDS hosting the same way you do for email.

    There's no concept of 'signing up' to a PDS. If anything this is the real criticism of ATProto, that the identity system is pretty centralized right now.

    3 votes