Well, then for education, here’s what happens to any place without censorship.
Normal people are interacting happily. Some assholes come by and start being assholes without anyone stopping them. More assholes join because this is a great place for assholes. Normal people start getting annoyed with the great number of assholes and leave. It’s now a place for assholes.
For “asshole” fill in nazi, pedophile, manospherian, etc.
I distinctly remember the day I lost faith in educated people.
I do Workplace Safety and (waste) compliance. That day, I was at a rent-a-lab, telling people about how stuff works regarding their chemicals. Now, I have a doctorate in chemistry, but that room had more degrees than people by a pretty good margin.
I had to go over basic concepts like “the hand washing sink is not for rinsing chemicals. No, not even if you run the tap a lot” and “yes, you can run a waterhose down the special disposal sink, but it costs your company thousands of euros” several times.
Or “yes, if you scoop a little bit of [hazardous waste] into each bag of used napkins, you are technically below the level of it being a bag full of hazardous waste, but you’re also willingly and intentionally commiting ecological crimes and slowly murdering garbage workers. Yes, if I signed off on it, nobody would know, and that would make me an accomplice AND make this a conspiracy, so I suggest we don’t do things that will get me fined roughly all worldly possessions”.
Most damning was “no, these barrels aren’t magic. Anything you put in a barrel will stay in the barrel. Yes it says “disposal”, but they’re loose barrels. They don’t empty till someone empties them. Like a bucket”.
Actually, MOST damning was “no you can’t keep food in the lab. Not even in the special food-only fume hood”. But that was at a different place.
Everyone is on a list, the only thing that changes is the order of that list.
I’m a fucking ignorant moron on the vast majority of topics.
A dumb person will happily talk about everything as if they understand it. A smart person will shut about the things they don’t understand and be open to being educated.
Oh no, it’s actually much worse.
These LLM datacenters are basically useless for anything but running LLMs. You can’t use them for any other cloud software, because all the electronics were specifically made for running LLMs. Really, the only thing that will still be useful is the concrete building and the power and data lines coming in.
No, the actual reason why hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent is because of three things.
AI boosters (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc) are excellent liars and great storytellers, and rich people eat that shit up.
rich people invest money by the bucket load, and everyone else notices. Stocks go up and everyone notices that LLM stocks go up, making people buy them making stocks go up because surely, something popular must also be good and useful.
The people investing money into these lies want to see it happen, so they tell their pet CEOs to implement LLMs and reward them for implementing LLMs. Not for getting a use out of it, but for applying it.
So we get a bunch of people benefitting in the form of massive bonusses for implementing LLMs and pushing the use of LLMs, despite it actually not doing anything useful and being actively detrimental in most cases. All to make the stock line go up, unlocking more bonusses for the ultra rich.
But the LLM itself is pointless. It doesn’t even matter if it does anything. It’s just a vehicle to inflate fake numbers.
They kind of do. Not through some extra sense, but because they have insanely good hearing, and very low visual acuity combined with really good motion detection.
They have a completely different perception of the world, basically everything is a blur, but moving objects stand out. That’s why cats can stare at an unmoving laser dot: they’re not unmoving if you’re a cat.
I laughed at this so hard
Spaceballs and Galaxy Quest make you not just trusted, but require instant friendship.
Now I want some water melon too!
Holy shit, did you just get onto the internet this week?
Oh this doesn’t protect her eyes. These are just spark goggles with some cloth inside to dim the brightness a bit. They would keep sparks out, but that’s pretty much it. This is 1918 and the first real welding helmet wouldn’t be made till 1937, and even then UV protection was severely lacking.
They had better protection than this at the time, but it was basically a large leather hood, which was probably torture to wear, so as people do, they didn’t wear it. And that also didn’t prevent UV from burning their eyes.
And is there a reason not to wear gloves? (Looks like the men are similarly unprotected)
Yes. It was 1918. Workplace safety as a concept was basically not a thing. Injury was a problem for the worker, and it was their fault too. If you don’t want to burn your hands, don’t touch hot metal, you idiot.
And it was 1918. A little sunburn never killed anyone! Hell, they might not even have known it was the UV light causing the sunburn on the hands and neck.
Source: I do Workplace safety for a living and history for fun. It hardly ever overlaps, so feel free to ask stuff.
However, diabetes and joint wear don’t have a political leaning. Those aren’t moral imperatives though…
US carriers with failing plumbing? What year is it again?
As an armchair general, I see very little use for tanks.
Yes, tanks are so completely useless that Ukraine wants them more than anything and Russia is spending million refurbishing even shitty ones and China keeps hundreds of them to stockpile on top the thousands they already have.
Surely, if all of these would only listen to you! How foolish they are.
Or maybe they realize that a highly mobile, well-protected, highly accurate source of firepower is an immense asset in a war. The reason Russia keeps losing SO many tanks is because they’re very very bad at combined arms. Russia isn’t making progress with an army of tanks, Infantry, trucks, helicopters, IFVs, planes and drones, but you’re only saying tanks are obsolete. Why?
No, my house is definitely outdoors.
Keeping Trump accountable for his own actions? That’s a CRIME! (Or it will be soon)
Yes, and that makes the plants in a greenhouse indoors. Or is an “indoor greenhouse” just a greenhouse placed inside larger house?
Yes, perhaps American democracy is strained, but the resilience of the American political system and people is also very much on display.
Bwahahahaha.
Thankfully, the ship is surrounded by emergency toilet