I wish I wasn’t tired to the point that my brain subconscious puts up blocks after seeing “meta” and some made up word like “momfluencers”. I’m just so tired if the loop of “company that did weird and evil shit attempts to change image by doing weird unethical shit”. That’s enough internet for today, I’m gonna go tend to my potatoes

The irony of this being on wired, that hides everything besides the headline and first paragraph behind a paywall.

ok

is this problem limited to people who act like that in the South, or people in general who act like that? In other words, if someone was from Oregon or Colorado and was mentally ill and pro-criminal, would you feel the same toward them?

I don’t really know what to make of that but congratulations or that sucks I guess

that’s crazy, I didn’t know over 100,000,000 people who lived in a bioregion are mentally ill and also advocate for a criminal, damn. Or am I missing the point you were trying to make?

There is a lot of authoritative speculation in the comments on this one

what does it explain

That’s a good point. I hadn’t thought of that. That’s actually pretty terrifying to think that you’d have to rent your professional skillset.

Tbh the statistics are pretty great for nuclear.

is this much different than IT guys not knowing how to solder anymore? I started my career learning about individual components and doing math by hand, and shortly after I was told that all we did was swap cards. My job eventually turned into a more or less normal IT job (compared to what it was), and by the time I moved on, we weren’t even using command prompts anymore.

I remember asking one of my instructors about how layer 1 can generate layer 2, and he had an idea, but couldn’t really point at components and give an explanation. One could say that I represent that first step in the death of knowledge due to convenience and optimization, but it hasn’t really negatively affected me outside of curiosity. Even when I’m working on legacy equipment and actually do have to bust out a soldering iron, that’s usually because I’m being cheap and don’t want to buy new cards.

So, this makes me wonder: is it really all that bad if someone can’t sit down and write lines and lines of code, but can understand it well enough to direct AI? I’ve used AI to help me code in some unfamiliar languages and all of the outputs I got were utterly unusable. So, in my anecdote, it didn’t make up for my lack of skill in the slightest.

I say this as someone who taught himself blacksmithing on principle, so it’s not like i’m some techbro or something. Obligatory I think AI is overpromised, but this seems like one of the few things it can actually assist with, assuming the person using it is capable enough to be using it.

Didn’t one of the Clintons do just that, too?