It’s not a saltwater issue, it’s a product quality issue.
In defense of the UK government, they didn’t ban protesting the genocide in Palestine, they banned expressing support for a specific organisation which protested the genocide in Palestine by breaking into a military base and damaging equipment. It’s an important distinction, and to claim otherwise is spreading misinformation.
That said, this ban is very short sighted and seems out of touch, I expect it’ll just create a social divide between those who find a way around it and those who don’t, which may be worse than the problem they’re trying to solve.
It can absolutely be both though. He knows his reputation, and it’s a performance to add to it, but it’s not exactly harmful or anything.
There’s a difference between intelligence and poor upbringing though. 500 years ago even the smartest person alive probably believed the first three of them, because anyone who said otherwise was crazy, and all the authority figures were saying it was objective fact. If you raise someone today from childhood, cut off from a lot of external influence, then regardless of how smart they are they’ll probably still lean towards believing them. Brains are weird, and the ability to process information, solve problems, remember things, and question things don’t necessarily correlate as well as you’d expect.
Equally though many European chocolates can’t be called chocolate in the US because they have too much vegetable or seed oil in as a ratio to cocoa butter.
Enshittification happens in both places, they just toe the line of the rules in each.
Ideally, yes.
In practice, if investors think the stock price will be higher in the future, they buy.
Dividends are such a tiny amount compared to the value of the share, that in reality it’s all just speculation on how people are going to speculate.
I think it’s more of a “how you use it” thing, but you’re definitely right that AI agents can’t design systems properly.
Some people I know have produced way more code, removed tech debt, and all without introducing any bugs since they started using AI. That’s because they’re not using it to do anything beyond their skillset, understand everything it’s doing, and are using it to catch mistakes they otherwise would have made. Other people are using it without reviewing the output, or are using it to try and do things beyond their skillset, and that’s how you end up with infinite tech debt and a whole host of bugs.
Personally I’ve recently started heavily using the AI code review bot we have at our company, both for my own code and other people’s. While 50% of what it says is hallucination or wrong, that’s not an issue because I know it’s wrong or a hallucination so can just tell it no and to focus on other things, like catching bugs or issues that most reviewers would just glance past, and also gives you a rubber duck that talks back.
I don’t even support blocking propaganda and fascism. Maybe you could block malware sites, but even that’s a push. Let moderators of individual communities figure it out, otherwise you’re just going to turn whole instances into echo chambers.
I mean it’s also kind of true though…
AI is taking some jobs, in situations where the limiting factor is the rate at which work can be done rather than the skills required to do it. Say you have five people in PR, of which three are responsible for trawling through sources to find out what’s actually being said about the company, and two are responsible for writing press releases. The jobs of two of the people trawling through sources could be replaced with AI, as the limiting factor is the amount of posts, documents and stories you can read. While you’d still need an overseer to fact check and collate, that sort of work can be done much faster than actually reading and finding sources. If the company also lays off one of the people responsible for writing press releases, however, that would be unrelated to AI as that sort of job isn’t replaceable by AI (right now at least) due to the majority of the work being something that probabilistic models just aren’t correct enough to do, so that’d be an unrelated layoff being blamed on AI, even if whoever orders it genuinely believes that AI has replaced the job.
I mean one of those faces consequences for its actions if it kills a protester, the other less so
I think you’re underselling just how evil he was…
They found lots of bones from women and girls when excavating the torture chamber beneath his former mansion, and Stalin distrusted him so much that he dropped everything when he learnt his daughter was alone with Beria.
Most people in this thread were either evil in their career, or in their personal lives, but Beria managed to excel separately in both.
Worse is relative, a proportion of the requirement increase will be due to worse code, but much more will be for features to make the software more accessible to more people, and adding features without needing to remove old ones, neither of which are a bad thing, otherwise everything would be a command line tool that removes options every few months and only has one way to use it
Ah yeah, I was looking at the mail/password manager/docs side instead… They’ve also got Proton Drive on there as well though
It’s interesting they haven’t recommended anything proton here when proton as a whole works very well in a bunch of these categories… I imagine it could be because they’re a competitor to Tuta
All AI is good for is giving instructions on how to make bombs, and generating images of tits, but they caught on so now we just end up with search summaries saying it’s not physically possible to [xyz].
Yeah, and if you have a green card or passport with a visa it’s “probably” fine, unless they’re having a bad day or whatever.
I’m not sure about a passport from a visa waiver country though, because no shot ICE agents know that Lithuanians and Singaporeans can be in the US without a visa.
That’s from the videos that get widely shared.
95% of interactions are gonna be them being dicks but backing off when they realize you’re there legally. The other 5% are gonna be the ones you see.
There’s even a difference between someone paying to have their name on a new building and someone renaming something that already exists though.
Same in sports where a stadium has always been known by a name then it changes for sponsorship reason, it just doesn’t feel right. If the sponsor’s name was attached from opening then it’s fine.
I mean at the same time, if it’s possible that regular people who actually shop around are shown lower fares and business travelers paid for by the company are shown higher fares, I’m all for that sort of subsidization, as unlikely as it is to be the reality