I don’t have a computer to try it on and I can’t be without a computer.

Oh here, take a Linux laptop from my giant box of Linux laptops!

From what I can tell, it looks like there are a lot of loans out right now, the rate at which they are issued has increased since the beginning of the Trump presidency has increased dramatically, and this is like really bad because If those loans don’t get paid back then pillars start collapsing underneath the financial system. Lose too many of those and the whole thing comes crashing down.

This one graph doesn’t represent all of the bad that is going on, it’s just a sort of a weathervane to tell you which way the wind is blowing. …and right now it’s blowing where the sun don’t shine.

Imagine trying to walk on that path.

I went to 15+ schools before I graduated highschool, and depending on where I was I was either put into “gifted and talented”, the “extended learning program”, “fast path”, or “Accelerated Track”. Every place had a different philosophy of how to deal with kids who already knew how to read and do math.

Sometimes I would end up in a class with a bunch of quiet bookworms who wore church clothes every day and other times I would be surrounded by rambunctious and highly enthusiastic nerds.

Usually we would play computer games or play games designed to make us engage socially, but sometimes we would actually study interesting stuff in a deep way.

Every one of these programs seems to be a totally improvised and locally unique program. Nothing from the words they used for things to the books, brands, or activities seemed to have any consistency. Since I usually moved in the middle of the school year I would often see multiple versions of each grade’s program.

It made me really glad I didn’t grow up in a small town. Those people are getting screwed.

A lot of people want a good tool that works.

This is not a good tool and it does not work.

Most of them don’t understand that yet.

I am optimistic to think that they will have the opportunity find that out in time to not be walked off a cliff.

I’m optimistically predicting that when people find out how much it actually costs and how shit it is that they will redirect their energies to alternatives if there are still any alternatives left.

A better tool may come along, but it’s not this stuff. Sometimes the future of a solution doesn’t just look like more of the previous solution.

These kinds of questions are strange to me.

A great many people are using them voluntarily, a lot of people are using them because they don’t know how to avoid using them and feel that they have no alternative.

But the implication of the question seems to be that people wouldn’t choose to use something that is worse.

In order to make that assumption you have to first assume that they know qualitatively what is better and what is worse, that they have the appropriate skills or opportunity necessary to choose to opt in or opt out, and that they are making their decision on what tools to use based on which one is better or worse.

I don’t think you can make any of those assumptions. In fact I think you can assume the opposite.

The average person doesn’t know how to evaluate the quality of research information they receive on topics outside of their expertise.

The average person does not have the technical skills necessary to engage with non-AI augmented systems presuming they want to.

The average person does not choose their tools based on what is the most effective at producing the correct truth but instead on which one is the most usable, user friendly, convenient, generally accepted, and relatively inexpensive.

A lot of those things have a business model that relies on putting the competition out of business so you can jack up the price.

Uber broke taxis in a lot of places. It completely broke that industry by simply ignoring the laws. Uber had a thing that it could actually sell that people would buy.

It took years before it started making money, in an industry that already made money.

LLMs Don’t even have a path to profitability unless they can either functionally replace a human job or at least reliably perform a useful task without human intervention.

They’ve burned all these billions and they still don’t even have something that can function as well as the search engines that proceeded them no matter how much they want to force you to use it.

Every particle accelerator that has been built has paid for itself in research value. There’s basically nothing that comes out of AI research except the need for a bigger model.

The comparison is poor. Particle accelerators are science, LLMs do not produce science.

That’s not to say that we couldn’t build LLMS that would be useful for scientific purposes but we’re not. That is not the function or the goal of the people building these things.

Charlie Kirk getting shot today probably will change the calculus on insurance for these kinds of events.

Also Republicans are such incredible chicken shits that they might all start driving around in Pope mobiles after this.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Firefighters tend to be motivated to do good. The job doesn’t attract many of the anti-social types you find in law-enforcement and politics that would be motivated to ‘retalliate’ or play favorites.

For better or worse, good people don’t typically seek revenge and are not inclined to justify collateral damage (which is one of the chief risks of fire).

The sermon on the Mount and specifically Matthew 5:18 I think or something like that explicitly says that nothing from the law has been removed or invalidated by Jesus.

This is a common sentiment in American Christianity but it doesn’t really seem to be backed up by the text.

The volume of the power vacuum in the Republican party would likely be audible from Europe.

If you swap one and four, That’s how I use the monitors on my desktop

Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks, But these two gum shoes are picking up the slack…

THERE’S NO CASE TOO BIG NO CASE TOO SMALL WHEN YOU NEED HELP JUST CALL…

CH CH CHIP AND DALE’S RESCUE RANGERS (when there’s danger) You know it never fails, once they’re involves somehow whatevers wrong gets solved! CH CH CHIP AND DALE’S RESCUE RANGERS!!

The main character is sort of the prototypical modern incel rage fantasy.

I really enjoy this movie it has a lot of awesome scenes of outrage at normal life, but much like the fight club movie or the novel ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I feel like people often get the wrong idea about what problems it identifies in society and why the main character is a deeply unhealthy response to a sick world.

Whenever you see far right wingers extol the virtues of socialist policies you can know that they’re only doing this for popularity and cover.

When they get in office they will miraculously never make progress on any of the socialist promises but all of the fascist ones happen to stay top of mind for them.

If anything the history of typos and edits should clear any air about whether or not this was me!

Let’s not pretend that this problem is somehow isolated to Islam.

Child marriage is legal in the US with a majority of states allowing it in some form and four states literally having no minimum age of marriage.

This is a religious people problem. The more of them you have the more of this problem you have. Religious people have all kinds of excuses for pedophilia and other things that rob people of consent and agency.

I just let all the cat hair collect there and it seems to do a pretty good job of holding on to the crumbs until I vacuum.