[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Especially from Anthropic, who has long maintained the position that their AI is dangerous, and is currently in a cock counting competition with OpenAI about who can hack the most companies first, and thus has the most dangerous model.

The whole thing has just started turning into a farce of "oh, well actually, my AI hacked companies before yours and did it to more companies than your AI".

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Especially since when you ask it those questions, it's still massively limited.

I once tried Apple's replacement AI Siri thing, and asked it what the date would be next Tuesday. I got "I can't help with that".

Regular old Siri handled that just fine.

Even then, neither worked with "When's the last occurrence of this event on my calendar?". They'd either go "I'm sorry, I don't understand", or happily tell me when the next event was.

Neither of them seem like very difficult questions.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Aye. I was being a little facetious, and making a reference to the video game Helldovers in the process, but it does make me wonder what the legal line is when it comes to determining pay by computer.

If a company implements an AI powered monitoring system that reduces your pay because you spent less time at your computer writing code or more time in the bathroom compared to your coworkers, at what point does it start crossing into illegal/discrimination boundaries? A company usually cannot reduce someone's pay if they disclose a disability and require accommodation, for example, but it is unclear whether that would let them wash their hands of the issue, since the pay was set by computer.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Or conversely, racism will be eliminated once the head racist is defeated.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The original Frozen was a nice twist on that, where it wasn't romantic love that saved the day, but familial love.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Almost as bad is if they get treated worse for saving the town, with the townspeople blaming them for any collateral damage.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anyone can achieve great things, even if they come from nothing... As long as they secretly have a great background and heritage out the wazoo. Or it is pre-ordained and has to be them; all other attempts doomed to failure.

The initial message might be fine, but it then undermines itself.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Because yeah, let me negotiate my salary with an LLM, please

Tremendous idea. You give a LLM your salary preferences, and it negotiates on your behalf. We can call it something like "Managed Salary Negotiations".

Don't worry about minutiae like your employer running the model you're using for that task. That's not very Super Earth of you.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

If opening inspect element and looking at a website's served HTML is hacking...

[-] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

"Loud noise" should be "Bad noise", surely?

You can have bad noises, even if they aren't loud, and a loud noise can itself be a bad noise.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by T156@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

Voyager takes after the Apollo app in this regard, where if the app is closed while text is being edited, it'll bring back the unsaved draft, but it'll pop that into the next reply window you open, even if it is a different thread entirely.

Being able to reopen the same thread and resume editing would make it much easier if you're switching to another app to look up a reference or a link, and Voyager gets destroyed by the OS. It'd also help refresh your context if you can't remember what it was you were writing and why.

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

While kbin.social's site mentioned that they were migrating to a new provider, and as a result, the site might be experiencing some issues, kbin.social has been serving up a similar HTTP 50x errors, and that migration message for well over a month, if not more.

What happened?

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While ordering a crew cut is easy, since it's on the menu, what about other kinds?

Can you just go "I'd like a men/women's haircut" and leave it at that, or do you need something more specific, like saying you want a Charlestone done by a No. 3 to the sides, and a 4 up top?

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In our world, the police going to a spirit medium for the DL-6 case, and being ridiculed might be logical, since spirit channelling isn't a real thing, but in the world of Ace Attorney, it is.

Not only is it a known and established practice, with detectable physical effects, but the monarchy of at least one country is specifically sought out for their spirit-channelling powers by other governments, so that they can commune with the dead, and receive advice that way.

However, it also seems to be disbelieved, and ridiculed as a pseudoscience, despite that.

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I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

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You wouldn't start off an e-mail with "My Dear X", or "Dearest X", since that would be too personal for a professional email, so "To X" being more impersonal seems like it would make the letter more professional-sounding, compared to "Dear X".

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Doctor Who zips all the way up and down through time, popping in at any time and place. If you don't have a time machine to follow them around with, it should be impossible to keep track of which incarnation was where. And yet, the Doctor's enemies somehow manage to do just that, with the Daleks being accurate enough to determine he was on his last regeneration on Trenzalore.

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One of the options for students enrolling into Hogwarts, if they come from a wizarding family, is that they have the option of using a hand-me-down wand. But short of wands being damaged beyond repair, we don't see many people replacing them, even though it happens enough that hand-me-downs are a valid option for new students.

So how long does one last? Does a wizard normally use one wand in their lifetime, or is it the kind of thing where an old, worn-out wand is fine for schoolwork, but you'd need something newer/better for adult life?

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What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?

It seemed to just pop up out of nowhere, seeing as the previous terms seemed fine, and are in use for some things today (like rheostat brakes, or condenser microphones).

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submitted 2 years ago by T156@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world

You often see people in fitness mention going through a cut/bulk cycle, or mention one, with plans to follow up with the other. Why is it that cutting and bulking so often happen in cycles, rather than said person just doing both at once, until they hit their desired weight?

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While we hear of the TARDIS having engines that are implicitly essential to it working, we've also see a TARDIS work without the rest of the machine.

"The Doctor's Wife" and "Inferno" show that a TARDIS is capable of operating as just the console, which would seem to imply that they're just a power source to allow the console to do its thing and move the whole ship around, or to allow for the pilot to do silly things like tow an entire planet one second out of phase.

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