• mathematics shaped into “conversation” where the bottom line is “words that a human will consider conversationally consistent, when reckoned against the previous words” -

Me to, transformers, me too.

And by that we mean both that the people are dumb/gullible and that the LLMs are dumb/gullible.

In a small company noone would try to label you “l5” or “l6” and probably an actual human would make your comp decision. You take the byzantine incentive structure away and people just try to do a good job.

Across all sports the US has over 3 times china’s all time medal totals in both summer and winter games. Not even having double is a pretty significant underperformance.

Maybe we should conclude gun culture makes a nation better at track and field because people get more practice running away 😂

Yeah fuck suicidal people and anyone killed by cops they had it coming. Jesus christ.

As for “justifiable homicide”, you mean like… when the other guy had a gun… You want to discount those deaths why?

If we take your number at face value. This is kind of a trolley problem thing right. Should 99 people get to have a nice day out at the range once a month, which they could easily replace with any other leisure activity, if it means one person has to die violently. If you honestly like those odds then fair play mad max.

You missed the point. Saying that calling it “fun” is problematic doesn’t imply that you can’t have fun, of course you can (I have, a tonne). I assume the above comment called it problematic because they weighed the “fun” of gun owners against 40k dead Americans a year and decided maybe we shouldn’t be focusing on the entertainment.

You can absolutely have more gun control and not really inhibit firearm sports or hunting BTW. The USA ought to have a monopoly on Olympic shooting medals if that weren’t the case 😅

Not wanting to to call the private ownership of deadly weapons fun is hardly “intense”. Of anything it undersells the point.

Speaking as someone who enjoyed regular target rifle practice and competitions for the best part of a decade since you insist that matters.

Obviously everyone knows there are costs. It’s free (at the point of use) but almost noone needs the brackets to be explicit. The point being that it’s more efficient and you continue to get it even if you have no “gross income” because we’re not monsters.

Also how many countries have a “fixed percentage” with literally no allowances or brackets. I can’t think of any.

A normal full time job including holiday is only ~140 hours a month. Assuming you believe their user stats too that would be pretty grim. You probably shouldn’t though.

11 billion engagement hours a month! Does anyone seriously believe that lol. And still not profitable! What do they need, ever human beings every waking hour to spin a profit!?

Pro tip. If you turn the volume down and hold it to your ear you can still listen to whatever without anyone else hearing. Like we used to be able to hear the other end of the line without others hearing in the old days when we used phones to phone people.

Isn’t the biggest risk that you can’t shift your weight enough in emergency braking? The stopping distance must be horrible.

Yeah but how many users are actually that brave/stupid? 100kph feels FAST on a motorbike, I can’t imagine how it feels on one of these 😬

It’s getting a little shovey to be fair. The top of most Google results is an AI overview that you can’t opt out of. The top line of WhatsApp is “ask meta AI”. Meta is particularly bad for it, zuck explicitly wants to replace your real life friends with monetizable bots. Those of us working in big corporates are getting rapidly bored of the “assistants” and “copilots” that have nuked our tech budget and populate every app without assisting or copiloting in meaningful ways (and of correcting enthusiastically wrong output of colleagues blithely using LLMs for inappropriate tasks).

Some things it’s possible to just avoid but big tech is pretty pervasive. Tricky to really participate in society without at this point.

They used them to play chess on kaggle, then the press reported the winner 😂

The obsession is so baffling to anyone who’s worked in ML (including language model researchers!)

Depends how you define “expense”. A good service provided at a fair price, all stakeholders benefit. My CSA share of a farmers produce gives me cheap, quality veggies and gives the farmer consistent cash flow regardless of disease/weather/whatever. We clearly both benefit. Someone else buying UPFs from Walmart because they have literally no other option to affordably feed their family in their neighbourhood… maybe not such a good deal for the consumer.

P.s. Profit is the value in excess of the cost of good sold, not over what the buyer values it as. In a “good” transaction (where the parties are transacting at parity, without monopolistic/exploitative practice) the price is less than the consumer would be willing to pay but still enough for the seller to be compensated for the risk and cost they took in buying/making and stocking the product.

Am actually really interested in the safety stats. Would guess on those things you aren’t doing more than 40, so probably not too bad for rider vs e.g. motorbikes where the temptation is to crazy speeds. And with it being smaller/lighter than a car it’s clearly safer for pedestrians and other vehicles.

Nah this is just whataboutism. We all agree that the highest severity issues are access to heathcare/nutrition/sanitation/education in developing countries or among the homeless etc. That doesn’t mean we are suddenly not allowed to talk about anything else.

Do you do this in real life?

Colleague: “hey did you catch the game this weekend, boy I hate being a jets fan”

Blarghly: “that’s rather gauche, don’t you know there’s major food insecurity in sudan”

It has the intellectual weight of a parent trying to cajole their toddler into eating.

Didn’t knights of the old republic have farkle in too? It’s a good game, and I guess just unfamiliar enough to bolt into a fantasy setting.

God help the partners of patient gamers (the ones that aren’t gamers themselves)