Don’t worry, it’s about to vote for y’all, too.
Everything’s fiiiine. 😶🔥🔥🔥🔥🥵
And the Uber will take them to right destination 99.9% of the times.
TBF I’ve probably gotten lost more times than that driving my own car.
I lose my way to the cornerstore opposite my building. My mind simply refuses to bother itself with spatial trivia.
If everyone has one of these “automobiles” do people ever walk or run anymore
Not really, actually
Yes, but for recreation. For fun.
Oh Emmett
I don’t have one. I walk everywhere. I am both privileged and in constant danger.
“Don’t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to physical health”
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People reliant on LLMs are just participating in an any% dementia speedrun. It’s a social experiment, of sorts.
We can’t have people forming their own ideas.
I warned ya! Didn’t I warn ya? That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself.
Only idiots read books, smart people think for themselves!
tsk tsk
When they filmed the movie ‘Van Helsing’ in Prague they needed one hundred couples who knew how to ballroom dance. Everyone thought this was going to be difficult to set up, but it turned out that literally every extra they hired could waltz. Back in Soviet days, the country didn’t have a lot of money for sports equipment, but every school had a record player. They taught the kids ballroom dancing for the Physical Education requirement.
To graduate from my (American) high school, you needed a given number of gym points, and you were given one gym point per day of gym class. But, I learned, you earned one and a half gym points per day of dance class! I figured this was a great scam: I already hated gym class, so I’d get my points out the way faster.
Fast forward a couple of months, and I’m working harder than I ever was in gym class, I’m enjoying myself more, and I’m hanging out with girls in leotards first thing every school day. There was literally no downside.
Clearly, the system working as intended.
My middle school in the us made us learn to waltz in gym class. I’m ass at it, but it was fun.
We got line dancing -_-
Just as the Lord Jesus commanded to Noah
What the fuck man I got told off for six years because I didn’t know how to jump rope
I mean I also got publicly humiliated by my inability to run far or fast so often it fucked with my head. But we had 6 months of learning to dance before returning to the shame gauntlet
Ah so, it’s not only Finland where the point of Physical Education is to humiliate all the joy of athletics out of the vast majority of generations of people.
Except the up and coming hockey players the washed up sportsman/woman who was hired to teach as a sort of social program gives all their attention to. Guess those have different sports abroad.
But really it seems so efficient that the state makes schools focus on competition, subsidize competitive team sports heavily, and hire subsidized people from professional sports to further the subsidized hobbies of the maybe future professionals.
The end result is billions in subsidies and that most people who can’t hack it professionally just quit sports alltogether in their teens or even earlier.
I just quite can’t see how are they actually trying to go public health first with which the tax expenses are excused.
Yeah I get what my schools were going for. And it was private school, so while taxes pay for actually a worse version by all accounts, my parents paid for mine.
Like, they tried to have a variety of things within budget. We did calisthenics, we did sports like basketball, flag gridiron football, and even occasionally some international football, we had American classics like dodgeball. In high school we even did pickleball and weight lifting.
But at the end of the day I got winded after a few meters of running and so running a mile (1069m) as is something most people were expected to be able to do was an exercise in me exhausting myself and slowly trudging along after everyone else finished. Fortunately I’ve always been really strong for my exercise level so for strength type stuff I regained some of the dignity I lost being lapped by fat smokers.
The thing is, nothing will ever make running something I’m willing to do if I can help it. I get the runners high and still hate running. And it would be an expensive disaster if schools did my preferred cardio of bikes or hikes. But also they didn’t even teach us proper running form. They just assumed “people know how to run, and the weird nerd won’t be athletic anyways”. Fortunately I’ve become fairly athletic in adulthood (though I fell out for a year and a half and am now hurting getting back into it)
My elementary school PE did a couple weeks every year where we did square dancing and line dancing. I guess that’s the southeastern US coming in. Sometimes we did some other more traditional English dance where the boys and girls would be in rows facing each other where there were some set steps and then the couple at one end would dance down between the lines to the other end, there would be more steps and then the next couple would move, and so on. It was like something out of a Jane Austen movie.
You can thank Henry Ford’s racism for that.
No, really. He hated seeing his employees dance to jazz (which he blamed on ‘the Jews’, because of course he did), so much so that he pushed to have “proper” dances taught in public schools, dances that were old-fashioned even in his time.
I learned square dancing in high school in Ohio. I was the only boy in a class of all girls, because I had broken my wrist and couldn’t play basketball. I would love to tell the story of how this helped me get girls, but I was much too big of a loser to take advantage of the situation.
Street clothes or gym shorts?
Every kid in Scotland is taught how to ceilidh. Some of us even learn to enjoy it!
We went to dance classes all throughout I think eight grade and learned a few of the classical dances. Waltz, Foxtrott, Cha-Cha, Tango. That’s Eastern Germany in the early 2000s.
Dance classes in a normal German secondary school? Wow, we never had that. We had a private dance school for couple dancing in town, it was popular at about age 13.
Now I’m imagining Mel Brooks doing a black-and-white German Expressionist scene of nine year olds in tuxedos and gowns doing the tango.
Not just Soviet days. Today, it’s expected (although not mandatory) to attend a course on ballroom dance and etiquette around the age of 16. It’s usually not in school PE classes, but evening lessons in dedicated ballrooms or community centers with professional lecturers.
There are also similar courses for adults commonly available. It’s considered a fun hobby for couples.
Is this where I subscribe for more Van Helsing facts?
More like:
Claude solve this for me
It goes in the square hole.
Thanks Claude. Still doesn’t seem to be working though as the corners on the object are in a different place to the corners on the hole. It’s like they’re rotated. Can you break this down for me, step by step? Or is this impossible?
Sheesh. Spoilers, man.
Although let’s be honest, fuck gym class
Have you seen how fat kids are now? If anything they need double gym class.
It doesn’t work
Now, there’s an exercise class I could really get behind.
Obligatory
Banned in Ireland on initial release! 🙏
Gods I love that movie. Ahead of its time in some ways maybe…
“Bit early to be imposing gender roles on it, don’t you think?”
And the Crimson Red Assurance bit 😂
Exactly! Learn those kids stuff ai can’t do! Send them to the mines!
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — Frank Herbert in Dune, 1965.
Relevant as ever
“Hey ChatGPT, was the American Civil War about slavery?” Having that fact stored in your head is inherently different than looking it up. Knowing that America has a history of racism and the south have a history of revisionism is very important. This is why some gullible folks really do believe confederate monuments are just about heritage despite being built in during the civil rights movement. It’s not the sort of thing you’d think to “ask AI” at all if you didn’t already have some of the groundwork. An education is important.
So funny to be like AI can retrieve facts in .3 seconds. First of all, no it can’t. Second of all, can’t search engines do this? Haven’t they been doing this for years? Like AI is slower, less accurate and more wasteful than duckduckgo. Shouldn’t all her points have been true years ago?
they’re sending kids to school to learn things that are already in books! and if they wanted to know them they could just learn them from a book! why even bother to learn from a book when they could learn it from a book?!
Throw the book at 'em!
forgive her, she’s been outsourcing all mental activity for a while.
Duckduckgo uses Ai now too right? Better use startpage, it’s AI free and privacy based under eu law.
It has a kill switch for all AI features. It also has a toggle for AI generated images in image search
I’m not fond of the results ddg gives me. Startpage results are more like Google used to be back in the days when it was a proper search engine. Like over 10 / 15 years ago.
The results are definitely terrible, mostly due to the AI slop sites that have been popping up in the last 3 years. I’ll give startpage a go, but I think we are already in dead internet theory territory. I’ve also heard good things about Kagi
I think we are already in dead internet theory territory.
Yup, I believe you’re right with that one, and that there’s no return now with the current progress of AI. The internet is broken and it doesn’t look like the ones responsible for it have any intension of fixing that. They only will make everything much worse.
she wrote a comment that a bot could have written better
Who’s to say it didn’t?
AI “retrieves” facts? Not my experience.
I was personally not able to reproduce this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/52tYaGQgaEPvZaHTb/was-barack-obama-still-serving-as-president-in-december but it should still provide an illustration of what AI’s ideas of retrieving facts looks like.
… Isn’t less wrong where the zizians came out of
In my experience Microsoft Copilot is wildly inaccurate about facts describing aspects of Microsoft software products like Teams, or even Microsoft Copilot itself.
All AI does is generate plausible-sounding text. It doesn’t care about whether it is true or false.
I am not generally anti-AI, nor generally pro-AI. There are good uses of AI and bad uses. For example I used AI to generate my profile picture here; the creation of art (as long as there is human review) is one of the best uses of AI I can think of…
But asking it for factual information and expecting it to be correct, and making decisions based on it? Anyone who does that deserves all negative consequences it can have.
i recently got access to the paid version of Claude at my job. they wanted us to automate some routine tasks, fine. i had it make something, then asked how i could save it as a skill for future use. it said it doesn’t have skills or macros. i said what, yes there are skills right there in the customize section. it came back with the usual “you’re right! let me check… oh yes indeed there is such a function. my bad. here’s more information from the web: …”
like… oh my god. imagine if this were an unpaid intern. they would be immediately shot into the atmosphere. but instead we pay for this shit.
Yes, such things can happen… I once asked an LLM a few questions about me (under my real name) that was publicly available on the Internet (i.e. should be in its training data). It answered a simple yes-or-no question wrongly. Then I asked it a followup question, which it answered more correctly, but the answer contradicted that wrong answer and it went “this seems to contradict my previous answer that…”.
but instead we pay for this shit.
Yes, but not nearly as much. :(
I just looked at tha woman’s twitter and it’s an absolute nightmare. AI really makes some stupid people think they are smart.
Or is it just some AI bot trying to promote AI?
Very possible. The whole purpose of the account is to grift. White trash looking woman claiming to have financial freedom due to AI.
What a braindead take, I seriously hope this idiot doesn’t have children of her own
Problem is thanks to tech a braindead take can become cannon to way too many people at the click of a button.
