ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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My bike is customized to the point that if you want to use / sell it you're going to have to spend a quite while removing duct tape and glue residue from it. I almost never leave it out of my sight except in my garage but when I do I lock it with 2 locks, U-lock and a chain-lock and I take the battery with me.

It’s AI that’s doing the matching. I don’t think most people realize how broad the category 'AI' actually is. Just because a system doesn’t meet your false expectations of what you imagined AI to be like doesn’t mean it’s not AI.

June 25, 2009

No, not because Michael Jackson died, I had my first ever date and got a girlfriend.

I can't think of a single sex scene in a movie that added value to it. They're pointless and akward to both the audience and actors.

I bet there are people who committed suicide after their Tamagotchi died. Jumping into the 'AI bad' narrative because of individual incidents like this is moronic. If you give a pillow to a million people, a few are going to suffocate on it. This is what happens when you scale something up enough, and it proves absolutely nothing.

The same logic applies to self-driving vehicles. We’ll likely never reach a point where accidents stop happening entirely. Even if we replaced every human-driven vehicle with a self-driving one that’s 10 times safer than a human, we’d still see 8 people dying because of them every day in the US alone. Imagine posting articles about those incidents and complaining they’re not 100% safe. What’s the alternative? Going back to human drivers and 80 deaths a day?

Yes, we should strive to improve. Yes, we should try to fix the issues that can be fixed. No, I’m not saying 'who cares' - and so on with the strawmans I'm going to receive for this. All I’m saying is that we should be reasonable and use some damn common sense when reacting to these outrage-inducing, fear-mongering articles that are only after your attention and clicks.

I love welding. One of my favourite things to do in my previous job. I'm highly skilled at oxy-acetylene welding steel pipes in really tight and difficult places but my favourite one was TiG welding stainless steel with automatic and ventilated mask while listening to podcasts. Really meditative just being in your own bubble staring at the bright spot of molten metal.

Sorry, I'm across the Atlantic

I'll go first.

Self-employed general contractor / plumber

OP seems to be talking about generative AI rather than AI broadly. Personally I have three main uses for it:

• It has effectively replaced google for me.
• Image generation enables me to create pictures I've always wanted to but never had the patience to practise.
• I find myself talking with it more than I talk with my friends. They don't seem interested in anything I'm but chatGPT atleast pretends to be

Allegedly yes but they had a partial mobilization and those people are not volunteers and don't want to be there. That's why they're surrendering to Ukranians in such a great numbers.

I see what you’re saying, but I think in this case it’s different enough from the original artwork that, if this were to go through in court, it would open the floodgates for a ton of similar lawsuits and set a bad precedent. They absolutely acted in bad faith here, as it’s immediately obvious which scene they’re mimicking, but I just don’t see enough similarity for copyright infringement. It’s quite different from Trump using actual songs from artists without permission - this isn’t the actual scene from the movie.

Jeep driver just fucking with the selfish Corvette owner.

Well it's also the first and only one of its kind so you weren't too far off.

And a month from now they're back to normal. Writing news about the price of individual stocks fluctuating is completely meaningless.

I've often thought about how fun it would be to get to play the "robber" in a police training scenario. I'd definitely join if there was something like this happening in my city, though I'd prefer it to be a more serious excercise.

EDIT: The comments here are even more unsurprising that the fact that the sun rose this morning.

not a single ultimate disposal place for the radioactive waste has been found/created.

Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository

Also something to keep in mind is that high level waste which is the spent fuel is only about 3 - 5% of the total radioactive waste from nuclear power plants. Majority of the waste has way lower levels of radiation and it's things like reactor parts and safety equipment.

Most of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine for example are not professionals and don't want to be there. Same applies to many US soldiers in Vietnam, they were drafted. There's plenty of examples like that.

Changing gender requires sterilization even if you don't get surgery? What's the logic there?

Agreed. We should build much more of it to the point where we'd basically be powering our southern and western neighbours too.

I don't remember the exact statistics but around half of Finns have plan similar to mine where the prices change hourly. So far it has been cheaper on the long run but there are days when the prices are so high that you basically have to turn off heating or it'll cost you hundreds in one day. There is no upper limit to it but there's no lower limit either. Sometimes it goes to negative as well. Last year there was a day when it went so far into negative that people were earning money by running electric heaters outside in the winter.