We have the tech right now to do direct democracy. We dont need to hope some representitive surfaces our needs someday. Politicians and lobbyists need to be job categories that get eliminated due to tech improvements. Then we wont need political parties either and we can end them entirely. No more dems, no more repubs.

Slotkin will do whatever is best for Israel, every time, as will Schumer.

Edit: I’m an idiot.

Same here. Nobody knows what the eff they are doing. Especially the people in charge. Much of life is us believing confident people who talk a good game but dont know wtf they are doing and really shouldnt be allowed to make even basic decisions outside a very narrow range of competence.

We have an illusion of broad meritocracy and accountability in life but its mostly just not there.

I work in an company who is all-in on selling AI and we are trying desperately to use this AI ourselves. We’ve concluded internally that AI can only be trusted with small use cases that are easily validated by humans, or for fast prototyping work… hack day stuff to validate a possibility but not an actual high quality safe and scalable implementation, or in writing tests of existing code, to increase test coverage. yes, I know thats a bad idea but QA blessed the result… so um … cool.

The use case we zeroed in on is writing well schema’d configs in yaml or json. Even then, a good percentage of the time the AI will miss very significant mandatory sections, or add hallucinations that are unrelated to the task at hand. We then can use AI to test AI’s work, several times using several AIs. And to a degree, it’ll catch a lot of the issues, but not all. So we then code review and lint with code we wrote that AI never touched, and send all the erroring configs to a human. It does work, but cant be used for mission critical applications. And nothing about the AI or the process of using it is free. Its also disturbingly not idempotent. Did it fail? Run it again a few times and it’ll pass. We think it still saves money when done at scale, but not as much as we promise external AI consumers. The Senior leadership know its currently overhyped trash and pressure us to use it anyway on expectations it’ll improve in the future, so we give the mandatory crisp salute of alignment and we’re off.

I will say its great for writing yearly personnel reviews. It adds nonsense and doesnt get the whole review correct, but it writes very flowery stuff so managers dont have to. So we use it for first drafts and then remove a lot of the true BS out of it. If it gets stuff wrong, oh well, human perception is flawed.

This is our shared future. One of the biggest use cases identified for the industry is health care. Because its hard to assign blame on errors when AI gets it wrong, and AI will do whatever the insurance middle men tell it to do.

I think we desperately need a law saying no AI use in health care decisions, before its too late. This half-assed tech is 100% going to kill a lot of sick people.

I mean its fair, no one uses semicolons – except for you evidently.

Russian ceasefire promises cannot be trusted.

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yes but all the code will be wrong and you will spend your entire day chasing stupid mistakes and hallucinations in the code. I’d rather just write the code myself thanks.

ah, was not aware. thanks.

Well Taiwan can go eff itself then. I wish both Israel and Taiwan misery and failure.

Signing up for anything socialist costs a lot. I dont know if you ever thought you’d have use for an elevated government security clearance, but your signing up for that association will be the subject of any security clearance interviews now, and the interviewer will lean toward disqualifying you for it.

I guess public service as a career choice isn’t on a lot of peoples minds these days. Which, speaking as a member of the public, is too bad.

Author of the article could have picked a punchier subject line. Not that I disagree with the premise, but “millionaire” is pretty common these days. Like 20% of the population. Journalism is in the toilet these days.

*mission impossible theme starts

“Investigators found the accounts of all 11 women to be credible and corroborated by a “mountain of evidence,” including emails and text messages. This report led to Cuomo’s resignation in August 2021.”

Yea, Clearly the poor guy was framed. /s

Texas has a tiny net mirgation rate. Its not much of a threat. Its a shithole state, like most states with republican leadership. Musk is trying to get back into the bay area as we speak, and a lot of people who moved there from California for a cheaper life have found that its no cheaper than California, and less comfortable of a place in nearly every way-- so they are moving back again at great expense.

and the UK was a better place for their leaving.

agreed, gtfo to all the people who said they’d leave, and dont come back.

Or brand. Lets go with branding, after a good hog tie when they try to run away. They aren’t the best trained of critters.

ZombiFrancis is a great username.
Kudos. Francis wasnt perfect but he seemed to try harder than average popes.

Maybe if we literally ate some of those billionaires it might help. Is the leader of our church Luigi Mangione freed from his unlawful religious persecution yet? And where are the Epstein files?