[–] 13 points 7 months ago*

The Bookseller.com makes it hard for me to empathize when I need to “Register to read for free”.

I’m tired of having to surrender my time, effort and personal information to read someone else’s propagandas. If you want me to read your propaganda, you can at least pay for it.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    With our new energy subscription services you'll save almost 100% on your energy bills*!

    • As long as you never need energy.

    Good news everyone! The US Northeast will have record low gas prices... all we have to do now is to figure out how to keep the region's air temperature above 70F year-round!

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago

    Sam Altman is a CEO. What you've written is his job description. Hype the stock, take the fall. Only in his case, the "fall" will be to having to cry himself to sleep on top of millions of dollars each night.

    He's not going to be charged with a crime because this is how American big business operates these days. He doing the task he was hired for. If anyone threatened him, 10,000 "millionaire defenders" will pour out of their trailers and blame Obama instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    He even cowrote a book with Gene Kim called Vibe Coding. Well, I say “wrote” — they used a chatbot for “draft generation and draft ranking”. They vibed the book text.

    So how does one “vibe code” a book? Input a prompt and the LLM expands it into a book using statistically likely words?

    Why not save everyone the trouble and just publish the “vibe code” prompt?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Ok, so science story time. I’m not a doctor.

    The female human’s reproductive tract is somewhat loosey-goosey. There is a direct path between the outside world, through the vagina, through the cervix, through the uterus, through the fallopian tubes and into the female abdomen. Not literally, but figuratively the ovaries “float” in the abdomen, just outside of the entrance to the fallopian tubes.
    While discussing this with a doctor once, I asked, “Since the ovaries are not directly connected to the fallopian tubes, when an egg erupts from an ovary, what ensures that the egg enters the fallopian tubes and heads to the uterus?”
    She replied, “Not much. Occasionally the egg will stay in the abdominal cavity and implant there.”

    So think about that for a second. It’s not uncommon for a human eggs to float into the female abdomen, attach and begin growing. That’s called an “ectopic pregnancy”. If you know enough women who trust you, you’ll likely know at least one who’s had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

    So think about that for another second. If you know someone who is against abortions, be sure to ask them how they suggest solving ectopic pregnancies.

    If they don’t have an answer, consider what it would be like to die from one.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    might be complete garbage code or might work fine, total toss up.

    Many state that the “AI hallucinates 30% of the time”. I really appreciate the observation of someone else online who observed, “No, it hallucinates 100% of the time, only sometimes the output happens to be useful.”

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  • Shower Thoughts on AI (sh.itjust.works)
     

    If “AI” was really half of what it was cracked up to be, here’s how I would imagine it would have gone down:

    AI Co: “Hello everyone. We would like to present our AI code writer. “AI, please write the code behind Google’s search engine.”
    AI: “Here ya go:
    Google: “That’s very impressive.”
    AI Co: “AI, please fix all the bugs in Google Voice that make it run slow as dog feces.”
    AI: “Done. ”.
    Google: “Ok, we will give you $50B right now for 100% of everything you own. Don’t breathe a word of this to anyone.”

    6 months later: “In today’s news, Google Inc. has just released it’s 30th major product. The industry is shocked and suspects perhaps Google has figured out some type of AI program to write code. Google has announced it has purchased AI Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Google has also announced it is laying off 60% of its staff worldwide. Only CEOs and marketing personnel remain.”

    In reality, Sam Altman appears to be a man who has created a machine that allegedly points out massive gold deposits. But rather than mining gold, he insists on selling machines that find gold mines.

    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    So they discovered a way to demolish their competition by laying off their employees and still produce products in record time? Before the pink slips are all printed they jump on the internet to tell everyone their most valuable business secret in 100 years?

    You can tell how valuable this “business advantage” is by how willing they are to tell the world about it.

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    The title is a bit of an exaggeration.

    Why do corporations change shampoo and toothbrushes so often? I'll go through 10 different shampoos and toothbrushes, then find ones I like. I'll probably be able to purchase them again a few times before the ones I like are no longer available.

    What are the forces driving manufacturer's to change their basic wares so often? Besides Wall St. greed, that is?

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