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[–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (22 children)
  • [+] -37 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

    You act as though those billions of dollars spent towards other things (like cancer research) would somehow be better.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    ?

    Fucking yes it would be better to put hundreds of billions of dollars every year into curing cancer/HIV/ Type 1 diabetes/alzheimers, literally any disease. Curing a major illness like those would actively help hundreds of thousands or millions of people around the world every year.

    What does AI help? My fucking manager in sending cryptic emails that raise more questions than answers?

    Dump a few hundred billion into disease research, or fusion power, or just into housing for all of us.

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  • [+] -20 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    AI helped me with my voting ballot. I asked Kagi's AI to research the ambiguous candidates and propositions. I had it put them into a political alignment chart - left/centrist/rightwing. Addendums for candidates included things like whether they had criminal convictions or corruption, stance on vaccinations, how they feel about "tough on crime", the homeless, ect.

    For propositions, the political alignments had a fourth entry added, where the yes/no included the wealth level of backers for a position.

    This is very useful, completing in a hour what would have taken a week of research. Very useful for digging into the mechanical details of a proposition, like whether it prevented the replacement or supplementing of a measure.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I've asked it to include source links, those source links don't actually support the AI's statement.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    One of the candidates was appointed to their office by a Republican governor, and elevated more recently by a Democratic one. The AI referred to official government records.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Well, that's one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn't meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.

    How about the others?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    That’s a lot of words just to say you’re an idiot that would rather offload important critical thinking skills to a piece of software that a rational person wouldn’t trust to provide a cookie recipe.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Better to be an idiot, than to be an jackass. I wouldn't trust you to be a good person.

    Also, the cornbread recipe the AI gave me an hour ago is pretty damn good. Perfectly adjusted to my ingredient list, tools, and pan size, and specifics like whether I want the food to be moist or dry.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Rather be a jackass with a brain than a drooling moron that can’t figure out a cornbread recipe without consulting fancy autocorrect.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I can just follow the recipe on the back of the cornmeal box. However, that recipe cannot be tailored to my tools, preferences, and circumstances. A cookbook typically cannot conform itself to the user, let alone speak with said user and collaborate.

    You take pride and joy in hurting people. That is gross. 🫤

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Remember to never miss the /s

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