[–] 1 point 5 days ago

3 huge bowls of sweets handed out. A steady growth year on year. Our street has very few houses decorated (elderly people with grown-up kids area, main action with hundreds of kids is in another part of town), but we enjoy putting our scary stuff out every year, and it seems that by word of mouth it spreads. Had a few families arriving by car specifically to our place.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    The problem is that AI enables ICE/Gestapo (or any other bad actor) to be much more Gestapo-y. Both mass disinformation and mass surveilance become much easier with it. Potentially, warfare as well, enabling a trillionaire shitstain to control a literal army of robots. So it works as a multiplier to your fear, unfortunately. To me, that is the real danger of AI, not the hypothetical threat of machines exterminating humanity Terminator style.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Surely in the age of self-promoting narcissists we would hear about these break-throughs in all the media?.. Not just "it can potentially cure cancer if you give us another $tn", the real results under review by relevant authorities/academics. Moreover, these breakthroughs do require a shitload of compute, but I do not see how a chatbot could be helpful with it. Other than, of course, stealing the preprinted work of some academic and claiming it their own, as recently with OpenAI Navier–Stokes equations conundrum. Can you imagine how many problems like that would already be solved if all these billions were spent on it, rather than chatbots drawing glossy pics?..

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    All thumbs up for Adam products. In my opinion - the best you can get at that price point (depending on where you are, of course. Regional pricing may screw that). Use it just for desktop music, and - if you, like me, are up with flat curve, - these are enjoyable even without a sub.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Thats because you have the sellable skills, which is the most important thing. Degree is helpful in some areas, essential in others and has no use everywhere else (outside of proving that a person is capable of learning and persevering).

    Cheating is not a sellable skill, and a huge red flag.

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