[–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Mental health is pretty under-diagnosed clinically and overdiagnosed regularly. I mean for starters things like autism are well a huge ass spectrum. I've never been diagnosed with it, though I certainly have a ton of traits that... well really make sense for it now that I can look at it.

Would also say a large part of the problem is... everythings under-diagnosed clinically in the states because... all forms of healthcare are fricking expensive. So you can spend hundreds to get a doctors appointment to find out that you have it, and, either get a prescription that's also very expensive, or deal with it as you have been so far, and of course the irony that, if you haven't been succesful at dealing with it on your own, you probably have had a harder time working a job, and thus, are in a much worse position to afford the doctors and prescription.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm meaning picking the items and what I want on my food. Point is when I hit "extra pickles" the computer doesn't go "no pickles?" or possibly ignore me. Point is voice communication is... well rife with mishearing and miscommunication, whether the recipient is an AI or a human.

    Just as when I'm communicating with humans... if not having mistakes is important, I send a text.

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  • [–] 111 points 5 months ago (52 children)

    The only complaint I disagree with is

    We hate the kiosks at McDonald's, Wendy's, and Taco Bell that we are asked to use instead of talking to a person

    Personally I love the kiosks. I love being able to select exactly what I want, and not go through a communication layer with a person, who may mishear or misinterpret what I say, and adding that while still having humans there for people who don't like using screens or actually have questions is a good thing IMO.

    But yes, AI is all the flaws of human workers, plus some because they always have and always will be significantly worse than humans at spotting mistakes giving you what you don't want etc...

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I mean... both are inevitable... the economy has collapsed for the normal people, and employments been hitting everyone for over a year, and bottom line, either way AI goes... it's a lot of jobs. IE it fails and shrinks down... all the jobs around it are in trouble, it actually succeeds it's going to take as many jobs as possible, there's no job friendly ending to this.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    AI is as useful and necessary as 3D video, cryptocurrency, NFTs, The Cloud, and all the other fads. Note that all the fads have stuck around in one manner or another. LLMs will too.

    Agreed I see some strong use for AI... just not everywhere, everything like it's being shoved down our throats.

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  • [–] 52 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Was going to say, the quote sounds great, but of course I had a feeling the context was probably saying... calling the specific government/individuals who are commiting a genocide out for what they are actually doing. Rather than hating people for what their race is.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I mean I can say it's not quite as guaranteed to be bad. IE distance from A to B is inherently bad, Most distance driven COULD mean you made more stops and did more good.... or it could mean you took a horrible route, got lost and wound up crossing through the wrong state.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Only if you assume that all miles are correctly headed towards the destination. 2 drivers are given the same 3 places to deliver packages to.

    one drives 2000 miles, the other 50.

    Admitted though now that I actually think about it, I guess we already have that level of stupid assumptions. After all the normal system of pay for many jobs is by the hour. Which I suppose has all the same flaws.

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  • [–] 225 points 5 months ago (21 children)

    Whole concept of "how much AI you used", is so flipping stupid of a metric I can't even wrap my head around. I mean even if we assume it's their own AI they are using... that's their power etc... That's like a leaderboard for most gas used up, or miles driven by your truck drivers.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Bottom line every policy platner is calling for, is the exact opposite of nazi rhetoric. Meanwhile musk is retweeting great replacement theory posts and bolstering white suppremicist groups.

    In a vacume I'd have given musks Nazi salute a pass. Symbols can be mistaken and mis-given. Were it not at a time when he... literally was not just not banning, or unbanning white supremacists on twitter, but explicitly re-tweeting and bolstering them as well, it wouldn't have meant much.

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