[–] 13 points 1 month ago

$10 says the dev is doing the project to pad their CV to try to score a job they're not qualified for. We're all having to deal with sorting the chaff and the grain because silicon valley loonies thought giving people access to a stochastic parrot was a great idea. Crackpots are now empowered.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    These AI labs shouldn't be private profit-seeking corporations. They should be more like publicly-funded nonprofit research institutions like Fermilab or something. It doesn't seem possible to even talk about the labs without feeling like you're increasing their value. That's a problem. It's also a problem that the research and announcements from the labs sound like publicity stunts. It's hard to tell what's genuine and what's buzz for the press. There's this arms race between the labs that's negatively affecting seemingly everything. This should all just be put to an end. Step on the brakes. I don't claim to know how to do that when the Constitution makes private property sacred, but, you know, just throwing the idea out there... The Constitution can always be changed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    I've always thought that cosmetic work which makes you look younger is dishonest. It's a way to cheat and make people subconsciously think you've got the same capabilities of a young person when you're actually going nearly senile. If Musk looked his age, he wouldn't be nearly as respected. If congresspeople had to look their age with gray hair and bald spots, we'd be voting them out long before they become old farts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It doesn't work that well anymore.

    After an edit to the Awareness article in April of 2024, switching the order of Philosophy and Psychology, the number of articles that lead to Philosophy this way had been greatly reduced, as Awareness and Psychology formed a loop of their own. In the months after the edit, there were numerous attempts to switch the order of the links leading to a discussion on the Awareness talk page. Following another discussion, the order was changed back in July 2026.

    Following discussions like Talk:Mathematics#Hyperlinks missed in the first paragraph about over-linking in the first paragraph of articles, some first links were changed or removed in July 2026. As a result, almost no articles continue to lead to "Philosophy" as of July 2026

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Only if the affected users know about the existence of lemmy, and many of them likely do not. If you happen to still be using reddit, you should use it to shill lemmy, hopefully in a diversity of subreddits so that lemmy doesn't become any more of an echo chamber than it already is.

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