I feel it’s a vaguely Australian term?

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I’m sorry that happened to you. Being blinded by all mirrors is impressive, but I can imagine the kind of truck that does so.

You might want to check if your side mirrors aren’t set wrong. They should be angled down a little, no sense in looking at the sky through them. This helps to prevent you from being blinded through the side mirrors. For the main rear view mirror there should be this little toggle on the bottom. With this toggle you can quickly flip the mirror down to a second shaded mirror. This way you can still use the mirror, but not get blinded by it. I don’t know if all cars have this, but my old cheap car in the 80s had it, so I think it’s pretty standard. My current car, and presumably a lot of modern cars, has a auto darkening feature. When there is a chance of being blinded, it auto darkens uniformly, just like a welding shield. This helps a lot.

My advice if you get annoyed by other people whilst driving, is to stay calm and focus on yourself and your own driving. Be sure you drive safe, look out for other people in the road you might have missed due to being distracted by other assholes. Do everything you can to not let it get to you and make the roads safer for everyone.

It’s actually very important for headlights to not be diffuse. As their job is the very specifically throw light dozens of meters away in a very selective cone. The idea is to light up only the road and nothing else. Headlights usually achieve this by having multiple sets of lights inside. There are the main beams that light up the road in the distance. Wider broad beams (usually achieved with a lens) are used that light up more area near the car. This helps a lot with lighting up road sings and such. There’s also side beams that light up the sides of the roads. Depending on the exact sort of headlights, there can be even more. Like smart lasers that selectively highlight some stuff.

If one were to just blast diffuse light in all directions, it would not light up nearly as much of the road ahead. Which means they would need to be way more bright in order to do their job. At the same time they would blast out light in useless directions, wasting energy. And would make people getting blinded by lights even worse as all that light that would otherwise be pointed down, point straight into people’s eyes. But not just in the oncoming directions, but in all directions.

A diffuse light is good for being seen, but not good for lighting up a specific area. A directed not diffuse light is hard to see, except from the one direction, but is very good at lighting stuff up.

The issue with most car lights has nothing to do with the lights or the cars. It’s the idiots driving them. So many headlights are set way too high or not aligned at all. People often intentionally set them higher, because it helps them see, but hurts everyone around them. Another issue is the amount of light being put out is way too much. In the past, the amount of light would be pretty low, so people’s eyes would adjust and letting them see everything. However with more street lights being placed to help safety and these street lights also using leds and becoming brighter, it was harder for people to adjust to the light and thus needed more light for themselves. It’s like an arms race where we keep adding more and more light, which is terrible for everyone (including nature). In the end it’s lack of regulation that hurts the most. Brighter wider lights sell better, because people driving like them for the better vision it offers. Even people that get annoyed at being blinded by others. If people like them, it drives up sales, so cars get designed with brighter headlights. Same for cars getting bigger and bigger. And those bigger cars have the headlights higher, increasing the issue as well. Market drives into lunacy.

I fucking hate cars, get blinded by headlights all the time and think something should be done. But diffusing the lights is definitely not the solution.

Lol confirmed both idiot and troll, thanks :)

All right, we are done here. I’ve tried to engage with you in a fair and honest way. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to respond to the points you are trying to make.

But it appears you are just a troll or an idiot, either way I’m done.

Well maybe one person is a little bit more impressed by some pretty pictures than another person. I really don’t see what that has to do with a company like Microsoft putting their money into this? They don’t make songs or movie trailers.

To me I’m stunned but that’s just me, on top of this we’re only in year like 5 of AI going mainstream, where will it be in 10 years? 20 years?

This is a common trap a lot of people fall into. See what improvements have been made the last couple of years, who knows where it will end up right? Unfortunately, reality doesn’t work like that. Improvements made in the past don’t guarantee improvements will continue in the future. There are ceilings that can be run into and are hard to break. There can even be hard limits that are impossible to break. There might be good reasons to not further develop promising technologies from the past into the future. There is no such thing as infinite growth.

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Just checked out that song, man that song is shit…

“My job vanished without lift.” What does that even mean? That’s not even English.

And that’s just one of the dozens of issues I’ve seen in 30 secs. You are kidding yourself if you think this is the future, that’s one shit future bro.

What’s your point?

Sure that’s the point of venture capital, throwing some money at the wall and see what sticks. You’d expect to have most of them fail, but the one good one makes up for it.

However in this case it isn’t people throwing some money at startups. It’s large companies like Microsoft throwing trillions into this new tech. And not just the one company looking for a little niche to fill, all of them are all in, flooding the market with random shit.

Uber and Spotify are maybe not the best examples to use, although they are examples of people throwing away money in hopes of some sort of payoff (even though they both made a small profit recently, but nowhere near digging themselves out of the hole). They are however problematic in the way they operate. Uber’s whole deal is exploiting workers, turning employees into contractors just to exploit them. And also skirting regulations around taxis for the most part. They have been found to be illegal in a lot of civilised countries and had to change the way they do business there, limit their services or not operate in those countries at all. Spotify is music and the music industry is a whole thing I won’t get into.

The current AI bubble isn’t comparable to venture capital investing in some startups. It’s more comparable to the dotcom bubble, where the industry is perceived to move in a certain direction. Either companies invest heavily and get with the times, or they die. And smart investors put their money in anything with the new tech, since that’s where the money is going to be made. Back then the new tech was the internet, now the new tech is AI. We found out the hard way, it was total BS. The internet wasn’t the infinite money glitch people thought it was and we all paid the price.

However the scale of that bubble was small as compared to this new AI bubble. And the internet was absolutely a trans-formative technology, changing the way we work and live forever. It’s too early to say if this LLM based “AI” technology will do the same, but I doubt it. The amount of BS thrown around these days is too high. As someone with a somewhat good grasp of how LLMs actually work on a fundamental level, the promised made aren’t backed up by facts. And the amount of money being put into this aren’t near any even optimistic payoff in the future.

If you want to throw in a simple, over simplified example: This AI boom is more like people throwing money at Theranos than anything else.

Not simply operating at a loss, absolutely dumping their prices giving away their products for almost nothing to gain market share. They are burning money at an impressive rate, just for some imaginary payoff in the future.

Alright, we need to do some research on this right away. How many dentists out of 10 actually agree his motives are unknown?

Obviously this is gay, but can we get a check on if it is fake as well?

Ah yes that moment when the email comes in saying a game from your wishlist is on sale. You’ve been waiting for two years for the $39.99 game to drop in price. Damn, $7.99, still too much. I guess I’ll wait a little bit longer till it drops further and I can afford it.

And that one game that’s been $24.99 for as long as you’ve wanted it, staring you in the face. Maybe someday, maybe…

I’ve been called out on Lemmy by people I know from a specific Twitch channel, not like a small channel, but not one of those super huge ones. It’s probably because I’m a huge nerd and hang out where the best nerds hang out <3

There is another factor in this which often gets overlooked. A LOT of the money invested right now is for the Nvidia chips and products based around them. As many gamers are painfully aware, these chips devalue very quickly. With the progress of technology moving so fast, what was once a top of the line unit gets outclassed by mid tier hardware within a couple of years. After 5 years it’s usefulness is severely diminished and after 10 years it is hardly worth the energy to run them.

This means the window for return on investment is a lot shorter than usual in tech. For example when creating a software service, there would be an upfront investment for buying the startup that created the software. Then some scaling investment in infrastructure and such. But after that it turns into a steady state where the input of money is a lot lower than revenue from the customer base that was grown. This allows to get returns on investment for many years after that initial investment and growth phase.

With this Ai shit it works a bit different. If you want to train and run the latest models in order to remain competitive in the market, you would need to continually buy the latest hardware from Nvidia. As soon as you start running on older hardware, your product would be left behind and with all the competition out there users would be lost very quickly. It’s very hard to see how the trillions of dollars invested now are ever going to be recovered within the span of five years. Especially in a time where so much companies are dumping their products for very low prices and sometimes even for free.

This bubble has to burst and it is going to be bad. For the people who were around when the dotcom bubble burst, this is going to be much worse than that ever was.

An LLM cannot be anything other than a bullshit machine. It just guesses at what the next word would likely be. And because it’s trained on source data that contains truths as well as non truths, by chance sometimes what comes out is true. But it doesn’t “know” what is true and what isn’t.

No matter what they try to do, this won’t change. And is one of the main reasons the LLM path will never lead to AGI, although parts of what makes up an LLM could possibly be used inside something that gets to the AGI level.

Yes? What makes you think I’m not? I’m definitely not some kind of alien, you know wearing a human suit like some sort of second skin. Nah that would be crazy.

Relevant XKCD as required by internet law: https://xkcd.com/1530/

You would have to ask a doctor, don’t take medical advice from the internet.

From what I know it can irritate the skin and can lead to long term issues with the skin like dermatitis. It can also cause blood vessels to rupture under the skin, which is usually not a big issue and will heal. But it can cause some pain and leave a mark when healed and will only heal when it is given time to rest up, which can be hard if one is used to a lot of masturbation. If it isn’t allowed to heal, it can cause more problems. I’m sure there can be more issues, but I don’t know about those.

A lot of the risks of masturbation are myths or exaggerated a lot. Wanking once or twice a day is probably fine. And your body will let you know when you’ve overdone it.

And to add: Poor hygiene is a lot bigger risk than masturbation ever is. Keep your bottoms clean!

PORNHUB

It’s Pornhub, like https://pornhub.com/. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) porn site on the planet, used by millions if not billions. There is nothing wrong with watching porn if you feel like it. What you do in your own home is your own business. Just don’t wank too much, or you are going to have health issues. Which are also totally normal and you should just go talk to your doctor, they will not be surprised or shocked, it is literally their job to deal with stuff like that.

I feel the world is going crazy. Shoving all of this stuff under the carpet isn’t helping anyone and won’t make it go away. Half of the time I can’t understand my young niece and nephew because they speak in this code language, evolving all the time so they can talk about normal stuff young people talk about and stay ahead of the big censor machine. And often it’s censored so poorly, everyone can still read it, like what was the point then?

In the same vain, we have the technology and ability to give everyone on earth access to clean drinking water. We just can’t do it and still run a profit, so it doesn’t get done. Capitalism is the enemy of humanity.