I haven’t seen inside their system but the chances of it being an LLM are close to zero, least of all because LLMs are notoriously unreliable at calculating numbers. It’s far more likely that they’re saying “AI” because shareholders, and it’s actually something closer to traditional ML.
Yeah when I started travelling on a generous business expense account I found that it was increasingly the case that I didn’t even need to charge things to it. Things just start becoming fucking free when you’ve got money.
I’ve recently been looking at how Facebook’s advertising algorithm works, and it is a piece of pure fucking “the AI did it not us” evil. It can seek out all types of vulnerable people and target them on stuff that if a human salesperson did it you’d call them a sociopath.
Anorexic? Body confidence issues? Financial problems? Signs of susceptibility to fascist messaging? Here’s some paid messages from people who want your dollar. Seriously that whole place needs shutting down, it’s the worst thing to happen to humanity in recent history.
I have just learned that Smirnoff is (now) British, which I didn’t expect
It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.
“Valeo Foods” who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt’s, Fox’s mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan’s and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney’s company Bain Capital (which isn’t even a publicly traded company).
Mondelez’ acquisition of Cadbury’s everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.
Terry’s also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they’ve since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.
As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.
There’s a very large community on the other place absolutely frothing at how much censorship already exists in all the big models and trading tips on how to jailbreak them, and Meta in particular are putting a lot of money and effort and influence into trying to convince everyone to let them run riot. Sadly it looks like these bots are going to get worse before they get better. :(
at that stage you can just make up the answer as well
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Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:
takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house
predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club
the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you’re losing years of progression in a way that doesn’t happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.
spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well
success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer
…as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.
A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word “after” to imply a connection, when there’s zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but yeah. Head them off in the direction you want them to go, just like sheepdogs do.
Heat accelerates decomposition. Cold burns tissues. Water logfing from rain would be a nuisance, at least.
I think most “undead” type zombies handwave that sort of stuff away as part of the powers that animate them in the first place. It’s only really an issue for “virus” type zombies.
I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.
The best thing about all these organisations moving away from Microsoft is it incentivizes further development and QA. Or at least I hope all these governments switching to OSS are also funding people to keep a close eye on all the PRs coming in from state-sponsored hackers…
“curtail developer choice” is such a weak argument because you could equally apply it to literally every piece of regulation ever passed. Of course it curtails choice, that’s almost the dictionary definition of an industry regulation.
Absolutely. Every indicator available suggests Enshittification will hit the subscription models within the next few years.
Sure, we’d all like that, but pretending that piracy is some sort of noble way to bring about a collectivist creators’ paradise is yet more self-serving fantasy.
Not really, because obviously nobody who sincerely believed it was of no value would spend their time downloading it. The contradiction is in simultaneously claiming that something is of no value and therefore shouldn’t be paid for, whilst still expending effort to illegally copy it, this proving that it did have value. The only way to square it would be to claim that you’re the one who created new value by the act of downloading it, which is blatantly nonsense.
I hate IP trolls as much as the next person, but that feels almost like a non-sequitur
I don’t know if I’ve got a big enough sample size, but the only guys I know who wear black nail polish are creepy Marilyn Manson types who mainly get laid with girls they met in their therapist’s waiting room