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1. They don't & yall are "skeptical" of ID cards because it's the Mark of the Beast, so go figure
2. Easy, regulate Big Tech to the ground until there's only Small-to-Medium Tech left
3. Air, most of the time.
4. Your mom.

Can I be a VP or at least Chief of Staff now

he signed up with a cryonics company called Alcor, which cryogenically freezes dead bodies so that they can be resurrected at some future date, when the necessary technology becomes available

wait wait wait wait, hold up, record scratch

I thought the cryogenics thing was about being frozen while alive so that you can be woken up in the future once we know how to extend human life to like hundreds of years or so, kinda like the Walt Disney urban legend. That at least has some intuitive appeal to it. Now you're telling me it's about literal fucking resurrection? Like they want to become lich kings or something? That's somehow an order of magnitude dumber, like you're not betting on "we figure out waking people up and cure cancer sometime in the future" you're betting on "WE WILL RAISE THE DEAD AND RELISH IN THE NEW AGE OF UNDEAD MAN"

Alex Jones for one is convinced USA would "win" a nuclear war, so

Cosigned by the author I also include my two cents expounding on the cheque checker ML.

The most consequential failure mode — that both the text (...) and the numeric (...) converge on the same value that happens to be wrong (...) — is vanishingly unlikely. Even if that does happen, it's still not the end of the world.

I think extremely important is that this is a kind of error that even a human operator could conceivably make. It's not some unexplainable machine error, likely the scribbles were just exceedingly illegible on that one cheque. We're not introducing a completely new dangerous failure mode.

Compare that to, for example, using an LLM in lieu of a person in customer service. The failure mode here is that the system can manufacture things whole cloth and tell you to do a stupid and/or dangerous thing. Like tell you to put glue on pizza. No human operator would ever do that, and even if, then that's straight-up a prosecutable crime with a clear person responsible. Per previous analogy, it'd be a human operator that knowingly inputs fraudulent information from a cheque. But then again, there would be a human signature on the transaction and a person responsible.

So not only is a gigantic LLM matrix a terrible heuristic for most tasks - eg "how to solve my customer problem" - it introduces failure modes that are outlandish, essentially impossible with a human (or a specialised ML system) and leave no chain of responsibility. It's a real stinky ball of bull.

OT: Is there a standardised way of including alt text for pictures on Lemmy?

Nice Sneers For Winners 😥

There's a link to what appears to have been a picture (reddit.com/gallery) but it's dead. If you go through "new" Reddit it just says "removed by moderators".

I can't really tell what this is about from "we HAVE to do something about this" when "this" is an empty space :/

Archive link? The post was removed

A credible source on whether Nick Bostrom is a weirdo is Nick Bostrom cited verbatim

I guess it does, in the sense that I have asked "who tf is Matt Yglessias and why does anyone listen to him" many times and received no satisfactory explanation either

'TESCREAL' refers to a nonsense conspiracy theory that disparages people such as Nick Bostrom without citing any sources that are credible on the question of whether Nick Bostrom is an 'evil eugenicist' or whatever.

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even.

Holy shit, this is LinkedIn matetial