I mean, honestly this is one of the better uses for machine learning. Not that this age checking is a good thing but if you’re going to do it on a mass scale then this seems like the right approach. I imagine that especially for a relatively heavy user this is going to be extremely accurate and far better than the alternative of providing a selfie let alone picture of an ID.

Upon closer inspection, the chisel end seems to have a lower angle than the knife edge. It’s a relatively thick carbon steel blade, so I’m not worried about durability, and it should be easy to sharpen. I’ll probably just keep the chisel end sharp and leave the blade itself dull.

The blade is loose inside the handle and wiggles quite a bit. I think this knife’s done.

Yeah both edges are single bevel. Didn’t actually even realise that while in the store. My only other single bevel knife is Opinel and that thing cuts crazy good.

I’m not sure about the angle but looks about the same.

I have around 4 in total. All in different toolboxes actually.

Way to move the goalposts.

If you take that question seriously for a second - AlphaFold doesn’t spew chemicals or drain lakes. It’s a piece of software that runs on GPUs in a data center. The environmental cost is just the electricity it uses during training and prediction.

Now compare that to the way protein structures were solved before: years of wet lab work with X‑ray crystallography or cryo‑EM, running giant instruments, burning through reagents, and literally consuming tons of chemicals and water in the process. AlphaFold collapses that into a few megawatt‑hours of compute and spits out a 3D structure in hours instead of years.

So if the concern is environmental footprint, the AI way is dramatically cleaner than the old human‑only way.

Artificial intelligence isn’t designed to maximize human fulfillment. It’s built to minimize human suffering.

What it cannot do is answer the fundamental questions that have always defined human existence: Who am I? Why am I here? What should I do with my finite time on Earth?

Expecting machines to resolve existential questions is like expecting a calculator to write poetry. We’re demanding the wrong function from the right tool.

Pretty weird statements. There’s no such thing as just “AI” - they should be more specific. LLMs aren’t designed to maximize human fulfillment or minimize suffering. They’re designed to generate natural-sounding language. If they’re talking about AGI, then that’s not designed for any one thing - it’s designed for everything.

Comparing AGI to a calculator makes no sense. A calculator is built for a single, narrow task. AGI, by definition, can adapt to any task. If a question has an answer, an AGI has a far better chance of figuring it out than a human - and I’d argue that’s true even if the AGI itself isn’t conscious.

It won’t solve anything

Go tell that to AlphaFold which solved a decades‑old problem in biology by predicting protein structures with near lab‑level accuracy.

Lemmy on se virallinen nimi joka suomentuu Sopuliksi. Lemmy itsessään on vähän kuin sähköposti. Ei ole olemassa mitään “virallista” sähköpostia vaan on gmail, outlook, hotmail jne. joista voit valita haluamasi ja se kommunikoi sitten vapaasti muiden palveluntarjoajien kanssa. Niinkun näet, niin en itse ole Sopulin jäsen, mutta silti voin kommentoida tänne.

En tajua… Toistuvasti tulee eteen tilanteita, kun joku ääneen ihmettelee, että mitähän se-ja-se nykyään tekee ja ei mene kun minuutti, kun joku on googlannut sometilit mistä löytyy käytännössä koko elämänhistoria 15 vuotta taaksepäin. Pari vuosikymmentä taaksepäin, niin edes viranomaisilla ei ollut yhtä kattavaa pääsyä ihmisten yksityistietoihin.

Finland recently passed a law prohibiting under 15 year olds from riding electric scooters and similar vehicles. Up untill now, the average age of the people hospitalized for accidents with these has been 12 years.

Asking investment advice from a system that’s designed to do nothing else but generate natural sounding language based on probabilities is pretty stupid.

That being said, what’s wrong with this answer? I think it’s more or less a good and balanced take.

Here’s the first half of it that I left out:

I’m unable to replicate your results. I get a long and nuanced aswer. Mind sharing the answer you got?

When I asked the same thing the conclusion was:

So is AI a good investment? The sector has long-term potential, especially in areas like chip manufacturing, enterprise automation, and maybe foundational model licensing. But it’s also deeply speculative right now, with prices reflecting hype as much as earnings.

If you’re thinking long-term and can stomach volatility, AI is worth including. If you’re chasing short-term returns because you think “AI is the future,” you might be buying someone else’s exit.

It’s a bit sensationalist to say someone “faces possible jail time” just because the maximum sentence for breaking a law is up to three years in prison. Also, he’s not being sued for reviewing handheld gaming devices - it’s about the ones shipped with copyrighted content.