“Trump insider” sounds like a tapeworm

Hedonic threadmill: it’s the theory that we tend to a baseline level of happiness and on average, after some time, people who have won the lottery are as happy (or unhappy) as people who have gone bankrupt.

Look at us, we are apes, barely out of trees. We were fighting predators and cold and diseases that no longer exist. Just by being alive, we are the winners of millions of years of genetic lottery, through evolution, fights, love and ingenuity.

We have access to most of human knowledge through devices that fit in our pockets, can visit other countries that were legendary to our forefathers, instead of hunting wild beasts we have satellites that guide us step by step to the nearest McDonald’s.

Imagine time-traveling a few generations back, describing our life to our grand-grandparents, seeing their eyes grow wide. Now imagine, at the end, telling them how ennui got to us and we can no longer find meaning in our life.

I’m surprised they didn’t go for their signature move.

"Here’s the list. Aheam:

• Biden
• Biden
• Biden
• Clinton

… "

can he swing from a web

no, he can’t, he’s a pig

1 ot of 5 dentists is right

Same here. I also found myself trying to express things in my language using English constructs or colloquialisms that don’t have a direct translation. And my English isn’t even that great, but I have to use it daily for work.

Thank you for taking a stand in favor of all the vampires out there who are being unfairly denied careers in law enforcement

Are there any vampire rules against throwing a tear gas grenade through your window?

also in my experience, while a lot of Germans are happy to chat with you in English in a social setting, business talk is usually expected to be held in German

There are lots of shitty people in the world. She’ll find new friends she can be horrible to.

Would you say you are good at creating a meal plan or a work schedule by yourself, with no AI? I suspect if you know what a good meal plan looks to you and you are able to visualize the end result you want, then genAI can speed up the process for you.

I am not good at creative tasks. My attempts to use genAI to create an image for a PowerPoint were not great. I am wondering if the two things are related and I’m not getting good results because I don’t have a clear mental picture of what the end result should be so my descriptions of it are bad

In my case, I wanted an office worker who was juggling a specific set of objects that were related to my deck. After a couple of attempts at refining my prompt, Dall-E produced a good result, except that it had decided that the office worker had to have a clown face, with the make-up and the red nose.

From there it went downhill. I tried “yes, like this, but remove the clown makeup” or “please lose the clown face” or “for the love of Cthulhu, I beg you, no more clowns” but nothing worked.

I am not using it for this purpose, but churning out large amounts of text that doesn’t need to be accurate is proving to be a good fit for:

• scammers, who can now write more personalize emails and also have conversations

• personality tests

• horoscopes or predictions (there are several examples even on serious outlets of “AI predicts how the world will end” or similar)

Due to how good LLMs are at predicting an expected pattern of response, they are a spectacularly bad idea (but are obviously used anyway) for:

• substitute for therapy

• virtual friends/girlfriend/boyfriend

The reason they are such a bad idea for these use cases is that fragile people with self-destructive patterns do NOT need those patterns to be predicted and validated by a LMM.

Yes, it’s like the rubberducking technique, with a rubber duck that actually responds.

Sometimes even just trying to articulate a question is a good first step for finding the solution. A LLM can help with this process.

Meeting notes are the ideal use case for AI, in the sense that everyone thinks someone needs to write them but almost nobody ever goes back and actually reads them.

But when I got curious and read the AI generated ones (the ones from Zoom at least)… According to the AI I had agreed on an action that hadn’t been even discussed in the meeting and we apparently spent half of the meeting discussing weather conditions in the various locations (AI seems to have a hard time telling the difference between initial greetings or jokes and the actual discussion, but in this one it became weirdly fixated with those initial 5 minutes)

That’s true but at least one of these things needs to happen:

1. the forklift costs billions and consumes tons of energy, but it can lift a whole mountain, which no group of humans can do

2. the forklift helps a team of 10 do the work of 50 and, while still relatively expensive, it costs less than the 40 people it’s replacing

3. the forklift becomes an inexpensive commodity and it augments human capabilities and creates new possibilities for society as a whole

This is roughly what happened with mainframes to personal computers to mobile devices. LLMs are stuck between 1 and 2, they are not good enough forklifts to lift a mountain and not cheap enough to replace 40 people and save money. There are some hints that they could at one point move to 3 but the large players that could make it happen are starting to be scared by the amount of investment to get there.

On a related note, lot of people are being fooled by this hype machine mixing GenAI with good “old” machine learning and you now read about all these “AI wins” like “student discovers new galaxies with AI” or “scientist discover new medicines with AI” that make it sound like these people just asked ChatGPT “how would you go about discovering a new galaxy?” or “could you make up a new drug for me pretty please?”.

yes, but with at least $100M of additional VC funding

Consumer sentiment plummets and yet, Trump’s approval is staying where it is. Not particularly high, but at a relatively high point for him: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

I know it’s incredibly hard to connect the dots between the economy crashing and the orange guy waving a neon sign that says “it was me! I crashed the economy! Tariffs!” but at least some of the most astute GOP voters should have had that a-ha moment by now, shouldn’t they?

“organic AI”

no, no, no, RFK, it was this freaking “fascism epidemic” you were supposed to research

Remember when jokes were supposed to make people laugh? This is a horror movie. And we’re all the happy young girl you see in the first scene that you know is going to be gored within the first 10 minutes