When a classic youtube video is nearly old enough to vote…

I was so glad I was able to quote ‘Chinese myth dragon from Henry Yao’s textbook’ and ‘That’s not raichu you dick’ enough to find a reupload lol.

Looks like this is the OG?

https://m.youtube.com/@sickanimation/videos

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uarGR2NkCf8 video

In reality you should be able to get an anonymized reference number to show your vote was tabulated correctly though.

Right now it comes down to an actual official finding your paper ballot with hand marked tracking and presuming the computer read it correctly on an overall vote total.

Being able to do this anonymously and securely is where the problems lie. Which is also why digital only voting still isn’t a thing anywhere.

It’s more likely you aren’t using popular freely indexable trackers on currently airing popular media.

Try torrenting a current episode of a top 10 watched show within a week of release and see how fast you get one lol.

… IP addresses are assigned to modems… They don’t assign IP addresses to… Cables going to buildings I guess lol but ok.

And if you’re in some fucked up place that has the entire apartment complex’s internet going to one modem, then God save your soul.

This is exactly how I view LLMs and have used them before.

These people in these scenarios aren’t going ‘Amazon buy my gf a gift she likes.’

They’re going, please write a letter to my professor thanking them for their help and all they’ve done for me in biology.

I don’t know of anyone who trusts AI enough to just carte blanche fire off emails immediately after getting prompts back either.

The fear and cheapening of AI is the same fear and cheapening as every other advancement in technology.

• It’s not a a real conversation unless you talk face to face like a man say it in a group write it on parchment and ink pen and paper typewriter telegram phonecall text message fax email. E: rip strikethroughs?

• It’s not a real paper if it’s a meta analysis.

• It’s not it’s not it’s not.

All for arbitrary reasons that people have used to offset mundane garden levels of tedium or just outright ableist in some circumstances.

People also seriously overestimate their ability to detect AI writing or even pictures. That dude may very well have gotten a sincere letter without AI but they’ve already set it in their mind that the student wrote it with AI as if they know this student so well from 10 written assignments they probably don’t care about to 1 potentially sincerely written statement to them.

If people like that think it cheapens the value, that’s on them. People go on and on about removing pointless platitudes and dumb culturally ingrained shit but then clutch their pearls the moment one person toes outside the in-group.

It just feels so silly to me.

IT’S NOT ART UNLESS IT’S OIL ON CANVAS levels of dumb.

It’s not altruistic/good-natured unless you don’t benefit from it in any way and feel no emotion by doing it! You can’t help the homeless unless you follow the rules! You can’t give them money if you record it.

In the end, they still got that money. But somehow it devalues it because instead of raising two people up higher, you only raised one? It’s foolishness.

People also seriously overestimate other’s abilities and cheapen what their time is worth all the damn time.

Was kinda suprised I forgot about this one lol. Such a great episode.

… But why did it cheapen it when they’re the one that sent it to you? Because someone helped them write it, somehow the meaning is meaningless?

That seems positively callous in the worst possible way.

It’s needless fear mongering because it doesn’t count because of arbitrary reason since it’s not how we used to do things in the good old days.

No encyclopedia references… No using the internet… No using Wikipedia… No quoting since language and experience isn’t somehow shared and built on the shoulders of the previous generations with LLMs being the equivalent of a literal human reference dictionary that people want to say but can’t recall themselves or simply want to save time in a world where time is more precious than almost anything lol.

The only reason anyone shouldn’t like AI is due to the power draw. And nearly every AI company is investing more in renewables than anyone everyone else while pretending like data centers are the bane of existence while they write on Lemmy watching YouTube and playing an online game lol.

People are complicated creatures that can’t be easily fit into niche categories despite our brains need to do so.

Culture.

Yep. More simplistically, exercise makes you healthy. It doesn’t make you lose fat in the long term if that’s your only goal. Only diet changes will do that.

looking great while running on three potatoes in series

Fuck me man that got a good half minute of laughing out me. I need to remember that shit forever.

I get that it’s a ‘free’ product, but ugh.

Yes, he/everyone understands that for the past decade lol.

You say thSt until you can print off Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former and stick your dick in it.

Thanks I always try to be right on time vs late.

Fire cook food. Fire also kill…

So no, it’s really not lol. Most people smart enough to invent shit know that in can be used for evil. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use nuclear energy. There is nuance behind advancing civilization.

The people intelligent enough to make these things are usually looking far beyond anyone else and the military’s money is just as good as anyones.

Man makes fire and farming. Is subsequently responsible for every death known to man.

How dare they!

Old shit?: Bimetallic strips and clever designs.

New shit: Read the manual!

Praise be to R. Daneel Olivaw!

ricdeh 4 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Just wait for the nuclear shills to flood in and claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. No, it is not. Uranium extraction devastates entire landscapes, the construction of nuclear power plants is too expensive (even for SMRs, as the article explains), ergo electricity prices will climb, it is a hugely wasteful use of so many tonnes of concrete (concrete manufacturing is heavy on the environment too), it creates waste that will still haunt us for hundreds of thousands of years (finding geological structures that are guaranteed to be stable that long is difficult), and relative to the initial construction and set-up effort, they don’t provide that much energy. We already have methods that can provide us plenty enough electricity that are entirely sustainable by leveraging large-scale atmospheric aerodynamics as well as the largest nuclear fusion reactor at our disposal (the sun). There’s simply no need to go nuclear.

Brought to you by fossil fuel propaganda filtered through renewable resource advocates who would also lose out to nuclear energy.