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@Typo-MAGAshiv I don't go well? Well I can prove you didn't go well, because I saw her face and she was a believer. And you thought she didn't go well. So clearly you're talking nonsense.
AI is great if you understand its limitations and only use it for what it can do and if those tasks would otherwise take many human hours to do in what it can do it seconds.
Like any device, it is a tool, not something you can just use and expect it to flawlessly work on its own without any guidance
@MentORPHEUS I moved out of Bangkok to an outer district. If I get up high and look back towards the city there is a clearly visible globe of smog hanging over the place.
I went back in to take part in the Songkran festival and by the end of the day my throat was sore and my eyes stung. I was coughing up the smell of Bangkok for a good few hours after.
It’s probably a combination of volume of traffic, inefficient traffic system, heat, humidity and poor vehicle regulation.
An outcome polar opposite to what lobbyists and partisans predicted, that "environmentalist wackos" would end mechanized transportation in the name of their "green agenda."
This speaks to my larger point. I’m not overly concerned with something like AI now because we’re witnessing the optimisation take place at unprecedented speeds. The “smog” of AI is a tiny moment in the history of its development, so to speak.
I’m not very impressed with the Luddite-esque attitude people take up with AI, but resistance is part of the optimisation process I guess.
Asking it culturally significant questions from a partisan position is also the worst use case imaginable, and is such a depressingly short sighted litmus test for the capabilities of these things.
I’ll be mad if we’re dragged down by lowest common denominator baying at AI for their factoids.
Read MoreGrok is this true?
I have a few go-to question to ask of any search engine. The results tell me everything I need to know.
The very minute I heard about Claude, I asked it a question and it literally challenged me for even asking the question to begin with!
For example: If I asked Claude to explain hypergamy to me and it responded:
Hypergamy is an Alt-Right, Red Pill trope designed to spread hatred of women
What would you think?
Yeah. Me too.
Some of these bugs had been sitting undetected for decades.
There might be a good side to AI scanning vulnerabilities
Pegasus is spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group that is designed to be covertly and remotely installed on mobile phones running iOS and Android.[1] While NSO Group markets Pegasus as a product for fighting crime and terrorism, governments around the world have routinely used the spyware to surveil journalists, lawyers, political dissidents, and human rights activists.[2] The sale of Pegasus licenses to foreign governments must be approved by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.[3]
@deeplydisturbed Stop using AI. AI is only good for deep research not to ask for opinions but it's still in fact truly biased in this department as well.
@Stigma As a retired professional vehicle mechanic, this evolution of rocket engines looks highly reminiscent of the evolution of engine compartments as emission control requirements tightened, and manufacturers responded to them first with kicking and screaming resistance, but eventually evolving the tech.
70s and 80s vehicles had MASSES of add-on vacuum operated "smog" devices and other equipment to keep the "simple" carburetor at the heart of the fuel system and basic centrifugal + vacuum advance distributor. Drivability, longevity, ease of access for repair, and fuel mileage all suffered, and car owners and mechanics alike reviled "all that stupid smog shit" not without ample justification.
The so-called Big 3 American manufacturers, spent much more on lawyers and litigation fighting the standards, than they did on engineers for R&D. Meanwhile, German and especially Japanese manufacturers went about quietly building vehicles that MET the new requirements WHILE still being fun to drive, easier to repair, and routinely last 1/3 million miles.
American manufacturers got so far behind, that when they finally committed to give up "simple" carburetors for now well evolved fuel injection and electronic spark control systems, they licensed the technology developed largely by Bosch and Denso.
Now, instead of the model of keeping 100 year technology of the carburetor and mechanical spark control, then adding extra layers to fine-tune the naturally crude nature of these, they inject precisely metered quantities of fuel updated for each cylinder, and time the spark for each as well. The result, basic four stroke cycle engines (with combustion chambers and valve systems also well evolved) practically convert every molecule of fuel into energy output while generating little to no incomplete combustion or nitrogen oxide pollutants at the tailpipe.
The payoff is great. Growing up in Los Angeles, I remember heavy amber-brown smog that hurt to breathe in the 70s, giving way to clear blue skies 300+ days a year despite massive population and vehicle-mile growth. An outcome polar opposite to what lobbyists and partisans predicted, that "environmentalist wackos" would end mechanized transportation in the name of their "green agenda."
The evolution of engine compartments from 70s to 2020s model vehicles, mirrors the evolution of rocket engines from extremely complex to minimalist simplicity giving the same energy product output, shown in your cool picture!
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