Strictly speaking, we only have to govern the billionaires if we don’t just eat them…so it’s kind of a run-off between how easy to govern they decide to be, and how they taste…

(This is solely meant to humorous, officer, your honor.)

Yes. And we know Microsoft was drooling over the day when they shut down that server, and everyone’s library stops working 30 days later, allowing Microsoft to re-sell them all the games they previously bought.

Somehow it’s difficult for me to remember what I like?

I used to have mini-panic attacks when asked what I prefer.

Now, I just have memorized good enough responses that I won’t be unhappy with later.

Is that strange?

I’m told it’s not usual. So I guess so?

Does that make me non-human?

Nah. Human experience is much more varied than most people ever realize.

It does make you interesting.

I think a lack of enthusiasm has been kinda the default for me for as long as I remember

I’ve had life phases like that.

It doesn’t bother me as much, today, as it did, in the past.

Now, I focus on the things worth avoiding while I wait for my enthusiasm to return.

For me, enthusiasm returns, in bursts, eventually.

Thanks. I think every data point helps people.

I can’t say that particularly shocks me. I imagine that Chat GPT has probably swallowed dozens of Physics textbooks.

The bigger part of the problem is knowing where we are on the human knowledge novelty / training data available curve, or rather, when we need to get off of the ride.

Edit: Any chance your chosen AI has access to Wolfram Alpha as an MCP Tool? Because that would be very different, too.

If it’s successful at math, there’s likely much more than a leanring model in play.

Which brings us back to the opacity problem. :(

If the answer machine has been cleverly rigged (and weighted) to pass off math questions to more capable software, things can be great.

But a person who just hears that AI can do math now can have a very bad time if they go blindly use a brute force pleasant answer machine on a math problem. :(

For simple math that could work, and as long as the question is close enough to an exact match with plenty of published examples to copy.

A good rule of thumb is that the script it will come up with is about as likely to be correct as blindly taking the highest voted answer to the most similar question on Stack Overflow.

If the question is simple and common, the odds are quite good. If the question is nuanced or rare, the odds of a correct result drop off aggressively.

Edit: Your mileage may vary - providing an API to these LLMs that can do math correctly for them is pretty easy. Getting the LLM to consistently detect when to use that API is more challenging. But work-arounds exist.

You’ve misspelled “Fuck JK Rowling” there, mate.

I’m beginning to suspect we’re allowed to swear here…

Good one. The only worthy reply I can think of:

Certain algorithms do require knowing which way to orient the cube first, so some knowledge of the state of the cube is required.

I had not heard of that. Fascinating! Thanks!

I mean, they kind of did. It’s called Windows Subsystem for Linux, and it can run Linux programs on Windows, for anyone willing to coax it into working.

It’s not awful, but it cannot even do graphical programs yet. Wine is a decade or two ahead of it.

Edit: I would have bet it was proprietary, but it is MIT License. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

They probably didn’t know how to market it. Barely any purple zappy lights or spandex or or flames or blowout fight scenes.

Wild. I would expect a TV adaptation of Wonder man would have plenty of purple zappy lights and spandex and fight scenes.

They made a season of Wonderman?! Disney needs to up their game - particularly on DVD trailers, which are the only ads I still see.

It think we can all relate to having pre-wedding jitters about how our spouse will feel when they finds out we are secretly just a pile of magically animated mud and sticks.

This made me laugh. Thanks.

This place is going to start booming when creators figure out that our algorithm shows everything they share with everyone who chooses to follow them, every time.

I think we struck on something really unusually not-coded-by-total-assholes, here.

That’s the beauty of the law - no one knows (except everyone with any expertise, who just won’t admit they know.)

I can’t see Insta or TikTok without a login, anymore, I think?

Mastodon is nice, and still allows posting publicly.

Plus no algorithm bullshit to fuck with creators.

Also, it’s where the folks with options (money) went when Twitter became a Nazi bar, and there’s far fewer bot accounts. All in all, it seems like conversion rates are much higher given any amount of reach.

(Also, almost any post on any Mastodon server is reachable from all of the other servers and from all of Bluesky, thanks to federation. So one post gets access to the whole ecosystem.)

I think you can already get follows from Mastodon accounts through Lemmy, but most of us don’t do that, yet. (The apps are improving daily, I guess it may get easier.) I discover things, here on Lemmy; but I subscribe to things over on Mastodon.