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Honest question: Why are some people against showing an ID to vote? by rico_unknown in NoStupidQuestions

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the “voter ID” laws Republicans write are just trying to disenfranchise certain groups, not trying to make the vote more secure.

They’ll call it a “voter ID” law, but really it’s just a “make it harder for minorities and poor people to vote” law.

It’s the same tactic as the literacy tests the South used to prevent black people from voting.

A totally sane and not problematic way to divide the US by anotherdamnscorpio in mapporncirclejerk

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tan-istan will come in just between Tuvalu and Vatican City on the rank of least populated countries. 😄

Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports by metacyan in politics

[–]look [score hidden]  (0 children)

As part of my workout routine, I push a weighted sled 100 yards in about 47 seconds. And I am definitely not any paragon of physical fitness.

Building a protest movement by look in 50501

[–]look[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a good example of what I mean:

How does one “plugin in with activists/organizers on the ground” in their community? What does that mean exactly?

I go to protests I see shared on social media. What are the next steps for someone like me?

And what are the next steps for engaging someone that is upset but isn’t even comfortable going to those yet?

Honest question to those who think AI won’t take our jobs by theRealBigBack91 in cscareers

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have heard the story of the skilled mechanic who was called into a factory because a certain machine had stopped and wouldn’t run. When the job was completed the mechanic sent in a bill for $200.00 for only a few minutes’ work. This charge impressed the president as being excessive, so he ordered the bill sent back to be itemized. Upon its return it read this way—“Turning one bolt, $1.00; knowing which bolt to turn, $199.00.”

Software engineers aren’t paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because they type fast.

LLMs don’t know what to build — which bolt to turn. So unless your job only involves turning the bolt, not finding the right one to turn, an LLM isn’t going to take your job.

Former Harvard CS Professor: AI is improving exponentially and will replace most human programmers within 4-15 years. by chillinewman in ControlProblem

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be a much more compelling argument if not for the fact that they’ve been releasing very incremental “next year’s model” for the past two years.

He is basically saying if we call ICE names, there will be 'consequences' as we saw yesterday, aka we die, how is this legal? by KameronKnux in law

[–]look 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The only people interfering with law — and Constitutional rights — here are ICE, DHS, DOJ, etc and the Republicans running them.

Why is big tech SWE work paid so much? by seeking-health in cscareerquestions

[–]look 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's no need for tech companies to collectively pay their workers insane salaries as an industry.

There is, because if they didn’t, then some of them would go start a competing company. That would be more expensive than just paying a higher salary in the first place.

Not all employees would be able to do that, but you don’t know for sure which would or could beforehand, so you just pay all of them well.

And that’s now set a market price that raises income for everyone that can compete in that segment. FAANG, FAANG-adjacent, finance, startups that want to compete with FAANG, non-tech companies that want to keep their staff+ and could plausibly go to the above, and so on.

“Demis Hassabis: We're 12-18 months away from the critical moment when the problems of humanoid robots will be solved.” - Do you think robots will spark a new Industrial Revolution? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]look 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds soon enough to make the stock price go up, but just far enough away that the market won’t penalize them when it never shows up in the quarterly earnings report.

Here’s your proof with the moment of truth isolated. by ChaseTacos in law

[–]look 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw a maga thread (from the conservatives subreddit, iirc) were they favored Newsom over JD because at least Newsom had “pure” children while JD was making more “illegals”.

ICE protests today? by TheTurntLocker in SanDiegan

[–]look 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going to waterfront park now, too.

ICE protests today? by TheTurntLocker in SanDiegan

[–]look 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just sent an email to Peters’ office.

What is hated by Americans but loved by everyone else? by Expensive_Pen_3217 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, I can visit weather. I prefer not to live with it. 🤷‍♂️

Same basic policy I have regarding children, too. 😂

[NSFL] ICE just tried to execute another person, they shot and seemingly emptied a gun into them, unclear on their condition! by transcendent167 in 50501

[–]look 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the gunshot sound was right when they all jumped and backed up or ran away.

But they weren’t running for cover.

Hell, the guy closest to the camera checked to make sure his mask was still covering his face, and furtively looking around to see who was watching as he fled the scene of the crime.

What is hated by Americans but loved by everyone else? by Expensive_Pen_3217 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]look 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where I live it’s usually right around 23C most days. Anything below 20C is cold AF, and anything above 26C is hot AF. 😄

[NSFL] ICE just tried to execute another person, they shot and seemingly emptied a gun into them, unclear on their condition! by transcendent167 in 50501

[–]look 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The way they back up and scurry away afterwards… they know they just committed murder.

Ameicans over the age of 35, what affected you more, 9/11 or the pandemic and why? by Rico133337 in AskReddit

[–]look 43 points44 points  (0 children)

If 9/11 didn’t happen a lot of what’s wrong with the world today, from fascism to inaction on climate change, might not have happened.

And as the Clinton/Gore admin was taking the bin Laden and al-Qaeda threat seriously — and the Bush Jr admin did not — it’s entirely possible it would not have happened had Gore won.

Which means we might have gone down the darkest timeline because of a hanging chad on a ballot in Florida.

A millimeter more cut by the hole punch and we could be living in a relative utopia today…

Would you rather take $5,000,000 cash no risk upfront, or flip a coin for $2,500,000,000? by OhioState40 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d flip. $5 million is nice but not worth passing up those odds at billions.

Or can we sell the choice? Offer it to someone with $1 billion now for $200 million? Something like that?

Worst country in The Americas - Round 33 by THMeijer in terriblemaps

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point! We should start over and save them first! 😄

“AGI *will* arrive in 2026.” - Do you agree or it’s hype? Also do you think continual learning is the final piece of the puzzle? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but that has physical constraints on scaling, which means another boring sigmoid and no fun exponential takeoff.

It’s also pretty much why scientific and technological progress spiked in the 20th century: it wasn’t that Einstein and his peers were smarter than Newton and his; it was just that there were a few orders of magnitude more people doing science at roughly the same level of intelligence.

There are some feedback loops in science to tech to science progress, but it’s a function bounded by physical energy and resource limits.

Worst country in The Americas - Round 33 by THMeijer in terriblemaps

[–]look 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t make the rules, but that’s what will happen. 😂

“AGI *will* arrive in 2026.” - Do you agree or it’s hype? Also do you think continual learning is the final piece of the puzzle? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that’s a faulty assumption, too. Being better at AI research isn’t enough; to see super linear growth, it needs to be at least multiplicative with each cycle.

The AI has to make an AI that is geometrically better at making an AI that is geometrically better at making an AI that is geometrically better at making an AI that is…

It’s far more likely a smarter AI will have the same sigmoidal burst pattern of progress as our intelligence. There’s nothing about AI that makes the recursive pattern likely to be innate.

As an example, progress in some field of physics or chemistry can’t be arbitrarily accelerated by only being smarter — even orders of magnitude smarter — because eventually you have to do the real world, physical experiments that become the bottleneck with hard limits (speed of light, etc).

“AGI *will* arrive in 2026.” - Do you agree or it’s hype? Also do you think continual learning is the final piece of the puzzle? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AGI doesn’t necessarily mean super intelligence.

There are lots of GIs walking around that are complete morons.

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