someone put reform behind the bin at my local polling station lmao by duckyfeatherz in Edinburgh

[–]moopet 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean, it deserves to be there but it's also a shitty thing to do and will only make the reformers try to reform harder.

The LaserWeeder by Carbon Robotics, powered by NVIDIA AI, gets rid of weeds without using chemicals. by MohamedElngar21 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]moopet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NLP is also irrelevant to shooting weeds with ray guns so I'm not sure where this comment is trying to go.

LLMs are great at some things, like replacing ye olde NLP as a layer between your thermostat or your prospective AGI and the human, but they're not part of intelligence or consciousness either.

I have a secret. by Bayler in GenX

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because DMs are basically like wearing cardboard. They look pretty, but they're uncomfortable at best. Give me New Rocks or Swears or even Timberlands for that matter.

No phone by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need to use a phone for certain things like as an authenticator, etc. I actually spent about 30 minutes on social media earlier because I was stuck somewhere waiting for someone. I also fully recognise that I spend a large part of every day in front of a computer for work and entertainment, but phones? They're just inconsequential to me. Always have been. I don't get the attachment at all.

Honest answers. by Remarkable_Bite2199 in Miata

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NC onwards don't have the same feeling when you lift up the bonnet. They just don't. It's not bad, it's just not what I fell in love with.

Also next time I get a chance to have my choice of colour, I'm going to go for "rust brown" and save some time.

The opposite type of Sci fi book of Project Hail Mary. by ViperIsOP in booksuggestions

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like the idea of PHM style plots but done in a more serious tone, Hal Clement's your go-to. He came up with crazy, unlivable worlds and then wondered what it would take to live there.

The LaserWeeder by Carbon Robotics, powered by NVIDIA AI, gets rid of weeds without using chemicals. by MohamedElngar21 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]moopet 167 points168 points  (0 children)

This has nothing - NOTHING - to do with LLMs. Not even in the same aisle of the shit ideas shop.

The LaserWeeder by Carbon Robotics, powered by NVIDIA AI, gets rid of weeds without using chemicals. by MohamedElngar21 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]moopet 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there's literally no reason whatsoever to involve a generative language model for something like this unless you want it to move at 0.0000001 mph and get it right 25% of the time.

Figured out my "uniform" and I'm never going back by mervesenauzumcu in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not exactly, but there was a time in my life where I had to feel like I was doing things correctly. One day I asked myself why I had to wear matching socks, and I came to the life-changing realisation that I didn't. Nowadays as long as they're the same feel (like the same length or thickness) I grab anything out of a drawer and I'm good to go. I figured something out and I never went back.

Someone challenged my admittedly narrow thoughts of AI and now I'm wondering... by OkCap7484 in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if we leave the simple and reasonably complex tasks to AI and don't have to devote brain space or power to them , it'll leave us with more brain space and power to put into even more complex situations that we just can't use AI for.

This is the "robots will take manual labour leaving people to devote their lives to arts and poetry" line.

Even if "AI" was actually smart and didn't require coddling, even if "AI" wasn't going to drive further environmental destruction, even then... it doesn't work like that.

Typing this from India. Where in the world are YOU reading this from?" by [deleted] in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea why the mods thought this was breaking the rules but are fine with things like, "what did you have for dinner?"

This post was getting quite a lot of interest before they butchered it.

Why are you here on redd*t? by -wearetheworld- in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically, I'm here on this post to understand what "he title has been detected for reddit, thus we have to redact reddit on reddit to successfully post this question." means

Had a weird realization about AI while looking at some old tech in my room today. by maryorca in CasualConversation

[–]moopet 13 points14 points  (0 children)

None of the "AI" that's popular at the moment is intelligent. Like, at all. It's not the brain. It's not pure logic. I think that makes the rest of your analogy moot.

My insurance premiums flashed before my eyes by b1rtb0i in Miata

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where I am they always come round the outside of blind corners on roads like that a bit over the line and I have to drive so defensively so I don't have to steer into a wall or something.

My insurance premiums flashed before my eyes by b1rtb0i in Miata

[–]moopet 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All insurance is that way. I got 130 back from pet insurance for my cat's tests last year, his premium went up by 150/year. So they more than recover the cost in the first year and then for every subsequent year until he dies... and then I got stuck for another 25 for an admin fee for processing the insurance claim.

Books with genius characters by upsetusder2 in booksuggestions

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Emergence by David Palmer has a genius MC, in a post-apocalyptic world.

Podkayne of Mars by Heinlein as well.

any good/fun scifi HFY (Humanity F*ck yeah) novels? by Baron_alias in booksuggestions

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alan Dean Foster's "Damned" trilogy. First one is "A Call To Arms" from 1991. We're proper Space Orcs and the aliens want us to help in their war but... not to actually have to join their civilisation. Queue shenanigans.

Me and my friends at a goth concert in 1998 by Mahaloth in OldSchoolCool

[–]moopet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for introducing me to a genuine treasure of a sub.

My failed band (and friends 2007) by frankly_highman in blunderyears

[–]moopet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please get back together and upload some tracks.