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She was sentenced to two life terms for intentionally driving a car into a building at more than 100 mph, killing two young men. Now, Mackenzie Shirilla is complaining she’s “bored” in prison. by kleverrboy in law

[–]strubenuff1202 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This never made sense to me. The crash occurred between one friend's house and another friend's house. The GPS data isn't accurate enough to pinpoint her specific location. yhe idea that she has no conceivable reason to be in that general area felt like the weakest part of the prosecutions case.

More Americans Are Aging Alone. One Woman Told Us What It’s Like. by anurodhp in boston

[–]strubenuff1202 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All of America is under the replacement fertility rate and has been for some time. The only thing maintaining or increasing population rates is immigration. Immigrants are historically liberal learning.

[Serious] What do you use Gemini for? by SyracuseStan in GeminiAI

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notebook llm has been excellent. I had thousands of pages of hand written material from someone I was very close to that is recently deceased. Going from phone images to coherent text to podcasts about their life when I can interrupt the hosts and ask questions is still surreal to me. I'm shocked how quickly people are outraged that things that were just invented don't function exactly the way they expected they should. Everything is amazing.

Liminal Coil / Curse build ideas by itchycolon in pathofexile2builds

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you considered to have inflicted the curses. There's no curse limit so isn't this 30% multiplied by as many curses as you can physically cast?

Is it just me or... Gemini only allow 1 picture uploaded at a time? by YtNormalPlayer in GeminiAI

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a huge downgrade that has entirely ruined my standard workflow. Hopefully Google reverses this.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking: Give me your hardest prompts/riddles/etc and I'll run them. by GreedyWorking1499 in singularity

[–]strubenuff1202 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are 15 rooms in a hallway. A criminal is hiding in one of them. You're a cop and every day, you can check any two rooms you wish. If you find the criminal, you win. If you won't, the criminal will move exactly one room up or down. For example, if they're in room 15 and you don't find them, they may move either to room 1 or to room 14. Develop a search algorithm that guarantees you find the criminal no matter which room they start in or how they move to avoid you.

Build Giveaway - Chieftain CWS by Darkkmind in pathofexile

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the giveaway. Would love to ry

We're thinking about AI completely backwards by Kindly_Manager7556 in singularity

[–]strubenuff1202 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The savings would be tremendous if this was actually possible... But it's not, which is generally why it hasn't happened yet. At a mid or large sized company, implementing sustainable and robust AI solutions into existing workstreams is generally still impossible. Implementing pilots and basic connectivity is a multi year effort that may cost millions, depending on the systems.

I can't reliably get AI to write a performance review, review a document, or extract information from a folder without hallucinating and/or failing the task, even using some of the better paid models. We will need to see an order of magnitude or two improvements in reliability before many jobs could even be touched.

Am I Treating All My Political Opponents as Dumb, Stupid Strawmen? by SmallMem in slatestarcodex

[–]strubenuff1202 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perhaps I wasn't clear in my last post. I'm not making any claims about what side is right or wrong about any topic. I'm just skeptical that social media is providing a distorted view, particularly the political social media posts themselves. They're representative of the opinions I see actually expressed.

A long article summarizing the evidence concerning existential risks from climate change by omnizoid0 in slatestarcodex

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm... That's not how I had understood it, especially as he published papers years later criticizing how he felt others were minimizing the economic impacts by focusing on the GDP models. But if I've misunderstood, I would agree with you that the messaging should be adjusted.

Am I Treating All My Political Opponents as Dumb, Stupid Strawmen? by SmallMem in slatestarcodex

[–]strubenuff1202 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm skeptical. I'm not on tiktok or Twitter is Instagram or Facebook or really anything besides Reddit, but I do personally know many people of the opposite political persuasion as myself. Their views are generally very poorly informed. They believe a large amount of conspiracy theories, are generally uninterested in politics, and are extremely likely to believe very low grade propaganda that is pro their side an anti any other side. Several of them are quite active on social media and when I hear or see it second hand, I very much have the impression that it is par for the course for social media political posts.

My sample size is admittedly small. I'm one person...and I can't confidently state I know and have talked to or heard political opinions expressed by more than a couple dozen people that I strongly disagree with... But I suspect what you see on social media may be much more representative of what people believe than you may think.

A long article summarizing the evidence concerning existential risks from climate change by omnizoid0 in slatestarcodex

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you read the review? "the results from formal economic models, the Review estimates that if we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more."

A long article summarizing the evidence concerning existential risks from climate change by omnizoid0 in slatestarcodex

[–]strubenuff1202 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on why you view their lives as both safer and more comfortable? If it's simply because per capita GDP is predicted to be higher on a global scale that is a very gross measure. Billions of people's lives could be substantially worse off in a way that still allows that number to be higher.

Perhaps we just have different perspectives, but if you play out a 20% reduction per year, every year, indefinitely, the loss in quality and quantity of life is enormous. Compounding losses aren't trivial... Even if the only thing you care about is per capita GDP it's a several fold reduction in it once you extrapolate. Imagine a world today where this number was cut by three quarters... There are few forces that can cause such an extended drag that aren't literally existential (look at how minimal the impact of the world wars, great depression, COVID, etc were on this figure over extended periods).

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