I’m not talking about personal responsibility as in “don’t smoke cigarettes”. I’m talking about “ultra-processed foods are the mono-cause for all human disease”.

These people don’t believe in health-risks. They believe that everyone who ever gets sick could have chosen not to.

we have a personal responsibility to be as healthy as it is possible not only for our own good but for the greater good of society

Ironic how fast “personal responsibility” becomes “you owe your body to the State”. But even if we ignore the totalitarianism of your system, it’s still wrong.

Smokers and the Obese incur fewer lifetime health costs than joggers. So by your reasoning, it’s suddenly patriotic and prosocial to smoke, be a couch potato, and eat potato chips. People who work out are selfish and hate America.

RFK is the best illustration of the difference between informed skepticism and ignorant denialism.

The throughline of all his ideals is that health is a personal choice. Right wing people accept this because it means that we are not responsible for each other. Health-nut people accept this because it means that their quality of life is always going to be under their control.

Both of these ideas is so utterly wrong that it’s no wonder that people who accept them say and believe such silly things.

Why does everyone make fun of the May partner in May-December relationships? He’s the bigger fool. Doing way more for her than she does for him.

In a world where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos count as business geniuses and inventors, this woman is a self-made millionaire.

I fucking love this because it leaves everybody with one of two conclusions. One, AI isn’t capable of doing the simplest of jobs. or Two, working a drive thru is actually quite complex and difficult and humans that master it are more capable than trillion dollar software.

Wow, AI researchers are not only adopting philosophy jargon, but they’re starting to cover some familiar territory. That is the difference between signifier (language) and signified (reality).

The problem is that spoken language is vague, colloquial, and subjective. Therefore spoken language can never produce something specific, universal, or objective.

“When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts,” the blog post notes. “If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement.”

See? Even the people who make AI don’t trust it with important decisions. And the “trained” humans don’t even see it if the AI doesn’t flag it first. This is just a microcosm of why AI is always the weakest link in any workflow.

This is exactly the use-case for an LLM and even OpenAI can’t make it work.

Just remember: these are the same people who assembled the rides.

I hate this argument. “You people can’t exist in public because I might have to talk to my stupid kids”.

The American Psychological Association met with the FTC in February to urge regulators to address the use of AI chatbots as unlicensed therapists.

Protect our revenue, er patients!

found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.

-Microsoft, in May

Dear Microsoft, If you looked for evidence, that is going to imply that your software could totally be used to harm people, it just isn’t in this case. As far as you know.

Wow, Republican delusion lines up perfectly with big-business interests? weird.

Also weird that the “extreme” climate agenda has been calling for strengthening the power grid for decades.

I was able to roll-back this update. But my computer is still running Windows. Help!

Calling Cain Abelist is some funny shit.

I think AI power usage has an upside. No amount of hype can pay the light bill.

AI is either going to be the most valuable tech in history, or it’s going to be a giant pile of ash that used to be VC capital.

I think it’s wise to keep in mind that outrage and moral condemnation of mothers abandoning their children is often the chain that keeps women in bad situations. It’s also a double standard that rarely applies to the legion of men who abandon their families every day.

“War of the Worlds” 2025

“I think we will see computing become more ambient, more pervasive, continue to span form factors, and certainly become more multi-modal in the arc of time … I think experience diversity is the next space where we will continue to see voice becoming more important. Fundamentally, the concept that your computer can actually look at your screen and is context aware is going to become an important modality for us going forward.”

You could fertilize 200 acres with that much bullshit. truly a crime against the English language.

The thing that bothers me about LLMs is that people will acknowledge the hallucinations and lies LLMs spit out when their discussing information the user is familiar with.

But that same person will somehow trust an LLM as an authority on subjects to which they’re not familiar. Especially on subjects that are on the edges or even outside human knowledge.

Sure I don’t listen when it tells me to make pizza with glue, but it’s ideas about Hawking radiation are going to change the field.

It’s always lovely to be reminded that eugenics remains a popular idea so long as you don’t call it that.

I used to work with a guy that smoked and refused to wear a seat-belt. He carried a gun though, just in case his life was in danger.