Life is about gathering resources and using them to reproduce. Humans like being social because for thousands of years it was more efficient to do that socially. Nowadays it's not.
No, it's not. You sound like a biology textbook, not a human being.
Readit Newsatlantic commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10
I usually take one picture of an occasion. And there might be one or two events that qualify as occasions each month. That way, some trigger for the memory is created, but picture-taking does not get in the way of experiencing things.
Okay, but put the panels on rooftops, not over that nice greenery.
It's not "over" greenery. Land is entirely cleared of vegetation before panels are installed, including the occasional forest. Thousands of larger birds are killed by wind farms. Offshore wind farms are creating deserts for fish. Understandably, many prefer the good old days before the planet was being saved.
atlantic commented on AI models miss disease in Black and female patients science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
> The dataset they used to train the model are chest xrays of known diseases. I'm having trouble understanding how that's relevant here.
For example, If you include no (or few enough) black women in the dataset of x-rays, the model may very well miss signs of disease in black women.
The biases and mistakes of those who created the data set leak into the model.
Early image recognition models had some very… culturally insensitive classes baked in.
If diseases manifest differently for different races and genders, the obvious solution is to train multiple LLMs, based on separate datasets for those different groups. Not to mutter darkly about bias and discrimination.
atlantic commented on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019) exurbe.com/stoicisms-appe... · Posted by u/Tomte
Calling Plato a dualist seriously calls into question the author's philosophical credentials.
atlantic commented on A.I. is prompting an evolution, not extinction, for coders nytimes.com/2025/02/20/bu... · Posted by u/mikhael
I've found that AI has saved me time consulting Stack Overflow. It combines thorough knowledge of the documentation with a lot of practical experience gleaned from online forums
It has also saved time producing well-defined functions, for very specific tasks. But you have to know how to work with it, going through several increasingly complex iterations, until you get what you want.
Producing full applications still seems a pipedream at this stage.
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atlantic commented on My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/ajdude
The people who created ChatGPT have very fancy educations. Do you think any of them didn’t have or didn’t do homework?
You can have homework for practice. That is obviously very useful. What I mean is that any unsupervised work will stop counting towards final grades.
atlantic commented on My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/ajdude
The most likely eventual outcome of ChatGPT (and similar software) will be the elimination of graded homework/coursework, and a renewed emphasis on traditional in-person tests and exams.
From what I can tell, TBC has failed to revolutionize tunnel-boring machines to date.