This does sound a lot like Washington Monument Syndrome but I’m happy to be corrected
Readit Newserur commented on IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' theverge.com/news/717308/... · Posted by u/microsoftedging
Can‘t wait for A2 to finally come out - must be any day now
erur commented on A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/prismatic
It’s odd to me how upset people get about this.
Historic buildings seem very ledger-esque as changes and previous states get documented well and any modification isn’t truly erasing history but just appending to it.
I doubt historians will have much trouble with some additions from our time. In any case, they would be a new historic artifact.
erur commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
Europe doesn't work that way (yet), there is no political weaponization of phone charges.
The European Parliament is advertising this as a win for the EU. Yet it isn’t entirely uncontroversial and there’s plenty of voices arguing it’s overreaching - easy to argue this matches the broad definition of political weaponization as-is.
erur commented on Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods plasticlist.org/report... · Posted by u/jeff18
Great read and amazing initiative.
Relevance of findings seems to 90% depend on whether you believe the EFSA BPA intake thresholds over the FDA.
Love how transparent they’re about it instead of doing what most do.
The world needs more of this.
Given how Apple is pushing the carbon neutral narrative while still not reaching the goal on all its products, I assume just buying the credits would tank their margins enough to push them to actually reduce the footprint first.
This looks to me like one instance where the incentives are decently working, at least to some point.
Maybe. Alternatively it could just be the marketing department milking the narrative over an extended amount of time. Going instantly 100% “carbon neutral” through carbon credits is certainly a worse move in this regard.
erur commented on Raising Children on the Eve of AI juliawise.net/raising-chi... · Posted by u/lwhsiao
AI is tipping the scales not to the favour of the proletariat. "The means of production" is in the hands of the powerful few, and I foresee a very bloody revolution.
This funny old narrative of a revolution in that direction sounds pretty misplaced if we're talking about a future where you won't need humans to get stuff done...
This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger.
Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how to manage the situation.
I feel like a lot of that frustration comes from seeing "arts and culture" as the pinnacle of anything when maybe it's just an overvalued side-effect of human wiring to avoid boredom.
Imho. it's just really hard to reason that average non-educational entertainment has a positive net effect on global society.
Seeing it this way makes it way less surprising that "art" and "creative entertainment" is one of the first things that gets hit by automation.
erur commented on Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence to Feed Lawyer Bogus Cases nytimes.com/2023/12/29/ny... · Posted by u/burkaman
This is a complete disaster.
On the other hand, are there any companies focusing on tuning llm or plugins to help with legal research and verification of research? Is that even possible?
The scale and size of the law really does necessitate that these tools exist. Especially since citizens are expected to know the law.
Not an expert on the space but LexisNexis for example is using Anthropic's Claude 2 and GPT-4.
erur commented on Why aren't there more 80% jobs? evertpot.com/on-80-percen... · Posted by u/minicaionut
For any form of tech product work I'd rather work together with 10 very engaged people rather than 20 half-assers. Don't see why I'd wanna hire a part-time worker unless they're truly special and even then only for a consulting role.
Not saying 32h hours is half-assing but I'd be surprised if the avg candidate pool for <=32h was as productive per hour as the others.