gruntbuggly (u/gruntbuggly)

gruntbuggly commented on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-... · Posted by u/Luc

marcellus23 · 4 months ago

Well, the industrial revolution has been a story of continuous efficiency gains and increasing automation, but somehow there's still enough jobs.

gruntbuggly · 4 months ago

Certainly, for 95% of americans that's been true recently, but ai seems more positioned as a qualitative than a quantitative shift. maybe my defining it in terms of efficiency is incorrect. Moreover these types of mundane tasks are a product of that industrialization. so i'm puzzled by the thinking of 'more efficiency to fix the pains brought on by efficiencies'

gruntbuggly commented on Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-... · Posted by u/Luc

m3kw9 · 4 months ago

This is good news actually, while you have less jobs, hopefully new ones are created, people in the future don't have the option to work slave like jobs.

gruntbuggly · 4 months ago

I see this thinking thrown around often, but I don't see how net new jobs would be created by efficiencies. Amazon wouldn't adopt robots if it created more employment overhead downstream. Sure, there will be robot maintainers, but not at a replacement level of the roles replaced. Companies adopt technologies because they reduce the net amount of human input (cost) required, right?

gruntbuggly commented on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss nature.com/articles/s4158... · Posted by u/paulpauper

john_minsk · 5 months ago

Just went trough Yo-Yo. Any good strategies on how to overcome it for good?

gruntbuggly · 5 months ago

Probably my only good advice is to not take internet advice too seriously, which I'm sure you are aware of. The most epistemologically sound advice i can give is try everything and find what works for you. Lots of internet people advocate for low carb approaches for many apparently valid reasons. Recently, i tried eating whole food plant based and it's been an amazing 2 weeks (yes incredibly short time to report). I'm not trying that hard, i'm eating well, and feel amazing. If i keep going I'll probably supplement protein, vitamin b, omegas, fish, etc, but my weight is just falling off so far, unlike any other eating plan i've tried. Not super strict either. Eating whatever i want when i eat out, but i like how it makes me feel so i tend to stick with it when possible. Your mileage will vary. It's literally 2 weeks so far lol

gruntbuggly commented on How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S. washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/sipofwater

xingped · 5 months ago

That businesses are allowed to surprise you with unexpected fees is a negative thing. How can you interpret it otherwise?

gruntbuggly · 5 months ago

Don't you just go out to eat knowing the price is going to be 20% higher after tip? I can understand the desire for predictability, but menu prices are artificially low as they don't account for labor. If tipping were 'abolished' food service prices would have to rise 10-20% across the board to compensate.

gruntbuggly commented on How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S. washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/sipofwater

flowerthoughts · 5 months ago

Service charge is a weird thing. Normally, I'd expect a volume discount if I create bigger business for someone. Restaurants decided that's not how it works.

If someone with experience could explain why 1x6 people should be charged a higher price than 6x1 people, I am curious.

gruntbuggly · 5 months ago

Big tables are way more work for back of house as they bottleneck the kitchen with a bunch of simultaneous tickets. A large table demands more attention, but then you also end up with a larger bill on which customers are then less to add a tip. They can also decrease margin on shared plates.

gruntbuggly commented on Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D epoch.ai/gradient-updates... · Posted by u/ydnyshhh

decGetAc · 5 months ago

Agreed,only the super rich will get cars err electricity err I mean refrigerators err I mean personal computers err I mean mobile devices

To be fair I think there's a lot of truth in your statement in the short term (and arguably in the long). But in the 'long' term , it sure does look like revolutionary technology makes everyday peoples life better (I didn't even go into transportation or health care/life expectency)

gruntbuggly · 5 months ago

Sure, we have more consumer goods available to us, but I don’t know if that’s a great measure of a better life. We have supercomputers in our pockets but can’t talk to our neighbors, AI with a warming planet, etc. It’s all tradeoffs. A flourishing human life is independent of technology.

gruntbuggly commented on Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D epoch.ai/gradient-updates... · Posted by u/ydnyshhh

techpineapple · 5 months ago

Does anyone else find techno-optimism really depressing? I guess one for the more common reason that it’s displacing humanity with technology, but the second reason is just you can’t get excited about a hype that is unlikely to manifest.

It feels very ungrounded from tangible benefits to society.

gruntbuggly · 5 months ago

IMO that disillusionment is rooted in identifying the myth of progress. But I tend towards Schopenhauer over Hegel

gruntbuggly commented on Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence arxiv.org/abs/2502.05244... · Posted by u/pavanto

wincy · 6 months ago

I feel like if all the things people believe and espouse about hallucinogens were true and not just the effect of permanently damaging your mind, with the illusion of wisdom, we’d be able to point at all the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and discoveries made under the influence of hallucinogenic substances.

However, everyone I’ve met who admits to having taken hallucinogens seems reduced in some way, rather than enhanced. Like the lights are on but someone else is home.

gruntbuggly · 6 months ago

A fair observation, but real assumptions about progress, what it means, and what is valuable

gruntbuggly commented on Sora is here openai.com/index/sora-is-... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

lacoolj · 9 months ago

A little worried how young children watching these videos may develop inaccurate impressions of physics in nature.

For instance, that ladybug looks pretty natural, but there's a little glitch in there that an unwitting observer, who's never seen a ladybug move before, may mistake as being normal. And maybe it is! And maybe it isn't?

The sailing ship - are those water movements correct?

The sinking of the elephant into snow - how deep is too deep? Should there be snow on the elephant or would it have melted from body heat? Should some of the snow fall off during movement or is it maybe packed down too tightly already?

There's no way to know because they aren't actual recordings, and if you don't know that, and this tech improves leaps and bounds (as we know it will), it will eventually become published and will be taken at face value by many.

Hopefully I'm just overthinking it.

gruntbuggly · 9 months ago

Fair! I watched a lot of Superman as a kid and I killed myself jumping off a building