Can’t tax the Billionaires, they would run away

Can’t implement healthcare for all, it would cost too much

Can’t allow people to unionize, it would hurt business

Can’t regulate banks, the free market knows best

Can’t fix tax loopholes, the rich will just find new ones

…

I could go on. For the every common sense solution there is a lie from the right, why it would not work. Always the same disproven lies, repeated like a mantra.

In workers rights and beyond.

Of course a hand drawn image by someone who can draw well is better - the artist practiced for years and took hours to draw this. On the other hand whoever took second place used a few minutes and had no training to produce something that was probably quite nice, too.

It’s this ‘everybody can produce art in seconds’ that is both good and bad. On the one hand I like how I can get a image of whatever I want for pennies, on the other hand I can understand how artist fear devaluation of their art.

Dude, 1k/week is “I don’t have to work anymore” money

I’m neither trans, nor would I look good in that (fat, old, bald, hairy, ugly man), but for that amount of money I’d do it. It’s just clothes, who cares?

Investors hate a unpredictable market. Trump’s constant changes and insane policies make the US very uncomfortable for any business.

Well, it’s even quiet possible that the sculptor used his own hand as a model… And why not? Is it really a problem if the statue has man-hands?

It’s supposed to be a symbol not a penthouse model!

Oh that would force Democrats to write a really strong worded letter. Probably multiple pages. You’ll see.

Yes and no one but crypto needs that. Everyone else is much better served with traditional databases.

Blockchain solves a specific problem: safe transactions without a trusted authority.

It has a lot of downsides to solve this problem without a trusted authority, so in any case where you can use a trusted authority (for example a central server) it’s much better to use that instead of a blockchain.

So everyone who added blockchains to their projects gained all the downsides while never having the problem it was meant to solve in the first place.

AIs, and I assume you meant LLMs with that, are a different breed. LLMs are new: never before could a computer handle natural language to such a degree.

Problem is, that it’s still new. So no one knows what the “killer applications” are or what monetization should look like, or what the laws about it will be.

People just throw every against the wall and see what sticks… And hope for AGI/ASI and to be on the side that rides that nearly infinite potential to the moon.

Or, you know, crash and burn in case AI reaches a wall/diminishing returns/systemic problems that can’t be fixed.

We will see.

Well, if there is a combination of drugs that will give you telepathy, Kanyes chances wouldn’t be bad that he took them.

The majority never voted for the Nazi party either. It doesn’t matter. If they don’t rise up against fascism, that’s enough for the fascist to win.

A lot of people were saying that the last election was the choice between democracy and fascism - and still enough people either didn’t know or didn’t care.

I’m afraid that the erosion of the education system did what it was designed to do: produced enough uneducated people to allow propaganda to break democracy.

There was a paper about this not long ago. The problem is, how LLMs get trained: a right answer gets a point, everything else gets no points. This rewards guessing (produces a point sometimes) over answering “I don’t know/I can’t do this” (produces never a point)

What about insects and other pests? I already hate if windows don’t have fly screens - I would probably hate this.

We have a openly homosexual and a openly lesbian politician here in Germany. He is corrupt as hell and she is the worst possible person you could imagine.

Having a hard life doesn’t automatically make you a good person.

I don’t know if it’s different in the US, but here the downloading isn’t punished, it’s the sharing that gets you in trouble.

The average IQ is 100. That is not a lot and half of the population is below that. I’m more surprised how bad our education system is in filtering out the dumb people. Someone who is ‘not smart’ but has good memory and is diligent can make it frighteningly far in our society. Not to mention nepo babies who are a different kind of problem

We don’t have any state-of-the-art open source LLMs. We have open weights models. The reason for this is that for a true open source LLM you would need to open up your sources for training (which opens the possibility for people to sue you for using their content for training) and the techniques how you trained the model (which allows other developers to copy that to advance their own models)

The last true open source model was probably chatgpt 2 or something of that level.

They now call her Molly Mollotov

“It would get old fast”? Op, I’m afraid you don’t have good friends. When I was a university student, I was in a shared apartment with two friends. It was great: you always had someone to do stuff with and group activities were much easier to schedule.

Now that I’m older it would be nice to easily check who’s up for something, spontaneously grill with everyone or simply sit together in the evening and talk.

My friends group still goes on vacation together from time to time and I love it. If your friends are only enjoyable in small doses… I don’t know… that sounds sad.

Also with a house of your own, everyone would have enough space to retreat if necessary.

Besides from the bad gardening that was mentioned by the other posts, I would love to live like this.

You know you have to get a cat named Anton now, right?