Absolutely, stop using Amazon. Except what’s the alternative? They’ve wedged themselves in that space, and bought out any other competitor. So either they get forced to compete with themselves (by breaking the company apart) or they adhere to anti-monopoly laws where they’re not allowed to influence other prices as part of their agreement.
So what’s the propaganda here? Is there actually not a Uyghur “Situation” according to you? Or is the propaganda that the US and the west also do things like this? Because two wrongs don’t make a right.
Cause right now I’m in the camp of they all do some truly fucked up shit.
Edit: gotta love the downvotes with no fucking explanation.
And your 15 years are superior to mine because?..
Note: I didn’t say - use it to code.
But real question for you. Is the alternative you wouldn’t have done that at all?
Summarizing and finding codeblocks. Fucking A+.
So much so, that it’s pretty much 100% necessary in software engineering now. And I hate it that I’m forced to use something that I know is so detrimental in other aspects.
The actual train is >30 years old, it was only painted like that 8 years ago. (Probably repainted a couple of times too lol)
I respectfully disagree with the dead end part of your argument. A dead end would be if they provided no value.
While the environmental and social downsides are massive negatives on the tech, it is actually doing something.
Past iterations are completely useless, but more recent iterations show us a more polished side to LLMs that actually do enhance how we do some things.
Is it worth it? My gut says no, but its both too late and too early to call it. (late in the environmental and societal impact, too early in the tech iteration)
As far as the “dead end” argument goes, I have to say that’s a hard disagree. Humanity is filled with technological advances that “stand on the shoulders of giants” and improve on previous techs. Even if LLMs themselves don’t prove to be the thing that we’ve been promised by the people driving it, it is taking us one step closer to AGI (whether that’s a good goal or not, that’s still up for debate)
From here on, I think there’s still quite a bit these models can improve, and I hope a lot of that improvement goes into making it more energy efficient, more water efficient in turn.
If by a dead end you mean that we can’t reach an AGI from an LLM, I think that’s correct, however an LLM might help us figure out what is needed for an AGI.
Why would you ever need more than one button to go back?
Oh… a button, that is on the back?
Yeah I realized my mistake halfway through writing this.
Two things can be true at the same time. You can condemn evil and still be evil yourself. It’s very hypocritical of them but it doesn’t make their argument weaker, It just says that they aren’t going to be the ones to do anything about it.
The thing that really gets me is if we spent this money on renewables we’d be out of the oil game already.
This reminds me of something I posted a while back as a small ode to time cube:
It’s entirely plausible that unbeknownst to us ai has developed within a harmonic cube congruency and thus what we assume to be 25 by years ago by our fake queer Greenwich time is actually 25 years in the future for ai following the harmonic influence of the 96 hour day cycle that everyone else is too stupid to notice. Within everything having 4 phases you should be skeptical of those who tell you that time travel isn’t possible for the 4 phases of time itself are forward, backward, up and down, anyone who tells you different is trying to coherce your mind straight into hell by saying the opposite, they are too stuck in their word world to realize that you have moved past that into the real-world.
I can use ai and still hate myself for having to use it. I don’t really have a choice at this point. And I still hate ai.
I can hear this. Moisturize me!
The lines between fact (…) and opinion can be blurry at times
Are they though?
Afaik Walmart does the same.
EBay is a different service as is Wayfair.
Your own website as the manufacturer doesn’t have the reach of these other platforms. (in an age of SEO and AI searches it really doesn’t have to be that way).
The strongest argument here is in favor of Aliexpress. Which isn’t without issues and heavily lobbied by amazon to have even more issues in the US.