Gasp. But how will we go on without AI-chan offhandedly instructing us to electrocute ourselves in a confident authoritative tone?

Yeah I haven’t been keeping up that closely, but just from catching a few headlines, it may actually be that these sixty tickets are actually a significant portion of their proceeds for the event haha

Well, it was only sixty tickets. And they were issued to people who were in the process of checking out at full price but a website error charged them zero. It wasn’t like, gift tickets that they changed their mind about

That being said Fifa should obviously just comp the tickets lol, if only for the good PR

They have already been cancelled in fact. The only concession is that the seat number they had is still reserved for them, for a limited time, if they decide to pay full price

What if you simply announce that you are recording and remind them they have the option to hang up if they don’t like it

Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.

I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release

Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader

Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true

I mean he also shouted the f slur at them and they got it on video

Personally I wouldn’t call the effect subtle

Perhaps a second laser defense system can be installed to ensure people stay out of the original room?

Could run it similar to those disinfecting light bulbs (only when the room is not occupied)

A dude going “yeah bro I’m like a thousand times faster bro I get a day’s worth of work done in ten seconds bro” is the opposite of concrete lol.

And then for details he mumbles about “calendars bro and uh, meetings! It’s all connected bro!”

There have been case studies about this. Your buddy, like many thousands of other people, is simply delusional regarding the perceived efficiency gains. People whose productivity literally decreases, measurably, often report that they have more than doubled their productivity.

However, I doubt they’d care to waste time arguing with such a hardened skeptic

Why not send them over? I mean they get their whole year’s worth of work done by the second week of January, right? Even with ten or fifteen jobs they should have tons of free time yes? Or is their financial reality, for some unknown reason, not in line with their enormous head turning productivity?

You’re about 7 comments deep on this post and what, just refreshing to make sure you have the opportunity to correct the record with people who aren’t even replying to you?

Like I said I am referring to the HN discussion that was linked, go take it up with them if you’re in the mood to proselytize. Or go take it up with the many researches who have confirmed creatine’s borderline uselessness. There’s actually a post in my recent comment history w/ a meta analysis link if you want to go check it out. Do me a favor and make a top level comment somewhere else if you want to respond to it, based on your behavior in this thread I’m not interested in discussing it with you personally

The comments section on hacker news already has some rundowns, generally it looks low quality and then the reporting is taking unwarranted liberties on top of it. The supplement industry is desperate to get people to buy this dumb powder since it costs pennies to produce.

The funniest thing to me about the recent push to convince people to take it for their brain health is that they’re recommending 25+ grams a day for it, which is five times the standard recommendation. That’s the world we’re heading towards, paying $60 a month for your subscription to “higher cognitive functioning” based on studies that didn’t even have a placebo group lol

I agree, I think the conflation of machine learning, which has existed and benefited us for decades, with “AI” is an unfortunately effective marketing strategy. In fact most of the “benefits of AI” being discussed above are just classic machine learning applications being rebranded as AI purely for the sake of allowing the media to have headlines like “AI cures cancer!”

Right like in this metaphor we’re now lumping scarves in with jackets (classic style, normal manufacturing and impact on the environment) and saying that jackets are good so we should be careful when addressing the field of clothing as a whole. I think the critical thing to understand is that clothing is not under the scarf umbrella, it’s the other way around. It’s not a condemnation of pants to oppose the scarf industry, regardless of how desperately the scarf industry wants to inherit the legacy of pants

We’re currently in the beginning of the story, the alarm is sounding, and instead of firmly rejecting it, we find ourselves trying to balance the discussion by reminding ourselves of the many positive things people like about AI

Everyone agrees destroying the environment is bad, just like everyone agrees Hitler was bad. But when we find ourselves in modern parallels of these situations it seems like decisive action is often derailed for the sake of nuance.

I apologize for any condescending air, I am not accusing you of vehemently supporting the scarf industry. I think this discussion is just a bit tough to keep grounded as we shift between addressing each other, ideas in general, and the people we know who hold them. I appreciate your posts and bringing forward the perspectives you’ve encountered and your thoughts about them

Again we aren’t

I know friend, I’m addressing the people you are speaking for, regardless of who amongst us here agrees with them. I apologize for the confusion

but the idea that there is nothing good being developed at all, that it has zero benefit, strikes me as the inverse

This comes up a lot.

Are you familiar with the story of The Lorax?

To summarize briefly, a billionaire creates a comfortable scarf, made from felled trees. He aggressively markets this fashion item to the point where it becomes a worldwide sensation, and all the trees are felled in the pursuit of manufacturing more scarves. In the end, without any trees, there is no more fresh air to breathe. Ah but, worry not, the billionaire rises to the occasion, and graciously begins selling the populace canned air so they can survive.

In this story, do you consider the many objectively good qualities of the scarf to be relevant in any way? How comfortable it is? How warm? How stylish? Would you dismiss the pleas of environmentalists for being too narrow minded in their denial of these many clear benefits?

If AI figures out a cure for every disease, healthcare is going to be destabilized, but you’ll still have every cure

Why are we assuming that if we acquire the knowledge of how to cure a disease that the cure will be made accessible to all?

If AI takes every job, you can’t really have capitalism anymore, so what happens next?

What they’re hoping for is the world that comes after ‘the big breakthrough’

we’ll only be left with the benefits

Why are we assuming anything positive would happen for the vast majority of humanity? Is our allegiance to the tech billionaire’s verbatim propaganda completely predicated on optimistic vibes?

These aren’t out of touch boomers, they’re multi-doctorate holding, cutting-edge researchers

It is extremely important for everyone to understand that intelligent people are not necessarily less likely to be deceived. In fact, without specialized training, a more intelligent person may in fact be better at compartmentalizing their beliefs, and have a very robust ability to internalize false beliefs without letting it decay their ability to function within their field of specialization.

Indeed, if we observe cult recruiting tactics, being an extremely capable high achiever often just puts a bigger target on your back, attracting more robust efforts to indoctrinate you into the fold.

All of which is to say, you are not immune to propaganda, regardless of being a phd researcher.

when I see a new application for AI in cancer research

We had an absolute flood of reporting about “ai” breakthroughs across different fields of science. There have been countless examples of these stories being investigated, and it turns out the “breakthrough” was either unrelated to AI or blatantly fabricated. I myself work in one of these cutting edge industries and I personally know of two major international companies who have heavily marketed and sold “AI” systems, complete with public press releases detailing the breakthroughs, when in reality the systems are literally and totally unrelated to anything AI. In one case they simply affixed an “AI” sticker to an existing device without changing the programming or capabilities whatsoever.

Just be careful out there friend. This whole affair is rotten to the core. Have optimism that we can protect one another from what’s coming. Don’t be optimistic that the billionaires are simply waiting until the right moment, when they are satisfied with the power they have amassed, to finally share their prosperity with us

I don’t know the exact mechanisms at play that make it necessary, but they sell the additive at automotive stores!

Asbestos is already in all the buildings, we can’t remove it. All the cars already require leaded gasoline, we can’t unlead it.

Fun fact I didn’t know until recently: if you have a classic car that requires leaded gasoline, they actually sell lead substitute that you mix with modern unleaded gas