Lack of accountability is one of the hallmarks, for sure.

Did you remember to drink a verification can of Mountain Dew?

It’s not just printers. Laptops recognise people who are willing and able to crack them open. I’ve had multiple family members claim their problems disappeared the instant I gave their device a stern look.

The band öOoOoOoOoOo is a bit unwieldy.

Supposedly pronounced as “caterpillar” in whatever language you prefer.

Pebbles were the best. Having one taught me a lot about the best tech not having all the bells and whistles. It’s better to have only what you need done well.

Three times in my life I’ve been in proximity to large bushfires, alone with no transport.

I did the whole routine with stopping gutters and getting hoses ready, but in a couple of those places there wasn’t much water pressure to work with.

Lucky the wind never turned in my direction.

At the rate she churns them out, yeah it’s not too surprising.

If she doubled down on bad takes it would really be a problem, but I’m not aware of that happening.

Some of them are coding their own.

I’m pretty sure I saw this exhibition in Las Vegas. I assumed it was the more famous one when I entered, but the more I saw, the more I realised all the bodies were Chinese. Closer inspection of the promotional material put the clues together.

It was fascinating because human anatomy is cool, but knowing they weren’t voluntary donations really soured the experience.

Two huge mistakes, plus an uncountable number of variously sized mistakes…

My current location in rural Tasmania has some advantages. There would likely be a delay in the zombies getting here, so that gives us prep time. Low population density means fewer zombies to deal with when they do. Plenty of natural resources, food, and water.

My main issue is a lack of defensible buildings, but there are lots of wood mills so maybe something could be constructed.

The wildcard is Tassie devils, being a powerful scavenger species. Would they go for the walking corpses? If so, would they end up turning themselves, because I don’t fancy dealing with zombie nocturnal marsupials with a bite that crushes bone.

We never figured out good software productivity metrics, and now we’re supposed to come up with AI effectiveness metrics? Good luck with that.

ASMR texting?

Didn’t his kid also have a lot to do with the transformation?

When I started doing this work it was scary how fast they progressed. I thought I’d be redundant in a few months. Then they hit a wall very hard. The models might even be getting worse now. That could be my perception because a big part of the job is steering them toward failure and correcting the mistakes, so now I’m in the habit of exploiting their weaknesses.

They aren’t going away, but if we can figure out the niches where they’re actually useful, maybe the big AI companies will stop pretending LLMs are a digital panacea.

That’s exactly what my main income is these days. I signed up with DataAnnotation a couple of years ago, chipped away and started getting more access to a bigger pool of higher paying projects. I get online whenever it suits me, do work, claim time, get paid. No meetings or time wasting.

It’s not perfect, feedback is minimal, technical issues exist, but the flexibility is such a huge advantage that it’s hard to give up. It does mean you’re contributing to the whole AI… situation. My moral justification is that we’re actually making the models better at sticking with what they’re good at, and getting more efficient with it.

Specific professional skills like legal seem to be in high demand too. I’m a software engineering specialist, but they keep giving me finance projects just because I have that domain on my resume. They also gave me some referral codes specifically requesting legal, medical, and STEM pros. I don’t know if using my codes would give you an advantage in the application, but I guess it couldn’t hurt. DM me if you want one.

This is the term I’ve been looking for. Too much wealth is a symptom of serious underlying problems.

Is it always the same random point, or will I sometimes land in the bedroom of a confused and angry Albanian?

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