SlopppyEngineer

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Usually we get an AI winter, until somebody develops a model that can overcome that limitation of needing more and more data. In this case by having some basic understanding instead of just having a regurgitation engine for example. Of course that model runs into the limit of only having basic understanding, not advanced understanding and again there is an AI winter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

"We shall take all action possible providing it doesn't cost us any effort or profit."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Colonizers found the inhabitants didn't wanted to take part in the colonizer's society as they inhabitants had their own subsistence life. So they decided to tax the land and burned the huts from those that didn't pay tax. So now they inhabitants were forced to borrow money and work in society. That's how things work.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 14 hours ago

That's normal. The printing press spread scientific knowledge and informed people with newspapers. It also gave us ad riddled glossy magazines and political pamphlets. Same for radio and TV.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Born outside the USA, so Elon can't run for president.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

"Our lies are lethally backfiring and we desperately need to blame someone else"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Government should set up a site where companies using loot boxes have to open a tax box to know what tax they'll pay that month, to keep things exiting, with the option to buy more tax boxes for a few million per box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another 1-in-a-100 year weather event hits. They're getting quite common for once per century disasters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Easier said than done. They basically need infrastructure to handle months (average month before 2000) of rain falling in a few days over several countries. Huge storm canals, dams and water basins that can divert and hold up to half a year of rain and that's assuming climate change doesn't make it even much worse in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Understaffing and long waiting lists are the main reasons behind patients’ frustration with health workers

Italy’s legislation has kept wages low, leading to overworked and burned out staff at hospitals

many health workers to leave Italy in search of better opportunities abroad

Add some violence and the death spiral of the health care system accelerates.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Sounds exactly like Boris Johnson, prime minister in the UK and notorious for making up stories. He basically steered the UK economy in a dive and parachuted out so another imbecile was at the wheel when all the warnings began to blare. Stories don't make for good policies.

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