Back when I was a whee whippersnapper, we would click the reply button and type, “Ok”, or “thanks”, or “Ok, thanks”, or “gotcha”, or “:-)”, or “+1”, or “LOL”, or “LMFAO”, or … I mean, it was onerous, with those extra couple clickity clicks and tappity taps, but somehow we managed.
the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion
For anyone struggling with the logic on this one, alllow me to beeak it down.
1 billion minus 1 million equals 999 million, or, for all intents and purposes…
about a billion.
On a scale from 0 to 1 billion, 1 million is one tenth of one percent of the distance up from 0. From the perspective of a billionaire, a low end millionaire is indistinguishable from a homeless person.
While it’s cathartic to hate on everyone with money when you’re struggling to pay rent and feed your family, billionaires are the problem (and taste like chicken).
This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I’ve got a donation to go make.
ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying “This credit card can’t be used something something blah blah blah. Let’s try a different one.” In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.
after ChatGPT found
Did it, though? Or did it just tell you that make a probabilistic guess that those particular words could follow your prompt in that particular order, and you just credulously believed it.
Maybe you missed this part in the snippet above.
Those using ChatGPT showed significantly less activity in networks tied to cognitive processing and attention compared to students who wrote without digital help or used only internet search engines. Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work. She received more than 4,000 emails afterward. Many came from teachers who reported students producing passable assignments without understanding the material. A British survey found that 92% of university students now use AI and roughly 20% have used it to write all or part of an assignment. Independent research has found that more screen time in schools correlates with worse results. Technology companies have designed products to be frictionless, removing the cognitive challenges brains need to learn. AI now allows users to outsource thinking itself.
If the patient dies of measles, then, technically, they’re now immune from cancer.
Who are you calling buster, buster?
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you’re alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they’re doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It’s like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn’t need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there’s no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of their reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.
what reason would anyone have
That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
What makes you think I was raining on their parade? “They” is no less inclusive than “he/she.” It is however easier to write, easier to read, and it’s completely common English that every native speaker just naturally uses and understands on a daily basis. There’s no reason to go out of your way to make your message harder to write and read, for absolutely no gain.
ETA: My intent was not to be rude. My intent was to help someone out. For all either of us know, the person I responded to isn’t a native English speaker and genuinely found it helpful.
he/she pleases
You can just say “they,” such as, “do whatever they please.”
ETA: oof, downvotes? Seriously? It’s just English, people. It’s easier to write. It’s easier to read. It’s how the language has referred to a single person of unknown or irrelevant gender for about as long as it’s been a language. See #3.
It’s not normal to have your flight cancelled by the powers that be because you wrote something.
Unless you’re fleeing a fledgling fascist dictatorship. Then it’s to be expected.
And the people with the money orchestrating this culture war won’t be paying a dime of that. Campbell County taxpayers will.
ETA: I’m not arguing against the settlement. I’m arguing against the billionaires that FA but never have to FO.
No, that’s illegal. They’ll make it out to the Trump Presidential Library
Admit that the system is hopelessly broken, Gavin.