PonyOfWar

I can be worried about more than one thing at a time mate. And where did I ever say anything about a moral line? I obviously don't approve of the fascist things the fascist party does and yes, they deeply worry me, despite not even living in the US. That doesn't mean that the democrats are somehow absolved of all criticism and can't do anything wrong.

That may all be perfectly true, but my point was more about how this case was treated by the democrats and their supporters. After the verdict, few people raised the points you just did. Instead, the narrative was all about how unlike republicans, democrats respected the law and would fully support the verdict. Biden himself even publicly ruled out a pardon.

Now that the pardon actually happened, that is all immediately forgotten. The narrative changed and democrats expect their supporters to get in line. Trumpists have been doing that kind of thing every other day, but the democrats are starting to do it as well. That's what worries me.

It really shows how fucked up and desperate the American political discourse is at this point IMO. Before it was "see how much integrity Biden has for not even pardoning his own son", now it's turned into "Hunter was a political prisoner and victim of unjust persecution" in an instant. No one is willing to admit any faults because the other side gleefully profits from them. I can understand why people do it, but it's a worrying indication for the state of politics in America.

As a software developer, the one usecase where it has been really useful for me is analyzing long and complex error logs and finding possible causes of the error. Getting it to write code sometimes works okay-ish, but more often than not it's pretty crap. I don't see any use for it in my personal life.

I think its influence is negative overall. Right now it might be useful for programming questions, but that's only the case because it's fed with Human-generated content from sites like Stackoverflow. Now those sites are slowly dying out due to people using ChatGPT and this will have the inverse effect that in the future, AI will have less useful training data which means it'll become less useful for future problems, while having effectively killed those useful sites in the process.

Looking outside of my work bubble, its effect on academia and learning seems pretty devastating. People can now cheat themselves towards a diploma with ease. We might face a significant erosion of knowledge and talent with the next generation of scientists.

Let's hope they'll introduce some solid competition into the GPU market.

So did the Deck but it ended up being pretty ergonomic in practice.

So it's a normal thing in the US for car dealers to add a markup? It's pretty much the other way round here in Germany, car dealers give you a rebate on the listed price and you choose the dealership that offers you the best price.

I don't hate the technology itself. What I hate is the whole grifter culture surrounding it. For example there are dozens of examples of people promising some game using the blockchain, touting it as "the future of gaming" or "the metaverse", creating a token, making millions from it and then delivering nothing, or a barely changed UE template. On the other hand, there are few if any examples of projects using a blockchain that are actually useful, at least for anything besides basic monetary transactions.

So whenever I see a project mentioning the blockchain, the scam alarm bells go off in my head and my skepticism rises 1000x.

Maybe my reading comprehension is failing me here, but where's the ultimatum? He hasn't made any demands with a specific time limit and repercussions if Scholz didn't meet them. He has only stated his preconditions for peace talks.

• "Children of God" by Mary Doria Russell: Second and final part of a sci-fi series about a Jesuit mission to an alien culture that goes wrong. Like the first part, it's an emotional rollercoaster with a great cast of characters that you really grow attached to (and who often meet tragic ends). The author also created a really interesting alien society made up of two separate species. Oh, and the title might sound like it's a preachy religious book, but it's very much not. Would never have expected it, but this is now one of my favorite sci-fi series.

• "Memories of Ice" by Steven Erikson: Third book of the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" fantasy series. All three books I've read so far were enjoyable stories, but also very complex and not easy to read for sure. I love how the author creates a fantasy world where stone-age cultures play a pretty big role and where pre-history in many ways shapes the current world of the book. Also, quite a good cast of characters, which I didn't necessarily expect given that it's "epic fantasy".

Mag ja gute Absichten haben, aber empfinde ich als extrem problematisch und fehlgeleitet. Damit wird den Kindern beigebracht dass eine KI vertrauenswürdig ist und das Gespräch mit echten Zeitzeugen ersetzen kann. Es wird sogar explizit darauf abgezielt, dass die Kinder eine emotionale Bindung zu ihr aufbauen.

Menschen mit weniger guten Absichten können dann aber genau so einfach eine "Zeitzeugen" KI erstellen die den Holocaust leugnet. Und statt dass den Kindern eine Grundskepsis gegenüber KI-generierten Inhalten beigebracht wurde, sind sie dann umso vulnerabler gegenüber Manipulation und Desinformation.