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The same thing happened in 2016. They tried to roll back every green initiative, but no matter what they try, green just makes more sense. Not only green and long term, but financially too. You have a one time setup with solar and wind and then very little maintenance - or you have constant mining operations, transport, and burning of heavy, dusty, gross coal. It's the same here, whether they like it or not - it literally makes more sense.

That's the nuance of AI that anyone who has done any actual work with ML has known for decades now. ML is amazing. It's not perfect. It's actually pretty far from perfect. So you should never ever use it as a solo check, but it can be great for a double check.

Such as with cancer. AI can be a wonderful choice to detecting a melanoma, if used correctly. Such as:

• a doctor has already cleared a mole, but if you want to know if it warrants a second opinion by another doctor. You could have the model to have a confidence of say, 80% sure that the first doctor is correct in that it is fine.

• if you do not have access to a doctor immediately, it can be a fine check, again only to a certain percentage. Say that in this case in the future you are worried but cannot access a doctor easily. A patient could snap a photo and in this case a very high confidence rating would say that it is probably fine, with a disclaimer that it is just an AI model and if it changes or you are still worried, get it checked.

Unfortunately, all of that nuance in that it is all just probabilities is completely lost on both the creators of all of these AI tools, and the risks are not actually passed to the users so blind trust is the number one problem.

We see it here with police too. "It said it's them". No, it only said to a specific confidence that it might be them. That's a very different thing. You should never use it to find someone, only to verify someone.

I actually really like how airport security implemented it because it's actually using it well. Here's an ID, it has a photo of a person. Compare it to the photo taken there in person, and it should verify to a very high confidence that they are the same person. If in doubt, there's a human there to also verify it. That's good ML usage.

I FREAKING KNEW IT. I KNEW THAT LEVEL NEVER MADE SENSE!

You go down, then up half, then down full, then up full. It never made sense.

It's one of my spouse's favorite sayings when I'm in a spiral. "Pause for a minute, and let's assume on the off chance society keeps going" and it brings me out of it. My therapist told me that once too, there are infinite possibilities between the best outcome and the worst, and probability says it will probably end up somewhere in between".

It's easy on the internet to go full doomer, and to assume if it's not the best case that it's the worst, when really, it's probably somewhere in between.

The article said there's a phone companion app

There's a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they're adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.

I've thought that it would work better more like the EU. Ola body overseeing some more basic concepts while each individual completely governs themselves. Maybe that was the original idea, it's been so lost though.

Hardwood is great, but you need to plan where you're hanging around. Area rugs are useful, and for dishes or cooking a good spongy mat is useful and looks nice

It made me realize how addicted to reddit I was for sure

I've heard this too and it's true, but also you don't want to needlessly spend on things either. For example, a good bed is worth the cost, the saying holds up. However, if you buy the pro version of every tool you'll go broke. You can instead buy the cheap one first, anything you use enough where it would break is then worth buying the expensive one

I didn't leave Reddit, Reddit disabled the app I used to access it for over 10 years when they disabled API access. Figured they didn't want or need my contributions anymore.

Sounds like they should have put up 4 more instead. Fuck instigators like that.