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Based on the votes, I can only assume people are still deluding themselves on LLMs capabilities. Is it doing amazing stuff? Yes. But it seems like people still think coding is the ultimate and hardest possible job and so if it can do that it must surely be able to do everything else. My personal experience has show that it still regularly makes up garbage and throws in nonsense sources that do not back up its claims.

Yeah maybe if your topic has 2 decades worth of text material to absorb it will get it mostly right like with coding, but anything that is less common? Complete crap shoot.

Just today I wanted to know if platinum cure silicone will be inhibited by plaster. The first 20 results are all AI spam with 30 pages of fluff and thus unreliable at best, so I asked AI directly. At first it says sulfur and calcium will inhibit the reaction, which is bad because plaster contains those elements. Then it says it will be fine according to X sources. Check the sources, none of them have anything at all to do with curing silicone on plaster, the articles are about using silicone molds to cast plaster. Failure.

Eventually I just had to search youtube videos until I found someone doing it in real life.

I see the same bad, and sometimes catastrophic, takes on things I have a lot of experience in, like agriculture, construction, and mechanics. It is completely worthless for anything mechanical unless you are trying to start something extremely simple from the 40s or earlier, and even then it will still tell you stuff like "clean the carburetor" on an old hot bulb diesel.

The most likely person to assault me are the cops so I still think cops are the enemy.

So what? You mean you don't care that we spend billions of dollars to prevent people from working and earning taxes?

If you are willing to spend $80K per year on each drug user to keep them in jail, why are you unwilling to spend a fraction that amount of money on helping them kick their addiction?

So an impossible goal. Because even in countries where they will literally behead you for having drugs, they still got drugs everywhere.

Define the win condition.

Not once in human history has prohibition worked for any substance.

In my part of the US there is enough rain that no extra water is used to grow alfalfa. The only water usage from beef production here is what the cows themselves drink.

Modernized agriculture runs on 1-2% margins, it is already super optimized.

Modern people are addicted to light. So many people now rarely experienced true darkness for more than a few seconds that they don't even think of going outside without a light because they think they won't be able to see even with a clear sky. Spend 20+ minutes without looking at a light source and even the stars will cast a visible shadow.

My family has a cabin in a true dark area and when I bring people there I often have to physically take their phones and lights away to get them to see a full night sky. They literally cannot resist looking at a bright ass light more than 60 seconds, and often with their screens on full brightness too. It makes me feel crazy sometimes, telling them they can see just fine without lights if they wait a minute or two is like you telling people they should try walking sometime and they act like you asked them to join the ministry of funny walks.

They can try, but most victims are going to have a hard time blazing the trail without significant money to spend on lawyers.

Technically yes, but it still isn't a quick fix. Seasonal and temporary workers still need other seasonal work or jobs that let them leave for seasonal work and need the capital investment to be able to travel for work and live at different farms. A single seasonal job paying good won't by itself get someone to invest into van-life, its maybe 2 months out of 12 and not entirely predictable work/profit just from yield variability. And most modern jobs don't let someone leave for weeks at a time to work elsewhere, atleast not any that are near the price range of basic physical labor.

You also lose a significant amount of productivity from first-timers in any process, and other full-time jobs taking away your expe

I doubt weed will be made illegal again. It also has a history dating back thousands of years and even in places where weed is still treated as dangerous as things like heroin, has failed to really control its usage. It grows in pretty much any climate and can be consumed in "raw" form, so supply control is impossible.

I don't think we need a profit motive. Egyption pyramids would never pay off, and im willing to bet a lot of their construction was just for the cool factor and "look at what we can do collectively because we have so much excess of time and goods!"

History is full of monuments and art who's only purpose was to be cool. And sending humans to another solar system would be a pretty cool monument to humanity.

It is more of a PR problem really to convince people to contribute.

All through grade school we got technology grants for worthless products that only existed to line someones pocket on the governments dime. Keyboard word processors with 20 character lines that we were forced to use twice to learn how it works then forgotten. All sorts of random desktops that wre useful in 1/5 classes that had them. New "smart boards" every 3 years that never got used.

Meanwhile our civics book was literally 45 years olds. Oh but look a lighting grant to replace all our fixtures with the exact same fluorescent fixtures but a slighlty more efficient ballast, only $1,500 a piece! We can't afford an art class any more, but look we placed TVs in the corner ceiling of the room where it would be inconvient to display anything to students!

I doubt it, but it makes sycophantic managers feel good to see it serve up the same BS they spew.

Yeah sure the taxes would go back to normal later, but the people left with deflated property values and a worse neighborhood and potentially leave because of decreasing property values aren't going to feel very good about it.

Also the asshole still saves on the purchase. The taxes go back up, but the sale price of the land was artificially low still. Which benefits the asshole and hurts the original owners.

The only way it doesn't benefit the asshole is if the property is worth zero dollars to sell.

Oh no drugs, good thing drug crimes come with a death sentence! Even better when it is an extrajudicial death sentence!

If we had such arbitrarily large amounts of energy to handle, it would be conceivable to beam excess energy into space. It is a bit on the sci-fi side, but so is that kind of energy production.

Just like people have no control over dogs and animals they keep?

It seems like every few months we find out our orbit is far more crowded than we thought.

In the US you should not interact with police at all for any reason unless you are forced to. They have essencially immunity from any liabilty and can legally lie and deceive people, while civilians can be punished for even an accidental lie. They also have a profit motive to arrest people and require no legal knowledge.

US cops can and do regularly get fet cleared for abuses because "I didn't know I wasn't suppose to violate their rights!" Meanwhile for civilians "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law."

I would say part of it could be on flock depending on how flock displays information and details in responce to a query. Simply flagging a photo for review, no. But if it was like "this single person matches your search parameters exactly and here is their name, address, and current location", which could heavily imply guilt through overconfident displays of information.

At no point does a cop have to look at the photo(s), the timestamps, confirm the plate, see if the person who owns the car is driving it, or see the dozens of other cars in that area at the time that should also be of potential interest. They enter the query and get a single answer so obviously accept it as likely perpetrator.

They can have their tools back after they show they can use them responcibly.

If a kid has shown themselves to be repeatedly irresponsible, when they ask for a circular saw you don't just give it to them and turn away. You make them explain what it is for and ensure they know how to safely use it. And if they start swinging it around wildly in opposition to what you said, you take it away, they are obviously incapable of using it right.

I would say US law enforcement are made up of mostly abnormal people with lower intellegences, higher aggressivness, and a propensity to lie and deceive. They tend to push actual normal people out for not playing ball with their own corruption.

The number one demograph for domestic violence and abuse are cops, they are not just a randomly selected group of people that chanced into law enforcement as a career.

Your high school has responcibilities over minors and the video never gets seen except when an incident is reported. Do you think office spaces or libraries need face tracking and ai cataloging surveillance too?

To me that is no different than having someone follow me and everyone else around and writing a report on all my daily activities and submitting it to arbitrary self-appointed authority.

Obviously kids want some sort of communication platform. I did at their age, and I didn't want my parents able to immediatly look up everything I ever said, no matter how innocent.

To me this is like meeting up with people in a crowded square to chat. It's not private chat really, but nobody will track it if they simply don't know where to look and aren't looking.

People outside of prison have freedom of movement to avoid overheating and access to a variety of enviroments and cold drinks and personal fans.

Some times people walk into supermarkets just to cool down.

I would be fine with that, but I don't think it would be quite as effective as you think. I don't like hurting even bugs for no reason but still grew up eating our own raised cows and hunted meat and still do to this day. Atleast half of that I had a personal hand in the entire slaughtering and packing.

If anybody has even the smallest negative thought to eating meat these days, the very first internet search they do will bombard them with pictures of slaughter houses in the most negative light and animal abuse pictures. If that doesn't stop them eating meat itself, very few are going to be turned by a legit farming and slaughter practises.

My sister is vegan and it wasn't our slaughtering of animals that pushed her away from eating meat, it was the internet showing the worst of large corporate practises. For a long while she merely didn't eat corporate meat and only local or home grown or hunted meat.

If they get the fluid changed on time and drive like a granny I don't think they are that bad. But a lot of people overlook/skip the cvt fluid change and others drive them hard because "Wow CVT can pull pretty hard!"

I know atleast one dealership that never even mentioned a cvt fluid change despite the schedule for it being only 1000 miles away, but it was the last service before being paid off and if you don't come back and replace it on yoir own dime thats a potential new sale in 2 years.

The CVT is a steel belt though so that fluid should be replaced sooner rather than later because metal particles build up in oil. And at some point its not far from throwing a handful of sand inside of it and it will eat itself alive.

Just make sure that belt gets changed on time if not a bit before. Its unpopular because if that belt breaks before replacement the motor will self destruct and you can't put off the not insignificant cost of it.

Now interference engines detonating when the timing belt breaks isn't new, but putting a belt in a bath of dirty and burnt oil that makes it a mess and expensive to replace and basically impossible to inspect is pretty silly. A chain would not have had such problems and become an efficiency and running issue from a stretched chain instead of sudden and catastrophic failure of a broken belt.

It also has the problem of rubber belt pieced clogging up the oil system.

Its fine for people that get all the regular maintence and oil changes strictly on time. But not everyone does it so diligently. And if you buy it as a random used car you have no way of really knowing how good that belt is without a list of every oil and belt change and how hard they drove it.

It certainly wouldn't help them but I don't know anybody in Michigan that isn't a c-suite that really cares that much about someone not buying American cars anymore. Most mechanics will tell you to buy a Toyota or Honda here. In the UP half of the cars are Subarus. The majority of automanufacturing has long ago left and nobody is happy about the quality of big 3 brands.

30 years ago I would have agreed, but most Michigan buyers at best begrudgingly buy American now.