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djaboss··on Our AI Midwife
Agreed, thanks for the clarification.
djaboss··on Our AI Midwife
I'm not expecting OP to do anything else, but in

> I think there is a whole lot to be worried about with AI development, and I think we should do much more to make it safe. I also think it shouldn’t be lost how it’s helping out regular people in ways that are far more profound than generating trivia questions for drunk people.

I'm seeing a plea of "AI is really helpful, don't take it away", which might be true in a specific case but is supporting AI in general, and I got the feeling that is what OP wanted with their post. In my opinion, most of the money, energy, water and whatever else is getting invested in AI might be better invested elsewhere, with less damage to society and the environment and still the same nice outcomes.

djaboss··on Our AI Midwife
> Even if you’re paying a gazillion dollars for IVF treatments, you still only get a few precious moments to talk to your doctor every visit. That’s just how the US medical system works. If you want to plumb the depths of what treatments are possible, or ask super detailed and anxiety ridden questions about every single scan from the latest round of imaging, you’re going to want a chatbot by your side.

Ehm, no. I want doctors by my side working in a system that is not meant to be producing gains for the rich investors but to help the sick and sad.

Just imagine what could be done with all those billions poured into datacenters and GPUs, if they were invested in public goods like a decent health system!

djaboss··on Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
`grep -C $NUM` ? ;)
djaboss··on Project Gemini
... which looks even more stupid when you can force quite a number of browsers to get you something through gopher if you just pretend it's http on port 70. of course you have to self interpret the result, but gophermaps are quite readable. :)
djaboss··on Responses from LLMs are not facts
i have to admit that i already used it :)
djaboss··on Responses from LLMs are not facts
that's a great idea, i'll use it in future, thanks! not sure whether i should use your post as reference, though ;)
djaboss··on CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs
Perhaps continue to show those around you that the world is complex and that this is fine and no reason to be frightened? And fight for education which acknowledges the complexity of the world and teaches how to cope with it!
djaboss··on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
Thank you! <3 Fortunately, she could finally leave the past night.
djaboss··on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
Please provide shocking examples, especially for Switzerland. I'm eager to learn about real arguments from the other side.
djaboss··on Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
Then I do wonder why no company has come knocking to the door of the hospital room where I'm sitting right this minute waiting for my terminally ill mother to die. Because since years she's member of EXIT, the well-known Swiss institution that is providing assisted suicide services, and it would still take several weeks for us to jump through all the required paper and legal hoops to get the ball rolling. And now she being already unconcious and therefore incapable, most ways are blocked already, as others pointed out, so I'm not sure we could accelerate the process at all.

Sorry, but your comment smells rather about peddling fakery, especially as you have provided heaps of reliable references.