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BiggerBoat posted:Agreed. If we are doing outplayed 90s symbols he could of at least done that stupid S.
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There's nothing like having your co-workers cut by the "numbers guy", then expect (the remaining half of) my team to celebrate making our numbers due to the layoffs. Tone deaf.
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Nov 17, 2023 03:10
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socialsecurity posted:If we are doing outplayed 90s symbols he could of at least done that stupid S. Elon better keep his hands off of the "cool S" or I will do a minecraft.
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Nov 17, 2023 03:26
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Most places in Europe and Canada eliminated their equivalent of the $1 and $2 bills and replaced them coins a long time ago. I desperately long for the elimination of the penny. Some places just straight up don't even have them, please, god, they haven't been useful for at least 30 years, just rid us of this troublesome coin!
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Nov 17, 2023 05:51
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By now, we might as well kill the nickel, too.
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Tagra posted:And at most of the places that have this, you can get a "coin" that hangs from your keychain so you always have one with you. With the keychain coin you can just give it a sharp tug and get it out easily. The mechanism doesn't expect you to be able to pull on the coin. Then you can just be like, keep your change and have my cart.
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Faxanadus posted:Not sure how common this is, but now they want you to pay to use a cart at Aldis lol: It's mainly to promote people to return their own carts (so they don't have to pay excess trolleyboys). It used to be a thing here in my part of Australia when I was a kid. When we got an Aldis it was a core memory unlock. I do remember back in the day, local homeless bloke would appear out of thin air and offer to return our trolley so he got the 20c or $1 (cant remember what it was)
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Arsenic Lupin posted:By now, we might as well kill the nickel, too. The problem is that we still have the dime, AND the quarter, which cannot be easily used together by themselves. We could, of course, kill the dime too, but then what would we call dime bags?
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Volmarias posted:The problem is that we still have the dime, AND the quarter, which cannot be easily used together by themselves. We could, of course, kill the dime too, but then what would we call dime bags? Loonie bags
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Whooping Crabs posted:Looks like it's time to get rid of supermarkets/self checkouts and bring back the general store with all of the merchandise behind the counter and you need a clerk to ring it up for you When I was working at walmart for a brief time the rumor was that they're trying to turn the walmarts into local distribution centers for delivery/pickup of orders ordered online; so yeah, full circle if true.
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Nov 17, 2023 08:19
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Volmarias posted:The problem is that we still have the dime, AND the quarter, which cannot be easily used together by themselves. We could, of course, kill the dime too, but then what would we call dime bags? Hybridize the dime and the quarter into a fifth.
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Nov 17, 2023 08:22
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Good news! You now get a walkable city. Bad news, you are banned from the sidewalk so you don't interfere with the pedestrian delivery robots. South Korea is going to let companies run "small" delivery robots, provided they are insured and meet minimum safety standards. Personally I like it, even if in my  brain I question how a robot is going to go up 3 flights of stairs to deliver my 60 bottles of water.
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Nov 17, 2023 10:36
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Arsenic Lupin posted:By now, we might as well kill the nickel, too. Would Nickelback also go, or just continue as Back?
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Tnega posted:Personally I like it, even if in my I think jetpacks would be sufficiently
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Agents are GO! posted:Another thing to hate about AI: they're causing a bunch of extra water use. It seems obvious that data centers could be used for water purification but apparently 
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Nenonen posted:Would Nickelback also go, or just continue as Back? They rename themselves to Thomas Jefferson's Backside.
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BiggerBoat posted:If Elon bought Fox News, he'd probably change the name to FoXXX Elon, if you buy Fox news and replace it with a channel that's just a porn parody of Fox I will take back everything mean I have ever said about you and will buy Hell, the Fox viewership would love it
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Fate Accomplice posted:did not expect openAI to fire sama today https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition My personal theory is that he was bullshitting on a path to profitability. They're losing money on every prompt generated from hardware and electricity, and there's no magic tech on the horizon that can fix that. Altman has also handwaved about it all being worth it because they could make an artificial general intelligence in a few years, which  :https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-2022-losses-hit-540-million-as-chatgpt-costs-soared-2023-5?op=1 As an aside, the first link includes this wonderful weasel-wordy paragraph exemplifying how capitalists abuse the concept of nonprofits: quote:OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter. edit: The president and chairman of the board Greg Brockman also got canned, but is being moved to a role reporting to the new CEO as a fig leaf. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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socialsecurity posted:They rename themselves to Thomas Jefferson's Backside. They're Canadian so it would be Beaverback.
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Volmarias posted:I desperately long for the elimination of the penny. Some places just straight up don't even have them, please, god, they haven't been useful for at least 30 years, just rid us of this troublesome coin! I keep a hefty stash of pre-1983 pennies I polished in an old pill bottle with some quarters for those souvenir penny stretcher machines when I travel. Other than that, yeah, not much point to keeping the things around.
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Fired for "not consistently candid in his communications with the board". My money is on losses and Altman trying to manipulate the figures. Everyone knows open AI is losing money, but no one knows for sure at what rate.
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I've heard everything from a trickle to "we'll burn through the Microsoft money in six months" which is bad considering that was a multi billion dollar investment.
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I'm now hearing it's actually the more academics on the board who led this coup over Sam's push for market dominance over safety 
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If it’s actually about misreporting losses then a hearty lol to the current generation of pre-seed and seed startups trying to build entire businesses around chatgpt. The “AI” sector which would include all those startups is currently getting like 25% of all early stage VC funding.
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Tech VC is ruled by some of the most gullible rubes, its comical.
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Mega Comrade posted:I'm now hearing it's actually the more academics on the board who led this coup over Sam's push for market dominance over safety
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More resignationsquote:Jakub Pachocki, the director of research at OpenAI; Aleksander Madry, the head of a team that analyzes AI risks; and Szymon Sidor, a researcher who had been at the firm for seven years, told associates at OpenAI that they had quit, Microsoft must be so pissed about this. Google however...
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Mega Comrade posted:More resignations Why would Google hire them, when they can just acquihire them in 2 years for 100x the price?
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Okay then lol Maybe they were trying to speedrun the steve jobs firing and return?
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Most of OpenAI think they're developing something more dangerous than a thermonuclear weapon, but if they take a year instead of six months it will be fine.
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SaTaMaS posted:Most of OpenAI think they're developing something more dangerous than a thermonuclear weapon, but if they take a year instead of six months it will be fine.
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Open AI is staffed by fools if they think LLM AI will ever be any kind of threat. It strings words together, the only threat it poses is if some idiot listens to it.
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Kwyndig posted:Open AI is staffed by fools if they think LLM AI will ever be any kind of threat. It strings words together, the only threat it poses is if some idiot listens to it. Now I am worried.
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo Yeah, they want him back? Wow.
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VideoGameVet posted:https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai-board-in-discussions-with-sam-altman-to-return-as-ceo The tech industry is full of rich idiots and I'm so pissed I didn't realize this younger and get rich off of it.
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It's never too late to follow your dreams, just build a stock picker that performed worse than index funds and say you're using AI to disrupt finance. That'll get you a bunch of investor money.
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Kwyndig posted:Open AI is staffed by fools if they think LLM AI will ever be any kind of threat. It strings words together, the only threat it poses is if some idiot listens to it.
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I wouldn't call the fine peoples of Italy, Germany, and Spain to be idiots, no. Misguided, yes, but those countries produced some fine minds under fascism as well as idiots, not all in positions of power, mind you because fascism only rewards certain kinds of intelligence, but fine minds nonetheless.
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