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This post legitimately knocked me out of a doomscroll. Had to put down my phone and everything and stare at a wall.
I really do regret my inaction the most. Every time. All of my future problems are always caused by things I failed to do in the present. And every time, I get so mad at past Me for not even trying because I’m so afraid to fail.
Like. Damn. Didn’t expect pixel art of some planets to hit me so hard.
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alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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She'd joined the fleet back when she'd been young and dumb and patriotic*, and never quite found her way out. Not because of any personal ambition, but because of the horrified realization that none of her superiors were people who could be trusted with commanding a river-yacht down in a gravity well, let alone a munition-loaded frigate rated to cross star systems.
*a polite way to describe someone who was the charming combination of stupid, stubborn, and belligerent at the same time.
I have no idea whether this is true, it seems way too stupid to be real and I have to assume it's made up, but I'm sharing because it has the vibe of something that would happen in a cartoon from the 90s that has characters burn a hole in a door by bouncing a laser pen beam between two mirrors
This is AI we're talking about. There is no bottom to the level of stupid it can get.
Yes but the idea that the AI actually has the capability to change the emails is idiotic. We've had to deal with annoying bullshit authenication for years in the name of security and the robot should not be able to change shit. Welding steel security bars over all the windows and then installing a massive unguarded glass door type scenario. They *have* teams in charge of security, it is ridiculous that a robot could do this.
Until proven otherwise I'm gonna assume that the hackers claiming this are pulling a prank and doctoring this because I am not ready to face a world this stupid.
the ONLY Thing I find not-very-credible about this is that people exploiting the fact that other people give their AI Tools unreasonably-broad permissions/abilities, has been Happening for several years? Why would that STILL be possible?
People get so unreasonably stupid about AI and I don't. I don't understand it. Like I know that there's the occasional tech-illiterate loon who thinks that AI is Proto-Lieutenant Data or whatever, people who take scifi too seriously, but why are the people actually using the tools being so stupid about it? It's some new religion I swear. Fifty per cent of the techbros I talk to it's like they're going "souls are real and we have imbued The Circuits with them". I know nothing at all about computers so normally I'd think I was the one in the wrong here but the guys in charge of these systems are just so so obviously stupid about AI over and over again and I. What the fuck is going on. I feel like I'm in Sailor Moon or something and an evil villain is brainwashing the masses to be super consumerist or whatever those plots were about except this week the scheme is making everyone trust the AI. It all feels so unrealistic how is this shit STILL happening. Overenthusiasm at the start I get, but there have been so many very public AI disasters.
It's Very Real.
They say it's still out there, roaming the unaffiliated zone, waiting to sideswipe the unwary traveler…
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If AI was magically able to build and maintain software, we’d have small companies that could build and deploy at the scale of a hyperscaler, and hyperscalers would, in theory, be expanding their margins so aggressively that it would create a new golden age of software revenues…or they’d become entirely infrastructure providers, as anybody else could compete on software. But on a far-simpler level, it would be extremely obvious. Anybody can access ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, effectively anywhere in the world. The theoretical “power” of AI is that it “just does stuff,” and the proliferation of LLMs would mean that somebody would’ve “done” some “stuff” that we could point at with exceptional ease. Random guys in the midwest would be pumping out profitable, functional, and feature-rich software. Lawsuits would be won by pro se plaintiffs with incredible counsel from a theoretical “country of geniuses in a data center.” Four years in, we’d have one major AI-powered company demolishing the competition in any industry, or every industry would become so prevalent with (powerful) AI that it would effectively reduce the cost of the service to nothing. We’d be able to point to companies that adopted AI and then completely fucking exploded. We’d be able to point to useless coworkers who were now doing impressive, meaningful work. There would be widespread economic upheaval, as the concept of a “large company” would lose meaning, because those theoretical “geniuses in the data center” would be automating all the work.” There also wouldn’t be so many pieces insisting that AI is super powerful and so many quotes from Business Idiots saying it’s “real.” We wouldn’t talk about what AI could do at all. We wouldn’t need Anthropic to lie that Mythos was too powerful to release only to release it several months later. We wouldn’t have to talk about the fucking potential at all because we’d be able to point to what was going on because it would be obvious!
-Ed Zitron, "AI Doesn't Have ROI."
like. i do appreciate being able to occasionally stick my head into Where's Your Ed At and see Ed Zitron also losing his mind over noise from the AI hype machine, but with sources and logic.
Prefacing this with the statement that I don't think canon Stratt would do this. But I do think a very close to canon Stratt might.
Eva Stratt had never had an intention of reproducing, even before the astrophage crisis. She's not anyone's idea of a warm, supportive parent.
(Ryland Grace probably hadn't either, not that it had ever occurred to her to ask.)
But that was before she sent her second off to die in space in the name of their planet's survival. That changed things, in ways Eva really couldn't articulate. Just that it was deeply unpleasant to consider a world without someone to remember Grace as the person he was instead of as the hero she'd made him.
And she has nothing but a long prison sentence ahead, so if ever there was a time for her to do something selfish, it was right now.
Eva Stratt is arrested on Saturday morning. By Saturday afternoon, she's receiving confirmation that the surrogate's pregnancy looked viable.
Gracie Stratt is 26 when her father saves the world.
my personal take on the matter
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
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Fic fragment of the moment:
The disaster simplified things, in the same way a house fire simplifies organization.
Migraine again
Eva Stratt Timetravels
She's of mixed opinions on this. Project Hail Mary was a success, for a given value of the term which includes 'only' 4 billion people dying. If she'd been asked, she would not have considered a do-over worth the risk. Unfortunately, whatever cosmic bullshit caused this didn't consult with her.
So here she is, and if she's going to do this all over again, she's going to do it better this time.
. . .There's also the little problem of being 15 again, which is actually worse than her time in prison. At least in prison it was expected that she'd be resentful that her life was being dictated by other people. Teenagers are expected to be respectful about the fact that they have no autonomy whatsoever. It pisses her off.
Anyway.
Soon enough, she's 18 and going to university. She studies history again, this time as a minor, and majors in communication. She graduates, sets herself up as a believer in better living through science, backs projects, makes suggestions, builds her network.
Her network includes Ryland Grace, awkward, angry teenage foster kid, sponsored through a scholarship she sets up for the younger scientists of the future task force.
And maybe she invests a little more time in Grace than she does others. Maybe she talks to him, under the guise of the scholarship. Maybe she advocates for him when the prestigious magnet school he attends threatens to expel him for behavior problems. Maybe she agrees to act as a character witness when he applies for emancipated minor status. Maybe a lot of things. It's not relevant to the problem she's dedicated herself to solving all over again.
Or it wasn't. Until the paper Grace puts out about non-water-based life is "A theoretical framework for extra-planetary life outside the Goldilocks Zone" and the UNESCO conference doesn't end in his expulsion from academia.
Until she looks around, and realizes Grace lives in the same city she does, that he learned German years ago, that she's got a reoccurring entry on her calendar labeled 'Pretending I understand Molecular Biology'.
Until the UN representative tells her she's been voted to lead the task force, (Five years earlier than the first time, after Eva nudged Irena Petrova to investigate her 'little space oddity' sooner, and the improved ArcLight made its trip that little bit faster) and her first thought is 'There's no way I can keep Grace out of this'.*
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Joke version below the cut.
Currently reading: Platform Decay
Murderbot continues to be the most deus-ee of deus ex machina the corporation rim has ever encountered, I love it.
You are a small-time militia trying to keep your small home sector safe from a bunch of armed assholes with guns that could put a hole through you in one shot. You've got a crowd of frightened civilians behind you, and a group of angry, armed mercenaries shouting demands in front of you.
Suddenly, a random security consultant literally appears behind you out of nowhere, saves your boss's life, identifies who the mercenaries are working for, borrows a gun and takes out one of the mercenary's guns in a single clean shot, saving an entire tram full of civilians. And then while you're all busy going after the weakness the security consultant identified in the mercenaries' weapons, they just as abruptly disappear.
Upper management takes one look at your report and says 'okay, fine, don't tell us what happened, but for fucks sake, come up with a better cover story.'
Your protestations that this was what actually happened fall of deaf ears.
Woman murders man in broad daylight
beautiful like to reblog ratio on this
That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao
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I've been thinking. Animorphs have go-to morphs that they picked during a battle unless they needed something specific.
Jake has his tiger, Rachel bounced between grizzly bear and elephant, Marco morphs into a gorilla, Cassie went with a wolf and Tobias and Ax didn't really have an main or primary morphs, electing to go by their baseline state of being a hawk and an Andalite respectively. But, if you had to pick new main battle morphs for them, what would you pick?
I personally am thinking like a big snake like python or something for Cassie. And maybe a bison for Jake. I'm also thinking a hippo but I can't decide between Rachel and Marco for it.
I've concluded there is no right answer to this question, because arguments about biology have no real winners or losers. Does anyone else have morphs you'd have liked to have seen the Animorphs use?
i think they should have done the 5 Rhino Blitz. everyone sneaks in close to an operation they want to stop, then everyone but tobias morphs a rhino and just goes absolutely berserk for about ten minutes before exiting the rubble in a different direction. once they're far enough away they hide and demorph and sneak off again.
i think this would have been incredibly frustrating to deal with on an organizational level. once a week five angry living bulldozers level another sharing office building or mcdonalds entrance or strip mall. it's incredibly expensive and the city keeps sending in construction teams to tape off the damage and tripping over yeerk pool entrances . like half the last generation of fry had to be loaded into asessors and surveyors and real estate agents and the entire department of transportation instead of wealthy businessmen.
people have started putting plastic rhino horns on the hoods of their cars. this is not funny.
Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...
I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.
