Average user needs their computer mainly as a device to run a web browser. Mac does that the most reliably. This seems objectively true to me.

If they’re a nerd, then either Linux or Windows depending on what kind of nerd they are.

Windows for gaming.

Human living outdoors on a field 24/7 would also be much more likely to get hit by a lightning.

My unpopular opinion is that social media is simply inherently incompatible with human nature. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault per se. It’s like heroin in the sense that it doesn’t matter how you distribute it - it’s going to cause harm because hijacking our reward systems is the reason we use it in the first place. If you modify it so all that goes away, then what you’re left with is water - and nobody wants that.

I don’t know what the solution is, though. I don’t think banning it is a solution, but I’m not sure how to square the harmfulness of it. It’s not just kids it’s bad for - it’s everyone. And yeah, there are degrees to it - perhaps Lemmy is objectively better than an algorithm-based message board like Reddit, but something being better doesn’t make it good. A non-toxic heroin that you can’t OD on is also better than the alternative, but it’s still going to be harmful. It’s an arbitrary line we collectively just decide to draw somewhere - even though you could argue infinitely about nudging it one way or the other.

a nearby place to pick up package shipping if it can’t come to the door

That’s 700 meters away. The nearest bus stop is 5 meters from where my property ends. Welcome - my other neighbour is probably dying soon anyway judging by the coughing when he comes out for cigarette every 30 minutes or so.

No. I thought I would but I don’t get anything done. I’ll rather just have a time and location where to show up.

Breastmilk should be enough. Just difficult to source.

That’s basically all I’ve ever used Twitter for - and still do.

Happiness isn’t an emotion I feel all that often, but I’m hyper-aware of how much worse things could be. Objectively, everything’s fine - and aside from a recent setback, the overall direction seems to be upward.

Can only wish I had someone to share it with.

If you google pictures of a replacement gas tank for your car’s make and model, the shape of it might explain something. Might also be a failing fuel level sensor.

I stand corrected. I imagined that 10% average growth on the S&P500 would make 7% a safe rate.

One million invested to the stock market gives you roughly 70k 40k returns yearly and you get to keep the million.

Hershey’s isn’t very well liked outside the US, I believe. It’s an acquired taste - to many foreigners it tastes like vomit because of the butyric acid in it.

It is! Completely frozen in-fact.

I’m not apolitical - I’m a political minimalist. I vote, then I check out until the next election rolls around. Not really interested in the daily back-and-forth.

New HW4 Teslas do in fact include a front-facing radar, but it’s currently only used for collecting data - not for FSD.

Still, gotta give them credit for getting by with vision-only quite well. I don’t personally see any practical reason why you absolutely must include LiDAR. We already know driving relatively safely with vision only is possible - all the best drivers in the world do it.

“Plant” can describe anything from grass to giant redwoods, but it’s not a useless term. We have more specific names for all the subspecies of plants - and the same goes for AI.

But he is not actually claiming that they already have this technology but rather that they’re working towards it. He even calls ChatGPT dumb there.

and ChatGPT (which Altman referred to as “incredibly dumb” compared with what’s coming next)

I don’t personally remember hearing any AI company leader ever claim their LLM is generally intelligent - and even the LLM itself will straight-up tell you it isn’t and shouldn’t be blindly trusted.

I think the main issue is that when a layperson hears “AI,” they instantly picture AGI. We’re just not properly educated on the terminology here.

LLMs are AI. ChatGPT alone has over 800 million weekly users. If just one percent of them are paying, that’s 8 million paying customers. That’s not “nobody.”

That sheer volume of weekly users also shows the demand is clearly there, so I don’t get where the “useless” claim comes from. I use one to correct my writing all the time - including this very post - and it does a pretty damn good job at it.

Relying on an LLM for factual answers is a user error, not a failure of the underlying technology. An LLM is a chatbot that generates natural-sounding language. It was never designed to spit out facts. The fact that it often does anyway is honestly kind of amazing - but that’s a happy accident, not an intentional design choice.

And they always will. You need to look at the big picture here, not individual cases. If we replaced every single car on US roads with one driven by AI - proven to be 10 times better a driver than a human - that would still mean 4,000 people getting killed by them each year. That, however, doesn’t mean we should go back to human drivers and 40,000 people killed annually.