I don’t really agree at all.

The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.

Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.

They should also be able to rapidly provide instructional video in the year 2023

Ok Grandpa it’s time for your nap

They’ll be out of states if we keep going then they’ll naturally just cease to exist. Or, more likely, adapt to actual regulations.

We can certainly argue over what they’re designed to do, and I definitely agree that’s the goal of them. The reality though is that on some level it is impossible to separate assertions from the words that describe them. Language itself is designed to communicate ideas, you can’t really create language without also communicating ideas, otherwise every sentence from an LLM would just look like

“Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like”

They will readily cite information that was fed to them. Sometimes it is on point, sometimes not. That starts to be a bit of an ethical discussion on whether it is okay for them to paraphrase information they were fed, and without citing it as a source of the info.

In a perfect world we should be able to expand a whole learning tree to trace back how the model pieced together each word and point of data it is citing, kind of like an advanced Wikipedia article. Then you could take the typical synopsis that the model provides and dig into it to judge for yourself if it’s accurate or not. From a research standpoint I view info you collect from a language model as a step down from a secondary source and we should be able to easily see how it gets to that info.

I agree with your friend.

If there’s a media that I want to continue to exist and similar works to be made, I will buy it. Depending on how much I enjoy it I will wait for a sale or pay full price.

I think you’re giving him far too much credit. Hanlon’s razor and all that

Doesn’t matter which side of politics you’re on, Joe Rogan is batshit insane these days. Well maybe that is the side you’re on, in which case I retract the former statement.

Yeah I don’t remember exactly when he went completely off the rails, but early on it was just a chill podcast that talked about the kinda shit you’d bullshit with your buddies about

I don’t think we’re far off from 7 year olds being entirely unimpressed robots. They’ll just think it’s a dumb vacuum

Dogshit take tbh

I’m 31 and taught myself how to drive in my grandfather’s hand me down 2001 Nissan frontier. I haven’t driven a manual since getting a new car.

I’m not convinced the alcohol is the determining factor in shitheads being shitheads. Domestic abusers wouldn’t disappear if alcohol did. Drunk driving, maybe, but it would be replaced with other substances or forms of negligence.

Drinking responsibly does have short term social and mental benefits when used responsibly, and less severe long-term health issues.

I’m not advocating for alcohol consumption by any means, but it seems obvious to me why it’s viewed more positively than smoking. It helps people enjoy life. Smoking doesn’t, really.

Network effect might as well be a monopoly until the network kills itself.

I take issue with the concept of one company owning an entire communications network in the first place. Federation is a step in the right direction but it’s not enough yet.

It’s an issue of userbase.

WhatsApp can and will get away with a lot before it drives users to a mass exodus, when messaging should have just been an open protocol from the start.

There are plenty of free and open source messaging alternatives, they just don’t have the branding money to make sure a user base appears. To some degree the people using the apps are choosing the proprietary option.

We collectively need to be doing more to support and promote free open source software to avoid this issue. Secure peer to peer communication protocols should be more more ubiquitous than even http.

Why?

Religion is a collective delusion and college graduation shocks me by how ritualistic it still is

My new job has 18 people in a training class where we are asked to read the content out loud. The amount of grown ass adults that will literally make up different words blows my mind.

Which is a different service called YouTube TV, so yeah, probably reasonable to call it ‘watching TV’ in that case, considering it’s in the name.