I thinks it’s probably plausible conjecture at this point

Group C is gonna be a fun watch

Chatoic good? Evil? Neutral?

idk but it’s definitely chaotic

The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes

Depending on where you’re located, there might be some local services that are relatively cheap. If I were you, and I had it in the budget, I’d go for this guy:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1083201-REG/epson_b11b224201_perfection_v850_pro_scanner.html

(looks like it’s sold out though)

Do you think it’s possible to run the cycle too quickly? Like, shouldn’t you make sure your product has been widely maximally adopted first before you make it shittier?

May be that’s just hopium

I mean, it’s still technically great bait for clicking, it’s just that there’s actually some interesting content in there.

Sincerely, Captain Pedant

edit: bad formatting

So then does trust == faith?

Of course it’s not possible to understand absolutely everything, even as a well-informed scientist or academic. You say ‘blindly trusting’, but may be that’s quite the right way to put it, since, presumably, you have determined that those experts know better than you do, i.e. it’s not ‘blind’ in some sense. Whereas a religious person may blindly have faith that there is a God and a higher purpose (or whatever).

That said, to counter my own point, I’m sure there are plenty of religious people who determine that their religious leaders or experts are worthy of trusting because of a perceived higher spiritual connection, social status, or similar.

I think it all comes back to being able to think critically. In my mind at least, the word ‘trust’ implies some sort of rational thought process, whereas ‘faith’ has a bit more of an emotional connotation. But in reality it’s probably more of a heavily-overlapping Venn diagram (assuming there’s a distinction at all).

hi-quality shower thought

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I saw some article years ago that found dogs cant, or at least have a hard time differentiating between consonant sounds in words; for example the word ‘outside’ might sound the same as ‘grout-side’ or ‘shout-wide’, just because they rhyme.

After some fun experiments, I found that to be true with my dogs, and my vocabulary with them has devolved into some really silly shit that makes me cackle, but would probably make others question my sanity a little…

+ bonus points for the silly voices

Generally I agree that it can be an incredible tool for learning, but a big problem is one needs a baseline ability to think critically, or to understand when new information may be flawed. That often means having at least a little bit of existing knowledge about a particular subject. For younger people with less education and life experience, that can be really difficult if not impossible.

The 10% of information that’s incorrect could be really critical or contextually important. Also (anecdotally) it’s often way more than 10%, or that 10% is distributed such that 9 out of 10 prompts are flawless, and the 10th is 100% nonsense.

And then you have people out there creating AI chat bots with the sole intention of spreading disinformation, or more commonly, with the intention of keeping people engaged or even emotionally dependent on their service — information accuracy often isn’t the priority.

The rate at which AI-generated content is populating the internet is increasing exponentially, and that’s where most LLM training data comes from currently, so it’s hard to see how the accuracy problem improves going forward.

All that said, like most things, when AI is used in moderation by responsible people, it’s a fantastic tool. Unfortunately, the people in charge are incentivized to be unscrupulous and irresponsible, and we live in a decadent society that doesn’t exactly promote moderation, to massively understate things…

(yeah, I used an em-dash, you wanna fight bro? 😘)

I stand corrected, TIL!

historicity

I think you’re looking for the word “history”

edit: sorry… I try not to be that guy, but I couldn’t help myself

Wait til people learn about fractional banking 🫣

They smell like developer fluid (fixer?), and so will your clothes after you’ve been in there long enough… the red light you always see in the movies isn’t common—the dark rooms I’ve been in use amber colored lights. Come to think of it I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use an enlarger in a movie or TV show, they always just cut right to the paper in the developer