2D printers were more than 15 years early https://www.pcworld.com/article/485139/counterfeit_money_on_color_laser_printers.html

The biggest difference between 2D and 3D printers other than a dimension, is their complexity. People can make their own 3D printer, so trying to regulate it is absurd. With 2D printers, the governments just have the handful of printer manufacturers build the restrictions into the machine and it’s much harder for a random person to get around.

Owl House was a good watch, and I only watched it as an adult. Gravity Falls is great as well, and stars Alex Hirsch as well.

I was using VLC, but after they converted their cost into a subscription platform of $0 a month I had to move. Was going to use Jellyfin, but now this… Guess I’m gonna have to start putting all my media on film

They mentioned in the video more cops came because they wanted to meet the gaming grandma, and they cleared the scene pretty quick.

Assuming this was in the US, most 911 dispatchers are E911, so the approximate location is automatically included with the call. Smart phones are able to provide a more accurate location, and dispatchers still ask location because they don’t know what floor you’re on if it’s a multi story building.

The Wii. Too much gimmick stuff distracting from the experience (eg metroid wiimote shooting and wiimote sideways). So much shovelware!. It’s still a nice system (especially considering backwards compatibility too) but still.

It’s funny you say the controls distract from the experience, when I’d argue they add to the experience.

You ask me, the Wii is great and just keeps getting better, even now, with active homebrew communities. Many games allow you to choose what controller type you want, and there is a lot of creativity in the different games for using the Wiimote (though you may find those gimmicky). The biggest downside is trying to play if your TV is near a window and the sun is out. You have to close the blinds or it messes with the IR sensor.

According to Republicans, that’s what skin color is for

Wish they had the opposite. I feel like most people want to know who to go to, less so on who to avoid. I can see the usefulness in the list, but it’s backwards when people want to find someone

people hide that they’re MAGA

Where are you that they’re hiding?

empathy limits one’s ability to make money (in this economy)

Idk if there’s any economy where greed and empathy work well together

It is useful if you’re trying to figure out what to focus on. In this case, the concern is wasteful water usage. If you point to a larger area of wasteful water consumption, it would make more sense to target that first.

That link shows Altman saying current datacenters use closed loop systems and make vague rhetorical questions. That’s not a source

It’s normal to shower before going to a gas station for 5 minutes?

“The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.”

Someone having faster reflexes giving them the ability to catch fast moving objects is not a matter of knowledge, but muscle strength and agility.

The same would go for running, or swimming, or catching a fish with giant claws.

When doing things, it’s whether the limiting factor is physical or if it’s information they have or don’t have.

I suppose with running, for example, there will be a lot of knowledge for running technique. But no amount of technique or breathing exercise would make up for lack of muscle.

Honestly, the problem when talking about “AI” is how many different things that can mean.

• General AI chats
• Coding agents
• Automated pentesting/vulnerability discovery
• Image/video/music generation
• Grammar checking
• Automated support agents (phone or chat)
• Autonomous weaponry

and so many more. Being Pro-AI could mean you like one or two application of the AI, but be against it in the others. I know very few people that like it for the use of media generation. However, there have been a lot of long time vulnerabilities in very popular open source projects that was only just discovered. That seems like a pretty undeniable use case demonstrating its usefulness.

Then of course there’s governments that want to get their greedy blood thirsty hands on it to create autonomous weaponry. So now if you try to defend AI for a use case like defensively finding program vulnerabilities you somehow also have to defend AI weaponry?

For a generic AI model, it is very powerful and can either be used to grow yourself or abused so your brain doesn’t have to work at all. You can use AI to do the hard work for you, or use it as a personal tutor to guide you into what to learn. People will of course mention hallucinations as why it can’t be used to learn, but you don’t have to take AI at its words. If you were to ask it to create a lesson plan on what you should study for a subject, in what order, and resources are available, you can do all of the actual learning using content the AI has no control over. So what you do with that is going to be up to the person, and opinions on it are going to vary wildly.

Some people argue any use case is not okay given the various concerns of energy and water usage, and where those models sourced their training data. Not to mention if you support AI you must be supporting the AI companies. I agree there are concerns for the environmental impact, and the training data discussion is a long one on its own. However, I do think you can support AI as a technology, and not be okay with the way the technology is being done in regards to environmental impact. And given AI can be done on a local machine, I don’t think it has to be tied at all with the big tech at all.

“AI” is such a wide and immense topic. And what we talk about with AI today will not be relevant come next year with how quickly it is developing. We shall see if some form of Moore’s law applied with the growth of AI as far as efficiency and quality of the AI goes.

A centralist view of AI on Lemmy is seen as pro-AI. I think the person commenting is including neutral posts about AI as pro-AI

AI hs already been demonstrated as a tool that largely benefits fascists and oligarchs.

Lmfao, what? The internet is also a tool that largely benefits fascists and oligarchs. Does that make every user of the internet a fascist, or just stupid?

Of course bad actors are going to take advantage of a tool that is very useful in an absurd amount of contexts…

Most of those do not fit “smarter” by my understanding of the word. Someone that can run or swim faster than me is not smarter than me. Someone more skilled in shooting a gun is not smarter, either. Most of these abilities are separate from intelligence

Sounds like a skill issue to me

Seriously. Have they talked to a woman about their life experiences? More importantly, have they ever actually listened to a woman?