• daltotron@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I dunno, I think my favorite insults are the ones that don’t require any creativity or effort. There is something to be said of just using the old standbys because the person you are insulting is worth so little to you that you really can’t even be assed to come up with anything specific for them, or because the subject you are insulting is so inherently devoid of originality that they’re like a negative creativity vacuum. How many different ways can you really insult the same copy-pasted balding thumb headed shrimp dick moron? It gets tough after the one thousand three hundred and twelfth time. They make writers and dominatrices to insult people, there are careers. Me, I’m not gonna waste good material if I’m not paid for it.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    That’s not an insult it’s a curse

    Insult:

    Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.

    You have all the creativity and emotional intelligence of a manager

  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Thrifting used to be fun Now everyone thinks they’re a flipper and goodwill and other places have jacked up their prices to unreasonable levels.

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      8 months ago

      Not to mention the fact that it’s (sort-of) taking materials that were attempted to be destined for the less fortunate

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        In ny area it’s in reverse: there’s no supply shortage but it’s much more socially acceptable to buy second hand clothes. The stigma on thrifting is way less.

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    This happened to me. I was really really into AI when nobody even knew what it meant if not for hal, skynet and matrix, and now everybody talks of llms like they even know what the f they are.

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      Nah, nobody talks about LLMs. If I approached an average, everyday person about this topic, 99% of them wouldn’t know shit about it, while the tech-nerds all would.

      It’s not mainstream at alllll yet. I introduced a pair of people I game with to openai/gpt3.5 like…a week ago and they were absolutely beside themselves using it.

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        What I mean is that “back in my day” there were maybe 10 people in the world seriously investigating strong AI

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          I know some people doing old-school logic-based AI research. They’re happy because there’s more AI funding in general, and they can present themselves as “what neural networks are missing” or “the next big thing”. Or they come up with projects involving hybrid systems.

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          That’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that you were not yet exposed to AI research and did not read through the academic reviews and articles of the time. AI is a serious topic in science and engineering since more than half a century.

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            I was reading papers daily, and there was progress but even in the field of symbolic ai the focus was on weak ai, a range of approaches that try to solve single problems. They were trying to find marketable techniques, not looking for the sparkle of intelligence. Then big data came and people started specialising in techniques that were also useful for ml, and boom.

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          I remember when Google started running classifiers backwards for the first time to produce the very first generation of generative ML. Very small crowd following it closely.

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    Fr 10 years I was cool, but I kept doing the same things and now I’m just basic lol. Even the undercut became a popular hairstyle.

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    Refer to someone you’ve never met by their name if you can. This usually works best in a school or work setting. And when they ask how you know their name just simply reply:

    “Everyone knows who you are.” And walk away.

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    Honestly, homebrewing becoming a mainstream hobby would be pretty great, I’m always interested in trying a beer someone else brewed and it would probably make sourcing ingredients a lot easier if there was enough of a demand to necessitate a local shop in my area.