Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

I'm posting this because A. I'm having a bad day and assaulting you with terrible puns makes me feel better, and B...

I used to work there.

(Well, more accurately, in the factory you can see behind it.)

 

[trappedslider]

I found the point where it started going downhill

 

[Deset Gled]

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"... he posted from his phone."

 

[The Soloist]

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For you maybe, but for me it created my dream job, computer design and graphics.

 

[RealAlHazred]

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For you, maybe, but for me it created my dream job -- correcting people on the Internet, and carstng very vocal judgement about their terrible choices!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I was just thinking that 95% of the hatred and divisiveness we see today are because people have seen very different memes in their lives.
-Abraham Lincoln in the original opening to the Gettysburg Address

 

[MoonSong]

Oh, it still makes mistakes for sure, but it's learning and getting better a hell of a lot quicker than any actual human I know.

A baby born today who goes to preschool in a few years, kinder, then through primary and secondary school? Compare how fast AI is developing to how an actual human will develop over the next 17 years.

No comparison, right? Imagine where AI will be in 17 years. shivers!

Bottom line, we are toast.

Not necessarily, technology development isn't linear nor steady. Right now we are at peak "gold rush" stage of the cycle. Investor money is subsidizing the development and the operation of the AI models. Outside of very specific applications, no real "killer app" use has materialized to justify how expensive it is to run the larger models. Right now they are the cheapest they'll be to the general user. Open Ai loses money with every request made by paying users. And we are getting to the point where stakeholders are starting to demand RoI on all the AI investments over the last few years, so investor money is bound to fry up soon. So far, only Nvidia is making bank while everybody else just keeps spending hand over fist.

And then there's the physical and data limits of the technology. Chips are getting closer and closer to the smallest size they can be, while the energy requirements to keep the data centers running increase year after year straining electrical grids. And then they are running out of clean data to train new models. (Just the smallest amount of data not made by humans can collapse a model hard) The current approach to AI is a technological dead end that will leave some useful stuff in the process, but not the road to Skynet many fear (or hope). Outside of the most trivial tasks -or some of the most specific and domain restricted models-, models output has to be cleaned up and processed by a human to be useful, to the point it is a full-time job in many places.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I was just thinking that 95% of the hatred and divisiveness we see today are because people have seen very different memes in their lives.
-Abraham Lincoln in the original opening to the Gettysburg Address

Any timeline where memes and online culture pre-date the end of Ambrose Bierce's life and literary career is a more interesting timeline than ours.

 

[Mannahnin]

Ooh, a Barsoom reference! Kaor, Mannahnin!

Johnathan

Kaor!

Are non-alcoholic drinks necessarily lower calorie? I honestly have no idea.

No. Most mocktails are fruit juice that then have a ton of sugary syrups added. Massive calorie bombs.

Generally, they are unless they’re loaded with sugar too. But I’d think a non-alcoholic beer would shave off half the calories just by dropping the alcohol.

Not inherently (as mentioned, you can throw fruit juice and sugar syrup in regardless of alcohol content, or otherwise change the product before or after alcohol-removal). The above-mentioned Guinness is already one of the lowest-cal dark beers available even with alcohol. That said, alcohol is effectively sugar with 1/15-1/19th* of the calories removed via anaerobic metabolism. Taking it out of the equation is a really good way to eliminate a calorie source.
*In the theoretical construct, a molecule of glucose yields 38 ATP molecules in complete oxidation (compared to 2 for anaerobic digestion), but the actual experimental net output is closer to 30-32 ATP.

Regarding Guinness Zero -- I like it, but wish its presence didn't mean that stores stopped stocking Kaliber (effectively N/A Harps) -- which was the good non-alcoholic 'dark beer that isn't Guinness.'

As Willie pointed out, cutting the alcohol from N/A beers does mean they're normally lower calorie than actual beer. People aren't expecting beer to be sweet, so there's not so much sugar.

Mocktails OTOH...

Then you get the weirdness that is Diet Coke Vs. Coke Zero. I swear to god I cannot taste any difference between the two.

There's a very distinct bitter tang to Diet Coke for me which isn't present, or is massively dialed down, in Coke Zero. IME people who genuinely like Diet Coke find Coke Zero an inferior substitute.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Any timeline where memes and online culture pre-date the end of Ambrose Bierce's life and literary career is a more interesting timeline than ours.

ALL UR HONG KONG R BELONG TO US! MEMEZ R THE OPIATEZ OF THE MASSEZ!
-Admiral Sir Charles Elliott, confusingly.