@anemone@Dan_Ramos@sun@feld@Leyonhjelm if you think the worst people are on fedi, I'd like to introduce you to several institutions that house people Even Worse, such as congress, the senate, the DMV, and prisons for the criminally insane.
@p@ins0mniak@adiz@sim i don't know how it is now, but taking a gun was the shortcut -- you went through a different procedure to check in the gun and skipped the line -- much faster, much more pleasant.
@ins0mniak@p@adiz@sim the former Fred Rogers or another dude named Fred Rogers? My uncle lived with his parents in Pennsylvania when he was studying organ in the 70s and early 80s.
@adiz@p@ins0mniak@sim if they competed only on price, there would be no first class seating... I think the idea is to make it so miserable that they can call what used to be economy first class and charge an outrageous premium for it.
@ins0mniak@p@sim a number of a years ago a friend came back from Black Hat in Japan and as soon as she got off the plane -- it was cigarette time.
So we're outside the airport, she's fishing through her backpack for a lighter, and just as a TSA lady sits down on the bench with us... a Spyderco slides out of the pack she took to Tokyo and back: passing through four airports (customs and security at least twice) and back undetected.
The TSA lady laughs and says, "they want us to look for so much shit we pretty much miss it all."
@ins0mniak@p@sim flying used to be worth dressing up for. Now it's a winged bus full of screaming children, retards, and psychos -- if you're lucky enough not to be on Spirit Airlines.
@djsumdog I think the people who understand the matter are aware that it's useless except for a few niche cases, and therefore, don't. And those who do not understand, as you say, see it as oracular.
One of my tired tropes is pointing out that the people who discuss "artificial intelligence" inevitably have no useful definition of "intelligence" to begin with, and tend to wax poetic along the lines of Vernor Vinge as a function of what is one of the new religions of the retarded.
The new paganism makes idols of politics, artificial intelligence, the (belief in the) perfectibility of man ("if everyone thought as i do, we would know perfection!"), the (belief in the) perfectibility of society ("we're communism, self driving cars, and a few more robots away from paradise!"), and the worship of self ("my identity matters! USE MY PRONOUNS! I'm dragonkin!", etc.)
AI, the "intelligence" birthed by man is seen as a miracle to justify their faith. "We are godlike, behold: ChatGPT. Or several hundred Indians. Whatever."
@noyoushutthefuckupdad i gave it a few basic tasks to see how it worked, and it manged to fuck up two out of seven of them.
You know how people that rely on GPS are eventually unable to navigate on their own? I realized that there was a future in not being AI-brained (brained by AI?) and stay clear of it.
At the end of the day, like search, it's more of a user observatory than anything else.