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Comment #49032564
> But, I am fairly certain for trivial tasks, or bureaucratic tasks AI has lessened my cognitive load (data point of one). That can't justify the 1+ trillion invested in AI, right?…
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Comment #49028108
This isn't how it works. Hundreds of billions are spend on existing NVIDIA AI hardware that must first be recuperated. This kind of speculation doesn't make sense to me.
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Comment #49028089
The 2025 paper showed how people could fool themselves. How easy it seems that you fool yourself. The 2026 paper admitted it's different and has issues. > A lot of software project…
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Comment #49027277
1. Does this make money 2. Does this warrant the unsubsidized cost of AI? 3. Does this justify the harmful externalities of AI? I don't need personal anecdotes. I want evidence tha…
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Comment #49026455
Where’s your proof? No anecdotes plz.
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Comment #49024784
Taking your anecdotes at face value for a moment (which I should not), how does this benefit of AI you describe justify the nearly 1 trillion dollar investment? Do you think that y…
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Comment #49024683
This mostly reads like wishful thinking about the future, that's not a basis to make decisions on right now.
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Comment #49024666
Thank you.
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Comment #48760682
Quiet quit aka : do the actual amount of work you are are paid for and don't let yourself get ripped off due to 'pressures'.
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Comment #48742913
The chassis is not connected to ground, tbh. Not really.
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Comment #48738308
All that output needs to be checked, thus why making mistakes faster doesn't seem valuable. How do we determine mistakes are made in the first place. Is it determined by people?
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Comment #48738297
That word 'some' does quite a bit of heavy lifting. Because there is a ton of work that people tend to perform that falls out the scope of that 'some'. And a lot of work requires a…
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Comment #48738265
LLM by their nature can't really replace people. Companies found this out from experience, as they fired and rehired people multiple times, you've seen the articles.
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Comment #48738192
About the - humans aren't accurate either - 'argument'. Why replace people with something objectively worse and more unpredictable?
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Comment #48738057
Thank you
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Comment #48704457
I haven’t found a solution for a single DC power supply I can connect to the systems. Maybe I have to solder something together myself.
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Comment #48681368
Thanks for sharing. I’m running a lack rack for 15 years, would have been fitting
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Comment #48610523
I've played this game so much on a Laser (Dutch computer brand) 286 with VGA monochrome screen, in the early '90s.
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Comment #48548707
I'm going against the grain but I read: we have a cultural/policy issue and we 'fix' it with tools. I think what you hear is never the whole story, there is much more going on.