damn, I’m so happy that this is the takeaway message people are getting.

yes. Capitalism is the problem, not landlords per se. Under capitalism, I feel like it is more ethical to rent out a spare room in one’s house than it is to not rent it out.

oh that’s so sweet, you think i’m naïve <3

I said:

The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely

but it seemed to me that you were disagreeing with my post when you said “the problem is making a profit off it.” I could have misunderstood, and you were agreeing?

…no, that’s just what I said is not the case. You must have misread?

under capitalism, almost nothing happens without a profit. If you’re so sure the problem isn’t capitalism, please explain to me how exactly you’re imagining things should work.

I have a pretty good landlord. This isn’t an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.

There are some people working on fixing that, but most people don’t take them very seriously for some reason.

Since there’s no colour legend, I was really confused by this since blue means conservative and red means liberal in Canada.

absolutely refuse to put up with them

This is amazing. Good job! I wish more people were like this. Apparently São Paulo in Brazil has no ads at all.

The message they will take away is “the things my parents approve of” and “the things that are really cool and fun” are disjoint categories. IDK, I’m not a parent, I don’t want to deal with that. Just thinking about my own childhood here, and the kids of people I know.

yeah the problem is this doesn’t line up with the horror stories I’ve personally witnessed. Sudden, massive credit card charges. The problem can occur when kids aren’t spending their own money, they’re using their parents’, some way some how.

Regardless, kids are already surrounded by ads in every corner of life trying to convince them they need XYZ in exchange for money. I’d rather work to make the kid’s environment less consumerist, to give them a vision of how life could be.

wow I got completely fooled hahaha

today it’s probably less niche than the n64.

This is the responsible way to raise a child on video games IMO. Modern games have predatory practices like microtransactions.

The look on her face says everything to me though.

Personally, as someone who prefers it when software only does things I direct it to, I’d rather that an LLM not automatically search for the answer online if I didn’t ask it to.

The AI should never respond with a confident answer to a prompt it has no idea about.

Agreed. But the technology isn’t there yet. It’s not shit programming, because the theory of how to solve this problem doesn’t even exist yet. I mean, there are some attempts, but nobody has a good solution yet. It’s like you’re complaining that cars can’t go at 500 miles per hour since the technology limits them to 200 mph or so, and blaming this on bad car design when it’s actually the user’s expectation that’s the problem. The user has been mislead by the way things are presented by AI companies, so ultimately it’s the AI company’s fault for overmarketing their product.

(Fuck cars btw).

They gave it a very reasonable prompt that a grade 1 child could answer, and it failed.

LLMs don’t work like grade 1 children. The real problem is that AIs are being marketed in such a way that people are expecting them to be able to be at least as good as anything a grade 1 child can do. But AIs are not humans. They are able to do some things better than any human yet on other tasks they can be outperformed by a kindergartner. This is just how the technology is.

Blame expectations, blame marketing, fuck AI in general, but you’ve been totally misled if you’re expecting it to be able to, say, count the number of letters in a word or break a kanji into components when all it sees are tokens; not letters, not characters.

It seems as though you read the first sentence I wrote and not any of the sentences afterward.

that was unintentional

Yeah. The average person just doesn’t have a good intuition about AI, at least not yet. Maybe in a few years people will be burned by it and they’ll start to grok its limits, but idk. I still blame the AI companies here.