You probably weren’t invested in subprime mortgages in 2008 either, but I’d be amazed if you didn’t feel at least some of the effects of that crash.

Those are humans. A human is smart. Humanity is another story…

If you genuinely think that the current generation of AI could “spin out of control” in a way that could do great harm to humanity (other than the real, tangible harms that it’s already doing all the time, every day), then you’ve accepted a false narrative perpetuated by people who just want to sell you shit.

“AI”, in the sense that we’ve all come to understand it in the past 5ish years is just advertising — advertising for a product with no actual utility and no viable business model. The only danger we should be worried about is the economic consequences of the AI bubble busting and plugging the developed world into yet another brutal economic recession.

It’s also complete and utter bullshit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI

TL;DW: CAPTCHA isn’t designed to identify if you’re a human, it’s designed to identify which specific human you are. And if it can’t do that (because you’re not already part of the AdSense ecosystem making Google money), they force you to do free labor by helping Google train their image identification algorithms.

Garbage in, garbage out.

I’m in exactly the same boat as you, and it’s driving me insane. I asked Cursor to generate a simple JavaScript function the other day, and it gave back a 200-line mess of garbage. I ended up just writing the function myself, and was able to do the same thing in 20 lines… and it’s not like I was using some “clever” techniques that no future maintainer will ever understand, it was all just basic code.

AI is definitely generating 10x the amount of code… but not 10x the quality or productively.

Accidentally…?

comprehension is just pattern matching anyways

Anyone who claims to know what intelligence actually is at a fundamental level must possess a very artificial kind of intelligence themselves.

The fact that they’re losing money hand over fist doesn’t make their stealing any less shitty.

I wish it were that simple, but sadly it isn’t — at least not in the US.

Shelters here were absolutely overwhelmed by COVID. People adopted pets in record numbers during the pandemic for some added company in lockdown, but many of them were not actually prepared for the realities of pet ownership, and ended up abandoning their new pet after the lockdowns lifted. Many were left at shelters, but many were not, and that later group has caused an explosion in the stay cat population in most urban centers around the country.

People living in those areas tend to be poorer and have fewer housing options, and many lower income apartments either do not allow cats at all, or put strict limits on how many you can have. So here’s the typical situation in these areas:

1. The no-kill shelters are full. If you try to bring a stay there, they’ll either refuse to take it, or forward it along to a kill shelter. People taking cats to shelters don’t typically want to see the cat harmed, so instead they’d do what’s called a TNR: trap, neuter, release. The cat is fixed and returned to its original environment — not ideal, but it at least helps to stabilize the stay cat population. Sometimes these cats will be microchipped, sometimes not.
2. Because they can’t take the cat inside (can’t afford to, the landlord won’t allow it, etc) they will set food out for the cat which remains outside. They’re still providing for the cat, just not in an ideal environment. In this situation, cat and caretaker often form a bond even if the cat is not living inside.
3. Sometimes people DO have the resources to take the cat in, but it’s already too feral to cooperate. If a cat has been outside long enough, it becomes much, much harder to smoothly tradition it to inside living. This is made more difficult if you have kids and/or other pets already.
4. The cat may have an infectious disease like FLV that could infect other inside cats, and so no one wants to take the cat inside.
5. The cat may be healthy and a good samaritan may want to bring it inside, but they’ve already adopted many other stays and have too many cats to add another — a symptom of the out-of-control stray population I mentioned at the top.

In a perfect world, no cat should have unsupervised access to the outside. It can vastly shorten the cat’s lifespan by exposing it to disease, the cat’s hunting instincts can cause major damage to the local bird populations (especially fledglings), the cat could be hit by a car, etc, etc etc…

But this isn’t a perfect world, and the sad truth is that there are currently more stray or semi-stray cats in the United States than there are resources available to care for them. If you do have the resources to bring a stray inside, please, please consider doing so. If not, please consider participating in TNR programs in your area. For many people, even this will be out of reach, and they’re just doing the best they can.

So if you feel very strongly that no good owner would ever let their cat outside? Be the change you want to see in the world and adopt one from a shelter, or take in a stray yourself. At the very least, let other people know what they can do to help with the stray cat situation, instead of talking down to well-meaning people on the Internet.

The issue with collars is that most responsible cat owners are using breakaways so that their cat doesn’t accidentally strangle itself to death the first time it tries to squeeze through a tight space (as they are wont to do). I’ve had a lot of experience with cats getting out of their collars by getting it snagged on something (either accidentally or on purpose), causing it to break away.

These days, microchips are really the only way to be sure if an outdoor cat is already being looked after or if it’s a legitimate stray.

OP, please make sure whomever adopts this cat at least gets him checked for a microchip.

I can see from the first image you posted that his ear is clipped, which usually means he’s been fixed. You see this often with fetal cats that get neutered and then released back out into the ‘wild’, but sometimes these cats do have owners and the ear clip is a signal to any good samaritans that they don’t need to abduct their outdoor cat and get them fixed.

You can tell from the first image that his left ear has been clipped, which usually means he’s been fixed. Once a feral cat is fixed, their instinct to fight drops significantly.

What the actual fuck

Wales is still president of the company, and presumably has a continuing financial stake in it.

Evrart may be corrupt, but he’s still a better boss than Corpo trash

The other cats.

Me too. My guess is that the marketing was targeted mostly towards kids.

Apparently it earned this dubious honor purely from marketing… It has a marketing budget of 1 billion dollars. But it’s allegedly made 5 billion, so… guess it was worth it to someone.

over unpaid wages of just 800 yuan (or US$111)

lol, “just”

Wage theft is wage theft, the amount doesn’t matter. Fuck you, pay me.