RainyDayNinja
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RainyDayNinja
11mo ago
No, my expertise is in the hands-on work of actual emissions sampling, not high-level environmental policy.
RainyDayNinja
11mo ago
Yes, but the other issue I'm running into is that no one wants to train. They're only looking for people who have done that exact same job for 5 years already. And my job was so niche, the exact same position just doesn't exist anywhere else.
RainyDayNinja
11mo ago
I'm in a weird spot. Out of college, I applied for a lab analysis job, but was reassigned to an environmental compliance job before my first day. Now 11 years later I'm laid off with all my career experience in environmental regulations, despite being right-wing and generally opposed to environmentalism. It's weird trying to navigate that job market without being a true believer.
I think my best career trajectory at this point is to set myself up to step into a policy position after a future conservative purge of the EPA. Wish me luck!
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
as models scale, they become smarter about grokking the underlying principles of what you're trying to teach them.
And who is going to be brave enough to teach the DispatchBot that, actually, the guy shouting racial slurs on the street corner isn't really hurting anyone, so the cops should try talking him down instead of drawing on him immediately?
And when the DispatchBot developers are hauled before Congress because their product keeps sending armed officers into black neighborhoods, and they realize the best way to reduce their Racist Police Kills metric is just to... not send cops there anymore? Or their bosses make it clear that they face less PR liability from dead officers than dead drug dealers? What values will they teach the AI then?
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
Of course it will be. Because there's so much systemic racism in policing, why not hand off a good chunk of the decision-making power to some AI model that's been trained not to be racist?
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
The danger isn't that it's going to give us bad information when we're defusing a bomb, but rather that someone in a few years is going to hand it law enforcement powers. And then it will start sending SWAT teams to churches based on the content of their sermons, while BLM riots are ignored because no amount of violence or arson justifies the evil of arresting a black person.
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
I don't understand why he'd identify that as an incitement to violence
He did because he has to. He just made nice with Tim Apple, and if he lets something outrageous like that stay on Twitter, it could mean outright "war". Not to mention the risk of Jonathan Greenblatt "partnering" with US regulators again.
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
Primarily, lit fic isn't published to make money. At best, it's a prestige project, funded my the James Pattersons and J. K. Rowlings. At worst, it's a backscrstching payronage network: I give that lit professor a juicy advance on a novel that won't earn out, and they pull some strings to get my good-for-nothing nephew into their Ivy League university. I give you a fancy literature award, and you come to my cocktail party to impress the members of some board I'm angling to get on, etc.
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
- Nice to finally find a fellow Without a Clue enjoyer! That movie is criminally obscure, given the star power involved. We must have rented it at least a dozen time growing up, and I know exactly what scene you're referring to without clicking the link.
3 ) Eh, it's a kids' movie. Kids of all stripes can appreciate a good ball shot.
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
Baen just recently published a book on the subject, though I haven't read it myself.
https://www.baen.com/an-illustrated-guide-to-ai-prompt-mastery.html
RainyDayNinja
1yr ago
People don't use knives that commonly now
This seems odd to me. I'm mostly an office worker, but I carry a pocket knife on a routine basis. I don't use it every day, but it's such a massively versatile tool, I'd feel neutered without it.
I think the left-wing sci-fi fandom has a larger explicitly pro-communist streak than in general progressivism, perhaps due to the influence of, and reaction against, anti-communist MilSF. I remember there was a minor dust-up when Brad Torgersen referred to villains in a story as "ChiComs." Some lefties insisted it was a racial slur, somehow.
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