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Reply | Best zombie and / or apocalyptic film
at 23:55 21 Jun 2025
Zombies - Zombieland. Just fun throughout, not taking itself too seriously.
Apocalypse - The Day After Tomorrow. Mainly for being able to rewatch it. |
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Reply | AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview?
at 17:23 20 Jun 2025
I touched on the jobs market! haha
In answer to J2: It's not that I don't see the changes coming, I just think people's timescales are wrong. Continuing the internet example, we had loads of internet companies offering nothing, getting extreme valuations, and then the bubble burst. It took time, infraestructure improvements, and so on, before we saw societal changes. Certain sectors (music, phones, etc) were fundementally changed with time and we are still not at the end of the internet's changes upon us (threats to democracy are currently unresolved, AI uses the internet as a foundational block, other unknowns will likely come). |
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Reply | AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview?
at 15:55 20 Jun 2025
The phrasing of your first sentence seems to imply you think we've listened to the same podcast. That may not be your intention. But to clarify, I haven't listened to a podcast in it. My thoughts are largely original in my post.
I was under the impression that the original poster was after our opinions. I only have my own experiences and what I have read by which to judge what I have deem to be sensationalist.
I'm not in a position of rejection where I would be confident to dismiss other people's experiences. Eg, with Christianity, I'm able to say I think the origin of humanity in Genesis is highly implausible - I don't believe humans came from the rib of a man, when birth come from women, I don't believe humans lives to 969 years old, I don't believe animals could be kept alive for 40 days in numbers or 2-7 and repopulate the earth and so on.
With AI it is possible that I'm the equivalent of a climate change denier, where I either can't sufficiently perceive the threat or I I speak with more certainty than I should without understanding all evidence out there.
But I am sceptical of the stories that get put out there because I see sensationalism in other areas (examples given in previous post). In my mind I'm open to new evidence, but it would have to go beyond test cases of blackmail. We don't shut down the internet because humans use it to blackmail. I think the leap to the end of humanity is a stretch. But, I'm just going on what you've said, I haven't listened to that podcast.
Hopefully that helps put context to my position - Essentially, I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying this is my opinion from my knowledge and reasoning, and I'm willing to revise my opinion as things develop. |
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Reply | AI enthusiasts: What do you make of Yoshua Bengio's interview?
at 15:15 19 Jun 2025
I think he is being somewhat sensationalist. I think climate change currently poses a far bigger risk to humanity than AI. Often they use vacuous statements like hacking critical systems or using the internet for its own means or threaten democracy.
I think it is more likely humans use it for bad ends than AI.
One argument I've seen put forward is companies and individuals within the AI field talk up the risk in order to generate income to mitigate against that risk, when the risk isn't substantial compared to other risks.
I also think some of these threats are already critical through other means, yet we are unwilling to deal with these collectively. Take threat to democracy - Elon Musk is a biased actor who bought US votes through lotteries and controls access to what information people see. Disinformation is rampant. Companies pay governments money to take actions in their interest that are not in the interest of the electorate.
As for my day to day life. I use AI to assist me in basic programming tasks. It has got better at this, but the speed of improvement is not a quick as those warning of doom and gloom seem to suggest.
My company also uses AI for other things like voiceovers (TTS) in marketing and Gemini/ChatGPT to refine their written work. This makes us more productive as individuals and a company. Another way to put this is also that we are less reliant on other companies. Now, we've always had a do it ourselves culture, so other service providers aren't missing out on business from us. But I can imagine companies that interact with more service providers scaling that back causing a rise in unemployment in certain service sectors. [Post edited 19 Jun 15:17]
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Reply | Who replaces burgess as left centre back?
at 16:16 15 Jun 2025
I remember people saying worse about Burgess in League 1. I think with a year with McKenna under his belt and a good pre-season, we will see better performances than Burgess. |
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Reply | Burgess Joins Swansea
at 16:17 14 Jun 2025
It was more expected the second time. Still surprising though. |
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Reply | Who actually watches Doctor who?
at 02:20 2 Jun 2025
I only read the first two replies. The rest were rubbish. Did anyone else ask 'How do you know it is rubbish if you've never watched it in your life?'
I don't watch it either, so you can add me to that list. |
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Reply | If The FA, UEFA, FIFA, really wanted fair competition...
at 00:20 31 May 2025
Bit of a p*ss-take for clubs like Man City though. They buy up ridiculous amounts of young talent, sell them on to clubs like us and then demand a sell on fee.
I'm not intelligent enough to see a way around it though. Need to project the small clubs and as you say, it can be massive for them |
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Thread | Looking back at the season gone...
at 00:14 31 May 2025
I can't help but be disappointed. Sure there is a lot of pride, but I just wish the home kit badge wasn't so ugly. I guess the silver lining of changing the kit yearly is we won't have to see it much longer. |
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Reply | TDS's 1-20 Prediction competition
at 23:09 29 May 2025
Erm... We lost . What's worse than losing? The knowledge that Blueas is the most knowledgeable Town supporter on here! haha.
Some comfort seeing multiplescoregasms is 3rd, and me on 69. But it is pretty bleak. The Hive Mind was 20 points behind Opta.
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Reply | TDS's 1-20 Prediction competition
at 23:00 29 May 2025
Something funky with the TWTD table. Lots of teams only on 37 games played. So need to copy in a new table manually |
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