We can offload some basic reasoning tasks to an LLM Agent

No, you can’t. It cannot reason. It’s just been fed so much existing text that it appears like it can in some cases. That’s an extremely dangerous foundation on which to build anything.

I really think we just need to move on from this AI craze.

We don’t have a general intelligence. We may never have a general intelligence.

Keep using AI for what it’s good for: statistics based decision making. Stop trying to use AI for designing solutions; it’s not built for that because that requires reasoning which is something AI cannot do no matter how much snake oil society has been sold.

You want to use it for generating a picture, a poem, or a song … fine, it’s at least good at that because it doesn’t have to solve anything using facts, making stuff up IS the goal.

Honestly my biggest problem is:

• I don’t drink
• I don’t go to church / I’m not religious
• I work from home
• Video games and hiking are my two major “for fun” time expenditures
• I’ve seen too many women complain about dudes approaching them
• I hung out in a local coffee shop and met a couple of people, but no women (half the time if there were any there they seemed either much younger or much older … the other half of the time they’d show up and never come back so a cold approach was the only option)

… what the hell am I supposed to do other than use these apps society?

https://feddit.org/post/12430949

and even those people can’t be replaced.

I’d argue you’re the one that’s committed the nirvana fallacy if anyone.

You want them to take a useful stance but you quit supporting them because it wasn’t enough of a useful stance.

I’m just saying, don’t moralize companies … they’ll let you down every time. It’s not about doing what’s right, it’s about fitting in. Companies are like the virtue signalers in high school, they’ll only do it if it’s cool.

Maybe that’s useful to your cause, maybe it isn’t, maybe you support them maybe you don’t, but I wouldn’t expect a company to do things from a place of morals.

It almost certainly already has replaced several.

Has it actually replaced them?

Sure maybe some people have lost their jobs, but I don’t think they’ve really been replaced.

It’s closer to laying someone off without replacement … because evening I’ve seen has suggested AI not only can’t do the work but it also doesn’t improve the productivity of workers using it in any meaningful way.

Also, AI is not synonymous with LLM.

I’d argue that’s all AI means anymore if it has any meaning left at all.

How is it late?

I mean any and all corporate support of a cause (like LGBTQ) is going to be performative. Don’t expect corporations to take a stand unless their existence is predicated on that cause.

I don’t think LLMs will ever replace a single worker.

Yeah, those do look extremely similar to such I’ve pulled out of mid journey.

Have they had any recent developments?

TeamSpeak has been working on a new TeamSpeak 6 client and server that allows users to set up effectively their own personal federation of gaming servers with text, voice, and video chat rooms in a modern cross platform client that supports Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile operating systems.

They’ve also built up their own infrastructure so less technical folks can directly rent servers from them rather than needing to buy through a third party.

Three, before there was Discord there was TeamSpeak and they’re still fighting

Even if you understand the tech, the fediverse has a content discovery problem. The content you want to see may actually exist. However, your instance needs knowledge of the content that best fits you. That’s what bluesky’s model does better.

Bluesky is another instance of effectively what you’re talking about, an open algorithm platform. In theory Skylight (ATProtocol short form video app) is as well.

It’s not the media, it’s the recommendation algorithm.

They’re all a problem, but we have no way to regulate or monitor the algorithms as it stands.

Tiktok is an even higher risk because the recommendation algorithm is unknown to anyone on US soil. Nobody is going to whistleblow from the inside on TikTok because… they can’t; it’s all compartmentalized and nobody outside of China has access to the algorithm.

This whataboutism is about as valid as “her emails” because yeah, it’s a problem but there are also other problems to consider and reasons to get started fully acknowledging we won’t solve the entire problem.

Market share and yes, Proton/WINE ultimately lessens the need for a native Linux port.

In a fair number of cases, even when there is a native Linux port, Proton/WINE has worked better than the native game.

If Linux gets to 5-10% of the market, we’ll probably see them come back for platform specific optimization reasons. However, without a larger market share and with the translation being so good these days, there’s not a lot of need.

Programming is mostly copy&paste

I don’t know what y’all are working on but these comments always scare me …

I don’t, and last.fm is kind of social media… but I think last.fm could help you with this.

Reddit/Lemmy just leads to the same questions getting repeated again and again because it’s easier to ask again if you don’t see a discussion on the subject that interest you in the first few results.

I wonder if this just comes down to moderation strategy more than anything else.

Reddit does have post archiving, but there’s nothing otherwise stopping dead posts from being repeatedly revived. A lot of old forums would request a fresh thread as well when one got “necro bumped.”

How I wish you could buy digital copies… the only option is pirating or buying physical copies and turning them into digital copies.