As a professional honorary Internet Doctor, I’m prescribing OP a week off work with no Internet and an eighth of psilocybin mushrooms.

Get all your scrolls in tonight OP! I’ll be outside your house first thing tomorrow to cut the Internet lines and deliver your assigned crate of offline media. Stay hydrated and please do not resist your treatment!

Give it time. Let MN cook here. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good

I’m not sure we disagree. I agree that LLMs are not a good source for raw knowledge, and it’s definitely foolish to use them as if they’re some sort of oracle. I already mentioned that they are not good at providing answers, especially in a technical context.

What they are good at is gathering sources and recontextualizing your queries based on those sources, so that you can pose your query to human experts in a way that will make more sense to them.

You’re of course in your absolute right to avoid the tech entirely, as it comes with many pitfalls. Many of these models are damn good at gathering info from real human sources, though, if you can be concise with your prompts and avoid the temptation of swallowing its “analysis”.

Exactly, just look at the dropoff on stack overflow recently

never forget.

0911, got it /s

I thought it was drop bears?

You can’t rely on LLMs to get actual answers for technical things but it can help avoid a huge amount of wasted time and effort, back-and-forth, going in circles, talking around or past the issues etc. that is seen in threads everywhere in these types of expert niche communities. Besides, maybe my question has already been answered.

When I don’t know the specific terms or framing, am missing context or am trying to get from A to C, but have no idea that B even exists, nevermind how (or who) to ask about it. If I can accelerate the process of clearing that up, I can go to the correct human expert or community with a much better handle on what it is I’m actually looking for and how to ask for it.

Ha! That’s a paintball gun, not a firearm. The thing you’re asking about is the “hopper” from which the paintballs are gravity-fed into the chamber. Sorry, I don’t know the technical term.

Only printers

We did it Reddit Lemmy!

I understood some of those words. Nevertheless, thanks for providing some crucial context.

You’re just describing what a shotgun shell is. The “small metal balls” could be steel, lead, bismuth, or anything else really

I know

Stupidity isn’t ageist I’m afraid

You don’t happen to have a clothes dryer at home, do you?

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The itchy sting is how you know it’s working

EU members are hooked on tax revenue from US big tech as well. Ireland, for example, is host to Meta offices and datacenters which are huge for revenue and jobs. As an outside observer, this seems to be a major source of tension and debate within that country. Meta just has way too much leverage. It remains to be seen whether the EU as a whole or individual members will have the foresight to seize upon the opportunity to foster an open, alternative tech ecosystem as Doctorow suggests. But, like he says, it will only take one to blow the doors open.

I’m not sure how far you read, but he argues that it would only take one country’s legislature to set this off and reap the rewards of nurturing a fully open alternative to the US big-tech stack.

With the US pissing off pretty much everyone else and losing allies by the day, it will only be a matter of time before the doors are blown open on this.