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Comment Re: Shaking fist at clouds? (Score 1) 137

IME the very best information can't even be found in fora, it's on private mailing lists.

Back when I had a Nissan 240SX I was on such a list called the 240-list which was at least twice as good as any forum.

The public is just too problematic for people who actually know and do things.

Comment Re:Not only SciFi.... (Score 1) 26

He used to do a one man show of a Christmas Carol on stage. I never got to see it, but I always imagined it being amazing (based on the fact that it happened more than once... if it were ass, it would not have recurred). While the source material is relatively friendly to the idea, one man shows are hard to do well.

Comment Re: Wrong Diagnosis; Motivated Dishonesty. (Score 1) 137

Stephenson mentions this phenomenon in The Diamond Age, where as people approach higher strata, their news gets to look more the same so they're all on the same page. I have another proposal for why it would be such and why it's NOT desirable, though: the wealthy pissing down on us actually do tend to read the same shit in the real world... Because they have the same goal of treading upon us.

Comment Re: AI search is actually great (Score 1) 47

I asked Gemini for a list of the mascots of schools in my county. This should be easy, right? LLMs are good at summarizing, right?

Nope. Gemini told me no such thing existed.

There was such a thing right below the AI response, in the traditional search results.

Google's AI search is complete shit, and anyone who thinks it's good is proving they are shit at searching.

Comment Re: Anyone surprised? (Score 1) 47

Because it only works like that for the simplest questions.

Ask Google any slightly complicated question through the search interface, where the question domain is complicated and not necessarily even the question itself, and the answer will be shit. The answers will be wrong and the alleged citations will not only not support all of their respective claims, some of them will not even speak to the specific issue they are supposed to be citations for AT ALL. It will also claim crazy shit like that it is giving you information verbatim from its training data, then do the usual obsequious "you are quite right to push back on that" shuffle when you point out that this is impossible.

Maybe paid Gemini is less shit, but I'm that case Google is doing themselves a gross disservice with their Gemini-powered search results, because the only thing they have shown me is that Gemini is shit, and I'd be a total moron to pay for it.

Either Google is going to have to dig into their pockets to pay for real Gemini to produce search results, or it's impossible and Google will NEVER achieve what you say they should achieve, and they should fuck off right away with their AI search fuckery.

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