Comment Canada Postal Workers (Score 1) 21
If you go on strike and literally nobody notices it's time start considering a career change because for whatever reason your job is becoming obsolete.
If we aren't already, we will soon be at the point where actors are not needed at all.
Exactly. This is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted and the car has been (or is just about to be) invented.
YouTube's only concern these days is revenue and profit.
They breach their own community guidelines each and every day by running scam ads that continue to run despite hundreds or even thousand viewer-reports. Those ads run until the advertiser's spend is exhausted -- however if a creator (the life-blood of the platform) is falsely accused of "scams or deceptive practices" by YT's AI then they're gone in the blink of an eye.
They also allow AI spambots to post endless comments linking to porn pages/sites and claim that their AI can't automatically detect such things -- although that same AI, when unleashed on creator's videos, constantly demonetizes anything that is deemed to be unsuitable.
I hate the AI dross that is overwhelming YT as much as anyone but I really have doubts that YT intends to do anything effective to stem its flow. You see, so long as AI-generated videos are getting eyeballs on ads, YouTube will be happy because they'll be generating revenue and profits.
Let's face it, YouTube is actually *encouraging* the use of AI on its platform. AI suggests ideas for new videos and will create thumbnails for you. VEO3 will even create shorts or entire videos on demand. Google wants to sell its AI services and is pitching them at YouTube creators so they're not going to shoot themselves in the foot are they?
This is why I'm moving to self-hosting my own videos on an instance of PeerTube and I encourage other creators to do the same. When you self-host you have *FULL* control and you no longer have to worry about censorship or losing your entire community just because one of YT's AI bots has runamok and identifies your cute cat videos as CSAM.
There is a difference between evidence and proof.
Yes, evidence provides proof. However, proof comes in different degrees. In science we go for "proof beyond a reasonable scientific doubt" because, outside of abstract logical frameworks like mathematics there can be no absolute "100%" proof and so it is pointless to use that as a standard for anything that deals with the physical world. While that does leave it to subjective judgement about what constitutes a "reasonable scientific doubt", although standards can be quanified in some cases, the nature of our reality is that there will always be some doubt no matter how unreasonably small that doubt may be.
Axions are as elusive as WIMPS - they are only hypothesized and not detected yet.
Elusive means "difficult to find, catch or achieve" hence, for something to be "elusive" it must exist and the degree of difficulty of the search for it determines the level of elusiveness. Being hypothetical does not make something elusive, you can hypothesize a very easy to detect particle but then your theory will not remain at the hypothesis stage for long since data will quickly confirm or deny it. Conversely, WIMPS have been hypothesized for decades and we have been searching for them for that long using increasingly massive detectors using more and more ingenious technology and operating deep underground in massive labs. WIMPS. If the next generation of WIMP detectors find them we would clearly conclude that WIMPS were extremely elusive.
While axions we also hypothesized decades ago the concerted effort to find them has only started relatively recently. The scope and size of the efforts of the effort to find axions is nowhere near the level we have used to find WIMPS yet. Hence, we cannot claim axions are as elusive as WIMPS. Indeed, if the next generation of axion experiments found them we'd have to conclude that axions were not very elusive at all. Thus, so far, axions are not known to be as elusive as WIMPS.
Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin
Yes you can but it is really hard to achieve and it is something hotter than any positive temperature since the higher energy states are more likely to be populated than lower energy ones. Indeed, if the OP has achieved this it's possible they might actually be the cause of global warming...
Get ready for arguments of bad measurements or data manipulation.
No, just misleading presentation of the data. The headline should be "Europe breaks record for Hottest June 3 times in 3 years". Breaking one record is just weather, breaking two might be considered unlucky but when you break the same record over 3 consecutive years it's hard to see how that is not a very clear signal for climate change.
That's my biggest beef about the media reporting on climate change. They do not understand the difference between weather and climate and they tend to focus on reporting the weather as "evidence" of climate. Indeed, as this article shows, even when they are literally sitting on clear data that show significant climate change what they choose to focus on is how hot it was last month!
Maybe DNA tests have confirmed, but we have known this for a while.
There is a difference between knowing something is true and suspecting something is true. This is why we invented science: it let's us test our ideas to see whether the data support or refure them. This is why it is always important to check what you think you know against reality: you don't know something until you have the data to support it and there is always a chance that you may learn something new and surprising.
This is statism, writ large.
You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.
I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.
We have no obvious path, and the ones proposed so far are even more elusive.
That's not really true. Axions - that solve the strong CP problem - are looking like an increasingly likely candidate for Dark Matter. LIGO can also test the hypothesis that Dark Matter is just small Black Holes - while the source of such BHs is not theoretically motivated it's not experimentally ruled out yet and if they were found we all know the theorists would come up with ideas of where they came from!
While you could argue that none of these are "obvious paths" with the death of the WIMP miracle I would argue that WIMPs are not the obvious candidate anymore either.
I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.
I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"
Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".
As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.
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