To be fair that’s actually really hard once you are dead.

That Deadpool is trapped inside that gamer chair?

Tried to save and restart? Maybe the battery in the cartridge died?

Nobody claimed that any sewing machine has PhD level intelligence in almost all topics.

LLMs are marketed as “replaces jobs”, “PhD level intelligence”, “Reasoning models”, “Deep think”.

And yet all that “PhD level intelligence” consistently gets the simplest things wrong.

But, prove me wrong. Pick a game, prompt any LLM you like and share it here (the whole conversation not only a code snippet)

Try to play tic tac toe against ChatGPT for example 🤣 (just ask for “let’s play ASCII tic tac toe”)

Practically loses every game against my 4yo child - if it even manages to play according to the rules.

AI: Trained on the entire internet using billions of dollars. 4yo: Just told her the rules of the game twice.

Currently the best LLMs are certainly very “knowledgeable” (as in, they “know” much more than I - or practically any person - do for most topics) but they are certainly far away from intelligence.

You should only use them of you are able to verify the correctness of the output yourself.

No

I think the internet was a mistake. Before the internet every town had a few hand full of complete idiots and everybody just laughed at them. Now idiots that share the same delusions meet online and discuss stuff like “flat earth physics”

What? I’m pretty sure that’s complete BS and the thumb is probably the least of your problems when the airbags deploy

Exactly. And that’s also true for young children. Reading digital clocks is exactly that… reading. It doesn’t mean you understand what it means or how to interpret it. Analog clocks however are a great tool at actually get a feeling for time.

I think the biggest issue judging by the comment section is that most Americans (at least it seems that way) are almost never exposed to analog clocks.

You are right, nothing to argue against here. What I’m arguing against is just that digital clocks are somehow the successor of analog clock, which they are not. There is a reason why digital clocks are now everywhere and that’s mainly cost. It’s far cheaper to add a digital clock (sometimes just software because the hardware had a (segmented) display anyway). Nobody would add an analog clock to a microwave, because why would you. But because you need the display anyway to show the remaining time, why not show the actual time when there is nothing in it.

The other thing I’m arguing against is the claim that digital clocks are easier to read. That’s just wrong. Assuming you have roughly the same amount of exposure to both types of clocks. Children about 3-5 have no problem understanding analog clocks (just focus their attention to the hour hand at first) but I have yet to see three/four year old kids reading and understanding digital clocks. Digital clocks are more like actual reading and you need a pretty solid understanding of time already to interpret what you read. An analog clock on the other side doesn’t assume you know how long an hour is, quite the contrary, it helps children develop a feeling for how long minutes and hours are.

Your fact check doesn’t say it’s fake. Even the “mostly false” mentioned in the fact check is a bit of a stretch if you read the “what’s true” section.

pneumatic silverware

🤣 awesome. I’d love to see that. Reminds me of a video where a guy tried to eat corncob by mounting it on a drill. IIRC he lot some teeth doing that “stunt”.

But calling the fact that time passed and we will reach another equinox at some point is like saying that “progression of time towards 5:43 pm” is a thing just because time always tends towards 5:43 and once we pass it, we use the next 5:43 as a target.

I develop calendar systems in my spare time and you should take a look at the leap year rule of SAC13, it takes the precession of the equinoxes into account.

The things you just said are just words thrown together - and again - just because you can’t admit that you heard precession of the equinoxes in the past and misremembered it.

“Old technology” like, hammers, spoons and books 🤣 Let’s get rid of the wheel. That crap was invented ages ago.

Update: and if you can’t read a sun dial - which by the way is just reading the number the freaking shadow points at - the US should seriously consider teaching stuff like that again.

To be fair if you are never exposed to it (and judging by the comments that seems to have happened in the US) you can’t tell the time by “just looking at it”. But analog clocks are objectively simpler to teach to children (let’s say three to eight years old).

You can’t just make stuff up and then say “it’s just a description”. It looks like you just remembered precession of the equinoxes wrong and doubled down once somebody called you out on it?

If it’s a description of something, what does “progression of the equinoxes” describe? Astronomically it’s complete gibberish, so I’m not sure what it’s describing.

Update: regarding your edit

“The progression of time towards the equinoxes”

This sentence makes no sense. How can time itself progress towards equinoxes, which are points in time?

Do you have a link or something that explains “progression towards the equinoxes”. I never heard of that and can’t find anything about it.

Probably because it doesn’t look much like AI. At least today. In a few years we probably won’t have to ask that question because they would be practically indistinguishable.

The part in the middle is a screenshot of some social media site and the blacked out parts are navigation bread crums, comment counts. The answer below has a blacked out user name, profile picture, etc.

I have no idea why they would remove UI elements from a screenshot.

What is progression towards the equinoxes? You mean precession of the equinoxes? That takes millennia and is very much negligible when reading sun dials on a day to day basis, or even year to year basis.

The orbital motions of the objects in our solar system is pretty messy and you are right that there goes more into designing accurate sun dials than just a stick in the ground, but I’d still argue that that’s not part of “reading a sun dial” - which was the question I answered.