I think some apps will request all of your comment history and manually calculate karma but it’s not tracked by lemmy

Kids love cyber trucks, teslas, Ferraris, or any car that is perceived as very expensive

It’s just the default front end that does that. Using a front end like voyager can automatically redirect links to the instance you are signed in on, more apps and the default front end ought to do that quite frankly

I think a lot of the pushback can be chalked up to jealousy as well. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, then you can’t afford to take a 15% pay cut. Then of course, you taking leave means that they will have added responsibilities until you get back as well.

But it’s your right, if you can afford it then you absolutely should take it if that’s what you want. You can’t get this time back

What if we had taken the billions of dollars invested in AI and invested that into public education instead?

Imagine the return on investment of the information being used to train actual humans who can reason and don’t lie 60% of the time instead of using it to train a computer that is useless more than it is useful.

Any attempts to implement new taxes are going to hit the middle class the hardest as the wealthiest have the money to be able to move and organize their wealth to achieve maximum tax avoidance. Meanwhile the guy hustling to provide a few rentals to college kids. Or the unlucky couple who lost both sets of parents in the same year are going to see huge burdens because they don’t necessarily have a lot of income but have “wealth”

It’s really not so difficult to file your taxes if all you are a W2 earner and maybe a 1099 for interest income. (Which is the majority)

My state had direct file for the first time and so I was able to file for free, from the web, without any 3rd party software and it was so simple and I got my return in a week.

We need to make this available in all 50 states and advertise it. HR Block can kiss my ass

Ironic considering Lemmy.world is Dutch I believe

I’m mean there is no real downside to having and sharing an opinion outside the “hive mind”

“Karma” on Lemmy isn’t tracked. Having a negative score comment or post doesn’t affect your account or experience at all. I’ve posted plenty that has gotten downvoted into the negative and I haven’t even gotten a warning because Lemmy is an actual free speech platform unlike twitter or Reddit.

That doesn’t mean that everyone has to like your opinions though, hence the downvotes, but that’s ok.

Is there a difference between being a “stochastic parrot” and understanding text? No matter what you call it, an LLM will always produces the same output with the same input if it is at the same state.

An LLM will never say “I don’t know” unless it’s been trained to say “I don’t know”, it doesn’t have the concept of understanding. And so I lean on calling it a “stochastic parrot”. Although I think there is some interesting philosophic exercises, you could do on whether humans are much different and if understanding is just an illusion.