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  • I see where you’re coming from but I disagree.

    I think society would always benefit from requiring some sort of community service. Its a great way of getting people involved I’m the real grit of their community. Build fond memories with friends and learn life lessons while making a difference.

    Now, granted, I’m not going to go quietly into the fields to fix a mess made by a fascist government who decided making a show of shipping off undesirables is more important than eating.

    Nor am I going to do such labor for free/cheap against my will and then be told

    “Oh I’m so sorry. Jolly Green Giant and Kroger have had a bad year so that broccoli you picked has to double in price”

    So what I’m saying is, I would be completely on board with a mandatory community harvest effort, but that’s assuming its for a government that hasn’t disgusted me or broken my trust. Which, as an American, I don’t have that.











  • I learned something interesting from my AI researcher friend.

    ChatGPT is actually pretty good at giving mundane medical advice.

    Like “I’m pretty sure I have the flu, what should I do?” Kinda advice

    His group was generating a bunch of these sorta low stakes urgent care/free clinic type questions and in nearly every scenario, ChatGPT 4 gave good advice that surveyed medical professionals agreed they would have given.

    There were some issues though.

    For instance it responded to

    “Help my toddler has the flu. How do I keep it from spreading to the rest of my family?”

    And it said

    “You should completely isolate the child. Absolutely no contact with him.”

    Which you obviously can’t do, but it is technically a correct answer.

    Better still, it was also good at knowing its limits and anything that needed more than OTC and bedrest was seemingly recognized and it would suggest going to an urgent care or ER

    So they switched to Claude and Deepseek because they wanted to research how to mitigate failures and GPT wasn’t failing often enough.