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If you had so much money that you never had to work again (but were physically able to etc.), would you choose to work? (If you’re already in this situation, choose what you actually did.)

Yes, I’d do the same job I have now.

Yes, but I’d switch to a lower-paying but more fulfilling job.

Yes, but I’d choose to pursue a creative career.

Yes, but I’d start my own business.

Sort of. I’d volunteer or otherwise work without pay.

I wouldn’t work per se, but would devote a lot of time to a hobby.

I’d just relax, have fun, do whatever.

I’m not sure/Other

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

kittydesade

Same job I have now or similar, but part time. Maybe on a volunteer basis.

#I would probably switch jobs tbh #I like my job but like…idk id definitely work less #but I would also want to try out things that don’t pay as much #I definitely wouldn’t work full time though I’d be working 24-30 hours a week max #six hour shifts. four days a week. ideal #polls

acquired-stardust

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon TurboGrafix-16/PC Engine 1994

#you could make this into a friendship bracelet…..#sailor moon

spin-the-wheel-polls

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

lemmmmmmmmmmonade

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP

#shadow wing #polls #a bit awkward when combined the way a true warrior cat name would be but cool nonetheless

mayakern

The cotton skirts have officially landed! 🎉 Soft. Breezy. Twirly. Giant pockets. Available in Black, Pumpkin Orange, Parchment Beige, and Forest Green, and this is just the beginning. Printed cotton skirts are already in the works! Bonus challenge: We fit 10 cans of Dr. Pepper in the pockets... what would you carry? 👀 Shop the new collection here: https://store.mayakern.com/

exactly

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

fake-lancelot

#trying to internalize this energy

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

#it’s just also the fact that like #LLMs could become something useful maybe eventually #I’m willing to listen to the possibility of what they could be #but starting off a product with stealing a bunch of information and plagiarizing a bunch of living authors etc etc #immediately violating privacy and blasting through laws #and then also being forced into everything before it fucking works???#like that is not a good way to sell your product #if the first thing I experience of your product is that a) it violated a bunch of privacy b) it doesn’t fucking work #and c) I have no way to opt out of it it will just be observing and reporting on me forever #that is not a very good sell!!!!#I was interested in the ai art stuff before it became deepfake child porn #I like the idea of something that could like. write code faster or something #a tool that could pull information from a lot of sources and provide links to relevant sections sounds great #the problem is that it doesn’t fucking work #I tried doing that and it made shit up that I wanted to hear #but couldn’t verify from the source material #and that’s really the main problem. the goal of most LLMs are to give you what you want. not the truth

just-a-small-town-gay

Baby goose, you will be missed dearly

#pwhl

tizzymcwizzy

FINALLY FINISHED THIS DRAWING sorry its late, my bad, anyway,, YAAAYY FAMILYYY!!!!

#ace attorney

kiburebuc

that is a fucking insane amount of donuts, theres like 6 people in this room

it looks like an edit or something bit irs just in the show like this

kiburebuc

this has to be a joke, theyre all double stacked

kiburebuc

cooper dissociates while albert is absolutely flabbergasted by the insurmountable quantity of donuts

#that one time at work I came in and someone had bought us 2 dozen donuts #and then my boss walked in with 2 dozen more #we do have over 30 people in my department but not everyone eats the donuts #I ate like 5 #we still had to throw a bunch away #I know it’s not quite on this level but it felt like it. emotionally #it puts into context just how many donuts this is #I was begging 30 people to eat 48 donuts #I offered them to people outside the department #I ate so many donuts over a couple days and we still threw them away #and we only had like 1/3 of the FIRST image

transsexualgriffith

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

#oc vibes #Bim trying to talk to Enkò #they’re twins :-)

reallyreallyreallytrying

all roads lead to road dude. and when in road do as the rodents do.

#text post

belladonnabedlam

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

#I didn’t have an account for the longest time bc I just read things #so I’m in the millions but that’s just because ao3 is perfectly easy to use as a reader with no account #like I feel like the main thing you really can’t do is comment? or can you comment as a guest #but like I just used my browser bookmarks I didn’t need an account for that #or I downloaded the ones I really liked and bookmarked the ones I had on my list #it wasn’t until I wanted to make an archival collection of some of my personal stuff that I made an account and that was. really recently l

proudtoehaver

“I was on a strict diet during Episode VIII, and she was like, ‘Kid, get into that fridge and take some chocolate bars. I have many there.’ And I did,” he recalls. “I failed my diet because Carrie Fisher told me to. And it [felt] great.”

-John Boyega on Carrie Fisher

fuocogo

This is the Carrie Fisher post of body positivity reblog for a chocolate bar from her fridge

montrealvictoire

throuple line (2026) by montrealvictoire

#pwhl

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