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  • UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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  • Probably, my point was that you cant say if its increasing, decreasing or staying constant just from the number of times it's been used. It could be that for most people its completely useless but for a small group its very usefull and they are using it more and more. Or as suggested it could be that everyone tried it a bit at first found it useless and stopped using it. Or that its kinda useful in very specific cases so it gets constantly used a tiny bit.

  • What If There’s No AGI?

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  • The "chart" that you posted, it showed barely any increase in the 1800s and massive increases in the last decades.

  • What If There’s No AGI?

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  • Its not a chart, to be that it would have to show some sort of relation between things. What it is is a list of things that were invented put onto an exponential curve to try and back up loony singularity naratives.

    Trying to claim there was vastly less innovation in the entire 19th century than there was in the past decade is just nonsense.

  • UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost

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  • Thats complete speculation on your part though. It could equally be people hardly used it at first then started to use it more as they found ways it was helpful. Unless you see the data there's no reason to say one or the other.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Given that I havent expressed a preference and have never voted either Democrat or Republican in a single election (owing to not being American) I believe you may be inventing things about me.

    And what I said stands, you functionally dont express a preference and what you do is equivalent to staying in bed and not turning out to vote.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • So functionally, you abstain from voting and dont express a preference about how you are goverened.

  • Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air

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  • The title kinda buries the lede there. I thought it was ridiculous to fine a platform just because a streamer happened to die on camera, but no, they were streaming months long abuse and torture of this guy at the hands of his co-streamers.

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    There's a lot of discussion of Mississippi's age verification law for social media today, after Bluesky announced they're blocking the state.

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  • You can tell when posts are from mastodon as they are full of twitterisms like hashtags and @User to reply to comments

  • How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal

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  • Yes, if you want a social security net and dont live in the world's economic hegemon

  • How to reform income tax: end the high marginal rate scandal

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  • FWIW the article does make sense, though the conclusion I'd draw wouldnt be the same as theirs but:

    Jane is earning £60k and claiming child benefit for three children. That’s worth £3,094.

    She’s now in the 42% tax band.6 Jane still pays basic rate tax for her income between £12,570 and £50,270, but now pays 42% tax for everything over that. So her total tax bill is (50270 – 12570) * 28% + (60000-50270) * 42% = £14,643 and Jane takes home £45,357.

    Jane is thinking of working a few more hours to earn another £1,000. She’s in the higher tax band – so in a sane world she’d expect another £420 of tax, and a marginal rate of 42%.

    But that is not the result. Once Jane’s income hits £60,200, the “High Income Child Benefit Charge” (introduced by George Osborne) starts to apply to claw back her child benefit – 1% for every £200 of earnings.

    The marginal rate – the tax Jane is paying on that new £1,000. This is 56.5% – and we will have the same result for all incomes between £60k and £80k.

    The solution I'd draw from that would be to raise the higher rate from 42 to 45-50% and scrap the means testing of child benefits. Makes the tax take more progressive and reduces administrative burden by not having to assess people's income for if they are eligible for child support or not.

  • What's your thoughts on this?

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  • If this university hadnt bought this meaningless advert it would have a tiny reduction in the demand for advertising potentially leading to less always lit billboards being made. So no, they dont get a pass for it.

  • We hate AI because it's everything we hate

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  • People make a complete mess of DIY with powertools, that doesnt mean that the powertools are the problem.

    The energy usage stuff is just silly, its dwarfed by streaming and video games, never mind actually energy intensive things like heating transport and meat rearing.

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • You think venture capital dictates to the politburo what its priorities are in China?

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • Have you considered that if the worlds two superpowers are dead certain on this being an important area that they are willing to throw coutless billions of investment into, that they might know more than you do?

  • China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card

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  • I think her point was that you were doing the annoying "everyone is from USA so I'll just talk like we all are" by bringing up Trumps tarrifs when they were not the topic of conversation and are irrelevant to everyone outside the USA.

  • OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

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  • ok, but running a hairdryer for 5 minutes is well up into the hundreds of queries which is more than the vast majority of people will use in a week. The post I replied to was talking about it being 1-2% of energy usage, so that includes transport, heating and heavy industry. It just doesnt pass the smell test to me that something where a weeks worth of usage is exceeded by a person drying their hair once is comparable with such vast users of energy.

  • OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

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  • Do you have a source for that? Because given a chatgpt query takes a similar amount of energy to running a hair dryer for a few seconds i find it hard to believe.

  • Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

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  • Thank you for posting this, I've tried to say the same thing to people quite a few times but to roughly the same reaction as this post has got. Its an entirely emotional reaction, people have convinced themself that AI is bad (arguable) therefore anything bad said about them is true (incorrect).

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • It wont do anything of the sort. Even if you accept the premise that somehow artists are being exploited from learning from their previous works, all that will happen is the AI companies will shift out of America to a juristiction that doesnt value extracting rents from IP above all else.