I’m just how exactly does my credit card company know how much I paid for shampoo?

Your retailer knows exactly how much you paid for shampoo. In most cases, they know it was exactly you who bought it. Data sharing agreements through direct or third parties complete the picture for both sides, retailer and card issuer.

Whatever they sell them for is the value.

But shouldn’t there have been an evolutionary advantage for such a thing to develop?

Not necessarily for the individual.

Some trees have mechanisms, for instance, where they die quickly but signal other trees if exposed to certain issues, allowing the other trees to put up a better defense.

Ants and other insects sometimes do the same thing.

Essentially a ‘jumps on the grenade’ gene.

What’s the use case exactly?

I have this.

TP-Link AC750

https://a.co/d/esxrRA4

When you are some place with a captive network and want to use devices that don’t have a browser. You connect the router to the WiFi network that has internet access and you connect the other WiFi network to a device with a browser like your phone. Every device looks like one device to the captive network and you can use them all.

Second use case, I now live in a place with a shared internet access that is shared between all of the units. Anyone can broadcast to and control our Roku device and there is no way to block it from the Roku.

We create a private network with the router

One is actually usable wifi at hotels with ethernet cables available. I don't use that device, but a DIY version that also acts as a portable media server while traveling. We can tunnel back to our home network, but often stay places with very bad reception and or internet access. Also helps keep the kids entertained on longer road trips. They can connect their devices to the router as we travel and have full access to the cached media.

Use before readiness? I get immense and even life changing use out of Chatbots like Grok. I agree with your first sentiment that it’s just a misunderstanding of what a chat bot should be used for.

But I disagree that they’re not “ready” for use. I’ve never once thought to upload a photo from a CURRENT event and see what it found. That’s just silly.

This is just plain user error.

If a tool like this is currently only suitable for specific and minor cases under human oversight, how does it prove any better than a human? Wouldn't one of the only novel and useful cases of "AI" be general intelligence that is able to parse events in real time, instead of from manually selected information that we are so quickly running out of? We are so far from that and being sold Siri / Cortana for the third time.

I admit I'm definitely biased in this - even if information presented by one of these "AI" was factual, I would still take it upon myself to check. I don't trust their works at all.

> If a tool like this is currently only suitable for specific and minor cases under human oversight, how does it prove any better than a human?

Not to defend Grok, and I agree with your point about checking, but you can also say this about a hammer.

Not unless you wanna punch a nail in with your fist.

"AI" only does things we can do, because to do otherwise would be evidence against the general, human level intelligence that the marketing behind these abominations are so desperate for. The catch is they do it quicker, sometimes much quicker, but always much worse.

> This is just plain user error.

How are users supposed to know that that's an incorrect use of grok?

The secret is that there is no correct use of grok. Or any of the rest of these things, for that matter.

I truly don’t understand that one. Might be the first XKCD that has gone over my head.

Shouldn’t we have been REALLY good at modeling tsunamis? We know so much about ocean depth, water temperatures, viscosity, salinity, etc.

Is modeling waves in a body of water really not that well understood?

I would hope that now with this data we can become exceptional at it.

Can you explain?

You can run shortcuts using Siri. You can create a shortcut with an action that executes via SSH: https://matsbauer.medium.com/how-to-run-ssh-terminal-command....

Avoid vague terms like “size” when talking about a wheel. A car wheel all has a diameter, usually expressed in inches, and a width also usually expressed in inches.

It’s not clear to me which dimension folks are saying, has a relationship to brake size. I’m imagining width is the dimension related to wind efficiency, but I would nonetheless ask folks to use more accurate terms like wheel diameter or width.

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