when it’s laced with multiple poisons designed to slowly murder everyone

Well that took an abrupt turn.

There was another account like this with a similar name. Did you/it get banned?

Something feels very off here.

Not what you’re asking for but there’s a great nonfiction book called the Knowledge which is about how to rebuild after a collapse. (Mostly from a technical perspective etc but still, really interesting stuff!)

I’ve been stuck at home this past week and so powered through a bunch of movies!

I cannot believe it took me so long to watch classic Jackie Chan. Started with Police Story, then Wheels on Meals and finally Drunken Master. All of them were great in their own ways, but so far Drunken Master has been the chef’s kiss.

Also watched Brigadoon, lovely colourful 1950s musical with Gene Kelly. It’s not the best of his/that era but it was sa good time.

14% of the NDP party members have crossed the floor, should people on the other side, centre right who voted Liberal be concerned they are also “literally voting for the NDP and/or a party which was attractive to the NDP”?

I’m going to regret this when not high, but I’d be happy to maintain a list if someone can suggest a service with which to do so that isn’t youtube.

(Fine, maybe if we have to via youtube but I have to think one of you groovy folks know of something better.)

Oh, I fully agree about wanting a competent, reasonable Opposition. But this Opposition doesn’t strike me entirely as such, regardless of the leader. I’d much prefer a better Opposition but I’m happy this Opposition self sabotaged by choosing to be led by a man who utterly repels such a large swathe of the electorate.

Meta, but I wonder if there is some way we could create an ongoing playlist for these noms?

Would any service but youtube work?

There’s a universe in which a Conservative leader with an ounce of charisma was in charge 2 years ago and is now cosying up to trump.

Thank heavens Poilievre sucks so much.

That was a more hopeful and literate version of the future than the one we’re one. Were Ender’s Game rewritten now, Peter and Violet would be influencers…

Thanks, much appreciated!

Modding a big community is a herculean effort but needed if we want the fediverse to thrive, so thanks for stepping up to the plate!

Believe it or not, there are people who aren’t you who struggle with stuff.

Help a marginalized person with paperwork and you’ll see what I mean.

Heck, I think there aren’t many people who meet that criteria. You’d need some sort of vegan, who doesn’t use any tech made possible with child miners who obviously doesn’t wear sweatshop clothes and probably doesn’t live on stolen land etc…

I dunno, I think parents handing out alcohol to other parents on Halloween is one of those fun things that makes neighbourhood friends.

It’s hard to make new parent friends so it’s a quick vibe check and a friendly offer to some parent who has walked very slowly, has a sore back from crouching down and holding hands for a couple of hours and knows there will be a battle about candy distribution later.

I take it you’ve never helped someone who struggles with bureaucracy and government forms.

I’ve helped folks with tenancy, tax and applications. Usually, the issue behind the given issues is that everything feels very intimidating and the forms/support document are written in “government-ese”.

If there’s a tool that can help explain this stuff, without a multi hour phone wait, I’m all for it. Not everyone has a resource like myself that they feel comfortable asking. Especially when, there’s a sense of shame in being an adult who cannot navigate these things, yeah, I fully understand and can appreciate why 1/5 would want to ask an LLM for help.

You’d be surprised with the stumbling blocks people face. Just because you know how your deductions etc are supposed to work does not mean most people do. I find it’s really useful to consider things not from my perspective but from the least fortunate.

Like I said, not everyone has the same resources I do…

But this doesn’t seem worse than googling questions and not everyone can spend hours waiting to talk with the Irs/Cra etc.

It just seems that sometimes folks are so determined to be anti LLM that they refuse to see how it could ever help anyone.

The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.

If you can’t afford a professional, these don’t seem particularly unreasonable. I certain wouldn’t recommend feeding all your info into chatgpt etc but for a simple filer, asking an LLM for explanations or possible deductions seems fine.

Not everyone has access to the same resources that I do, so I try to picture it from others perspectives.

I don’t know the organization so can’t speak to the source or their methodology but they do note:

The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.

All of which seem pretty reasonable. If you don’t have the money for a professional, at least checking with something that is right more often than not with some basic questions seems perfectly reasonable.

From the reactions above, it seems people are assuming they’re just asking chatgpt to do all their taxes, which doesn’t appear to be the case.

Neither the article, nor source make a distinction as to whether it’s a general purpose LLM or purpose built software.

So it really depends on the question that the poll asked, which as far as I can tell, is not shared.

I mean, a lot of tax stuff is automated. Mine are pretty straightforward so turboTax handles a huge chunk of the work…