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Awesome. Now that archeologists are more productive with AI they can fire 20% of the staff over hired during covid, and give massive bonuses to the executives

Awesome. Now that archeologists are more productive with AI they can fire 20% of the staff over hired during covid, and give massive bonuses to the executives running museums and archeology departments. Archeologists who stay can expect smaller stock grants, too. Now get back to work before Elon gets here and demands 60+ hr workweeks and requires all 401k plans to be converted to DOGEcoin. Because a man who hypes Social Security "as a ponzi scheme" knows that crypto is a good business proposition.

qoez 2y ago
You should take a month break from reading twitter for your own health
- CaffeineLD50 2y ago
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thechao 2y ago
Translation of cuneiform is limited by the number of people who know the different Semitic and nonsemitic languages. Bulk transcription of the texts just makes the amount of material available to translate even more overwhelming. The real revolution would be AI reconstruction of the 3d fragments and filtering of the bulk documents (receipts) from the interesting historical augments. (Hate mail, spam, poetry, death threats, omens, math, etc.)
- showerst 2y ago
  The real revolution would be an end to end machine transliteration to translation pipeline. …Which will require lots of sample data for all the steps.
  - wbl 2y ago
    Humans learn these languages from tiny samples+structured practice and dictionaries. Research required but AI could be similarly low info.
77pt77 2y ago
Not the place for that.
readthenotes1 2y ago
'Because a man who hypes Social Security "as a ponzi scheme" ' The only thing that differentiates Social Security from a typical Ponzi scheme is that a typical Ponzi scheme is now illegal. Neither Boomers, Gen x, nor gen y, are paying enough contributions to meet their demands and are instead relying on contributions from future donors. That is indistinguishable from what Ponzi did.
- multjoy 2y ago
  Apart from the fact that Ponzi was a fraud, while there is no pretence that Social Security schemes actually pay their way - the deductions you pay are better off being represented as a membership fee for the scheme.

qoez 2y ago

You should take a month break from reading twitter for your own health

CaffeineLD50 2y ago
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thechao 2y ago

Translation of cuneiform is limited by the number of people who know the different Semitic and nonsemitic languages. Bulk transcription of the texts just makes the amount of material available to translate even more overwhelming. The real revolution would be AI reconstruction of the 3d fragments and filtering of the bulk documents (receipts) from the interesting historical augments. (Hate mail, spam, poetry, death threats, omens, math, etc.)

showerst 2y ago
The real revolution would be an end to end machine transliteration to translation pipeline. …Which will require lots of sample data for all the steps.
- wbl 2y ago
  Humans learn these languages from tiny samples+structured practice and dictionaries. Research required but AI could be similarly low info.

77pt77 2y ago

Not the place for that.

readthenotes1 2y ago

'Because a man who hypes Social Security "as a ponzi scheme" ' The only thing that differentiates Social Security from a typical Ponzi scheme is that a typical Ponzi scheme is now illegal. Neither Boomers, Gen x, nor gen y, are paying enough contributions to meet their demands and are instead relying on contributions from future donors. That is indistinguishable from what Ponzi did.

multjoy 2y ago
Apart from the fact that Ponzi was a fraud, while there is no pretence that Social Security schemes actually pay their way - the deductions you pay are better off being represented as a membership fee for the scheme.