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  • I think the vast majority of those people would adapt to 25 degrees (with light clothing!) with enough time. Why? Because until recently, air conditioning didn’t exist, yet people all over the world still managed to work through most of the day. Some cultures pause work during the hottest part of the day, but that won’t avoid temperatures over 25 degrees in a great many places where temperatures into the 30s are common. Likewise some people would suffer, but I think if those temperatures were genuinely unpleasant for a large part of the population with the available technology, you would see it.

    A big factor in my opinion here though is that I used to think similarly, until I spent a hot summer in a warm flat and am now perfectly comfortable at 29 degrees, given a week or two to adjust up to that point. So given that I would have said the same thing 10 years ago, I find it difficult to believe you now without something more.



  • With a fan pointed directly at me, I don’t need AC when it’s 30 degrees inside. A fan per employee would be more efficient than AC, and the world is literally on fire due to our energy consumption.

    Even worse than people who just have the AC on when it’s not needed (and OK, not everyone is as tolerant to warm temperatures as I am - though I note that I always thought I felt the heat more than most, until I lived in a warm flat and just got used to it) is people who insist on sticking to an extremely low AC temperature.

    Everyone can deal with an indoor temperature of 25C, that’s literally unproblematic. If you set your AC to below 25 for more than a few days, it’s not even for comfort, it’s because of ignorance or obstinacy.










  • FishFace@piefed.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devHuh (2026-06-11)
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    You:

    they have it set up so it will use tools like Me:

    It farms arithmetic out to dedicated, non-language based sub agents

    Is there an echo in here?

    Even if I interpret you charitably, you are using the word “it” to mean “LLMs”, instead of “AI”. That isn’t valid or useful. Nobody cares very much whether specific classes of neural network are good at maths; they care whether ChatGPT is going to give them the right answer. Go waste some of OpenAI’s money right now by asking it a question on mathematics, and see whether “AI can do maths”.

    This gets even more ludicrous when you look at what AI is enabling in real mathematics, rather than in arithmetic.


  • FishFace@piefed.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devHuh (2026-06-11)
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    It is quite competent at maths, including cooking up with real proofs of theorems people have been actively searching for for decades.

    Ordinary people aren’t put off by AI art, either. My partner’s grandparents had their TV tuned to a stream of Christmas themed ai-generated videos at Christmas. They were not good, no-one had assessed them for quality for sure. No-one but my partner and I thought this was especially worth commenting on.

    So it can do something in both domains…


  • FishFace@piefed.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devHuh (2026-06-11)
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    It can do maths. It cannot do arithmetic. And actually nowadays it seems ok at arithmetic. (It farms arithmetic out to dedicated, non-language based sub agents)

    Two weeks ago I was testing a draft of a puzzle to see how ai would do on it, with a page of about fifteen maths problems ranging from basic arithmetic up to easy integrals. It got all but one correct. (So that puzzle needs adjusting…)

    I think people who say this remember how it couldn’t count letters three years ago and think that’s the end of the story.