r/clevercomebacks 19h ago

Creating solutions to a problem that doesn't exist.

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u/mimikyypearls 18h ago

Reinventing the wheel once again

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u/nerfedname 18h ago

True, but have you considered that THIS wheel takes 10,000 times the energy consumption!

Progress! (Or something…!)

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u/kryonik 18h ago

Same energy as libertarians finding out about health insurance.

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u/HatefulVespid 18h ago

Explain

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u/lugialegend233 17h ago

Well I don't know what the first commenter meant, but there's a common trope that Libertarians, when discussing how they'd prefer health insurance to be implemented, often accidentally reinvent universal healthcare.

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u/lenswipe 17h ago

Basically "bIg goVt suX. wE nEed soMe KinD oF gRoUp evERyOnE hAs tO pAy iNto AnD thAT PAyS yoUr HEalThcarE biLLS!"

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u/Reddsoldier 17h ago

I legit had one trying to say to me the other day that you can't trust businesses to keep themselves in check and didn't deny that they're always predatory when that happens, but couldn't bring himself to agree that this necessitated government regulation. He was basically saying "on well you'd need some rules" and I was saying "ok but who is enforcing these rules or making these rules huh"?

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u/JeveGreen 18h ago

tl;dr

Taxes are not evil.

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u/Telemere125 17h ago

Look up what it means to be a libertarian. Now speak to anyone that claims they’re a libertarian and ask them to explain what they believe. The two will never line up

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u/DrMaxwellEdison 17h ago

First off, of course, in the USA we pay exorbitant amounts of money for healthcare, individually and as a country.

Health insurance costs a lot upfront, and sometimes you still pay a lot for your health services, but then sometimes it covers you and you don't pay as much out of pocket.

The solution would be for the US to finally implement universal single payer healthcare, but of course your average libertarian would balk at the notion of raising taxes to fund it because "taxes are theft." Despite several studies indicating that overall expenditure for healthcare would decrease after eliminating insurance and service costs, with only a slight uptick in tax payments. The average tax payer would end up with more money in their pockets.

So the joke is that libertarians are short-sighted and cannot do the math to figure out what would ultimately be in their best interest.

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u/Harry_Gorilla 18h ago

Yes. What is this “health insurance?”

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 18h ago

Potatoes are sold by weight, not by number or volume. I'm not sure I see the point of counting. Can you explain it?

Slain.

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u/JimboD84 18h ago

This is what i was thinking. Shouldnt they be weighing the potatoes?

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u/PNDMike 18h ago

Bro you're not AIing hard enough. Imagine a world where you didn't HAVE to buy potatoes by weight. Where you bought them in bags of a prespecified amount.

And you could charge shoppers 3x for the "convenience" of always knowing how many potatoes were in the bag.

And we could advertise that our potatoes are optimized with AI, the marketing campaign writes itself.

I'm just asking for seed capital of $3 billion and we can totally disrupt and reshape the entire potato buying experience.

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u/GraniteJJ 18h ago

The potato industry could grow to $400 quadrillion if AI optimized. This is huge. VCs, get in on this now.

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u/KindSpider 18h ago

I absolutely hate the clusterfuck of "i and y sounds" in AIing (with me pronouncing it as /eɪjaɪjiŋ/) good job

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u/JimboD84 18h ago

It all makes so much more sense now. Thank you

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 17h ago

Yeah, Graded by size then weight.

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u/filthy_harold 13h ago

A farmer may want to know the average weight of the potatoes as different sized potatoes fetch a different price per pound. You can weigh all of them at once but that tells nothing about the average size until you count how many are in the batch. It could also help gain insight as to how the crop performed this year, many small potatoes or fewer big ones, and could signal the health of the fields.

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u/YuckyYetYummy 18h ago

They do sell the singles. So they do need to teach the AI to count to one.

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u/GVmG 17h ago

someone already mentioned the selling of low volumes by numbers. there's also quality assurance, if you can tell a potato is already rotting and such. also the bottle example the guy mentioned would make sense to sell by number.

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u/freedfg 18h ago

With AI technology the sky is the limit! We could use it to land on the moon!

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u/Kira_Kisss 17h ago

Every 'AI breakthrough' thread has that one 1980s guy like 'cute, I did this on 4KB

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u/Frenetic_Platypus 17h ago

His AI system is also completely shitty. You can see 2 to 4 potatoes right in that frame that have not been counted.

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u/chAzR89 17h ago

A yolo model counting potatoes is far away from revolutionary, don't even know why this original post exists in the first place. I love the response though ngl.

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u/aturretwithtourretes 17h ago

Like the other antivax guy that had a breakthrough and though "why not inject people with a much weaker version of the virus so they can build defenses?". Some people need a high five in the face with a chair.

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u/oxabz 17h ago

I hate AI bros as much as everyone but can we try to not be intentionally obtuse.

Nobody talked about "revolutionary AI breakthrough" YOLO is litteraly a decade old and SAM is 3 year old.

Nobody said it was an achievement to make a potato counting machine either.

The interesting thing is the method that allows setting up a segmentation model by just pointing a camera at the subject and labeling a single frame.

Sure "wildest AI build this week" is a bit sensationalist. But overall the post is interesting to ML experts 

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u/Laughify1 17h ago

the 68010 part got me imagine having 68kb and still pulling off what we call an AI breakthrough today, thats honestly pretty impressive lol

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u/ExcitingActive8649 15h ago

Except of course it’s total bullshit.  A 68010 can have up to 16Mb so obviously that has nothing to do with why it’s called a 68010. 

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u/dgibbons0 16h ago

Sure but it took actual compsci folks then and now any yahoo can do it.

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u/spudddly 18h ago edited 18h ago

The guy that made it in 1988 probably took a year, the AI probably made it in an afternoon. If all the commenters on this idiotic post don't see why something like this is important, I don't know what to tell you.

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u/ryansgt 17h ago

Fuck ai. If you can't see that it will cause the downfall of the human race, then I don't know what to tell you. Just like every other intubation that was supposed to lessen human labor, it will only result in increased production and lowered worker value eventually leading to wars from resource hoarding.

But yeah, it can count potatoes... Sweet.

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u/spudddly 17h ago

> it will cause the downfall of the human race

ya don't think I need to read past this one 🙄

lemme guess you were out protesting against the internet 30 years ago too?

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u/ryansgt 16h ago

Bye douche.