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.

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…

Poilievre — and other Conservative MPs — have in the past voted against a bill that would require MPs to automatically face a byelection if they changed parties.

“But that was when I thought they’d be floor crossing to my party!”

For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?

To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?

One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.

Optics aren’t great and it’s not like he has qualified people helping but honestly, I still think I want Donald as far away from a problem as possible just so he can’t make it even worse.