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1970s personal computers were "controlled" by the likes of Richard Stallman. 2020s AI systems are controlled by the likes of Sam Altman. See the difference? This is intentionally a…

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Doom 2. And only John "Benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post singularity simulation we all live in" Carmack would know why he named it that.

What a tragedy Robert Bosch Stiftung isn't receiving the dividends into his personal accounts, as this means he's not incentivized to keep innovating or to reduce prices.

The Agents are more like Double Agents. Purporting to work for you, but with the primary goal of siphoning your wallet to its handler.

Is it too much to ask for a Streetwise Hercules?

I think the "state of the art" of measuring the quality of outputs was to send the same task to multiple "agents" and only accept answers if over a certain amount agree. With some …

This is like when store-bought locks are able to be picked by a novice, or broken with a hammer, or bypassed with a magnet. The phrase used is "it keeps good people honest", rather…

We might get a powerful enough model to run "Claude, build me GTA6" before GTA6.

That's $55 to ship to the UK. Tbh, I have an original Model-M and if ~£175 gets something of similar quality on your desk I'd say that's a fair value deal. It's not cheap for a key…

Even worse, what's to prevent the terrorists from temporarily renaming their Bluetooth bombs to something innocuous just before going through security and only renaming it back whe…

I think we can assume any hacker worth his salt has a dead man trigger. I imagine that if he doesn't reset it before a given period elapses then a script imports that will and test…

Only in the sense that Economists speak entirely in statements that are unprovable.

Some people, when confronted with a Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, think "I know, I’ll use a theoretically infinite set of axioms." Now they have aleph-nought problems.

Your point stands, it's very impressive. But Dragon in America was a cut above even that. Just look at the "chase scene" starting at 10:00 (even just 15 seconds should be enough to…

The second, fourth, and sixth form is options aren't used AFAIK. Otherwise, a leading underscore indicates a private method but isn't enforced. A double leading underscore is also …

I always felt Deadly Rooms of Death (my preferred version being the free "Architect's Edition", but all are good, and many have better QoL features) was one of the puzzle games whi…

I'm one of the git users who would sweat. Can you explain a bit (out link relevant docs) how I might split a commit up, and move it?

> Foreman was sued by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office over a drug search at his home in August 2022 that resulted in no criminal charges. This is a mad sentence.

We should have to pay every time we use Pythagoras' Theorem. Sure this might make it more expensive for an individual to do math[s]? and that might have a negative consequence, but…

I genuinely meant that lottery winners got murdered at a noticeable higher rate. However I can't find a good source for that belief now. So I'm happy to drop the belief. Neverthele…

The thing that annoys me most about the lottery is the tradeoff between risk and reward is so dumb as to become actually dangerous. The linked site says the Eurojackpot has a 1 in …

Redundancy isn't a dirty word in Information Theory.

You're on the fringe of an area which in academia is called Sensory Substitution. A simplification of which is experiencing one of the five senses using different sense organs than…

Nothing brings joy and optimism like giving $1B to a "coding automation for defence" startup. If there's one person I don't want to lose their job to a shonky AI agent, it's Stanis…