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The risk analysis is no better or worse than it is for other loosely/weakly understood technology such as flying. It amounts to noticing that few if any of the people you know or a…

You could certainly get help that was 'mechanical' but which did not involve machines or robots as we think of them today. More of an older, original definition of robot.

I'm not convinced that the unprecedented advantages of setting up base camp on the other end of a major global ocean on both sides of the landmass, the almost completely unfettered…

I wanted to hate this aspect of it, but since I like Debian and and use it as my daily driver on a lot of systems anyway, I just couldn't work up enough ire to complain.

They are emulating the behavior of every power-seeking mediocrity ever, who crave affirmation above all else. Lots of them practiced - indeed an entire industry is dedicated toward…

Not just ChatGPT, Claude sounds exactly the same if not worse, even when you set your preferences to not do this. rather interesting, if grimly dispiriting, to watch these models d…

Intermodal freight drayage industry, which is largely comprised of a thousands of very small and ineffocoently run mom and pop nepo-companies run dependent upon an open tolerance o…

The fact that Bitcoin (and kin) turbocharges corruption, and its success is a direct result of doing so on a wide scale (the whole point is to undermine state power by dwpriving it…

I think we may be talking at cross purposes. I specifically used the number one because it behaves like a unit here. unlike 2 or any other number, 1 is also the standard 1D unit ve…

I don't see what's wrong about OP's use of the term in the context they are using it. In the context given the number of days in the denominated unit is 1. Which means as dividend …

> If weak intelligence is everywhere, Earth-like planets are everywhere, ... where are the aliens? Someone has to be first (in our speed-of-causality bubble), maybe it's us?

It looks like this service may be intended to have a significant off label use as a professional networking / online matchmaking app, judging by the choice of human pairs given in …

"interprets damage as censorship and..." where these terms are being treated as equivalent

> It's more or less a computer on a single chip. How does this chip, and your wonderfully whimsical mega SoC implementation of it, compare to the claims (and the even more fantasti…

The city is locally referred to as Fontucky, evidently for good reason.

> My heart can exist independently of me, and be transplanted into other people, but does it mean that it is alive? Interesting analogy, made more interesting still if one replaces…

Very early in my experimentation with some of the GPT family, one of the first things I noticed was that at no point did the model ask questions of its own, except (perhaps - I don…

Okay that makes sense, that's how the classes went for me in the US, with Calc 3 being multi variable (and as you say, a brush with linear alg via vector-valued functions), and 2 s…

curious, what was covered in Calculus 4? Quadruple integrals? More vector valued stuff shading into proper linear algebra? Diff Eq?

I physically winced at how accurate this take is. TikTok's market function burns the internet's race-to-the-bottom candle at both ends: depth of the typical content piece and atten…

Wealth is a proxy for having options, even if you do not exercise them. There are thus many forms of wealth, and some do not translate directly across domain boundaries. Arnold Sch…

So it's 2029 and the entire world has become intensely suspicious of anyone wearing glasses. well done 'information wants to be free' gang. coda: it's 2032, and the entire world is…

This actually may be true although somewhat indirectly with respect to at least one well-known conspiracy belief. If I recall correctly, the Flat Earth Society was originally conci…

I predict it will get even worse than that, in the next couple of decades I expect any document or work that has a substantial reward associated with it, either financially or in t…