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> A human's value under a capitalist system is equal to their ability to create goods and services. And AI cannot make this ability smaller in any way. Yes they can. Your ability t…

The work at PARC in creating Smalltalk-80 was pretty impressive, IMO.

AI is different. It promises to be able to do everything humans can, but better and more cheaply. When AIs can do every human job cheaper than the subsistence cost of employing a h…

I agree. My first reaction was "what the fuck's an 'M'?"

> try using obscure CPUs Better still invent a CPU instruction set, and get it to write an emulator for that instruction set in C. Then invent a C-like HLL and get it to write a co…

Not constitutionally, at any rate.

> In Holland I see a lot of defeatist attitude The naysayer defeatist attitude is also very strong in the UK.

Clearly the Israeli government don't think that. But many times in history governments have done dumb thnings that backfired.

Nor do I, but the university administration might see things differently to us.

aka enshitification

Indeed the blurb is absurd and very off-putting. It's not a big deal that "It clocks in at under 25MB with just 15 million parameters", because text to speech is a long-solved prob…

This is a very sensible proposal, however it falls flat when considering that many students who have paid for a university "education" feel entitled to a degree at the end of it, r…

No, because of their own behaviour. Israel might well lose the support of the USA and Europe, and if that happened the continued existence of their state would be far from certain.…

What about using ssh and a SOCKS5 proxy? I would be surprised if the UK government blocked that.

The difference is that Bitcoin was an overhyped solution looking for a problem. Whereas AI is as big as life, eukaryotes, multi-cellularity, human intelligence, agriculture and the…

> It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it. Surely there is a way to correct it: getting the issue on the fr…

It's like they remembered their 1984 advert, and decided they wanted to be the baddy in it.

Nor me.

This is a very sensible proposal, that would guarantee essential tools, and would cost a very small fraction of the respective countries economies.

Which is in any case a better test of the core of coding, which is about figuring out algorithms and data structures, not writing glue code to connect various APIs together.

You can buy beer in halfs, but people more usually buy a pint.

In Britain the standard glass size is 568 ml, i.e. a pint.

Note that a 568 ml pint of beer of 5% strength is by this definition 2 drinks. 4 pints over a week is basically nothing, and if they are saying it causes ill health, I don't believ…

When i try this I get: > Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now. Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means …

> It's also possible for a roof mounting system to cost more than the panels in materials and labor and time. Probably. The fix would be for the panels to be an intrinsic part of t…