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With those examples though, how would we know ahead of time that they "shouldn't be explored?" They sure looked interesting and maybe even potentially beneficial a couple decades a…

Yeah, I saw that link and had a few thoughts immediately collide in my head: - Wait, WTF? Really?? - But but but it's a *chatbot*, not an authority - We're doomed

A recent study[1] seems to indicate that polarization is a hard problem, along with some of the other negative effects of social media. Many of the commonly suggested solutions hav…

As an anecdatum, one of my gen Y embedded engineers is using a little stick phone that can barely text, and avoids all social media except Discord (assuming that counts). One of th…

> they convey the meaning and humor much better than the americanized voiceover I'm glad this isn't just me. I occasionally watch anime and the English dubs are seemingly universal…

I could be wrong, but my impression is that GDP is usually thought of (by non-economists) as a trailing index that has some sustainability baked in, by inertia if nothing else. Mil…

> Instead, they should let people structure their feeds by news organization Doesn't this immediately turn into the kind of problem TFA is bemoaning? Once a news organization gets …

I expect we'll experiment with that as soon as we get a man and a woman imperfectly supervised in a low-gravity environment for 9+ months.

Vertical integration in this space sounds like a really bad thing to me ("bad" in the sense of "likely to lead to the creation of products that erode human dignity in new and inter…

We can surely build more efficient and capable hardware than our current evolved wetware, since all of the details of how to build it are generally externalized. If the chips had t…

I think the problem here would be figuring out how much of the brain's power draw to attribute to the multiplication. A brain is more akin to a motherboard than a single CPU, with …

I think this is still just a difference in how the output is used. You're presenting text generation as factual and image generation as artistic. It could be reversed - no one will…

Geez, these companies just keep getting passed around and around. I was working for Time Warner Interactive (aka Tengen, the consumer arm of Atari Games) when Midway bought them in…

Those are more difficult, but we're in the process of killing them off too. As usual, without much regard to consequences.

Couple of thoughts: You are assuming that a pure function has access to some source of randomness. I think that's a bit less than pure unless a source of randomness is one of the i…

Yeah, and Tandy graphics were different from EGA or VGA, just enough that you needed to write different display code for them. And you had to get the user to tell you which ports/I…

I've worked with some of those folks too. It seems to me like they haven't really learned programming the way I understand it; instead, they've learned various incantations that ca…

Mine happened a long time ago and the industry was very different, but there are echoes of it in some of the other comments here. I'd say, build a project and ship it to customers.…

Looking a the other comments, it seems like there's some meta-commentary on the social and commercial positioning of art going on here. Along the lines of "taking no position is re…

I think that this kind of novel problem modeling was always in (comparatively) short supply in programming. It's just so _easy_ to tell the machine to do what you want it to do, th…

Heh. That would've been nice. Back in the day, after we walked in the snow uphill to work both ways, we wrote our code, ran it through the cross-assembler, burned EPROMs (after wai…

The way I've seen this choice done that makes it easy (for me as a director of software dev) to buy into is a hybrid. You can pay $x/mo or $10x/yr. If you pay for the year, you don…

> ...does not mean the government should coerce everyone... Here you're presuming that the government's role in a pandemic is to wring their hands and issue PSA's. That might be wh…

This has bugged me since the beginning of this mess. It ought to be possible to say "Hey this looks kind of funny, could the vaccines be having weird effects in this .0000001% of t…

Epic could also, in that case, offer subscriptions that can only be canceled at a storefront in Peoria between 1am and 4am on alternate Tuesdays.