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OS/2 Warp's browser did that - it kept a tree of parent and child nodes (indented) as a history type of thing..

Libre Office has that too..

If it wasn't for Google (and ads), my bank might not have even considered selling my data.. They only sold the credit bureaus in the past, AFAIK. Now it's considered a "must have".…

Thanks for this. As a 30+ years software developer, I empathize with your pain, understand your points, etc. I also am old-school and would expect reasonable support / fixes from $…

That depends. My employer sells to enterprise / Fortune 500 companies. We have very responsive support staff. We've been around 15+ years. The question was asked: would we ever con…

Especially in 2026 with the majority of traffic being bots..

UBI can also be a backstop against deflation, can't it? If no one has income, it doesn't matter if bread costs $1 per loaf instead of $3-5 now - no one will be able to afford even …

Sam Altman doesn't BELIEVE in UBI - but he knows it's the only way to SELL his product, therefore he pretends he believes in it. None of these guys want one cent going to anyone bu…

What about RTX 3080? Too little VRAM?

Then they can get a license for that class of vehicle and add "towing up to NNNN lbs" option.. Anything over 500 or 1000 lbs towed, for example, IMHO, should require a license. Obv…

I think it depends if you have: a) picture, legal name or b) picture, legal name, dob, all addresses/phone numbers/email addresses they have ever had, SSN, employers past and prese…

And people loved "free next day delivery" from Amazon, when it started. It's not quite the same level of service anymore, and membership has gone up in price. Would these businesse…

How can it end well, when it's mostly owned / controlled by narcistic billionaires who would love to eradicate anyone who so much as looks at them sideways? And who view "mass popu…

Sure, they brought in artillery and a small freelance militia to shoot at the unionized workers, but the point is, the survivors are back working the mines...

Creative is still around? They always had great hardware, but their software was never what one would consider "great".

If you feed the same prompt to the same AI with the same random seed, you'll get the same answer every time. If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same?…

Chiang has, in fact, written on this topic before - see "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", and has speculated about sentience in AI, etc. This is not a "one-off", "I need money" …

It can't even natively understand how many letters there are in words - how will it understand the meaning?

I would maybe agree with you if the entire realm of human existence was limited to words. There are many human experiences that transcend text, and indeed can hardly be adequately …

AFAICT, Star Trek has ALWAYS been a vessel for political messaging.

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Yes. I'm currently not convinced it can ever be so. So until I hear something convincing to the contrary, I believe no machine can be conscious / sentient unless mimicking human be…

Infinitely reproducible at 0 cost means people will be treated as disposable by the rich.

>If I build a Markov chain based on a statistical analysis of word sequences in Hamlet, and then use it to produce a new sentence that isn't found in the text of that work, I have …

There are people voting to make their lives worse, as long as "other's lives" will be made even more worse as a result.