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Before reading The Stranger , I was headlong into the then-popular "New Atheism" movement, which came with a certain air of superiority of brainpower over the naive masses. But rea…

Can confirm. Top of the article could be about my dad. Same flavor of cancer and everything.

Have not read it yet, but recently researched this question and came to this book as a readable overview of the latest thinking in cosmology, Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales …

I suspect this is happening a thousand times a day right now. But it will be many years before the first test case gets to a federal appeals court. In the meantime, there will be s…

Software patent law and AI inventorship are separate legal issues. For example, an AI could invent a mechanical device which is a more "meat and potatoes" kind of IP. But the quest…

The plaintiff is Stephen Thaler who has made a career of this litigation all over the world. To my knowledge, he has notched only one win (i.e., granted patent) in South Africa, wh…

(simple, non-complicated consumer) Alternatives I'm aware of are: Amazon Fire TV Apple TV Smart TV built-ins Are there any others?

They have absolutely no idea what they are destroying or why. An entire generation of scientists will be lost. It is breathtaking to watch what will surely be someday labeled as on…

I was just thinking about this. LLMs are nothing if not easy litmus tests for identifying bullshit jobs.

> If you had asked me this question years ago, I probably would have agreed with you. It is breathtaking to consider how many strong opinions of the young are like this. Strong opi…

> If LLMs were around when I was a student, I would've also used them to "speed up" my homework assignments then proceed to fail all my tests. As a counterpoint, I was once a physi…

> The only possible answer in a republic is that people accountable to the political system are allocated that power. It's not that what's happening in the US with respect to scien…

That's a lovely thought but it assumes, as with so many other things about our republican form of government, that the political appointees are good faith actors, at least with res…

Unfortunately, these are agency rules. Congress can intervene, but only with major legislative action, which is unlikely. There will be hearings and Senators will express great con…

> Second, the update utility got stuck. Just frozen. Couldn't open it. I hadn't tweaked anything, hadn't installed anything unusual, hadn't deviated from the vanilla setup. Day sev…

100% agree. The two examples are garden-variety computer problems and not articulated with any degree of precision for someone who claims to have attempted to troubleshoot them. It…

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@kevinroose i follow AI adoption pretty closely, and i have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap. people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives…

Isn't that what GPTZero does?

If these are so easy to identify, why not just incorporate some kind of screening into the early stages of peer review?

My point still stands. The country will obviously not be permanently swarming with ICE agents violently grabbing immigrants off the street. There is going to be mission creep. If t…

Along the same lines, anyone who thinks this is just about immigration should ask themselves what all these tens of thousands of ICE agents are going to do when all the immigrants …

People are, yes, but I'm not. I'm looking inward and trying to be honest about what it's going to take to get me on the street.