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Quaint article you won't see in a few years, when everything with be about weather and climate. Nothing else will matter. Welcome to the apocalypse

Japanese live for the afterlife, but know there isn't one, so it's coming apart.

America's greatest achievement is to last as long as it has while inverting all common sense. What is the fatal seed, I often wonder. I think this article suggests what it is. The …

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your wrong

This was also the premise in an AI themed novel last year, A Better Spy (Richard DeGrandpre). A Russian AI is weaponized and the CIA recruits a Russian engineer to try to stop it

Not a drop in the bucket. A drop in the ocean

Can anyone explain why chatgpt can understand verbal prompts but midjouney almost cannot? Midjouney is like a powerful program you have to write code to use

The snake eats its tail

Like Sam Altman, Tim Cook makes me think that what we fear in AI is already here. These two guys are corporate robots that act only in the service of the bottom line.

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A scam that's as old as the hills. The mother should travel from city to city, from town to town, showing off her sons unique talents. Then comes traditional publishing and now the…

Silver has gone up more by percentage since 47, as a side note

Love these images. It's like being inside the mind of China. A silent scream as lives shuffle on in relative peace and quiet

This is a solid review of why the NY Times is so relentlessly ineffectual All these skill sets yet the strategies and tactics are imbecilic Choose your battles, drill down, investi…

So does the lack of it

In a county half full of cowards, here's two more. Quote: "Amodei applauded Trump’s consideration to allow Minnesota authorities to conduct an independent investigation into the sh…

The last line refers to China conquering markets But the story told before that line is one of two superpowers crisscrossing the dimensions of ascent and decline China can just wai…

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It would be interesting to know more about how it's actually manufactured and whether he has ideas about why the classic formula was changed -- maybe something to do with the cost …

My AI summary of these 4k comments Yes—there are very clear, recurring *themes*, and what’s striking is how consistently people keep circling the same fault lines from different an…

I think the strategy is more by creep. Desensitization. This will be just another inching forward Or maybe not :(

The perception of time is a factor of the amount of experience behind us, so as we age, time goes faster. But we are thrown into the world, and that thrownness also frames our rela…