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>And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed. So, this is a self-inflicted problem, b…

As the article mentions, this is (or was, it's been a while) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, along with other computing milestones and ambitious dead ends. The…

The most straightforward way to measure the pace of AI progress is by attaching a speedometer to the goalposts.

>A lot of white western adult men fantasize about being female Asian children. I have questions/concerns.

I am not a traditional anything, but the usefulness of the concept of "demon" - as the personification of a vice, or misfortune, or cultural problem, or even mental illness - is sh…

My experience is the opposite - kids have a natural sense of fairness, which is of course heavily bent by self interest. Assuming you yourself are not transparently full of sh_t, y…

This has been the winning strategy so far, as using the map (theoretical model) leads to excellent agreement with experiment, while the territory (ground level reality) steadfastly…

>Some legitimate references were also lost, meaning they were not present in the metadata. It's possible that some of the inconsistency between metadata and text could just be due …

... not the ones involving the rent check.

I was being glib, of course. Presumably there's some legitimate technical philosophical issue, and actual philosophers are capable of using answering machines and even landline tel…

Alternatively: placing finger on the peak of Olympus Mons on Martian map "I am not here now". I'm not seeing the problem. There are a lot of philosophy 'problems' like this, which …

>But what this simple experiment demonstrates is that Llama 3 basically can't stop itself from spouting inane and abhorrent text if induced to do so. It lacks the ability to self-r…

The (public) debate is not about the science, and hasn't been for a while. It's maneuvering to avoid getting stuck with the check.

"NPR goes woke, loses listeners" is a great viral narrative, but I think it's causally backwards. NPR, like every media entity, is now in constant completion with endless social me…

Marius and Caesar were populists. Having leaders (who are frequently themselves of the elite class) is almost a prerequisite, or else you've drifted into anarchism.

Since no one knows what dark matter is, there's no known connection between it and real matter, so 1:5 seems coincidental if it's free to be anything within the range 0 .. infinity…

Not exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary. Carl Weathers was g…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...

Here's a good synopsis of the Smothers Brothers and their importance for that generation of comedians: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/smothers-brothe... Comedy, in ge…

The opening chapter of Underworld is one of the greatest things I have read, I can't even explain it because there's almost nothing like it, it's the literary equivalent of a spect…

>Curious that Auschwitz was established fully 18 months prior to the Wannsee Conference No, it's not curious at all. It was established to exterminate Soviet and Polish POWs, only …

This is a really good question. Wittgenstein himself didn't think much of it, and it is generally believed he didn't really understand it: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittge…

Progphobia is the last acceptable prejudice and is tied up with people's fear of being silly, which is a silly thing to be afraid of, as being silly and being awesome are two sides…