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Why just teens though? Getting manipulated by algorithms crafted to maximize screentime and ad revenue is bad for anyone. These platforms rely on ads to survive. Which means it sho…

If the main purpose of this was to satisfy people's morbid curiosity that makes a lot of sense. Maybe they made up some juicy deaths in slow news weeks even.

I don't see how selecting the Lion, the Robot or the Scarecrow at random is going to help with any of the issues you mentioned. Now some rando (or group of randos) that you didn't …

at that point you could just buy cheap drones yourself and ram those into your neighbor's (oops)

I think the point they're making is "Walter White is a well-behaved chemistry teacher who resorts to manufacturing and selling drugs after he gets cancer" would still be true even …

The Czech Republic changed its official name but many places still use the old name. Same with Eswatini, Côte d'Ivoire, Cabo Verde, etc. I suspect name changes aren't that reliable…

What's even worse would be enforcing the wrong solution that will cause more damage. The French have a saying, fuite en avant (lit. escape forwards) when someone insists on doing s…

Excession is literally the next book on my reading list so I won't click on that yet :) > With this metaphor you seem to be saying we should, if possible, learn how to control AI? …

Bears can't use their strength to make even stronger bears so we're safe for now. The Unabomber was clearly an intelligent person. You could even argue that he was someone worth li…

I know nothing about physics. If I came across some magic algorithm that occasionally poops out a plane that works 90 percent of the time, would you book a flight in it? Sure, we c…

Why wouldn't it be? A lot of super intelligent people are/were also "destructive and evil". The greatest horrors in human history wouldn't be possible otherwise. You can't orchestr…

A list that includes Bulgaria, funnily enough

>Since the last ice age we've been dropping like flies. In fact, we're the only humans left. I was under the impression that was our doing. All of these human varieties were outcom…

The middle class thinks about its survival and keeping their assets intact. Building wealth is not possible for most people. But if you have money laying around, buying assets is t…

You get used to it. You get used to seeing a different price tag every time you get groceries. You get used to real estate prices doubling almost every year. You use dollars or oth…

>Biodiversity doesn't "benefit" anyone so much as it comprises, entirely, the world from which we're inextricable. Is it though? There's been several extinction events that wiped o…

I enjoyed this game, it made me feel better about myself until I tried France and was unable to think of a single départment between the Pyrénées and Marseille. Are you planning to…

I only switch to chrome when I need to fake response payload, I couldn't figure that out in ff. Otherwise pretty much the same functionality. They also look the same.

>why do archaeologists use CT scanners to painstakingly read fragile rolled-up scrolls from thousands of years ago? I was under the impression that we haven't read a lot of old scr…

That's incredibly unlikely to happen [today] given how large cutting-edge AI tends to be [today] and how scarce GPUs are [today].

I mean is it that unreasonable to think that humans are radically different from any other species we know? Because we obviously are. I don't see any dogs writing on this forum to …

>Given how much money governments spend on nonsense, why can't we take some money, and build simple, but quality and stable shelter for people? A better question is, given how much…

Normally this place gives me anxiety (so many things to learn) but people's dismissiveness of LLMs here gives me hope for a change. I feel like if LLMs make writing software signif…