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> That’s in sharp contrast to Amazon’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040... Liars

Yes, mostly true But there is still journalism. * Propublica * The Economist * The Guardian * 404 Media Life is much harder for journalist now, and joining g the "darkside" of PR i…

When? Where?

Yes, it is a tool. "Normal"? It will cause huge disruption on its way to increasing efficiency, and if we maintain our freedoms, increasing welfare. But: AI cannot do your job Your…

How long is it we had private bedrooms? Not that long ago we would all have been very used to watching people have sex.

I have just finished chapter 2. About congress overriding safety concerns for their personal convenience Air traffic controllers' concerns were shutdown by the FAA because of "poli…

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> Sometimes yes, sometimes no. An economist....

> so I’m a bit odd I guess No. You, and I, are sensible....

I drink black coffee, no sugar I'm not "going nuts" over energy drinks, but the key ingredient is not caffeine, it is sugar The evidence has been mounting for decades, sugary drink…

This report is about something completely different

Good on them. More civilised than their northern neighbors

Totally depends on what you define money as. If "money" is the some function of all outstanding credit, then yes, it is created (mostly) by bank lending If you define money as a we…

> The airline industry since its birth has had a collective net loss True. But it has added enormous benefits to many other parts of the economy. Airlines do not capture that value…

> As a retail investor, you should buy an index fund and then forget about it. That definitely was true. I am unsure it is still true. Index funds have taken so much of the trade v…

> unprecedented amounts of corruption... Yes I hear about that a lot. Yuk But I also hear that FIFA puts a lot of resources into developing the game in African countries. I am aski…

> To be fair, everything is Chinese made Yes. Chinese manufacturing is quite a phenomenon, useful and everywhere But to be completely fair, a $40 video projector has a warning labe…

> Of my non-tech friends and colleagues, everyone uses Google. Me, almost, too. I have some friends using duckduckgo - not many and only until Google is the default again...

> If it is legal for a human to learn from a book... True, if the human's access to the book was legal A great deal of training was on the open web, no one should complain. But at …

We need more news like this. Congratulations Steve and Doris

> This is certainly not a planned marketing stunt Evidence? The "Tech Bros" have shown such a lack of moral fiber and ethics the burden of proof is on you

> Systems that rely on good people to work... ...are the only systems that are available for free, democratic societies (like what I want to live in) to function

Open AI and Anthropic are in a battle of "scary press release" The warriors are PR people. They are desperate to generate as much fear as possible so AI is heavily regulated, so th…

Capitalism, hoisted on its own petard So determined to own the means of production, enormous amounts of money have been poured into building the frontier models But there is not mu…