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q95.bat! Oh, the memories!

Memories, many memories. I remember the endless nights playing Quake on dial-up, 190 ms ping, listening to Nirvana. There are still people playing on some servers, and the challeng…

This is something I have been thinking about for quite a while. I readily embrace the advances AI may bring to mathematics and the hard sciences, but those advances were largely ex…

Do you have a background in CS or optimization? MILP is a pretty standard concept in algorithms/optimization. So this example doesn't really convince me that the AI reached some un…

"Neurotypical" is the more current and precise term when discussing human behavior, cognition, or neurodevelopment. "Normal" is vague, value-loaded, and scientifically weaker becau…

Sometimes something really is lost when people stop paying attention to the origins of a recipe. It is well known that Nestlé, through advertising campaigns and sponsored cookbooks…

#3 is the old school hacker, "a high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die" :-)

If it was a school teacher people would surreptitiously dismiss it as "coping". People would dismiss it anyway, being it Woz or a teacher. Maybe people are somehow dismissing his o…

That's an amazing life.

I don't know. It's like Frankenstein's monster reading The Sorrows of Young Werther. He could somewhat understand what the words meant, but he couldn't ever feel what was being des…

No, they don't. Well, not the ones I read. Philosophers have been cheerleading science since Kant.

> If scientists had the slightest bit of societal power, our response to climate change wouldn't be this shameful Why? Scientists are still human beings, they have partake in tortu…

Daniel Dennett is a philosopher.

Picasso painted Man in a Beret when he was 14 years old. His art became "nonsense" because realism was boring for him.

Where's the bill so I can read it? I don't want to form an opinion based on "riotimesonline" and gossip.

I don't recommend you call random people "boludo" in Argentina.

Maybe AI can function as a mediator/conciliator in the future, perhaps showing us with irrefutable logic that cooperation can be a better path for humanity. Geez, I'm wishing for a…

A painting or story made by artificial intelligence is not human because it does not have a life story behind it. I still enjoy reading the artist's biography, some of his correspo…

> They also happily murdered unaffiliated tribes just because. We still do it.

>>The world is a hugely better place I don't know. We live more, but a longer life can also be miserable.

All the criticisms I see directed at ChatGPT are met with "the web already sucks". So what revolution awaits us? I just think we're getting closer and closer to a boring dystopia.