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Quoting you, since I can't upvote you further.

We already are, except that Donald Trump is more over-the-top and stupid than Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. At least President Camacho had the humility to realize that he needed the help of a smart person.

I had no idea that the Brits had gone and created their own knockoff of an LLM.

You find this era to be "somewhat" dystopian? I keep asking myself, on a near-daily basis, how much worse things can get before this economy and society completely collapses, and those of us who manage to survive are subsisting in communes, compounds, and shanty-towns. I feel like I should be...

I have to say, as someone afflicted with moderately severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, it feels so strange to be irritated by both my own nature, and also by humanity's nature in general. My broad-spectrum "checking" compulsions are so strong – with a relevant example being fact-checking –...

Why in the hell do people even bother offering suggestions like this? If we were talking about some newbie politician, then maybe. But it is blindingly obvious that the Trump administration doesn't give a single flying fuck about ethics, humility, integrity, morality, the rule of law...

I would argue that AI could become pretty damn perfect, if it is eventually iterated into a superintelligence, which really wouldn't surprise me very much at this point. But if that evolution were to happen, I suppose that my point would be moot, since we would clearly have much more ominous...

I suppose that I could ask "How expensive is generative AI?" at a prompt, but I loathe the technology, and generally try to avoid it, and wouldn't trust the answer. So when you say it's "expensive", can you please cite a couple examples? Because surely the generative AI content that I've seen...

As someone who is approximately the same age as the deceased, speak for yourself. Some of us were careful drivers even when we were teenagers.

Oh, to have lived long enough to finally see solar panels and battery storage become affordable... And then to see people hate on this technology for... political reasons? Sob, sigh.

If I had a choice, though, I would want Vladimir Putin to die first. He is even more blatantly destructive and malicious.

I live in Colorado, and interviewed at NCAR once. This is one of those situations where I wish that blue states would come together, form a Blue Science Foundation, buy the NCAR facilities and fund them.

Elon Musk's bionic hands are designed to go "Honk, honk!", when the cup size is sufficient.

I'm guessing that hardly anybody shares this view with me, but personally I find the em-dash symbol to be too damn wide, and I especially dislike seeing it when it's not wrapped in whitespace. But I also find the keyboard dash symbol to be too narrow, so my personal preference – as demonstrated...

I agree with what you're saying here, except that I'm guessing you meant to say "depreciating" rather than "deprecating". Although I have been wondering if the U.S. Dollar will become "deprecated" by global investors soon, due to the stunning incompetence in our government leadership.

Thank you very much for providing the link. This made it easy to verify that my intuition was correct, that David Zaslav was the one responsible for completely removing my beloved Westworld from HBO Max for no fucking reason that I've ever understood.

This game sounds more like a Falling Simulator than a Walking Simulator.

Gold and platinum are the two most chemically unreactive metals, so I found this discovery interesting... "Noble metal nanoparticles like silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) exhibit unique properties, which are different from their bulk counterparts and hence have...

Hey, aren't you the one with the shelf full of Infocom games? <Homer Simpson drooling face>

My personal red flag for the arrival of AGI is: When one of these AI companies starts filing patents for lots of inventions – in diverse domains like chemistry, genetic engineering, medicine, nuclear fusion, and quantum computing – THAT is when the arrival of a bona fide superintelligence will...