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FrustratedMonky··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
And, the AI trained on Stack Overflow. So if no one is posting new questions, and new answers. What will AI train on next, for the next thing.
FrustratedMonky··on The real cost of owning a home
Is there someplace that takes all of these inputs. Then graphs them over 10 or 20 years and include some adjustment for inflation? I didn't see in article any discussion about mortgage rates versus appreciation versus inflation.

Article did sum all the inputs/outputs, and came out at loss. I'm just wondering if there is some other trends over 10 or 20 years that make the house better.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Its the crawl before walking argument.

You need to invent transistors before you can invent the computer.

If you went back in time when transistors were invented and told them to be careful, those might lead to a global computer network controlled by social media companies that will enslave you. They would look at you like your crazy. And yet there was sci-fi stories at the time about future computers.

So, on one hand, yes I'm making a leap. But on other, it isn't completely crazy. Not so crazy to dismiss.

The egg is on the same technology path. But yes, humans are far off.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Never said it is a proof.

But it is a necessary step.

So, we might not get humans. Ok, but we also wont get humans without simpler test cases along the way. Simpler animals, simpler mechanisms. So now we are taking those steps.

We can't see the end, but we are on the road.

Maybe that is why the fictional stories resonate here. It is easy to see the possible connections. Easy to make the leap from here, to what could be. Even if it is not an actual predictor like a scientific proof.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Eggs are simpler than Wombs. Chickens are simpler than Humans. Of course we have to solve the simpler things first. Of course, this is leading along the same path as occurs in Brave New World. We have to be able to grow chickens before we can move on to humans.

We already have cloning. But have lacked being able to do it without implanting the egg into a female. This is just getting us closer.

Baby steps. That the dystopia isn't happening today doesn't mean we aren't working on it.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Sure. If you take all of Science Fiction, if you want, take all of Literature. And compare it to everything that actually has happened. Then Fiction has guessed at more things than have actually happened. So, a poor predictor.

Not sure what that point is proving. We shouldn't look at fiction for any inspiration or cautionary tales? Just shut up and calculate?

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
In one of the movies, they did clone a human, they just didn't lean into that story line. It was treated as a one-off, but the same science allowed both. (in the fictional story)

The point isn't that we'll have humans tomorrow. Just that this one step. We'll need to solve problems on simpler animals first. An egg is easier than a womb, a chicken is easier than a human. It's the start.

So yes. Brave New World isn't today. But its obvious this technology is on the same path.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Taking scientific breakthroughs and extrapolating and/or comparing to Science Fiction? Shock, clutch my pearls, who would do such a thing. The absurdity. Surely nobody has done this before.
FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
So I'm not providing a good literary survey of books with similar tropes and providing some of the positive ones? There are literally half dozen very famous negative examples, but I didn't do good enough search to find a positive one?

That would be like every comment on AI should include some example from The Culture Series as an example that all this AI stuff could great.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
If they are born of woman, they would be human.

If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls.

Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them.

Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said, and now a company is doing it, so why am I getting downvoted.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
"very stupid and uneducated thing to suggest"

1. Take a common trope in fiction and research for a hundred years. With long known commonly linked ramifications.

2. A company actually starts doing it.

3. Suggest a link

4. -> Call it Stupid.

Yeah. Don't worry about it at all. Nothing to see here.

FrustratedMonky··on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens
Maybe short term, pumping out chickens. For food.

Long term, maybe chickens are just the test case and they will pump out human slaves. Replicants.

FrustratedMonky··on Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah
Those seem pretty ordinary by beer commercial standards.

Advertising didn't kill Schlitz. They made some processing changes to their formula that caused a micro infection. Not sure, could have been Pediococcus. But they did it all at once, and ruined so many batches, that customers left and never came back.

FrustratedMonky··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
"Who cares if they just predict the next token?"

Exactly. I also only write one word at a time. Who knows what is going on in order to come up with that word.

FrustratedMonky··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
Depending on your point of view? I see what you did there.

Who knew Obi-one was just smoking and pontificating on Wittgenstein.

FrustratedMonky··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Hasn't every cloud provider had issues? Is the enshitification of servces really isolated to Google, or are we all doomed.
FrustratedMonky··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Guess so, since I literally can't tell what side you are talking about.

More false equivalences. Oh no, Hunter Biden had some Porn. That totally justifies going to war to distract from Epstein, and just as a bonus, its ok to make money on manipulating oil markets and make that mooola.

FrustratedMonky··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Sure.

Bush, Obama, Biden. All the same, can't really tell the difference.

This time, it is different. Accepting a Jumbo Jet bribe? with no questions? Manipulating Oil Markets with a war? Having the IRS setup a 1.7 billion fund to pay off friends from a coup attempt?

This is the end.

FrustratedMonky··on Colonization of Venus
They are all impossible without supplies from Earth.

But wonder if a floating balloon contraption isn't more likely than a base on Mars. Which is more deadly?

Venus seems to have more potentially useful compounds in the atmosphere.

FrustratedMonky··on Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
So, not by much?
FrustratedMonky··on I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert
What does it matter when something was realized versus its anthropomorphism?

Didn't some guy use a huge rock as a doorstop before someone realized it was gold and worth a lot.

It was gold before it was realized it was gold. What did it's discover matter? It didn't change what it was. The worth as 'gold' is totally superimposed by the humans.

FrustratedMonky··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
There sure was a lot of days of testimony on Sam Altman lying, for this to come down to " statute of limitations".

Shouldn't the defense have raised the statute of limitations much earlier?

FrustratedMonky··on Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
Nice comparison.

But makes me think we'd be better off if we all just focused on a single one, and grew it, made it better. Not having 4 versions of something almost identical. Fragmentation can hurt adoption.

FrustratedMonky··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
Kind of like someone being all about Free Speech, but when they are in power, then anybody that disagrees should be charged with treason.

The point is, that the 'Right' are living in a bubble of cognitive dissonance, fantasy, simulacrum. Barely able to put one foot in front of the other as far as logic goes...

Literally the same group that were convinced by rich land owners that the having a Civil War for the land owners benefit, was a good idea. Going against their own self interest.

FrustratedMonky··on 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
-> "monetization of nerds by capital to squeeze profit "

Note. In case this is read incorrectly. For the most part the nerds are not profiting. The nerds are sitting hunched over their desk being fed coffee from a feeding tube, to keep them happy while the owners make money.

And. To be more sad, these days you can't even get free coffee. Being fed free coffee and donuts, while others profit from us, is considered the golden age of computing.

We loved our cozy cells, not so much these more uncomfortable ones.

FrustratedMonky··on 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
I don't think this is even sarcastic.

There are some theories that Autism was more useful in the wilderness. More adapted to the old world, not the modern world.

FrustratedMonky··on Ksharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#
just a question.

couldn't this have been easier by expanding F#? or were they trying to hit a wider audience with C#?

FrustratedMonky··on USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
It is pretty ridiculous that a method of generating energy is 'woke'. Republicans think solar energy is a trans plot.
FrustratedMonky··on Colossus: The Forbin Project
"entirely unnecessary plot point"

Are you sure it is dubious?

Woman used as sexual party favors still happens in real life today. Since it is a common weakness, why can't an AI exploit that.

Some might say our own government is now in control of a foreign government, purely on exploiting that weakness. So it is realistic tactic.

FrustratedMonky··on Technofascism
Typically I would agree.

Biden and Bush were nearly identical.

But this time around, things seem a bit more 'near the end'. The president is taking jumbo jet sized bribes, manipulating markets. Literally doing more self harm than an enemy agent could ever accomplish. Like the country could really collapse any day.

Forget free speech. I literally am a little scared just posting here. People are being rounded up. Even with a fake name, I'm sure Palantir can put the pieces together.

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