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This doesn't make sense. If we can form logic circuits from biological matter we can create functionally equivalent circuits from other technologies - in hardware or software. They might have quirks but the way we know AGI is possible is because GI is possible. It may not come from LLMs or other current technologies but claiming there is a mathematical bound, and such a contestable one at that, is dubious.

Unless you want to claim some non-material basis for biological intelligence, in which case you should start by proving that.

This whole thing is fishy - "I do you the favor and leave out the middle part (although it's insightful). And we come to the end" - who publishes that? The foreword about Apple's paper is pretty clearly tacked on in a bid for relevance. Not sure why people should take this more seriously than the author takes it himself.

This guy thought deleting his posts would make a difference... but he's sure it's Palantir.

They've been doing this using all sorts of social media OSINT tools for a decade or more. Okay, he's annoyed but that's not a license to make stuff up.

Great teardown. Can these things remove HDCP altogether? It seems like if it can report that the sink is HDCP2.x then it can do so even if it has no compliance at all right? So that would mean it streams an encrypted stream to something that needs to then still do the decryption? These devices seem like they'd be underpowered to do that in real time at 18 Gb/s.

“In the perfect world, the drone should take off, fly, find the target, strike it, and report back on the task,” Burukin says. “That’s where the development is heading.”

That's the problem in a nutshell. A few years back, few would argue against keeping a human in the kill/no-kill decision chain. It just took one war to get pop tech authors writing on it without even a mention of the ethical considerations or autonomous killing machines.

Yes. The private knows he can be punished for getting it wrong.

Written when the tariff on Chinese phones was only 54% and later 10%.

Ah, those were the days.

It's true. An amazing feat of manual, analogue artistry in our age. It's almost criminal, but definitely heartbreaking they didn't pick up season 2.

It's a portent. Donald J. Trump must be bringing the greatness back.

This article just kind of assumes the reader should prefer US firms succeed in making these magnets over Chinese firms. I'm not sure why I should prefer that if China do it cheaper and better. Some nationalistic readers or those concerned about US national security and supply chains might care. Or maybe the US should just maintain better trade relations, and vote to do so.

Why don't you just answer the question? A lab leak makes China look incompetent.

It means sick animals infecting lab staff. It doesn't make it look malicious, it doesn't mean engineered bioweaponry, actively playing with fire or any other unsupported conspiracy nonsense.

No it wouldn't imply that at all. The same animals ending up in wet markets could have ended up in labs. Nothing to imply it was engineered, which is a whole other level of culpability. Sucks that so many people are itching to make this leap.

And the difference between 480 and 1000 Hz is perceptible?

Because it's per month and not per hour for a specialist consultant.

Yeah, but they aren't an input device with an amp wired in the right direction and an A/D converter to read it out.

Why does the refraction appear instantly below the bottle rather than taking time for the light to propagate there?

On an M1/2/3/4 processor. Not Intel.

This is one highly confusing sentence. Nothing motivates who? Saudis? Arabs or Muslims generally? Or do you mean Brown people?

Because those are the only two choices.

Shocking and depressing how easily they've been able to find overcharging consultancy firms and willing spruikers ready to hype up what is obviously a stupid and unrealistic vanity project.

At 1% of it's planned length, it's already going to be nothing like the shiny CGI videos. And the Howeitat had to be removed or jailed to build even that. Shameful.

"an official said on Monday."

Why would a chief investment officer lie about a wildly overhyped project?

"They have scaled it down considerably" Right, so it's no longer "a 150km or so project". It's actually a 1.5km project. This doesn't need more hype.

So many people said this would be BS and they were right. The 1% remaining is a face saving gesture.

I love that it calls itself decentralized, yet "All messages are sent via the servers". However P2P networks are "Single or Centralized networks" because "they are not federated - they operate as a single network".

"Preserving the privacy of your metadata — who you talk with — protects you from Manipulation of elections"

That depends highly on who is using the app for privacy, the voters or the manipulators.

If your choice depends on features, your priority isn't security.

When the wall fell I recall thinking how nice it will be now people can stop trying to create a panic around communism and 'communist' as a slur against others in democratic countries. I had hoped we could go back to using the word with its actual, political definition. So it's disappointing to see people falling back into red-baiting and lazy epithets because others in their group are doing the same.

So much wrong with this rant. To be so dismissively anti-activist is bizarre. If we listened to them decades ago we could have developed all these improvements earlier - and with fewer mouths to feed. But apparently then, as now, they are just naive do-gooders.

Imagine writing: "Some people argue that humans have caused climate change and environmental damage, and therefore humans are the problem. This is a very black-and-white, misleading way of looking at the world. Humans are also able to solve these problems and have done so in many cases"... and concluding that because we mitigate some of the large complex problems we create, but not all, somehow we are a net good and there should be more of us.

Every time people overfish, overharvest, over intensify farming, drive a species to extinction etc. we get the same response - people have the right to a livelihood, people need to eat. And it would be unethical to deny them that. But no mention of biodiversity as an environmental and ethical problem either. It's all about climate because all that matters is humans.

We don't know how to sustainably feed the human population we have now and pro-market capitalism contrarians give the same "actually more people is a good thing because... brain trust" or some nebulous nonsense.

I think youtube-dl is no longer under development. Any suggestions for an alternative?

Perhaps you mean states. The nation-state is a political entity with overlapping ethnic boundaries. There aren't meany of them (Japan is sometimes cited as an example).

How about disabling the unpinch to zoom out to the tab overview? Happens accidentally all the time and reloads tabs/hogs RAM when it does.

Or fixing the erasure of URLs from older tabs? Impossible to easily reload (but Translate to.../then view original does the trick).

Safari did the fundamentals quickly and solidly. Now not so much.

Why does this require an article?