TigeriusKirk

As someone else whose credit card info was stolen from Netcom, I strongly support it.

I did that MIT alumni interview in the mid-80s, so it's been a thing for them for at least that long. I still remember the big house in a pricey neighborhood and the interviewer. It seemed pretty free ranging, so it seems likely it was a "gut feel" on the interviewers part. I'm curious what their guidelines from MIT were.

Because many of those who excel in terms of merit now are those with the resources to support them while they perfect their craft. Money from something other than their craft is paying the bills while they gain their merit.

UBI gives that to everyone, giving everyone a shot at developing their merit.

I believe many Amazon delivery vans have always-on 360 cameras, as well as wifi scanners for location.

It's interesting they could have the most up to date mapping of anyone, I wonder if they plan to do anything with it.

"June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

The shift is that the content itself now has tangible value.

So far it's been the attention of the users that has been monetized, primarily via advertising.

But now the content generated by the users has value as input into AI training sets. And AI companies are scrambling to gather as much as they can as rapidly as they can.

The data itself, not the attention of the users, is what is now being harvested.

The companies hosting the data are right to intervene, there's no reason to allow incredibly well-funded AI organizations hoover it all up for free.

Where it's going wrong is how the social companies are intervening. Their goal is correct, their methods are not.

I would argue that athletes are deserving in this framing. They were outstanding enough in a particular way to earn a spot at the most prestigious school in the country.

Yes. As much as the idea of legacy admissions offends my personal sensibilities, they do in fact provide a good deal of value to the institutions and even some to the other students.

Part of the reason Harvard is appealing is that you can rub shoulders with the establishment. For that to work, the children of the establishment have to be admitted.

I don't like it, but it does make sense and add value that many are looking for.

The point being made is that there is plenty of very cheap land adjacent to the nationally preserved land.

The reason it's cheap is that no one wants to develop it.

Bonuses for above-and-beyond stuff (ie not the "bonuses" that everyone counts on) tend to vary wildly in my experience.

I've gotten a very similar bonus to this for putting in a few long nights and accelerating a client delivery by a month. And sometimes much less for much more effort.

I think it depends on how much of a slush fund a project has, which might not be at all tied to the impact of the project.

>the only apparent path forward involves a decline in that quality of life.

The paths they focus on, maybe.

Certainly not the only paths, or even the likely paths.

Here's a link to the IAU website about an agreement between the NSF and SpaceX to set a target of below 7.0 magnitude for Starlink.

https://cps.iau.org/news/nsf-and-spacex-sign-agreement-to-mi...

Users could very easily make any sub effectively unmoddable if replacements are brought in. It wouldn't even take very many people.

Interestingly, the wikipedia article for papaver somniferum includes the op version of the story, linking to op as a source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum#History

It's neither a phone nor a laptop. It can provide some of their functionality in limited situations, but it's considerably less flexible or portable than either.

If OpenAI didn't explicitly state that it was not to be shared, that's on them.

How can you sign a statement that AI presents an extinction risk on par with nuclear weapons and then even consider open sourcing your research?

We don't provide nuclear weapons for everyone to keep in their basement, why would someone who believes AI is an existential risk provide their code?

Funny to see it make the mainstream. Even the NFT artists who I believe originated it don't really like it.

My college roommate has worked for IBM his entire career, over 30 years. He loves it there, obviously, and never seriously considered leaving.

Companies are of course experimenting with this. And the mod communities are working on projects too.

A Fallout 4 mod is using AI to voice human written options in the same voices as existing characters. And there's a couple Skyrim projects working on dialogue generation. Personally I expect this to be an area where amateurs/hobbyists contribute quite a bit of research.

I was half expecting this to be related to the death of former CIA director William Colby, who was found dead in a marsh near his canoe in Maryland after a heart attack.

It's been my default search for months. I go to Google for images and maps, but Brave search serves most of my needs quite well.

But throwing a monkey wrench into the whole thing is my increasing use of Bing Chat. It's not really a general purpose search replacement, but it does do a more efficient job of answering basic questions succinctly.

Awesome. So student loan forgiveness is a wealth transfer to the more successful and therefore undesirable.

And now the ratio of ad time to game time is way out of whack. I can't stand to listen to radio broadcasts this season. It's a shame, but the ads just annoy me too much.

Are there any feeds of live current space mission audio?

Those records will usually be transferred to a state government agency. It's still possible to verify them through that agency.

Hollywood, California isn't really a town, it's more of a district/neighborhood of Los Angeles.

So sorting by Violent Crime (Total), we see San Francisco is 37th out of the 100 listed.

This capability has been available for several years now.

In 2019, OpenAI said they couldn't fully release GPT-2 because it would be too dangerous. Now anyone can run a more powerful model.

In what ways has the predicted danger manifested in reality?

Meta isn't giving up on the metaverse. The effort is not a failure. The plan was always going to take closer to 10 years to realize. They were explicit about it being a long term goal, not a short term one.

They've made some missteps, but it's not even close to being over.