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The second order effect is obvious. There's some hard of hearing person working on a nefarious device using a phone successfully only because of your dastardly work. How you can sleep at night is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Or at least nothing criminal with that. :-)

That's my larger problem personally. The idea that everything that is wrong should be a crime and everything that is not a crime is not wrong. I'm pretty sure none of those things is true but sometimes it seems like everyone believes they both are.

5 million people have installed Muse in the US.

sheep are 82% of the population of New Zealand. If they were 80% last year and are 85% next year would people be worried that sheep were going to take over New Zealand?

Lawyers and judges have spent a lot of time with this. Agree or disagree about their conclusions but questions like those tend to get answered (and INAL but I've read a little) by adding follow up questions to get at the truth. i.e. Did they say a specific time? was there a plausible manner? Was the place specified? You can probably imagine other things to add to that.

We all know that famous "I know it when I see it definition" but I think that's an exception rather then a rule. A lot of those things really can be given a reasonably clear definition.

"for whatever reason" is the hard part. Would you make a habit of breaking into houses and reading they're diaries. If someone committed a crime how would feel if they accused you have being an accessory because you didn't break into the persons house to look at their diary?

What if you get a peek at the diary of someone you actually know. You've know them for 20 years and they've never done anything violent in all that time - just the opposite in fact. The entry says they got a gun but you have no evidence of that other then the words in the diary. Do you call the police? Plot twist it's your Mom - do you still call the police?

There was a ton of crap in the dotcom buildup but there really was a pony underneath all of that shit. Isn't it likely that that's the case here as well? I mean, the demand seems real. People are acting like they're getting something out of this - saying that they're just getting fooled makes you sound like one of those people who never shuts up about how they don't watch TV. I mean sure, it doesn't work for you but everyone else seems to really like this thing.

If there are no benefits why are people using them? Why are people paying for them? Why do investors put money into the companies that build them?

Naked propaganda is a little bit annoying but I prefer it to the kind that pretends to be objective. Worst of all is the that created by people who genuinely believe themselves to be objective - that product is dangerous.

This is the problem I have. People are built to be fooled by this stuff - to see something that's not there. Pareidolia but with language. It's such a compulsion that the people who build LLM's see that the same non thing there too.

When I stumble around trying to explain my thinking though I invariably get hit with the response, Sure, but if it's functionally identical to a coin being magically pulled out your ear, what's the difference if it is or if it isn't? The only response I have is that when the coin doesn't appear you're going to be putting yourself way further behind the starting line then if you thought from the get go that there's no such thing as magic.

I totally agree that just because everyone gets an app it doesn't mean they like it. Or that because an app is popular it doesn't mean that a majority of people have installed it.

Here's the thing. I'm also willing to believe that people are happy to say they don't like something that they are happy to use. I'm even willing to believe that people have reasons to say they don't like something that they actually do in fact like.

Honestly? How about, They're all about how _you_ use them.

yeah, ask people what they think of LLM's/AI and a majority are split between either disliking it or fearing it or maybe both.

Then look at see what the most popular phone app is. Muse. Followed by competitors from Claude, Anthropic, Google , X.

Nobody likes it and everyone wants to use it.

Personally I'm opposed to capital punishment but the best line I heard about this was - why didn't they just ask Canada how to do this right?

Why is it here?

I'll be dead before it's possible but heck yeah. I'd miss going outside. I suspect there'd be annoying compromises on the atmosphere inside the habitat (presumably it'd be like living inside an airliner in that regard).

On the plus side though - what if they have swimming pools? Swimming around in less then 1G. I would definitely at least visit if they had that.

I understand that the rate of return on storage units is around 10%. Just saying that there's gold in them hills.

My favorite keyboard was one that came with HP PC's ... in the late 90's I think. It had a split space bar. I think the deal was the right half of the space bar was the space bar and the left half was the backspace key.

Using it was like a magic trick. Words would just get a character truncated and merge. I could watch my fingers type and I would know what I had to do and my fingers would just merrily go on and do whatever they wanted.

There was some youtube video about a guy who set up a bike that had the turning backwards - you turned right and the front wheel went left. The funny part was that with a lot of effort the guy managed to teach himself to not be able to ride a normal bike.

I liked‘A City On Mars’. That said I think it didn't have the right sense of scale. The Weinersmith's offered up a bunch of reasons why the eponymous city would never be possible but I think the most important bit - which they would concede I think - is that it's not Never but rather not any time soon.

200 years? 300? Timescales like that are going to create solutions to all the problems they listed. It's why they spend time knocking people suggesting we'll have boots on the moon in 50 years.

The modest stuff being done now - say setting up something equivalent to the various Antarctic bases on the moon seem like a reasonable step today towards something in the future.

How much do you think is spent on Golf every year world wide? 100 Billion? 200?

I'm probably as skeptical as most about a Martian colony - to my mind it's 100's of years but will almost certainly happen in that time frame. That said the amount that's being spent on it happening today seems about right.

I would also say that the money being spent now is working at engineering problems. Most (All?) of the vital underfunded problems on Earth that you allude to are political problems. I'm not saying money can't solve them but they are way more complicated.

Economies don't always work that way - just as win/win situations really exist so do lose/lose situations.

I call Michelangelo!

See Mark Kleiman's - When Brute Force Fails. The book mentions the Hawaiian HOPE project. The dealt with parolees by punishing violations with immediate mild punishment (i.e. you're back in jail over this weekend)instead of allowing violations to accumulate over time and then coming down on the person like a ton of bricks ( on your 10th positive urine test you go back to jail for a month).

I's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

By this logic Trump's administration is centerist.

None of that requires AI. Heck, it doesn't even require computers.

If you had a time machine would you go back in time and kill the Wright brothers?

All of this stuff starts with "A person uses AI to do X" I mean no doubt but you don't actually need AI to do any of it.

I'm still not convinced AI destroying humanity is not in the same bucket as Linux taking over the world. Could Linux take over the world? Sure but I don't think it means what the statement might seem to imply.

There will be resource constraints. Who prioritizes within those constraints?

Nah - the fix was some config in the unit file that would bring up the bonded interface but not try to get an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

I'm not opposed to the use of AI in programming but sometimes it seems like there's a direct relationship between the amount of thought and understanding that went into a project and the reliance the coders had on AI to build the thing.