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I was upset and felt like I did something wrong.

The original iPhone was amazing to use. Yes on paper the Nokia destroyed it, as my roommate thoroughly tried to convince me, but browsing the web with multitouch was a revelation and just made the Nokia feel like an archaic tool.

I mean, is that even a strawman? You can oppose mass AI surveillance and acknowledge the price of that is more crime.

I saw Sonic 2 and 3 at a dollar theater this summer with my kid. Both were shockingly entertaining.

> glioblastoma multiforme

Killed my dad the same year he retired. Really stuck with me about how important living for today is.

The alternative is chemotherapy which is even nastier, on average.

>the guard isn't legally allowed to stop anyone or engage in any physical altercation

This is false. In California the guard can use non-deadly force to detain a suspected shoplifter. Retailers may have a company policy telling guards and employees not to physically confront shoplifters, because that introduces escalation risk, litigation risk, and risk of injury. It’s simply cheaper to let the item go, in many cases. I’ve read that Target will strategically do this until a person steals enough that it becomes a felony, and then release the hounds.

> In NYC a decree stopped the police from issuing summonses for not paying the subway fare. Because it was said to be racist. Today, tons of people, especially normal professionals - happily do not pay the fare, while the system is said to be in financial deficit.

I’m not sure where you get your information from, but I suggest you reconsider your sources, because this is also false (not the deficit, but a decree stopping police from issuing summons): https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/excel/analysis_and...

I assume you are referring to a 2018 policy reform. Your concerns are debunked here: https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Fare-...

I’m not sure how you can read that Wright Brothers wiki article and come away thinking patents worked in America’s favor…

To me it seems kind of arrogant that we assume only “we” are conscious beings. Sometimes I imagine the planet earth itself as a creature, and humans on it a kind of bacteria… how ridiculous if bacteria in the human body were convinced only they were conscious, but the human body they relied on was not. The bacteria would have great excuses… “look at that human, everything it does can be explained via simple physical processes, unlike what we do”.

For much of history, humanity was very confident that animals lacked minds or conscious experience. Descartes famously regarded them as mindless machine…

I don’t think LLMs are conscious but I’m still nice to them because it makes me feel bad when I’m rude to them.

From the wall: 260W idle, ~1200W load (1600W PSU)

Reading this thread I am so frickin glad I built a monster DDR4 workstation back in 2021. It would cost me more to build out that computer today (dual 3090s, 512GB ECC, 3995wx). Ram was so cheap back then.

The filibuster is the only thing protecting us right now from the worst of the laws Trump is pushing. Yeah I know it’s not “real” but lots of things about our govt aren’t “real” as Trump has demonstrated. I thought Presidents didn’t have power of the purse but look at USAID or many other gutted regulatory depts.

Anyway we will have to agree to disagree. IMO almost everything you’ve said is true but still doesn’t absolve the voters who haven’t been voting in a vacuum starting in 2016.

Other than Dems having a super majority for a few weeks with Obama, when was the last time they were “voted in” at a national level?

Biden did a pretty good job cleaning up after Trump. Was he perfect? Not even close. But Dem primary voters had the option of more progressive candidates and instead they circled around Biden. Did donors try and engineer a Biden win? Sure. Were voters obligated to go along with their scheme? Also no.

The blame for our situations rests squarely on the shoulders of the American people, who have been living so insulated from the consequences of their votes that they entertained a guy like Trump, twice.

Jerome Powell would’ve communicated in a mealy mouthed and confusing way that was meant to appease Trump?

I’ve had quite enough of Trump’s “meritocracy”, personally.

A single, untreated person with TB will infect 1.5 to 4 people if public health interventions don’t happen. Measles sits at 12 to 18 people per infected person.

In case anyone was curious. Depending on what your priors were, 1.5 to 4 might be shocking.

They’re talking about evidence-based solutions to the issue, yes. Discipline is probably the wrong word. Expecting teenagers to be disciplined is a fool’s errand.

Probably so, but it was incredibly ill advised of Netflix to admit to this. That’s what I find the most shocking, far more than the firing itself. I cannot fathom how admitting “yeah we fired them for going to therapy” plays to their benefit.

Being a billionaire has very little to do with engineering talent.

Trump makes it sound like a fart.

I strongly agree with you here. People are also no-selling the enormous cost of the exploit, which OpenAI conveniently hasn’t released, or at least I can’t find such an accounting. You can already buy politicians for relatively cheap, corporations already act as sentient AIs pursuing goals misaligned with public benefit (we tried to pass laws to stop this but the corps already stacked the SC in advance and gave us citizens united). Attack and defense are two sides of the same coin, so our focus should be on making frontier models open weight.

This sounds like the standard marketing we get every time a new major model is released: "sure, the public model might not be that scary, but you don't wanna know how crazy smart our internal models are." Okay. I remember the same fear mongering around GPT-4... a model which is now eclipsed in benchmarks by models you can run on a laptop.

They could use this "super intelligent" AI to find and plug security holes, that's just two sides of the same coin anyway. Security through obscurity isn't tenable anymore.

Speculative demand is still demand.

That can’t be true, I was told they were making us great again. /s

The purpose of wealth taxes is redistributive, not revenue maximization of a spherical cow.

Will individual subscribers have access?

Why not have crippling anxiety? It shortens your lifespan for one.

He only presented that idea to a certain slice of Americans. If you were a Haitian American, you probably ate cats and dogs according to him.

Yeesh. “What shall we do sire, when the peasants learn to read?” vibes

Regulation like this is dangerous for the US because it can kneecap our country, but I don’t think it’ll affect the pace of innovation globally. China isn’t going to slow down just because the Trump administration asked for some “ballroom donations” or whatever nonsense is going on behind the scenes here.