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Short answer: yes Long answer: yeeeesssss

Age cannot be verified without identity. Somebody needs to know it. All age verification laws herald the death of privacy.

Exercise is the key to a long healthspan.

I’m not one to advocate for casual murder, but the US should declare war on scammers, hunt down and take them out.

These fuckers attack our most vulnerable people everyday, stealing their life savings and subjecting them to a whole slew of negative outcomes.

Fuck those guys.

Yeah the way Ukraine wins is by destroying Russian logistics. An army with no bullets cannot fight.

People want to believe in blue zones so their confirmation bias is hiding the evidence to the contrary.

Blue zones are bullshit. Pension fraud in Italy, records destroyed in Okinawa, basically every place with abnormal longevity has some other explanation.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/blue-zones-supercentenarians

Actually a security researcher found a back door in some Chinese inverters recently.

Normally I’d believe this administration is just knee-jerk banning because China and solar, but in this case there was an actual reason.

Why not properly staff and support your air traffic controllers?

Wait, experience helps people do their jobs well, and wisdom is something AI lacks?

Who knew?

(Your seasoned and experienced people knew, you just didn’t listen to them)

I can think of nothing more obvious.

wat

Agreed. As a previous systemd hater I went there looking for an abstract, high-level argument. I got drivel instead.

One compelling argument I’ve seen is that it tries to be too much which violates the Unix philosophy of small tools doing a single thing well.

After years of using it I have to conclude that it’s here to stay and while not perfect it’s good enough I’m not going through the hell of tearing it out.

So thankful the author posted this. We often learn more from failure than success. Learning from the failures of others is how we can move forward. The lessons learned at the bottom of the article are gold.

I’ve heard banking apps with built in NFC payments should work but I can’t get it to go.

There are real problems with banking apps on graphene. Chase app won’t launch at all the us bank app nags every 15seconds that it needs some play services privilege that’s not even in the list. Maybe they’ll work once I tear play services back out.

AI has made me enjoy reading more. I enjoy the opportunity to sit on the couch and embrace the slower cadence of the writing. Ive been reading Sci Fi lately but I really enjoy the story in “Napoleon A Life” (history has been something my education lacked this one is a really compelling story)

Might I suggest finding an author who you resonate with based on how the language is rings and not so much what the story tells. Poetry is good for this if you can get into it.

Or books where you can read a little thing and think about it for hours. Meditations by Marcus Arailius is a good one. The Prophet by Kahil Gibran is another good one. Ficciones By Borjes is another. These are books where a little bite can set you thinking for an hour breaking you out of the frantic flow of modern life.

Farming is why humanity has civilization

Count Think clearly Respect facts Disagree Troubleshoot / diagnose Move on from incorrect assumptions Stop destroying our carbon emissions improvements Stop destroying jobs Stop destroying education Stop making income inequality worse

BTW I consider myself an AI optimist.

Zuck thrashing: spending billions on the metaverse. Admitting it failed, spending billions more. Firing a bunch of people. Spending insane amounts to hire sexy name ai people. Instituting total surveillance to train ai to replace people. Then giving that AI away for free online with no real explanation. (I guess the order of those two things should be reversed, but they don’t make any more sense in that order either)

Elon (do we even need to do this one?) the horse thing should be enough.

Ellison’s quest to defeat death, young blood transfusions and weirder shit.

Brin fighting tooth and nail against paying taxes (I guess it’s not deranged for one’s wealth and power to activate to protect itself, it just makes him look like a petulant child)

Capital gains (rich people) is taxed at 10%. Wages (everyone but rich people) are taxed more like 30%.

It is objectively true that rich people don’t pay their fair share. Seeing them fight tooth and nail to maintain the unfair status quo is a bad look.

Law schools are entirely essay driven. They’ve had armored word processors for testing for at least twenty years. I’m sure those companies would license a version for the rest of campus (most universities have a law school already so they have a contract they can simply extend to the whole campus)

I seem to recall they submit the exam via usb drive.

now they may have a closed exam mode where they can finish the exam without network and the. Submit over the network.

Of course this type of exam must be conducted in person or else the examinee could simply use a phone and type the ai provided answer.

Also is the professor living under a rock? Everyone is going to use AI if they can. So if you want them to not, asking them nicely isn’t going to cut it.

Switch to books.

They can absolutely be worse.

Hallucination Prompt injection Can’t count Obsequious to a fault Trivially swayed

https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/an-ai-ran-a-vending-machine-f...

This news (and things like it) have been all over. The fact that you decided without doing the least bit of research that “no way LLMs can be worse” displays catastrophically shortsighted judgement. Please recuse yourself from any important decisions for the foreseeable future.

Obviously

Get a job at Anthropic, ask for 100% of salary in stock.

Provide real value (target “strongly exceeds expectations”) and get a good bonus.

At my current comp level, With a four year vest and one year vesting cliff that’d probably do the trick. (I should probably go do that)

Maybe later

I seriously considered buying a Jetson One after watching a demo. I think it was the ceo flying to work. It would unlock a few interesting areas to live in the Bay Area. But there’s a distance between consideration and action. In this case a very large one.

Manhattan to JFK in a flying taxi might be cool. But with LIRR from Penn station being fast cheap and comfortable I think I’d always choose that instead.

So many topics important to people here are becoming politicized. I wonder how we can avoid it?

Do we regulate powerful ai models?

Is science under threat? (Through defunding, politicization of specific areas of study etc)

Do we build more data centers?

Does a war in the Middle East constrain supply chain and double the price of some commodities we all care about? (For that matter is building data centers doubling the cost of some other things we all care about)

These are some things with political ramifications. We care about them and the news is relevant to us.

But if the political news is getting to you, I do empathize. I’ve had to go on total news blackouts a few times and have severely moderated my behavior in response.

Isn’t facial recognition surveillance illegal in San Francisco?