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All technological advancements have caused changes, many have made entire professions obsolete.

One could even be allowed to imagine that science itself ought to have put priests out of a job, yet that hasn’t happened yet either.

“AI” is a generic term that’s being thrown around a lot.

There’s a huge distance from today’s AI, which at its best is generative AI based on large language models, to actual General AI that is able to learn, understand, and adapt.

Sure, you can train a language model, but it doesn’t make it “smarter” in the same instance.

Do you think Sony isn’t dangerous?

The solution is to create a system where their political prostitution is both illegal and unnecessary.

That’s the only way you get to shift politicians into working for “the people” and not their backers.

https://youtu.be/PJy8vTu66tE

Obviously not a guarantee, but if they could stop spending 40% of their time worrying about being re-elected and financing their re-election that would probably be a boon. Maybe they could even read some of the legislation they’re passing.

Even after fixing this issue you have the other one where you have a shitload of politicians which seems to be members of a cult, not a political organization and millions of Americans voting for them.

Instead of Olympic swimming we get Olympic Drowning

At this point I feel like Facebook and Google are like the East India and West India trading companies sailing the oceans with their own fleet of militarized ships, and X is just a Pirate Ship being piloted by Jack Sparrow from PoC4.

Humans were not designed to live to/past 50.

After around 30 it’s downhill all the way.

Thus, orthodontic correction gives many people a higher quality of life, correcting bad teeth positions or help compensating for “excess” teeth.

Personally I had a fairly ok set of teeth, but the size of them would have likely made getting my wisdom teeth a pain. Only reason this was ever picked up was because I had 5mm overbite and could choose to get orthodontic treatment with braces.

My specialist took one look inside my mouth and said “wow, that’s a lot of teeth”. I feel like that’s like taking your car to the mechanic and he opens the hood and says “wow, that’s a lot of engine”. Yeah man, it’s your job!

Anyway, I pulled four molars, had braces, and for the longest time three out of my four wisdom teeth did not bother me at all.

But, the one in my lower right jaw decided to go tunneling, and instead of coming up, it went sideways into the roots of the next tooth.

So they sliced my jaw open, cut the tooth in half, and took out the two pieces and sowed the hole back together.

13 years later the wisdom tooth that was supposed to push against the removed one decided to try to escape and started pushing against the jaw bone at the bottom. It basically extended beyond my other molars.

Teeth are such a great source of pain and discomfort, and I think it’s crazy that people would play around with surgery like what you first describe, but I suppose these people don’t know any better.

There’s no down-side to selling a smart TV to someone who doesn’t want one/doesn’t use the features.

The features we “want” from modern TV’s like DolbyVision and all the shit they do the image to make it stand out in the store requires a significant amount of processing power.

It’s simply better business to sell smart TV’s to everyone than to make dumb TV’s that compete for a tiny fraction of the market when people buy Smart TV’s in every price segment.

As with any tool it is how you use it that matters.

Today’s LLM’s are capable of fairly amazing stuff.

It’s a BS machine? Sure. Have you read or written stuff for higher education?

You don’t get points for being short and concise, even though you should. You get points for following the BS formula.

You know who else is good at BS?

LLM’s. If you manage to provide it enough meaningful input it can do a great lot of BS legwork for you.

I see people who overuse it, don’t edit, isn’t critical. Sure. Then you end up with just BS.

But there’s plenty of useful applications, like writing boiler plate code (see also CoPilot), structuring code, tests, etc.

Is it worth all the hype? Nope.

Some of it? Probably.

Fossil methane is still fossil. Ie. not part of the CO2 cycle, and thus contributing to the greenhouse effect. Methane itself is 20 times more potent, and we should do everything we can to limit methane emissions, both fossil and natural.

Agriculture is a big source of natural methane emissions, and even fairly small dietary changes can significantly reduce livestock emissions, but don’t see anyone doing that either.

Highly suspect small gas line leaks won’t be fixed either.

We use TypeScript for our node.js backends.

We had two that started out vanilla, but it became too painful to maintain.

Writing code that can’t be scientifically proven to be correct on all hardware it might run on means you don’t care about code quality. /s

The Internet is full of people with a bloated ego trying to justify their opinion and gatekeeping others.

I see this more and more in software as well.

Not sure if it’s always been like this, or if I just notice it more.

Same way there’s thousands of people giving you a guide to write a task list in , but as soon as you want to use anything slightly more complex than what you can learn from working a few hours with something you quickly run out of material and is usually left to fend for yourself.

Double standards much? What is your argument for it being better?

My arguments is that is. But, hey, read it whatever way makes you feel better about your own opinion.

You can take SpaceX out of the equation and it still is a massive money spend.

Compare the cost of the entire Apollo program (adjusted for inflation) to the SLS program.

You might be surprised.

Carrot or stick?

It probably wouldn’t. Or you would have to wait a long time.

Try streaming from a site across the world and see how it is today. Then imagine saturating the networks with loads of it.

Would definitely need new infrastructure to cache popular content.

Now, you see - that’s a completely different argument.

And also validates my point, all speed limits are tradeoffs.

Don’t get me wrong though, 20mph/30kph limits are commonplace where I live and honestly surprised to hear that it wasn’t everywhere.

For improved safety in the future we’ll need better driving assistance systems in the cars, and finally to replace humans altogether.

If you follow that logic to its conclusion - 0 is the safest speed limit.

(Not trying to argue about the topic, just pointing out the obvious - all speed limits are a tradeoff)

I mean - if the button says “buy” or “purchase” it’s not renting a license, no matter what the fine print in the terms say.

That’s at least how it should be.

The problem isn’t storing it, it’s hosting and delivering content.

YouTube, Netflix, and all the other big streaming platforms have huge amounts of servers around the world delivering content with minimal latency and without saturating the Internet exchanges with gigantic amounts of data traffic.

If we were to do this peer-2-peer people would have to get used to waiting for pages and videos to load again.