And DNS issues

I mean, he had been abusive for years, it was sadly not a unique nor surprising case, except for his fame, but fame doesn’t make you a good person.

Disneyland is a good comparison for some Americans: imagine having to drive to each ride and restaurant

I remember seeing a hypothesis that ADHD would have been beneficial in Hunter-gathering, as you would more quickly move from plant to plant rather than fully depleting a resource. It was just one study where they had a sort of game/simulation to test it though, so very early days on that theory.

A nuclear power plant doesn’t pollute either of those more than any other large building, and sure uranium mining is still mining, but renewables and battery storage also depend on raw mined materials.

As long as they don’t start building tunnels under their house because they’re an ‘engineer’…

Peer-reviewed NYT op-Eds (/s)

The problem with the Turing test and current AI is that we didn’t teach computers to think, we taught them to talk.

The Last Jedi was one of the best Star Wars movies, and Luke’s redemption arc was great, even if the setup for it was rushed.

You can of course always be skeptic, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I would argue most opinions shared by nearly everyone are probably valid.

Which makes water lava, technically speaking

Yeah, the network wizard helped me with a dhcp problem with zero hassle, so that one’s definitely useful

I’m not sure it’s going to be that easy to pirate your way out of this. The amount of content is so vast it’s nearly impossible to host in a free way. I’m happy to pay for YouTube premium to support the creators, as well as paying for Nebula and Dropout for content, though neither can entirely replace YouTube’s vast amount of content and interface.

And to add a platitude: “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”

That’s not quite true: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

But to build on your analogy: we don’t make regulations based on a religious doctrine anymore in most countries. If your religion says no one is allowed to wear mixed fabrics or eat pork, that’s fine if you’re not doing that, but we’re not banning those things for all of society.

There’s about as much proof for an existential AGI threat as there is for a deity, so let’s not make policies based on either, and focus instead on real potential and already proven harms of AI

I have to disagree here. Disclaimer: I work for a bank but not super into the core financial stuff. Firstly, banks are already super heavily regulated; anti money laundering, terrorism financing, know your customer, etc. The reason crypto takes minutes for international transfers and banks can take days isn’t because of technology, it’s all of those checks on fraud happening. All the money leaving a bank account is, barring very advanced fraud, with the user’s consent, but in fraud cases this is often done via social engineering (calling someone to get their codes from their bank card reader, or pretending to be a family member in need).

I was interested in the ltt screwdriver until I found out there’s not pozidriv in it. That’s like 80% of the screws here in Europe (all of ikea, for instance)

stole this idea from a tiktok, it’s a dog thinking the parade for the pope in Mexico, 2012, was for him

I feel this breaks the ‘no goofs’ rule