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I'm guessing further profit slides mean a higher likelyhood of takeover by SpaceX?

Any local computer shops willing to consignment sell for a percentage?

I'm a little surprised that there haven't been reclamation efforts to use the Sodium Chloride they're pulling out of the ground, repurposed for industry.

I'm guessing the $$ just don't make sense.

"ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”"

Oddly, this seems like exactly what people have been warning about.

It seems like many takes presented do not match up with modern Conservatism, unsure if that was the point.

"“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism."

I'm sure as more and more models grow in power and exposure, greater and more expensive 'outbreaks' are sure to occur.

I'm not sure if this is your take, but it feels an aweful lot like an AI "Good enough is good enough" handwave.

A good take on where Microsoft is with Xbox currently:

https://youtu.be/medfVq5nJ0k?is=P5vfElSsTQJHvKa7

"showing that major AI systems, including those built in the U.S., are more likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders or governments. It raises concerns that the large language models powering chatbots and AI agents could be regurgitating and spreading government influence over online speech as the technology is increasingly adopted worldwide."

This seems bad for any semblance of 'free speech'

Once everything is churned through LLM 'black boxes' enough; no one will be able to tell fact from fiction.

I'd hate to use my own voice to discuss my own views...because someone could think they came from me!

Old AI is so bad it should be disregarded, but new AI is so good, you don't even have to verify its output....

Is that what you're selling us?

So in 18 months, we'll just rinse and repeat?

I believe semi-trucks are more like 7-9 mpg, but diesel and gasoline have different energy levels, so it's not an exact comparison.

That last paragraph is particularly worrisome. I worry about other dilusions you have imbued.

Yep, this is a good read and feels like the correct take.

Your dishwasher shouldn't be 'bad' at cleaning.

Here are some tips:

https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0?is=B_CGi4shCuiwQLvR

Sorry, but if you're buying clothes that have manual drying steps, it's gonna be a hard sale to the general public.

I think there is a stark contrast between the plus or minus micron level tolerances, and whatever is being churned out of LLM ('not getting it perfect all the time')

"it must be some sort of weird badge of honor to be so profoundly incommunicative that you can't get the ai that desperately wants to sycophantically pump you up about all your brilliant ideas to be that useless. that is genuinely harder to do than simply using the technology even passably."

Definitely incomprehensible that someone might have a different take than you about the 'goodness' of your prompt outcome...

Prior to human intervention, 'bananas' were small with tons of seeds.

"He couldn't possibly have been stealing that many unique ideas over basically his 70 year career."

I'm not sure how you could possibly make that assertion?

Using AI to fight AI...unsure who's going to win, but I'm sure we'll all lose.

When you are captive to the system, the costs changes are not external to you.

"All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in2, but even within projects that we have observed in passing while doing totally unrelated work."

It really would be nice if there were much less hero worship of FLW. He was quite the imperfect man, who did some terrible harms.

He also made some buildings.

I'm guessing limited car colors benefits the manufacturers more so than the customer. Less choice means less cost. Additionally, by avoiding 'polarizing' colors, they likely won't have issues with unsellable stock.

Reducing derailment by decreasing track movement by painting the does of the track white, to reflect heat absorbed from the sun.

I believe you can pass network traffic over the HDMI cable.

https://www.slashgear.com/2102867/why-do-some-hdmi-cables-ha...

Very glad to see.

Vinyl, Casettes, and CDs may be the last physical audio media forever.

Cement will still take many days to reach full cure time (measured in increasing PSI ratings)

https://www.ce.memphis.edu/1101/notes/concrete/section_3_pro...

Hydraulic cement is made for some of those occasions:

https://www.quikrete.com/productlines/hydraulicwaterstopceme...

But I wouldn't want to make any sort of building that only relied on it for waterproofing.