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Not really the kind of biased I meant though. There was a recent article about a AI disproving I think an Erdos conjecture by doing similar things humans have tried, but it was much messier and less "beautiful". I think it is a common bias in science and math that things should be "beautiful" but there is no real reason to think that.

They also have ability to go deep and wide in a way that humans just can't. We have limits, get tired, distracted and biased where AI does not. I think there a lot of problem where all the information needed to solve them is there, but we just can't put the pieces together. Like no matter how many people you throw at some problems, you hit human limits and more people won't help, but AI will because it is just relentless.

thats what i meant.

Wouldn't a counter this argument be biological systems? These are reasonable points as long as we are talking about current methods, but I assume if we were to get to the point of self replicating probes it would be done by something like nanotechnology, synthetic biology like systems.

Didn't something like this just happen last year (or year before) but in the opposite direction?

How could we know this? AFAIK all we can say is the volume of the brain has been relatively stable for that long, how can we say the structures of the brain have not evolved since then? It seems plausible to me anyway that humans could have co-evolved with ideas in a way.

There are plenty of ways that you might make a large income in a single year like selling a business you have spent years or decades building up. Your "income" for that year might be several million that year, but it took you years to "earn" it. In general I don't think taxing people that actually have to work for a living is a great thing, all you are doing is prolonging the amount of time they have to work to save enough to either retire or start their own business. I would prefer to shift taxes to cap gains (why do long term cap gains rates exist???) and corporate taxes as well as sales tax.

I think I don't like income tax as it disincentivizes labor and also makes it harder for working people to build up wealth. Making a million a year sounds like a lot, but who knows how long someone might be making that kind of money? Meanwhile already wealthy people are mostly untouched. Would rather see majority of taxes come from corporate taxes and capital gains.

Gasoline engines are already 15% less efficient at 20F.

Is that actually true once the engine has reached operating temperature?

The problem is, energy use is only one part of the equation. Often times new appliances that are more efficient end up being more prone to breaking due to more complexity and companies trying to cut costs to meet a price point. This leads to people needing to replace there appliances much more often which really makes me question how much energy is actually saved if you include the energy used to produce them...

Now that I have seemingly taken on managing DNS at my current company I have seen several inadequacies of DNS that I was not aware of before. Main one being that if an upstream DNS server returns SERVFAIL, there is no distinction really between if the server you are querying is failed, or the actual authoritative server upstream is broken (I am aware of EDEs but doesn't really solve this). So clients querying a broken domain will retry each of their configured DNS servers, and our caching layer (Unbound) will also retry each of their upstreams etc... Results in a bunch of pointless upstream queries like an amplification attack. Also have issue with the search path doing stupid queries with NXDOMAIN like badname.company.com, badname.company.othername.com... etc..

My parents were tricked the other day by a fake youtube video of "racist cop" doing something bad and getting outraged by it. I watch part of the video and even though it felt off I couldn't immediately tell for sure if it was fake or not. Nevertheless I googled the names and details and found nothing but repostings of the video. Then I looked at the youtube channel info and there it said it uses AI for "some" of the videos to recreate "real" events. I really doubt that.. it all looks fake. I am just worried about how much divisiveness this kind of stuff will create all so someone can profit off of youtube ads.. it's sad.

I have a Samsung neo g9 57" which is like 1/2 an 8k monitor (or 2 4k monitors side-by-side) which is sweet since I use picture-by-picture mode to have my work computer on one side and my personal computer on the other side.

I think the real issue is that for the powers that be, inflation is seen as either neutral or a good thing. The only people it hurts is the working class and the blame is nebulous. So it is used as a tool to increase taxes without changing laws, lower the cost of debt, and cut labor wages since they don't get pay raises commensurate with inflation. So I think it is a trick played upon the working class to screw them over in the long term while the wealthy are protected because all their assets simply go up in value with inflation. I think the target inflation rate should be 0%, not 2%. I simply don't believe the justification for the 2% target.

Similar complaint for the chevy silverado, why can't they just make it look just like the regular silverado?

But energy efficiency is improving also.

Well technically, this is just a philosophical point, but the bill of rights is supposed to protect _natural_ rights that apply to everyone regardless of where they live. So in theory the UK can and does routinely violate peoples rights

While I am not particularly interested in the design, I am intrigued by the idea of making your own monitor. I have had some ideas about features I would like in a monitor before. Are there some boards out there that are easy to hack on to add firmware features etc?

I wonder if you could make a new standard something based on yaml where every value was prefixed by a type so there is no ambiguity.

The whole thing is a joke but presented in a serious manner. The idea is that if you know your program input at compile time you can turn everything into a constexpr which gets evaluated at compile time so your program is "ran" by the compiler instead of at run time. So he built a "runtime" that is actually ran by the compiler around this idea for fun.

I know this is just anecdotal but just want to say I got my current job just applying to a job from a linkedin email. I admit I was surprised how easily and smoothly it all went actually...

Your telling me google uses Gentoo for ChromeOS but doesn't even host a Gentoo mirror? jeez...

I’m setting up NSD for authoratative and Unbound for recursive layer at my company and they are a breeze to work with.

I just remember as a kid somehow always ending up with open box stuff from fry's that was clearly labeled as such and having a lot of stability issues lol.

I think Communism is a 19th century pseudoscience idea like phrenology. There’s no evidence these things are real but phrenology was easy to discount while many people still choose to believe in Communism despite lack of evidence of it working long term.

Except for the ones around the concentration camps.

This happened to me before and I reported it through their website and they actually fixed it for me at least, I guess the problem still exists though.

I would think you would not even have to expose it directly to fire, you could put it on a rock above or near the fire. Also you can of course heat rocks in a fire and put them into water to boil it.

Ya, don't current gen Radeon cards use GDDR6 as well?

Do people save their own money in Europe for retirement or do most people expect to rely entirely on pension? I honestly don't know, just curious.