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I think a big part of the reason is that there is only one wireless option -Bluetooth- and it is a terrible product from a user experience perspective. It's 2026 and I still can't move through my world with earbuds in without my audio randomly switching to my wife's car in the driveway or our Bluetooth speaker that is on upstairs.

From an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense that the body would explore all possible ways to increase intelligence, with neurons located anywhere in the body and with chemical in addition to electric signals. It's not like a car or something that was designed with specific functions for specific components.

My thought as well. Nuclear weapons are also horrifying.

And with LLMs, it's difficult to prevent the proliferation to bad actors.

It seems like we're racing towards a world of fakery where nothing can be believed, even when wielded by good actors. I really hope LLMs can actually add value at a significant level.

"artificial intelligence recursively improving itself until we become subservient to it."

Hmm, the cultural zeitgeist is about LLMs.

Are LLMs improving anything (in the sense of optimization)? I think LLMs are enabling us to automate tasks which are tedious and don't really add value (eg, compliance tasks). And they are helping us create art, content, and ads. I'm not aware of LLMs optimizing systems, let alone themselves. But I'm not very tuned in to all the applications.

That's fantastic. It used to be you had to restart the whole PC after a driver update.

If someone could do this for the Web Browser, I could see that potentially being a strong enough feature for users to switch from say Chrome to Firefox. "Never need to close your tabs with In Place Updates."

Fascinating. I think it's likely incorrect to blame most of the victims here. We are all products of our environment and everyone has their own weakness or specific trigger -no matter how much we like to think we are in control.

In a way, ChatGpt is the perfect "cult member" and so those who just need a sycophant to become a "cult leader" are triggered.

Will be interesting to watch this and see if it becomes a bigger trend.

I'm not sure why all the hate. This is entirely up to your friend. If they want to spend their remaining time trying moonshots, then by all means do it, and blog the results online and share with others. Make it into something fun. It literally does only increase their chances of survival even if by some extremely small amount.

Otherwise, if they prefer to spend their time in other ways, support them in that.

"False hope" is kind of an oxymoron. Hope is never easy to have. Fortunately it's not required. You can accept death and still find enjoyment/distraction in self-experimentation.

Sidenote, why is silicone able to accumulate so many airborne chemicals for testing?

Tons of food/kitchen products are made of silicone and touted as food safe. However, I always find that silicone kitchen products accumulate smells and then transfer these odors to the food, so I abhor them. This seems to confirm that mechanism.

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

I know and at my company we actually cannot disable the AI suggestions :(

It's like dealing with a pathological liar who produces very convincing looking code for me to review, but actually there is a bug in it 50% of the time. It's like it's trying to trick me into committing bugs.

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

That's true art, I love people like you. Technology can do a lot of things but it cannot give people or society principles, and without principles society fails.

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

Heh, when I see a spelling error in a news article.. I oddly feel like I can trust it more because it came from a human being. It's like a nugget of gold.