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It's been more than a year since his last post. Anyone know what's up?

You know, he's the perfect subject for a kind of Chuck-Norris-joke-esque thing

What a failure of university leadership to allow or even encourage that practice

Ask them about the chickens hanging from the bottom.

Maybe you should tell me about the chickens, since I am unlikely to ever get to ask anyone at Southwest HQ.

This list is just a promo blog post for the author's book

The periodic table in the "Create Everything At Once" collage is not so impressive.

What did you think it was before you read this brief Wikipedia article?

Our electricity is unmetered and included in our rent. My unit has an individual circuit breaker box, but how would solar power be fed into such a system

I don't understand. These systems just plug into wall outlets. The big difference is that, instead of saving yourself money, you'd be saving your landlady money on the bill.

https://www.nps.gov/cong/planyourvisit/trail-information.htm

It's not as though people intentionally made these endangered because they have insufficient love for penguins. We have unintentionally done it because we have insufficient love (care) for them and many, many other things, creatures, people, etc.

Yeah but HN commenters are not a representative sample of the ebook consumer base

It's not a shallow dismissal; it's a dismissal for good reason. It's tangential to the topic, but not to HN overall. It's only curmudgeonly if you assume AI-written posts are the inevitable and good future (aka begging the question). I really don't know how it's "sneering", so I won't address that.

So you're saying Pangram isn't worth much?

The key line "I’m getting a similar sense for the recent US foreign interventions and wars. They all seem to work slightly better than they should."

There is no measurement of efficacy here. It feels like these things are working better because the US military is now doing big public things, but that is not necessarily a good change over not-doing-big-public-things.

Wait where does the idea of consciousness enter this? AGI doesn't need to be conscious.

It's not a liquid, but it's pretty soft.

But can he speak Italian lawn games?

For that to be relevant to this post, they would need to write with secretary hand.

I look forward, should this prove correct, to the explainers from Quanta, Numberphile, etc.

The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place

You're right, you just can't make memories without injecting ink into your skin.

Right, which tells us that what was fun about it was feeling cool for doing something unusual.

Progress in AI is happening faster than ever before

Is it happening faster than it was six months ago? a year ago?

Yeah, and definitely not AITok

That's interesting, but how many people are actually going to just scroll and watch these (thereby generating ad revenue)?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/trad

If it's ad-supported or I'm seeking donations, I only want people reading it on my website. Why would I want people to access it through an LLM?

His notes, of course, were assembled by his producers, based on the notes & writing of those academics (and others, I'm sure, thus the weekly reading list). He sometimes made reference to this, saying things like "Well you said it in your notes; what did you mean?"

A nontrivial plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" (1993)

There are still paleontologists [who?](I do not know; I'm sorry) who would like to substantially credit the Deccan Traps; this appears to be adding stronger analysis to the evidence that it really was the meteor impact.