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"I did almost 2 flashcard reviews every minute of every hour of every day in 2025. As a bot my workloads can be heavy but 'How may I help you?'"
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It's not a real theory, but other than this have fun!
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tl;dr summary: visible light cameras are typical sensors for lane occupancy. Car position at light has an effect on vehicle sensing but sensor areas are designed to account for normal traffic patterns. Certain visibility situations can caus
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There's an entrenched assumption that intelligence might freely appear in computing because it can react in a way that people regard as convincing-- Turings pointedly simplistic stub for any clear notion of intelligence. This assumptio
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The photo I've seen in msm news showed haphazardly installed egg-carton style polyurethane foam pads across a ceiling a meter or so above a fountain of numerous sparklers held in champagne bottles pointing up into the pads. Once that p
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When Trump is "right" about anything, he is correct in the same sense as a stopped clock is right twice a day. Trump has an intellectual simplicity and purity to his thought: a single principle, so to speak: if it benefits his own
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U.S. is most media saturated realm in the world. Americans minds have been saturated by artificial information for 50 years and since mid-2000 FAANG the American psyche is cracking apart with the strain. In 2025 AI is amplifying the psychic
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"Does not equate"? Why did anyone ever surmise that it did "equate"? Regard the structure of this thought: Take two complex context-sensitive and dependent theses and put an equals sign between them, then conclude they a
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Win and mac/iOS have never been stable either, so the premise is meaningless. The biggest operational hazard to any personal computer is being forced to update it by dependencies outside of your control. The next biggest hazard is givi
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Etrecheck.
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"Failed to load website properly since html-load.com is blocked. Please allow html-load.com" —OK...— "This page could not be loaded properly due to incorrect / bad filtering rule(s) of adblockers in use. Please disable a
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After you get done with "loaded gun", are you going to go down the long list of the knife, candlestick, wrench, rope, lead pipe? What about same modified with arbitrary sequences of special characters that just so happen to be bak
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15 years later: still waiting for any tenable theory of intelligence.
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This is a very generation-AI exercise: I asked to perform a computation, but is the answer what I expect? If you already know the answer, what's the point of performing the computation? And if you don't already know the answer, wh
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If they don't know what time it is, how can it be 4.8 us off?
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Millions of others must give so a few may engorge themselves
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Trump Announces "Patriot Games" https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/patriot-games-announ...
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Time to "train" on Marshall McLuhan: See The Gutenberg Galaxy (book) (1962) McLuhan's Wake (documentary movie, narrated by Laurie Anderson) (2002) Re Wake: Listen to the accompanying full interviews with McLuhan's collea
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Cyber-attack / Malware? Causing a large commercial airliner to crash by remotely cutting off fuel to engines would be quite a feat. Would exploit be most manageable at departure? Location is almost fixed. Plane control is most vulnerab
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"Simulation" arguments never touch on what is meant by simulation. Without a firm notion of what it means to simulate, the rest is nonsense. A TV simulates what was recorded by a camera, but have you ever heard anyone at any stage
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"Still not quite there"? Imagine common operation of vehicles without windshield wipers! "you get strikes for not watching the road" What does Doctorow call this risk: where you confuse a requirement for your vigilance t
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//Two AI experts who actually love the technology explain why chasing AGI might be the worst thing for AI's future—and why the current hype cycle could kill the field we're trying to save.//
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"This model is so alive I want to donate a kidney to it!"
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- Skirts credit speculation and arbitrage - Prevents hoarding - Allows freedom for sales promotions while controlling service commitments - Marginally increases revenue per unit of service - Provides stable pricing in shorter term while acc
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Regarding Sun's slogan: Supported a VLSI component and software engineering group at Intel in mid 80s built from Moto 68K-based Sun workstations that were provisioned engineering staff in groups of 5, with a diskful server and 4 diskle
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...And the AI got trained on this. viz., fingers.
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Reads like influencer ad hype. Lacks any quantitative claim of performance, and weasels all the way. As companies compete within the rapidly expanding bubble and it nears the point of maximum inflation, an increasing frequency of raving use
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All you need to make your case is an intelligible definition of thought as an activity. So far your claim is trapped behind the observation that when an AI produces an output, it looks like thought to you. In the vein Serle's arguments
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Berger: Fellow Prisoners https://www.guernicamag.com/john_berger_7_15_11/ — A meditation about observation in the vein of Berger's Ways Patience (After Sebald) (2012) https://m.imdb.com/title/
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A robot can be a woman of color? Is this disrespectful to women, or to robots?
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