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by _wire_ 6mo ago
tldr This presentation is a puff piece that talks less about weight savings economy, and more about the motor's size-weight-to-power as comparable to high performance brakes and brags about application in fashionable super cars.
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Clever title Uncalled for riff on the synopsis: The conundrum of forgetting comes seems to come down to a gradient of persistence, whereby new stimulus prevails over memories. If it didn't, the organism sensorium would be a captive to
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
AI boosters can help the world make better use of this tech by turning away come anthropomorphisms, such as the term "discover", which implies human agency, curiosity, and intellect, towards functionalisms, such as the term "
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
"Earned autonomy"... These kinds of pareidolic, co-dependent projections emitted by today's AI cognoscenti will be studied a hundred years from now for clues about how the advent of television skrod a republic starting with N
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
A McDonalds cheeseburger is what it was in 1948 in name only.
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
The word decline in this headline is utterly ambiguous. - Hot and cold tenps lowered - Hot lowered and cold rose - Extremes were less significant - Extremes were more spikey Then there's the nonsense figure of speech "US climate s
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Try inverting the argument: The current valuation is a continuation and acceleration of epic investment fraud. To counter this point, someone has to show literal productivity gains from this tech that greatly exceed the valuation of Anthro
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Looking at this demo, my gestalt is of answers to begged questions superimposed into a hyper Warner Bros Wile E. Coyote cartoon. What it demonstrates is that genAI is getting ever more powerful at emitting stuff that looks like other stuff,
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
This story is insane.
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Author seems to have demurred to the networking opportunity of a lifetime. He already understood Bezos as surrounded by those who want something from him: join the club! At least make sure Bezos and the gang know your name and your interest
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
From the outset the term slop implied there's a quality range, and that it's subject to manner of application.
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Jesus H. F-- Christ
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
comment tl;dr AI is sending us to hell, but maybe there's air-conditioning down there. -- Sony news must be seen as incidental to a bigger movement in business. 26 years ago the corps would have fought this age thing tooth & nail,
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Therefore Artemis is a vanity project. Call it science if you think extraordinarily convoluted and expensive confirmation of obvious human limits is science; if you think extreme sports are science. To betray Sun-ra, 'space is not the
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
This move to 2FA and phone mobile numbers is not about protecting users of central services, it's about protecting the corporations that run the central services. Individual users are a liability to central services. They are only impo
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
There's no need to separate; it would be an intellectual error to do so: terrorism is endemic to U.S. culture; the nation is founded on it and has doubled and redoubled its commitments to terrorism at every juncture of history. This ma
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Another episode of AI psychiatrist : - Please make yourself comfortable on this virtual couch and tell me about your problem... - We've chosen AI for its deep knowledge and universal capability, yet it's sadly incompetent and del
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Painfully exhausting dictums... So much needs to be relearned every generation. If you're not tired of this stuff you're too inexperienced to be making such pronouncements.
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
If only AIs were managing the company... Problem solved!
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
It's a constant complaint from ex-Republicans that Israel controls the U.S. gov. and has a degree of truth, but not because there's a direct linear relationship between Israel and U.S. politics. The first order of complexity is th
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Assuming your premise is meaningful, which is a stretch, if you find yourself in an age where you expect anything you dream up to be replicated, then isn't your onus to dream up the world as you want it to be? Are you wary of such powe
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Largely greek to me... But the assertion that any of this is about "consciousness" reads click-bait. There's an incredibly big difference between any electronic computer and a brain: parallelism. The computer is essentially a
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Idle Words - Argentina on Two Steaks a Day https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day....
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Tedious nattering: When a computer is used v to simulate any process, it's never the case that the computer creates a world inside that contains the process. When you experience a TV show or vid game, this isn't occurring because
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Can a headline more perfectly capture the racket that is the U.S. stock market?
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Alpine hiking is a strenuous (by today's standards) and hazardous activity that requires some preparation, is done in relative isolation, demands collaboration from partners, and must be seen-through once started. It's also someti
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
The moon missions taught us: There's no place like home But why is NASA rehashing this 60 years after the fact? 1969: Rocks... We got rocks! 2026: We orbited rocks! Congrats, dipshits
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by _wire_ 6mo ago
Babbling
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Hypernormalisation - A. Curtis (2h46m) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dUhVN0UpyH4 //[a story of how] governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex real world and instead

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