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by dsign 1y ago
Thanks. I'm not happy about worse UI, but it gives me hopes that at least the upgrade and the compatibility are okey.
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by dsign 1y ago
What's the experience with Windows 11? I haven't upgraded because Microsoft doesn't have a great track record of not screwing things, and I would hate their upgrade process to destroy the data in my harddrives. Which means I&
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by dsign 1y ago
I said that one hundred years from now humans would have likely gone the way of the horse. It will be a finished business, not a thing starting. We may take it with some chill, depending on how we value our species and our descendants and t
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by dsign 1y ago
>> we can always eat the rich! As long as they are not made out of silicon....
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by dsign 1y ago
Why look at five years and say "everything is gonna be fine in five years, thus, everything is gonna be fine and we should keep this AI thing going"? It's early days and nobody knows how things will go, but to me it looks tha
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by dsign 1y ago
I don't agree with the GP either, but I'm pretty sure there are more than 100 B of private capital which are, on the big scheme of things, being spent on quite frivolous things.. if at all. Which reinforces your point: some things
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by dsign 1y ago
I loved that article :-) . The only thing I have to add is that the cult of the rock's main opposition is almost always another cult. People reading scientific papers and keeping track of the data don't stand a chance, they simply
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by dsign 1y ago
This is a hard blow for OpenAI; I can see my employer scrambling to terminate their contract with them because of this. It could be a boom to Mistral.AI though.
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by dsign 1y ago
How long before anybody uses this to create those pieces of paper that glue the covers in a hardcover to the paper block? Just saying, with the advent of LLMs, handcrafted paper books may become all the rage again.
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by dsign 1y ago
Akkadian is/was syllabic. The language is pretty well preserved I believe, some say there is more text in Akkadian than in classical Latin[^1]. [^1]: Can't find the source right now, so take this with a grain of salt.
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by dsign 1y ago
This week here are AWS summits all over Europe. It's a good time to show up wherever AWS representatives stand and ask questions about this initiative, maybe give them some praise (may help their little hearts to hue slightly less blac
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by dsign 1y ago
I could use that information. What are their titles/offices? Mind you, in a fiction context, any present-day day famous _concrete_ _real_ residents are not that useful.
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by dsign 1y ago
Thanks. Nicely expressed. There is a degradation of the soul that happens when it consumes what something with no soul produces. I have this unpublished book (waiting for better times) where the protagonist is a book binder. He and his boss
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by dsign 1y ago
One thing is to see Sam Altman peddling his wares, another altogether is to hear politicians and big corp executives treating AI as if it were something that should be adopted post-haste in the name of progress. I don't get it.
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by dsign 1y ago
What utopia? Material scarcity is certainly not one. Agree with the rest. I however have hopes for the future. Our society is still locked in and "end of history" mentality that makes most of us believe that economically and socia
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>> Looks like a race towards singularity, because if we don’t get there, we collapse. We may get either; at this point the singularity outcome is slightly more probable. The problem is that it won't be a singularity good for (mo
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by dsign 1y ago
Caveat, I'm just armchair-commenting and I haven't thought much about this. After kids learn to read and do arithmetic, shouldn't we go back to apprenticeships? The system of standardized teaching and grading seems to be abou
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by dsign 1y ago
Ha! Sweet! That's very much a (lot of) step(s) in the right direction.
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There is an obvious solution to the problem of ageing population and declining birth rates. Furthermore, it's a solution everybody's secret soul wants very much: keep people younger for longer. Invent rejuvenation. But politicians
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by dsign 1y ago
Holy sh*t I didn't know this was going on. It's like an AI tsunami unleashed by Microsoft that will bury the entire software industry... They are like Trump and his tariffs, but for the software economy. What this tells me is that
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by dsign 1y ago
The corollary of your statement is that comparing AI with animals is not very fortunate, and I agree. For me, AI in itself is not as worrying as the socioeconomic engines behind it. Left unchecked, those engines will create something far wo
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by dsign 1y ago
I love the language of this article :-)... it may be florid, but that's quintessentially human. About the substance, I agree that there are fair grounds for concern, and it's not just about mathematics. The best case scenario is r
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Those can't be made with beaMs. Must invert concepts and switch a consonant. Suggested course of action is to genetically engineer a tree that directly makes itself of this super-strong wood and grows all the way up there. Tree must co
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by dsign 1y ago
If it works, it works. Plus, probably hackers are not that interested anymore, or the Javascript engine (remember the one in IE5?) does not support the latest exploits. It's kind of cool.
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My thoughts go to this guy; many are always one bad-move away from falling through the cracks, and I know first-hand how hard everything becomes with aging relatives who are not financially independent. I don't think AI is impacting mu
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Though I agree with you to an extent, the hero's journey includes an element of inner change in values or moral disposition. That, and not the subject's situation (or GPS coordinates), is what makes it the hero's journey. Be
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Capitalism is a good economic engine. Now put that engine in a car without steering wheel nor brakes and feed the engine with the thickest and ever-thickening pipe from the gas tank you can imagine, and you get something like USA. But most
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What is child abuse in this context? I assume is "child sexual abuse"? Or, does sending them to work on a factory also count? In any case, we should be wary of, as a society, condoning any kind of witch hunt. In this case for exam
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by dsign 1y ago
I believe that part of the problem is how trigger happy the platforms are to reports of CSAM and other "black issues". They don't do any research, they just ban and call it a day. Your government could go to them and say, &qu
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by dsign 1y ago
That project is about filling the depression with waters from the Mediterranean. Not what I'm referring to. I'm just wondering if human-induced climate change will make rainy weather (climate) there.

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