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by labrador 1y ago
The Trump Secret Service is not a trustworthy institution based on the fact that they "accidentally" erased all their comms from Jan 6th 2021
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by labrador 1y ago
> The Holy Father worries about “extremely rich people who are investing in artificial intelligence” but “totally ignoring the value of human beings and of humanity." He adds: "If the Church doesn't speak up, or if someone
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Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope(pcgamer.com)
9 points by labrador 1y ago|1 comments
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by labrador 1y ago
For scale: The 1960's era US Navy submarine I served on had a 78MW reactor, so 10GW is 128 nuclear submarines
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AI Psychosis and the Warped Mirror(pluralistic.net)
4 points by labrador 1y ago|2 comments
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Google announces expansion of AI features in Chrome(arstechnica.com)
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by labrador 1y ago
It's been worse before in America and we've returned to normal, so I have hope as an American. See McCarthyism in the 1950's, when people like Kimmel were blackballed from working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by labrador 1y ago
What lie was Kimmel doubling down on? I found his comedic observations pretty accurate, which is why they stung the MAGA faithful.
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by labrador 1y ago
I served in the Navy 40 years ago on a nuclear submarine opposed to the Soviet Union so I had an interest in learning about our enemy. People like Stephen Kotkin have said Stalin and those around him were true believers in communism, while
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by labrador 1y ago
I've seen a lot of amazing robot videos lately that aren't CGI (as was the case a few years ago) and none of them are from Tesla Optimus. The Robotaxi videos have not been encouraging either. Waymo just got a license for the notor
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by labrador 1y ago
I drove for Uber/Lyft back in 2020 and let me tell you, SFO is a nightmare. I missed a turn once and had a passenger trying to make a flight furious at me. I quickly figured out there were a group of drivers who specialized in SFO and
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A Calif. bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law(techcrunch.com)
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by labrador 1y ago
There are so many Europeans working for trillion dollar tech companies here in Silicon Valley and their branch offices in Europe that I think Europeans can rightly feel they are responsible for these high tech goodies as much as anybody. Ro
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by labrador 1y ago
this link works https://www.kqed.org/news/12054705/waymo-knows-the-way-to-sa...
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by labrador 1y ago
In America bosses brag about being dick heads in LinkedIn posts about how being tough (an asshole) increased B2B sales.
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by labrador 1y ago
If I was on that team I'd welcome the opportunity to tell John Carmac why he was wrong or if I agreed start looking for another project to work on. When I was on nuclear submarines we'd call what you are advocating "keep us i
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by labrador 1y ago
To control their citizens access, shouldn't Missisippi need to use something like a Chinese firewall?
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by labrador 1y ago
> my old internal posts... got me reported to HR by the manager of the XROS effort for supposedly making his team members feel bad That jives with my sense that META is a mediocre company
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by labrador 1y ago
I've been under the impression that Hypercard was superseded by Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web. I'm old enough to have used Hypercard in the early days. The author calls HTML/JS/CSS a shit soup, but it can be as
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by labrador 1y ago
Agreed. I think her grounded, common sense approach is the right one for Waymo's success.
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by labrador 1y ago
https://archive.is/aRMj1
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Elon Musk Has His Vision. Waymo Chief T. Mawakana Says She's Got a Better One(vanityfair.com)
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Is Worried About People Having Relationships with ChatGPT(barchart.com)
1 points by labrador 1y ago|2 comments
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by labrador 1y ago
Anyone who has road tripped around the United States knows that it is mostly empty with vast tracts of unused land. The idea that solar is wasting valuable land is one of the stupidest ideas Trump has ever had. But we know he is being disen
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by labrador 1y ago
I feel for you. Try therapies like CBT. Check yourself in if you have to. You are not alone by a long shot.
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by labrador 1y ago
I spent it all looking for a cure: therapy, travel, spiritual journies like road trips. My needs are low so the social security I paid into here in America is enough for me now. I'm happy like Woz.
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by labrador 1y ago
I used to be a software millionaire back in the 80's. My discovery is that money does buy happiness so the phrase should actually be "Money does buy happiness, but can't cure clinical depression." The list of wealthy peo
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by labrador 1y ago
It seems to me that AI companions are an extension of a much older phaenomenon of tulpamancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa https://old.reddit.com/r/Tulpa/
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Foreclosures rocket by 32% in Las Vegas(dailymail.co.uk)
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by labrador 1y ago
It sounds like you were both right in different ways and don't realize it because you're talking past each other. I think this happens a lot in relationship dynamics. A good couples therapist will help you reconcile this. You migh

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