After the last few years in particular, I'm at peace with giving the corvids and raccoons their chance. We should probably go extinct, for the good of the planet. I just hope it isn't too painful.
Blockchain currencies and now 'AI' (glorified pattern matchers)... I wonder what the next huge energy/resource sink grift will be? I want to know so I can get in early, make a zillion and dump before everyone realizes how stupid and wasteful it all was.
What pisses me off is that LLMs are such a brute-force 'solution' that goes against one of the major goals of Computer Science -- to find algorithms that take less time and energy, instead of just throwing more compute cycles at things.
Hell, blockchain at least had a mathematical justification for why it needed such huge compute/power resources (proof of work).
Someone showed me a record turntable with what must have been a centrifugal governor! What an ingenious device. (I got the impression from him this was unusual for a turntable, at least...)
Recommend "Human Resource Machine" as well :)
..and we all must keep in mind this tech will only get better. A small improvement in the tonal inflections...
Oh, they've killed more than a few projects, very publically, so far as I'm concerned :p
Collective punishment, though, is. (Reports of cutting off all power/water to all of Gaza, if true, may be interpreted as such)
Geat idea! There's no reason this couldn't be done everywhere by citizens with access to sticker printing services... I've spotted a few products myself in the past year and wouldn't be against sticking some labels on them to warn my fellow shoppers :)
Fun, but disturbing. Our browsers should not be able to determine so much about our behaviour, IMHO.
But Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, Five-time Ultimate Smackdown Champion was a great President!
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Thank you for your support. If you live outside the US/Canada, please urge your local politicians to open negotiations for expanded trade with Canada and Mexico to reduce all of our reliance on the USA until this horrible administration is gone.