It’s strange and perverse that Europe is content to allow 50,000 to 100,000 people to die every year from heat due to lack of air conditioning rather than allow for some window units.
By the way, that is more than are killed in America by guns each year. By far. Virtue signaling has some real and terrible consequences.
Consumers are no longer customers, they’re competition.
I do believe this is deliberate destruction. I don’t buy that the extreme rise in PC component prices is just due to AI demand. I think that’s just the excuse to eliminate the market by excessive cost.
Large corporations, even big tech companies (perhaps most of all) have long hated that people had personal computers under their control. They’d very much like them to go away. This is all part of putting the information genie back in the lamp and resuming the unfettered dominance they had in the pre-PC era.
Probably no stopping it now, but I’ll miss it when it’s done.
How actually true is the statement that men are quitting the dating market?
It’s funny because women did that to themselves. They created extremely worse conditions for one another because they blamed all men for something maybe 1-2% of them do. Thus, women have guaranteed they will only be approached by the scuzziest, worst guys on the planet.
Good fucking job! (If you like laughable mega-fails, that is.)
I had forgotten that bit of left evil. Agreed, she looked amazing.
And everyone who harassed some innocent 18-year-old attempting to have fun and looking great doing it? You guessed it! Somalia. Straight to Somalia. I’ll even land the helicopter this time. I’m feeling generous this Sunday.
Modern leftism seems to be based on the premise that we need to give feral third worlders whatever wacky shit they ask for, even if it’s the ability to assault and rape at will. Leftists even celebrate this, as can be seen with the murder of Iryna Zarutska.
Not sure what kind of mental problems lead to a belief system like that, but something should be done about it. Throwing people out of helicopters might not be right, but sometimes it feels right.
A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It. Another take on this.
How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years.
Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century.
Google Family Link exploit that locks out victims permanently.
Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation.
Mars's manganese 'bathtub ring' reveals ancient ocean timeline and its potential for life.
Wix layoffs today: 20% job cuts, latest tech company to cite AI.
The world is quietly adapting to 9% less oil.
Oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz might not return to levels seen before the Iran war.
Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products.
Indeed, that has not ended well. Female neuroticism and hypocrisy needs to be checked just as much as male aggression and their variants of hypocrisy need to be regulated too. These days, we’ve just declared women get a free pass on everything. What I want is equality.
Is the Ferrari Luce’s Design Really That Bad? 3 Italian Auto Experts Weigh In.
I like it. It’s unique and pretty sleek looking. I’d drive it, though I don’t want a Ferrari. And especially for that price. If I were going to drop $650K on a car, I’d just buy a plane.
No car is worth that much to me.
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false. So…just like humans?
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First.
America needs liberal nationalism back.
It has never been a great time to be an infantryman. But today’s conditions are especially pitiable.
What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks.
Why the U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low — and what it means for beef prices.
Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents.
Amusing, but the electron has no size in any meaningful or real sense. It is treated as a point particle and has no measurable size. Yes, weird, but that’s how the world that small just is.
That something can have an effect and no size is very counterintuitive. Nevertheless, that seems to be how the universe played it.
What is it with these mooks and their dipshit-ass doofy metaphors that aren’t clever, smart, interesting or accurate? These people are such intellectual lightweights the Casimir effect could buffet them into another dimension.
What people are asking about LLMs is whether the physical computational process itself has experience. So the actual correct Victorian parallel would be Victorians wondering whether the telephone infrastructure itself could be an experiential phenomenon which essentially nobody back then wondered or asked.
Second, there is no empirical test for consciousness. None. Whether something is “really” conscious or not is simply not an answerable question at this time. It might never be. The spirit world is a testable set of hypotheses, as opposed to consciousnesses. And so far, there has not been a shred of evidence that it exists across millions of trials over hundreds of years. Further, it’s not clear what the difference is — if any — versus an entity being “really” conscious and only pretending to be. These questions have no resolution. As with quantum mechanics, if you profess to understand it, that only means you definitely do not.
And thus, the tard-ass idea that the future will obviously see how silly we are is completely unsubstantiated. Humans have a history of both over-attribution of consciousness and under-attribution. That is to say, it was once believed that animals’ and babies’ cries of pain and terror were just mechanistic, while some believed that mountains and clouds were certainly conscious. You know a belief is bunk when you could just as easily swap the opposite statement in — that is, it’d be equivalent to say that the “dismissal of consciousnesses” would be obviously as ridiculous to our descendants as “definitely conscious.”
Not everyone can be intellectually competent. But are these people even trying here? They sound like children.
The top-selling EV in China gets upgraded with a longer driving range, still starts at under $10K.
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Cool.
Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning.
The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida.
Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?
Legislation Killed That Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock.
Social media use is linked to mental health disorders, not just low well-being. And it’s not subtle.
I miss the old internet. Wild west, unrestricted, uncensored, no context and all open.
It was better, but fragile Gen Z couldn’t handle it.
GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits.
I’m not surprised since he found and released an obvious (once it’s found) intelligence-services-mandated backdoor. There is simply no other reason for a vulnerability like that to exist. It is so obviously deliberate in a way I wish I could explain to non-computer people.
They are worried he’ll release others is why the ban.
The microphone taped to the old-school hair dryer is brilliant. I did a double take when I first glanced at that.
What a voice.