This is an excellent piece. Note that he is not saying that AI doesn't pose a risk. He's saying that it's irresponsible to make sensational, maximalist claims without strong evidence. If someone says that there's a 10% chance of human extinction by 2036, you can and should immediately stop taking them seriously.

The problem of money mattering more when you are younger is something that often appears in personal finance discussions. One thing is consumption but another are opportunities to invest in yourself. There is case for not saving at all when you are young (because there are always good way the money can be spent).Here is some good discussion that touches on it (and other FIRE related topics):https://youtu.be/qstjUV5mh-I

I think the big picture is whether the big two can mask the real cost of tokens (inference and training) long enough to survive; that OpenAI is seeking government investment suggests that they can't.Ed Zitron helps you see the broad absurdities in this situation and more importantly helps you understand that at various levels there is chicanery: they need more money constantly so they make weird unprovable claims to people who lack the skills to critique them, they exploit not jusT FOMO but actu

A phone or a computer with a camera: you may be asked to take a live selfie with your phone, or your webcam A blood probe might be required as usb dongle to test your blood sample. We're working on stool sampling mechanism as well. Your house might be monitored with one or more armed drones to prevent any tampering with your WiFi and cable connection

> This can be said about pretty much any job on earth.That isn't really true. After push button elevators with floor-logic relays eliminated the need for "elevator operator" to be a job, nobody needed to be an elevator operator anymore. The equipment could do 100% of the job and if the equipment was out of order then you call a repair technician or install a new elevator rather than needing to find an elevator operator to pull out of retirement, since knowing how to repair or install elevators w

I'm not sure when it happened, but there was a definite inflection point some time in my software career, where we all stopped asking "What does the user want to do with their computer?" and moved over to "What do we want the user to do with our software? And, it's been downhill since then. We stopped treating the user as the driver of the car, and pushed him into the passenger seat. Now users are just along for the ride and they're going where tech companies are driving, whether they want to or

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I'm late to the party, but this seems like the answer to the slop-pocalyspe!