Yeah, that's basically it. It's a drug, and it's potently addictive.. but it's so abstract, that people don't even know. So you can't talk about it, and you can't take it away from people or they exhibit all the stages of addiction withdrawl. Denial, evasion, anger when cornered, fake ignorance, lying. I'm shooting dopamine as fast as possible, because my tolerance is shot after the first three hits. Now we got peeps who lose motivation to think or do for themselves. Sure I'm preachy, but you deserve that. Who me? I'm not addicted. Blessed be the toolmakers for they shall pillage the herds of delicious sheep. If you're not a toolmaker, you're food for one.

That wording!
Guaranteed to make old farts go ballistic.
Yet, here we are.

The Meta Article and the Apple Article?

Meta: Big Bad people enabling sex offenders
Apple: Nice shiny glasses with rounded edges giving it style.

Hilarious, right?
anyone?

ironic, though, wouldn't it be great to submit your decent code to an AI reviewer ?
Which has the advantages of a meatbag to figure out all the context, write something that makes sense, then throw it over the wall to the reviewer who has all the speed and other advantages of AI. Doesn't sound horrible. Seems better than what we have, which is the opposite. The big dummy in the room writes the code then the big brains in the room review it. Ugh. We all know what kernaghan said, about it being twice as hard to debug ... :-)

It's pretty obvious that the Agents will be trained for different functions. Red Team AI vs Blue Team AI.
One Agent writes it, another Agent reviews it. Just like old times, huh?

this is just me extemporizing, but part of the issue is that consciousness is like your cpu and registers, we work similarly, where your attention, your focus, is what you are thinking at the current moment... you load the latest sensory and thinking information into your registers, and deal with it. You can't deal with more than one thing, or possibly a few things, at one time. It's a processing bottleneck. Many greater minds have suggested that intelligence needs many things, like a body to experience the world, and other things that we have.. like forgetting.. suggesting that Artificial intelligence would likely evolve into bodies like us... I think Kurzweil said that. He more or less said that we will model AI on US, because it's the best model we have. But others suggest it's an unavoidable path forward for AI. Just shootin the breeze here..

I have oled on a laptop and its by far the best screen I have. I'd definitely want it in a larger size ... saw a 28 inch oled monitor at the local shop... mmm mmm

I haven't seen the new hisense monitor ... but if you can *really* see the difference, I can see the motivation to purchase .

You have to forget things.. it's matter of priorities, all things cannot vie for your attention at the same time. Not many people want to have total recall, it causes psychological problems. Like the promise of extended lifespans, a lot of people will admit the are bored and won't know how to use infinite time. They'll kill themselves . See Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein

I'm gonna say it's the algorithm.
I quit Instagram for same reason. After Facebook moved them to their algorithm, I got one tenth the likes/interaction, with a pitch to pay $$ to boost interaction ... no thanks

Gurman adds an important qualifier: "Still, the release is six months away and production has yet to ramp up. That means the timing isn't final."

Especially technology articles.
Must be true.

Also, there's usually some good bikini shots of one of the Kardashian sisters, so it's worth checking out.

Bump.
Just discovered Alpine for use as a virtual machine at my proxmox datacenter... got jabber, iptables, wireguard, bash, installed in no time. Total install, os + application + DNS utils < 300 MB. Wickedly fast ... and I love how slim she looks .... no bloat, all the familiar tools ... I love it

Looks like it will run xfce too for desktop use.. could be the new devuan.

To venerate the givers of our digital sustenance .. to count the pantheon of the blessed ... like the ArchAngels of technology who surrounded the most holy Steve, and the wretched who jailbreak the sacred trust of those who know best ...

Accidentally published on Easter Sunday? I think not.

You may rise now and bring the good tidings to the vast unwashed Androids.

"Announcements"
Does anyone actually believe any of this? Or anything, lately ?
Who does Microsoft think they are? Apple?

There are no details, I actually clicked the link , the summary is the entire "story". Another AI nothingburger.

No user serviceable parts.

Also, they are pretending to model a brain.. Google car is saying that .. it's wierdly logical, actually kurzweil said we'd do that, but science fiction said so too... proprietary isn't just for Apple anymore, we all make kool now.