One of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. You could pay me to build something like Windsurf, or many of us could, for less than what they paid.

Who says we don't know how to do it? Technology has advanced since the 1970s.

"We do not."

We do. Look into how Cyc works, and the work of Doug Lenat. Look into how Palantir works. Just because you don't know how to do it, or you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean it hasn't been done or isn't a lot easier to do now that CPUs, ram, and other technologies exist which didn't exist back then. The same reason people thought neural nets couldn't scale, until the technology got to this point where it could be scaled using GPUs. That is what changes things, the ability to have broadband, faster chips, so now it's just a matter of putting them to use.

Specifically, neurosymbolic AI. In the centralized approach that means something like Google's Alphafold/Alphaproof which uses reinforcement learning combined with the LLM. For the decentralized approach it means something like Tau.net which is logical AI at the foundation layer and machine learning as an extension. The combination of logic GOFAI allows for common sense mechanical reasoning. The addition of machine learning, allows for the pattern recognition, prediction, probability based methods.

Thereâ(TM)s a funny [post on TT](https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tiktok.com%2Ft%2FZTRvcYKEJ%2F) showing the ChatGPT loop:
- Manager asks GPT to compose an email to employee based on a few bullet points
- Manager sends email
- Employee receives email
- Employee asks ChatGPT to summarize email in a few bullet points

But yeah, in general itâ(TM)s been faster to RTFM with it (as long as youâ(TM)re not working with an API documented after 9/21).

> That's kind of like Kate Moss ...

No idea who you're talking about.

Why not both? I have a dumb phone with a battery that lasts for 20+ days on standby and my iPhone is covered in a Mophie which gives me 2-3 times the battery life which usually means ~2 days of active use.

> Hate how after all this time you can't edit posts...

I actually love it. I tend to re-send corrections on platforms that offer editing. It's humanizing to say "Hey, I screwed up. I'm cognizant enough to fix it too".

That said, why are you feeding the trolls? I dismissed the entire thread based on their sig.

An assumption is that robots will not have sophisticated AI and will always need a human to manage it. What happens when the AI is able to manage it and has no need for human managers or a corporation?

Suppose the self driving car is able to act as a self contained corporation, earn it's own profit, pay for it's own repairs, hire or pay for it's own new designs based on data it and it's clones collected from passengers?

The problem is either going to be "who owns the robots" or "who pays the taxes". Human beings don't want to pay taxes but don't want robots to pay taxes because a very small group of humans expect to own in concentrated fashion the robots which they don't want taxes.

But there is no technical reason why robots require human owners. An autonomous agent which can take on all the functions of those humans need not even be very smart or sophisticated to have the ability to interact as a self contained business or individual economic unit.

This lets the desktop environments have more advanced features then they would with init systems that don't do this delegation.

First, is it the regular user account or the DE itself which essentially gets its privileges escalated? Either way, that sounds inherently dangerous -- if you want the DE to be all powerfull, just login as root (there are good reasons not to login as root of course, but if systemD is doing it for you anyway, why even bother with the distinction between root and user accounts).

Bit torrent has no ads.

I'm old enough and can afford to pay for my content. There's nothing good enough to make me want to pirate it (or sit through ads) to get at it.

Also, oddly, Agents of SHIELD has no adds... on Netflix.

Agents of SHIELD is a 1 season behind on Netflix, the season that's currently playing on TV is only on Hulu.

I can wait a year for Agents of SHIELD and binge watch it on Netflix instead of dealing with Cable TV (which I don't own anymore) or a Hulu subscription with ads.

That's not true anymore, they now offer an almost* commercial free experience for $11.99 vs the $7.99 subscription.

I canceled my Hulu account a while back sighting commercials as the reason.

I might try them again in a few months. Their show selection is not too compelling and I have plenty to watch on Netflix/HBO Now still.

* Exceptions:

Exactly right.

The incentive for people to contribute to a closed source project isn't all that much. Remember that open source isn't a gift by your company to the public, it is an offer of trade -- you let the public have the source, the public provides you with feedback (bug fixes, enhancements, etc.) and gets its suggestions provided back to it. It's a circle.

What you are suggesting sounds like you want the benefit of that deal, while negating the benefit for those who are doing work for you. Psychologically, it's a hard sell to say to someone -- "mow my lawn for me and I'll sell you a lemonade afterward at full price --- um yeah, I'd also sell you the lemonade at full price if you don't mow my lawn." You aren't going to get many takers for that deal, and the ones who do take it will have questionable motives (scoping out the property) or will just be naive and gullible (not a great foundation to build upon).

The statute the sent Oliver North to prison might apply here. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.law.cornell.edu%2Fus...

Paragraph b, aside from other punishments, bars a person from holding public office.

The way I see it, the emails were filed with a public officer of the united states as required by par. a (HRC was a public officer so the emails sent/received were filed with her personally) and by deleting the emails, they were certainly "mutilated, obliterated, or destroyed". If deleting emails filed with the SOS is illegal, then that's good for 3 years in the pokey.

Next, under par. b, it is clear that HRC had custody of the records and again, destroyed them. If she is found guilty of par. b, she simply can't be president -- she couldn't be dog catcher. She'd be fully and finally retired.

The Rethuglikans are freaking out about Hillary. Absolutely losing their shit in a big way.

Let's be clear hear. HRC is a warmongering neo-con wallstreet cocksucker on the Democrat team. Some warmongering neo-con wallstreet cocksuckers on the Republican team hate her because she is on the other team.

I hate them all because they are war mongering neo-con wallstreet cocksuckers. I don't give a fuck about what team they're on -- I care about what they stand for.