What are Sam Altman's credentials in democracy that would make me inclined to listen to him?

Aside from recognizing him as the head of a for-profit, highly secretive company that is currently exploring ways to secure substantial funding for his AI endeavors from investors like authoritarian Saudi Arabia, I don't know much about him. What I do know raises red flags. It seems contradictory for someone advocating for democratic AI to be seeking funding from totalitarian sources. Hmm.

And it was decreed: "Thou shalt not reinvent the wheel." Thus, from this commandment, every humble two-wheeled barrow became burdened with countless wheels, each dependent upon myriad others. Need a barrow to ferry the wheat? Behold, one that not only carries the wheat but also counts lunar cycles and is ready to be transformed into a merchant ship.

Thus, the realm of technology became a tangled web of wheels upon wheels, all bound by the edict of best practices.

I ain't no chemist, but splitting HO to get O should leave a bunch of H behind, shouldn't it? Where can I pump it into my future hydrogen car and hydrogen helicopter?

Yes, it’s objectively better to be at the mercy of a for-profit company whose main goal is to keep you using their products for as long as possible, instead of buying their new products.

Totally makes sense.

This highlights the fact that crypto is not a fair and transparent market, and its current state of manipulation makes it a questionable solution for society looking forward.

"Having publicly professed my dislike of performance benchmarks" ... so he publicly put out his own performance analysis... hmm.

Would he read this analysis if there was not his own name underneath it?

Next law to come into effect in 2021 will ban all foreign toilet papers. All Russians will be mandated to use exclusively local voting ballots.

There is no use for them in new Russia anyway so I consider it to be very ecological way how to dispose of old democracy. Good law.

"wining" should have been "whining". Google translator seems to be the only game in town for me, and it is not the best one. :-D

"The trouble is, Google isn't the only game in town anymore."

If it was a trouble people would not be wining, crying and complaining what Google does. They would simply turn to the next "game in town". But they don't, right? Why is it so? Not so easy? Well, then admit it is for YOU the only game in town.

Debian has been lately going very political! Now Debian weighs in on issues like gender equality, proper language... Did they forget they are software project and not an activist movement?

I don't care about what they consider as "an issues". It honestly repels me what are they focusing on. If they continue I will look for some other friendly, tolerant Linux community that focuses solely on software.

Some social warriors complain that IBM didn't answer in 2-minute video all the important questions world is facing? What?

It seems to me that group of intellectuals is making cheap PR by picking up on nonsense. Those "revolutionaries" always try to fight and destruct... because they are incapable of building and solving problems. Give them a chance to find solutions and they come up with gulags and secret police. :-D

And if we want to be more contemporary the picture should be a pile of human excrement with teared up New York Times used instead of toiled paper. But I guess once the Mueller finishes that symbol will be no longer representative depiction.

- An imprint of hand into concrete.

Because what can represent us - as a modern humanity better? Many animals have bigger brains, legs, hair... but human hands?

And yes, to avoid all those left/right/gender/gay/lesbian/age/color/hue/IQ/size/DNA/wealth/... controversies, to appease all people of all the colors of the rainbow and invisible light spectrum and... The hand must be an imprint of a hand into something characteristic of our civilization - concrete - that way nobody will be able to say who's hand was it.

So I therefore propose THE IMPRINT OF HAND IN CONCRETE because it characterizes us the most and it has a clear upgrade path to robotic Hand 2.0 imprint in Mars' dust. Who can beat my proposal? Ha! :-D

Longevity Linked To Leaving the House in Older Adults

Which means, if you are destined to live longer then you are more likely to leave the house. I mean, it simply will not change a thing if you force your grandma twice a day out of the house... (Contrary the stress levels caused by interrupting favorite soap opera may have even adverse effects... and not only on her health. ;-) )

Is it investment in throttling technology and deep packet inspection servers? Yeah, that is expensive stuff. And I can imagine all those new jobs for calling customers to push them new paid features like $5 for your VPN running fast... So at the end those $5B will need to be extracted from customers anyway...

I wish customers will get some real improvements for their $5B.