Comment It will be quashed. (Score 2) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Re:No surprises (Score 1) 70
burn down institutions that actually work; they are too stupid to understand how they work.
Khrushchev would love that our government is full of people who disagree with the principle of Chesterton's Fence. It's appalling that "conservatives" have become so far to the left of "The Left."
Vote conservative: vote Democrat.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 108
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment Slippery slope (Score 3, Funny) 131
What's next? If we accept this, then the next thing will be that public officials won't be allowed to sell Amway/Herbalife, heroin, or fake patents? This is viciously partisan, clearly intended to keep a certain major political party from running for office.
Comment So... (Score 1) 159
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Comment Re:I'll take $10K (Score 3, Informative) 110
Noise, higher electricity and power bills.
Comment hmm (Score 1) 44
On the one hand, patent troll. On the other, Apple has spent the past 50 years stealing ideas from everyone so hard to feel too bad.
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Super Moron (Score 1) 167
They are kissing up to Donny by letting him rename everything he farts on.
Comment Since "Corporations are people" (Score 1) 130
Execute it for spying on gov't.
Comment Re: Which is it? (Score 1) 128
I just wanted to let you know that you have successfully driven me off of
Not just you, obviously, the site has been in steep decline for a long time, but you were such a huge asshole that you managed to be the last straw. So, congrats for that. I won't be back.
Comment Re:You are right (Score 1) 183
Use them?! First: why would I want to be locked into Meta's proprietary APIs? And second: it doesn't even include a near-infrared swimsuits mode. I can't believe they omitted such a basic feature. (Zuck, you call these perv glasses!?!)
Besides, from a style perspective, they just aren't nearly gargoylie enough. Whatever perv glasses I buy will have erect antenna(s) (not integrated into the frame), much larger aperture cameras for astronomy, and lots of blinkenlights (including a cool-looking Locutus-style laser). It doesn't surprise me at all, that the more style-conscious sex isn't buying them.
Meta's specific product is ridiculous. But I nevertheless defend the overall tech.
Comment Re:If you're educating students for an "AI Era" (Score 1) 119
At present, no. I've done a number of experiments with LLMs' capabilities with generating fiction, and while they are impressive for a beginner writer -- because fo the lack of spelling and grammar mistakes, they are nowhere near being able to write competent fiction.
This is because they don't model reader or character minds, they're based on word probabilities, like a predictive text keyboard. The engineers can compensate for for this to a surprising degree by feeding it data to recognize specific situations (e.g. the car wash is 100 feet from my driveway; should I drive or walk?). But this is turd-polishing.