The complaining is rote at this point in the stages of grieving: "that's was never considered 'intelligence' anyways!' The thing we now care (and always did) care about is whatever AI is currently NOT doing because we have souls, just not quite all those dummies at Church used to say!!"

Do you have benchmarks for AI performance? That seems more relevant here.

Also which Apple machine are you comparing to? The M5 performance depends heavily on thermal and power limits. That website is probably using the desktop version with much better cooling and a higher power limit than any of Apple's portable offerings.

It doesn't really matter if it makes a useful contribution to the field.

It's hard to say if it is due to AI being something novel, of it they threw similar amounts of money at humans working in the field they could get a similar result. Maybe it doesn't matter, because humans take decades to train to this level, and their built their AI in years.

Prompt: "Hunt down and clean up Slashdot dupes before they coagulate and turn into human eating monsters. Low scorers have to watch goatse for 2 minutes before reactivating their account."

How do you see the future of gaming? Interacting with AI agents with per-programmed personalities and responses to everything? Pick you dialog from a list of 4 choices still? It's not going to be like that any more.

I don't know Elon Musk managed to kill 9 million children without a gun so...

I don't think this is about creating useful or profitable content this is more about training their AIs and showing them off to investors.

Remember the problem AI is designed to solve is wages. Paying wages.

That said we all laughed at horse armor and they just kept cramming it down people's throats until kids grew up who were used to that crap. And yeah you might not be someone who would buy horse armor but it does fuck up the industry and the quality of your hobby is substantially lower as a result.

It probably will be the same with AI slop. You and I will hate it because we grew up in a world without it but to kids who just get that stuff blasted into their eyeballs it'll be normal and they won't have any defenses against it. It will take over the industry through the kids and we will lose access to the stuff we want.

Ilhan has been in her seat for 4 terms, any day now she'll reveal her secret plan for Sharia? What's she been waiting for? I don't even particuarly like Omar, I think she's an omnicause slopulist but I'm not so deranged to think she's some secret Islamist.

I guarantee whatever media figures you get your news from are far more radical. How about you share your media sources and podcasts with us?

And yet the fact you said that shows us all you actually haven't read the history of either of those places to understand why they are where they are now. Also you know who is the biggest fawning fan of Erdogan? Donald Trump and Republicans.

Meanwhile we have JD Vance campaigning with Victor Fucking Orban which is a form of authoritarianism far more likely to grab hold in the US but that's white folks so you have no worries about that do you.

Close to how I want to see nuclear power re-launched in America:

Legislation for funding 10-30 new reactors, owned and operated by government (like TVA does already)
Build them on selected Federal land sites
Have the Army Corp of Engineers certify and plan on a standardized design for construction (example, work with Westinghouse on our own version of an AP1000)
Fund a Manhattan Project style research initiative into fuel reprocessing and build a site(s) to absorb waste fuel.

Hide the salami while in the bath house.

This is all true and part of the reason the successful nucelar programs currently, the ones building new plants and plans for expansion and have kept up those capabilities are all State-Owned-Enterprises. The risk-reward and incentive structures just are not there for private industry.

Here is the list of planned and under construction reactors currently: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fworld-nuclear.org%2Finfo...

All of them are State-Owned-Enterprises.

American nuclear power advocates are a contradiction; they want a big expansion of nuclear power in the USA but for their own political reasons refuse to leverage any state power to do it, thus here we are in a 40 year lurch wondering why anything is not happening while they've been their own worst enemy to that cause. At this point even though I am an advocate for nuclear power I would say the last 10 years have led me to the position that it's too late, there will never be the political support for such a venture so we can just give it up.

America ceded the opportunity to be the leader in both renewables and nuclear power for the same short sighted craven political reasons: "gubmint bad" as the foundational principle for half the political power in the nation. Dopes.

Was it presented as if it was being sold? Was the money-taker not up-front with the possibility that features might be disabled in the future? Did they not mention it or bury it in the small print? If so, anyone who "bought" one and is surprised by this is a victim of fraud. Fraud victims have every right to complain, even if it was possible for a well informed person to detect the fraud.

Have you tried asking AI?

You can avoid most of the paint by just ignoring DST. Don't change you clocks. Helps if your work is flexible about hours, but you can always move some evening stuff to the morning and vise versa.

Try it, you will find that it's no real effort to remember everyone else's clocks are off by an hour.