It's also not consistent.

Every field of science has reproducible outcomes. Except AI. Leaning about things that do not change and are not even in question, is what school should be for.

When it comes to History, it's written in blood and tears, we should learn about it, but we do not need to care about it. But when it comes to American history, there is this entire extra level of denialism which keeps the south pro-slavery, even though slavery is abolished. It's like the right wing morons like living in a "slavery will return anytime, and we'll be ready to take full advantage of it", when robotics can do that better, faster and cheaper. You would think Robotics and "AI" would completely eliminate this denialism and we could move on. "Yes, the United States was founded in part due to slavery, we will stop denying that and move the hell on."

AI has the potential to turn any truth on it's head because people are unable to know what is fiction or hallucinated from reality. We've seen this already when people have used AI lawyers who cite stuff that does not exist. Where is it getting that from? Because it's a LLM, it's auto-completing. It doesn't know it's making shit up, it's just the words most commonly found next to each other.

This is why insane ramblings from both right wing (conservatives, libertarians, and fascists) and left wing ( liberals and communists) need to be excluded from these LLM training models otherwise the results will not be a truth, but mixture of lies that pleases nobody.

But I digress, the existing state of AI is really "What can it be used for?" And the consensus right now is "nothing creative or important"

It can transcribe and translate, but it does both of these rather poorly unless the input source is high quality. It hallucinates words from silence, and it hallucinates translations (often flipping genders and titles) which means any output must still be proof read by a human. Sometimes it's completely incoherent garbage like what google produces, sometimes it's mostly coherent like OpenAI Whisper. But I would not allow an AI to translate a legal document or engage in politics because it would quite literately say stupid shit people will not catch.

It's usefulness in visual and musical arts is basically "next to useless", it's been profoundly rejected by artists of all stripes, and is rightfully seen as "slop building" designed to make money by just recycling what already exists.

Like don't get me wrong, there will probably be some good use cases in CV (computer vision), like making artificial bees for pollinating plants/eliminating pests in agriculture, but there will be a lot of bad uses of AI that have no ethical reason for existing, like armed "AI" military/security/police. The second we start putting AI in weapons systems, we've lost the plot.

Listen folks, the reason spam exists, and continues to exist, is because people keep clicking on it, and there are computers out there endlessly churning it out because it's so cheap to do, and costs nothing.

The solution to spam, has ALWAYS been the solution people were worried about. Taxing it. That's what postage stamps are for with mail, if you want to send useless crap by post, you have to actually pay bulk rates. The problem is over time, the environmental cost (think about all the post vans driving around delivering grocery fliers to a store that is not even walking distance away, every week) outweighs the positives (delivering lettermail) of having the service at all.

So the solution to eliminating spam is to move to a kind of P2P platform where unsolicited messages are only exchanged at a toll cost. If company X wants to send you an email, and you are not on the "zero cost" list (eg you have a financial interest eg bank/creditcard) then the underlying system must pay the toll to pass thru that system. Spam gets 100% eliminated because people don't want the hassle of adding every tom dick and harry who wants to contact them once. If you are important enough to receive a message, you can set that toll at $20 dollars, and people who actually have legitimate business with you will pay that to ensure you receive it. No more giving a shit if your contact details are out there, you won't be receiving anything not paid, and it can't be screwed around with by using chargeback fraud because you pay upon send, not receipt. If someone signs you up for a mailing list you didn't ask for, the mailing list operator won't be paying it, and the message won't even be sent in the first place.

That's the solution. What you see as scam ads on youtube, facebook, twitter, and even websites are people paying sub-penny amounts to deliver ads to websites who accept all ads, no matter how shitty the ad is because they want money. If they simply set their minimum price to 0.10/cpm virtually all the shit ads would disappear from the internet overnight, from every site, and bigger sites like facebook and youtube could even make more money by raising that to 1.00/cpm so that less of that AI slop gets pushed.

You're barking up the wrong tree.
a) Apple is not Microsoft
b) Microsoft's bundling could have significantly harmed competition in the browser space, instead that is now google. Because in order to use MSIE you had to use windows, and in order to use many websites you had to use MSIE. Notice this is no longer the case with MSIE, but is now the case with Chrome.

And why is that? Google twisting the arms by not supporting functionality, and giving fake "scare" messages when you visit any non-SSL site. Trying to shove QUIC down web server's throat while many of them don't even support H2 because of this non-support of unencrypted connections.

Apple has no muscle anywhere except on it's own platform, on devices it sells and supports.

We would be having a different discussion entirely if Microsoft and Google were competent enough to sell hardware, but they aren't. Their graveyards are a mile high, less anyone forget that Google's graveyard is pages long, and microsoft often abandons it's products as well.

The problem there is "company doesn't put long term support behind a product" - "customers are fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me", Google acquiring a product (Nest, Fitbit, Motorola, etc) results in an extinguishing of a competitor, and and a device platform when you won't buy their much crappier product..

Google has been stealing from Microsoft's playbook, and Microsoft's playbook is not based on any kind of altruism.

This isn't a PHP issue, this is literately they "fed stuff to ghostscript via php" thus ghostscript ran postscript code inside the webserver process.

Like on it's face this is a pretty basic, dumb, hack. A properly secured site, regardless of the PHP version would not run "non-php" shell programs. All it would have taken is uploading a PDF file that grabbed a known file (eg index.php) and post it, and then figure out the configuration data from that.

These morons. I swear. They can not tell the difference between an e-commerce site which IS NOT GOING TO BE USING LET'S ENCRYPT IN THE FIRST PLACE, and some shitty blog hosted on a $10/mo webhost running shitty wordpress that doesn't even need to be running SSL. Fricken Google made web into this ad-barnicle'd nightmare and all SSL does is make it so that it's harder to block ads by any means that doesn't involve degrading the security model.

Everything was working fine until then.

No, that definitely ain't happening. Existing financial incentives to encourage more kids do not work, because the key problem is housing. If you can not afford the housing to have more children, you do not have more children/are more careful.

Solve the housing crisis every major city has, by making the cities own all the family sized rentals, and you will have exactly the population growth you want.

There is no business model in having 20 kids, because 20 room houses do not exist to have 20 kids in. Every catholic i know has at most 5 kids and as few as zero. The average is 3.

The real question is did it cause landlords to just increase rent to the same level of the UBI so that the net result was negative?

This is something that already happens with Welfare systems. What we want to know is how landlords didn't just go "I know you are getting X, so I want all of X"

He has to capitulate before the bond markets cause some serious problems.

But let's be honest here. Some of us kinda want to see how far Cheeto Hitler will go with his game of chicken. Because it's a once in a century moron who would do this, and sometimes you just want to see if the moron will capitulate or congress/senate will do it for him.

There is no "both sides" in America. There is "right-wing" and "absolute fascist"

All you have to do is look at Canada, Australia, UK, or EU and see that even at it's best, the "Democratic Party" in the US is basically a right-wing party with a few left wing priorities. There is no fully left-wing party. They've been sliding in that direction since Reagan. If they were truely a left-wing party, the christians would be backing them on the principle of "help the poor, homeless and sick". The US still doesn't have medical care for everyone. That should have been the democrats priority 1, ever economy. Housing should be priority 2. Left-wing parties in Canada are hyper aware of this and left-wing parties always push medical care and housing objectives over economic concerns. This is why the conservatives in Alberta constantly whine-bitch-moan about not being able to find markets for their oil and gas, because they get cock-blocked by BC to the West, NWT to the north, and Ontario to the East. They can only sell to Canada and the US.

Environment is a left-wing issue, but it's a contentious issue because not all all damage to the environment is equal.

This is the core problem with letting AI do anything. The AI doesn't know anything. Trying to make an AI balance left-wing and right-wing issues is just going be a re-run of the Microsoft Tay chatbot, where it learns that people just want an echo chamber and it will just generate a left wing or right wing framed answer to any left-wing or right-wing framed question. Therefor it's 100% useless for factual information. It already hallucinates because of lies and misinformation in the training data.

Nah. Three issues:
- AV1 playback hardware is not even across the board. Particularly in mobile phones and SmartTV's. The iPhone 15 Pro (2023) is the first iphone that supports it. No Android device guarantees support for it in hardware, and considering how utterly trash Android hardware is, it means the experience is not uniform. Pixel 6 and Samsung S21 (both 2021 devices)
- AV1 Encoding support only exists in cards people do not have. (RTX 40xx/50xx / Intel Xe Arc Series)
- AV1 Playback iGPU support is only available in Intel 11th gen+

So that means that distribution of AV1 content (eg 4K HDR, 1080p60+) that really needs the codec can be served by fixed function hardware that most of this stuff already has, eg HEVC (h.265) and has been paid for.

Now that said, for google, netflix, amazon, disney+ etc, you aren't going to encode the same show 4 times (h264, h265, AV1, and obviously whatever the media was made in) you're going to encode the show once at a high bit rate that makes sense to convert to these other codecs in HDR and non HDR mode.

Unfortunately until the current smartphone upgrade cycle is done, the majority of the devices out there are not going to support AV1, and it can be assumed that anyone who wants AV1 as the default has to wait. Like Twitch and Youtube have been talking about AV1, but never send you AV1 in any situation, even when your hardware supports it.

Bitcoin will never be accepted. Only complete tools and morons talk about Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any other cryptocoin because they are the suckers who bought in and want to flip it.

The rest of the world, realized how much of a scam cryptocoins are. Rugpulls, all of them.

The "best case" scenario is that the G20 agree to mine and stake a fixed amount of currency per year, for use with international commerce. These coins expire on every G20 meeting and a new series is released, and the oldest coin is discontinued from all merchants and P2P trading. That way speculators get shut out.

Disney historically had bangers with the 2D Animated Musicals targeted at children. But these live action films are not targeted at children, they are targeted at nostalgia seeking 40 year olds, who don't actually want to see their memory tarnished of a new version of their beloved film as a child.

That is the problem.

Sometimes something is interesting, like the Lilo and Stich film is one of the few they can remake and not ruin the original, because the original was literately marketed by "Get your own movie" cross over trailers with Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and a few others. But most of the time, Disney flops are because they put all the budget into an Animated feature, and then immediately went and made two sequels using their television show animators (so you'd end up with a television series AND a sequel also animated by the television crew, but without the original voice actors.) Did you know that Aladdin and The Little Mermaid had TV shows and two sequels?

Disney still does this to some degree (Tangled had a TV series which is actually reasonably good, but it's not the same visual look as the film) but now it seems like they make a "shot for shot" copy of the 2D film with different voice actors and fail to understand why those shots works. The Lion King was actually endorsed by the people who made the 2D animated version. Not so for The Little Mermaid which looks like it had all the creative choices nerfed to save budget costs.

Nobody wants to pay $100 for the privilege of sharing a stinky theatre anymore, whodathunkit.

These movie theatres did it to themselves. If you want to see the future of microtractions in games, look no further than the 30 dollar hotdog and the 20 dollar soda. No I'm not kidding.

This is also missing the point. Japan insures by engine displacement size. So you are completely disincentivized from driving larger vehicles because their insurance is substantially more.

The main reason why kei cars will never see the light of day is because they are too dangerous between the climate and the other larger vehicles driving by people who think they own the road.

Let's say for a minute that they were unbanned and people were allowed to buy them and could only be bought in states that impose insurance based on engine size like Japan. They would likely only see mild success in major cities, and would be banned from all highway and freeways, because they are not survivable at highway speeds.

The reason you don't see the Kei vehicles in the US and Canada is entirely down to the shitty Ford F150/250/350, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Dodge Ram 1500, and their supersized moronic vehicles like the Hummer, along with regular 5th wheels can crush these Kei cars like they were a beer can. This is ALSO the reason why American and Canadian Light Rail sucks so much, because the light rail has to be bogged down with weight so they can withstand being t-boned by a moron driving a Hummer or a 5th wheel.

For actual fact "tiny" anything, be it tiny cars, tiny trucks or tiny homes, is a scam. The reason they are small is because the person selling it to you is a grifter. Instead of getting a proper sized vehicle or home that you can actually use, and survive using. A tiny car/truck is crushed like beer can in most accidents with other US vehicles, and a tiny home is a death sentence on you should it ever catch fire. If you aren't living in at least 500sq ft of space, you've been scammed and you will die in a fire because there won't be any escape. A tiny car has no hope in hell of being survivable in the US unless you drive strictly on the city roads and not the highway/freeway.

Another reason why you won't see Kei cars any time soon is a unique geographical feature of North America that Japan doesn't get. High winds. High winds + snow, your car is going to end up in the ditch. A Kei car not only ends up in the ditch, but lacks the survivability when it's hit by another car during snow. High winds like in British Columbia and Washington year round on the highways, or in Florida during tornado/hurricane season will even push the small American and European cars off the road.

Like yes, some of the lobbying is why you won't see it, but they aren't wrong. If you've watched any people record themselves driving in Japan, you'd also realize Japanese roads are not made for American sized cars and trucks to begin with. This is why the Kei car can be a thing, and you're only really taking a risk with your life if you dare take it down some unpaved roads, much like in the US and Canada. But in the US and Canada, a logging road is usually something a regular car can tolerate without significant risk to the driver. You're better off driving a Jeep Cherokee or another larger SUV down a logging road because you want clearance over rocks. American roads were designed for the "horse and buggy" size, where as many european and asian roads were designed around walking, which is why their cars are often smaller. Bigger cars can not fit down roads designed for the width of a single horse.

Another thing, which you may only realize from playing the game "Initial D" is that Japanese roads are extra curvy, much like roads in BC, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. How we solve this in North America is by making the roads over-sized so people don't fly off the corners. Japan? nope, regular drivers don't slow down. In North America, if you don't slow down before you take a corner or a hairpin turn, you are likely flying off the highway and down a ravine.