Do I sense some pent-up anger there? :D

I've mentioned this before, but I had Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude jointly design me an aircraft, along with its engines. The sheer intricacy and complexity of the problem is such that it can take engineers years to get to what all three AIs agree is a good design. Grok took a look at as much as it could, before running out of space, and agreed it was sound.

Basically, I gave an initial starting point (a historic aircraft) and had each in turn fix issues with the previous version, until all three agreed on correctness.

This makes it a perfectly reasonable sanity check. If an engineer who knows what they're doing looks at the design and spots a problem, then AI has and intrinsic problem with complex problems, even when the complexity was iteratively produced by the AI itself.

I hope that you are incorrect, because they've been doing some pretty solid work in the area(albeit still at the stage where you are betting on them continuing to do driver support); but the moves like "don't be a total dick about RAM allocations like Nvidia" definitely seem like they could end up on the chopping block if a myopic spreadsheet cruncher gets a look at them.

"Some of our early testing with the components we've turned off in Windows, we get about 2GB of memory going back to the games while running in the full-screen experience." is one of those sentences where they guy specifically working on this project sounds like he has done his job; but it really makes you wonder what the hell MS is thinking with the standard setup. It's not like the win11 shell is especially compelling or feature rich; and games' expectations of the platform are weird and varied enough that this wouldn't work if it were some kind of 'disable legacy jank' mode.

Natural NNs appear to use recursive methods.

What you "see" is not what your eyes observe, but rather a reconstruction assembled entirely from memories that are triggered by what your eyes observe, which is why the reconstructions often have blind spots.

Time seeming to slow down (even though experiments show that it doesn't alter response times), daydreaming, remembering, predicting, etc, the brain's searching for continuity, the episodic rather than snapshot nature of these processes, and the lack of any gap during sleep, is suggestive of some sort of recursion, where the output is used as some sort of component of the next input and where continuity is key.

We know something of the manner of reconstruction - there are some excellent, if rather old, documentary series, one by James Burke and another by David Eagleman, that give elementary introductions to how these reconstructions operate and the physics that make such reconstructions necessary.

It's very safe to assume that neuroscientists would not regard these as anything better than introductions, but they are useful for looking for traits we know the brain exhibits (and why) that are wholly absent from AI.

They're not replicating our capabilities, nor could they. The architecture is completely wrong, as is the design philosophy. Brains are not classifiers, the way neural network software is, they are abstraction engines and dynamic compositors.

You will find that books written by the infinite monkeys approach are less useful than books written by conscious thought, and that even those books are less useful than books written and then repeatedly fact-checked and edited by independent conscious thought.

It is not, in fact, the book that taught you things, but the level of error correction.

You are correct.

When it comes to basic facts, if multiple AIs that have independent internal structure and independent training sets state the same claim as a fact, then that's good evidence that it's probably not a hallucination but something actively learned, but it's not remotely close to evidence of it being fact.

Because AIs have no understanding of semantics, only association, that's about as good as AI gets.

The gap that you need fill in is the issue here - renewables are producing energy in a varying volume that can't be controlled aside from shutting off the production.

Power plants like coal and nuclear are slow to change. They can produce a steady continuous power that can change slowly. With water power plants you can change the power production faster and compensate to some extent for variations from the renewables.

However the grid is the big problem - it's dimensioned and designed for a few large production plants and not for a distributed production pattern grid. The backbone grid is also a 3-phase grid. In many locations the residential systems are single phase, even US residential systems with the 2-phase system is actually single phase from the backbone grid perspective. This means that if you have residential production services you can create swings in the grid between the phases where one phase produces power while the other two consumes and then a minute later it swings around just because you have a semi-cloudy weather situation. Upgrading to a 3-phase system will make things a lot better for the power company since then they will suffer a lot less issues with voltage imbalance between the phases. A 3-phase system is also preferred if you run electric cars. In Sweden almost every residential installation since the 70's is 3-phase (230/400V) aside from very small apartments.

One way to at least relieve the situation quite a bit is to run batteries at every installation to smooth out the day to day production/consumption. It's not a perfect solution but it will lower the strain on the grid quite a bit. Electric water heaters that are controlled by logic that looks at grid need/price as well as excess power production can also be quite useful. Heat up the water during high production while the grid demand is low means that you can have hot water "for free" until at least the next day. It wouldn't make you totally self sufficient, but it will cut down your electricity bill and keep the power company at least a bit happier.

All concerns you can have about every device and app a child uses. Or young adult or adult... because people never ever learn and grow.

Smearing people with false accusations still works quite well without technology and at least in the gullible USA it works in the face of easy fact checking.

TOLERANCE is dead. Especially with these christian fascists.

I don't care if you are racist now, if it doesn't fuck with your work and you don't do evil shit at work that is your own personal problem. Hell, if your coworker is "the other" actually, I would probably purposely stick you around "those people." It doesn't fix anything to keep people isolated and ignorant. It begins with: your not like "those people" and later on can dispel the false stereotypes.

0) This is a child's toy. This is not the sole means of communication for everybody and I made that clear in the post. QED.

1) Did you read 1984 as a student? Try it again as an adult. Especially don't forget the appendix, since those in a fiction books is because something huge was being critical is being missed to the point the author added it.

      1A) This reeks of over simplification or rationalization by a perv... ;-)
      1B) One can't even begin to seriously protect children without supervision. We all know children are not properly supervised when around random men online.
      1C) Life guards are big brother! Police at large gatherings are big brother! Hall monitors are big brother! Nuance is all but gone with so many people today is there a pollutant that creates simpletons?
      1D) Slashdot moderators are big brother! everybody should be anonymous cowards! (like usernames give away much.)

2) OK for short time periods and when retained for legal purposes. Eventually, an AI will monitor these and retain questionable ones for review. I feel sorry for the reviewers but somebody has to catch groomers. The simple fact that it is advertised as monitored will create a great deal of self policing which is kind of the whole point of doing this.

      2A) Yes, self policing is used to control the masses. What are you, an anarchist? Visible security cameras can serve a legitimate purpose and they can be abused too.
      2B) If we put cameras into bathrooms they'd be much nicer but we can limit the really bad stuff putting them outside the entrance to help trace who entered and when. Anyhow, the difference is this is an OPTIONAL feature on a children's toy.

3) You do have to trust the company's use of personal information but I'd be less concerned with videos than their profiling of everything else...and how marketing is limited but still requires whistleblowers to even know what they do with their data mining. So many companies would comply to limits on minors but retain that data for later abuse when they become adults and their profile data is their private property; they don't need to retain the source data.

How about we call it "cloud chat" since everybody is happy with everything on the internet when you use the word CLOUD?

Nope. Not literally same but similarity. QuickDraw's model allowed for it to be scaled for printing and it had standard scalable fonts. This allowed perfect recreation when printing it. The drawing commands were saved in a data format called PICT which was a no-code version of the drawing commands which also could include pixelmaps. PICT data was often used to playback graphics commands. It was similar to how PDF abstracted away the postscript programming language.

A universal menu bar follows Fitt's Law for quick accessibility by constraining location to an endpoint and Steering Law for fast targeting; not that really productive people need to access menus that often when keyboard shortcuts and contextual controls and modes should exist. A top use for me as a quick reference for keyboard controls.

While you are still targeting your menu floating at random locations on your screen, I can flick right up AGAINST the top of my screen to an exact location with muscle and spacial memory. I also am not wasting screen space with many menubars all over the place... and we certainly are still obsessed with doing things to save screen space these days despite having plenty of it. I also can FIND the menu just as quickly if not faster switching apps. Try alt-tab app switching and spotting the menu bar faster than I can when you have 3 displays.

Now toolbars, those I am fine with window locking them if I can't lock them to an endpoint like bottom/side locations. The system toolbar is locked at an edge still today: the DOCK and task bar; or perhaps you think those should go on the bottom of each window? Oh, you wouldn't because it's global? Well app window menus are global to that app... windows even does a thing with sub-windows...although the menu isn't really at the top even when maximized.

The best toolbar would be a floating palette that moves to the active window but also can be pinned to a fixed position including to a screen edge. Kind of like the accessibility pallets do with some considerable configuration.

The psychologists and the designers of the past did better UI than most these UX people today who seem to come out of graphic art school. I will say they do have an edge in that pretty UI and a good UX greatly influences how much mental energy a user will use to the point it can compensate for poor decisions.

Why don't we engineer larger penises for humans? So big it drastically reduces fertility! I bet you we reduce the population to a reasonable size as most men opt to get bigger than have children!

If anything, you eliminate evil mental cases who either get extremely insecure to the point of insanity over their tiny mushroom penis or others who have botched enlargement surgeries requiring them to IVF dozens of children who hate them.

How long until a new species evolves for humans after the bad ones are killed off? It obviously happened before. I'd like to find out... by killing them off. But we should see if we can kill the source off since that helps the broader picture of fighting pathogens.

No you mentioned the UK, read your own previous post. There was no mention of England.

Yes urination in public spaces is a problem. In open countryside it's less of an issue - noone around to witness it, and plenty of wild/farm animals are already urinating there. But the original post was about Singapore, which is a city state without any countryside so a blanket ban makes sense.

It seems public urination is an offence in at least some parts of England - see: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.camden.gov.uk%2Frepo...