Nerds aren't being bullied. In fact, nerds are some of the worst bullies ever: they usually pick on smaller kids - often preying on primary school age children - because against any larger opponent they would be torn to pieces. No wonder nerds grow up to be child molesters. What we do to bullies is called a social hygiene operation: we exclude them from society and beat them up in order to enforce their emargination. We don't want those sickos among us. So, we're not bullying them, we're pushing them to the side and away from the Beautiful People.

You misunderstand: you were not shunned and hated because you were an assburger. You were shunned and hated because you were a piece of shit.

Or that it's simply as dumb as a brick and would be better off being used as one. Kids are like all other people: some are more or less functioning, a few are intelligent, a very rare few are brilliant, the rest are bricks of dried shit. This is a reality of life, but parents can't accept that their precious little snowflake could be any less than this century's great genius. Once upon a time they would insist it was "misunderstood" or "simply too far ahead" or an "indigo child". Now they're all assburgers.

I wish teachers (those who are worth their salt, and those are in diminishing numbers) would grow a pair and tell the chopparents: "See, your kid is so useless it ought to be recycled as pet food. It's not brilliant, it's not a genius, it's a shit windowlicker. Or rather it would be if it could tell a window from anything else. That's how stupid your shit kid is. Did you try to abort it by any chance?"

Yes, that's the sorry situation. Chopparents who can't accept their subpar progeny is two IQ points too low to be yoghurt so they try to pass them off as smart windowlickers. Guess what: windowlickers aren't smart, or they wouldn't be windowlickers.

It's not advanced, I shared it because the headline is clear. The article is written in a confusing way because the author doesn't understand the topic. Another way to say the same thing is, "people are flowers," but that's not exactly precise, either.

This one says things along your thinking, "The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek," but make no mistake, there is a destination and it is reachable.

But since we're at it, What is enlightenment?

If poor people don't have loan options like this one, they go to loan sharks.

If you don't pay back payday loans, you ruin your credit. If you don't pay back a loan shark, you get your legs broken.

Ironically, a lot of people don't understand the ChatGPT explanation, either.

The US has far and away the best military satellite system. It's not even close.

Currently, one satellite is destroyed every year from space junk.

If you are behind in a space race, you are incentivized to encourage the Kessler Syndrome, because if no one can use space, the disadvantage is gone.

For me, the point is to find sources. If there's a [citation needed], then it has to be treated as unknown.

This is the same as Wikipedia. It's helpful because the internet has gotten less and less searchable, as spam has crept into Google and other search engines.

Taxi salaries dropped 10% on average when Uber came. The medallion system was a bad system.

That's a stupid take, everyone is using a lot of eyes to find bugs these days. Your software crashes, it sends a bug report back.

Downloading a library off Geocities wasn't exactly recommended, either.

Once you start doing proper audits, it quickly becomes easier to just write the code yourself for most things.

There's the Blue Brain project, which made an attempt to simulate a mouse brain. It didn't really do anything, though.

They will likely need to have some understanding before getting it to do anything practical.

A) We can't stop ourselves from building it. If it can be done, it will happen.

B) It doesn't matter anyway, because no one has a clue how to build real AI. It's all science fiction until better algorithms come along.

While true that people want to get rich, and some at the expense of all else, being able to produce proteins on demand will provide huge benefits for humanity. It also would mean we can stop bleeding horseshoe crabs.