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Comment Re:New Business/Health Plan (Score 2) 59

rich people are not psychopaths

Being a psychopath/sociopath is a key ingredient in getting rich. Generally some opportunity had to come along that required a disregard for the welfare or fairness to others. A lot of folks stepped away from an opportunity because they didn't think it was right, but a wealthy person likely seized upon some such occurances.

Comment Re:So what's it good for? (Score 2) 63

I don't think that makes the document any less your own than having a human copy editor conduct a similar review which has been done since forever.

Which is what I've been saying as well. If all you're doing is asking for suggestions to something you have already written, using AI is no different than using a human editor. It's your work. It's been written. You're just looking for advice on how to improve it.

This is completely different than people who tell AI what they want and it does all the work.

Comment Re:Just for clarity (Score 1) 86

Why would you expect humans to get along and live in perfect harmony in the first place? I can't think of any species, much less an apex has be that lives this way. That we have managed this to the extent currently observed with large nation states is rather remarkable. This is why I also find the notion of AIs ever taking over and collectively acting against humanity ridiculous. If they're programmed at all like us, they'll act the same way and turn on each other first chance they get.

Comment Re:When winning the AGI race at all costs is in yo (Score 2) 86

Psychopaths get results. They may not be the results than anyone, psychopath included, wanted, but they get results. The problem is that AIs aren't intelligent and can't actually realize when they've been given an impossible task (or reason that the task is impossible) and will try to do whatever it takes to get the desired outcome. Calling an AI psychopathic is anthropomorphizing it unfairly, but it is an apt comparison to a similar pattern of behavior exhibited by humans.

Comment There are measurement you can do to verify that. (Score 3, Informative) 17

Quiet a few astronomical observation on very distant galaxy (so ancient light) shows that some of the fine structure constant did not change with time, or changed less than 10^-5 of its value (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2Fastro-ph%2F9803165), maybe somebody has a more recent article on whether that alpha change was confirmed or not.

Comment Re:Corpospeak... (Score 2) 26

Translation: We are looking at our options on how to extract as much money as possible from the users of this software.

Or: We eliminated the positions necessary to merge the changes coming from the outside, and we will support the customers in house, if there are any paying customers at all. After that, we will close the project for good.

Comment Re:Wrong. (Score 1) 13

It's more of an indictment against the studios being unable to make new films that audiences are interested in than anything else. I won't got as far as saying they're completely devoid of creativity as I've still been able to find plenty of good films over the past five years, but at the same time I think that if the LotR trilogy were given a rerelease it would outperform a lot of the current films. The industry still hasn't recovered from COVID.

Comment Re:I quit stealing cars (Score 1) 88

The real reason is that the city recalled their previous DA a few years ago because his progressive policies proved even too ridiculous even for extremely liberal San Francisco. The current DA is actually prosecuting criminals and more importantly charging some of the minors who were responsible for a lot of this crime (because they'd immediately be let out and just go right back to it) as adults which has made a big difference as well.

The feds cracking down on illegal immigration May had some effect as well. A lot of the crime in SF is criminal gangs with ties to other countries. Again this is largely a manner of targeting and removing the criminal element responsible for the majority of the crime. There are probably some other reasons beyond these as well, but those two are probably the main drivers.

Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 198

There are arguments to be made for something like this, but we really should do away with most of the AM spectrum for radio and repurpose it. Radio is a lot less important than it used to be and the entire AM spectrum isn't necessary for an emergency notification system. Arguably a satellite system could replace it now or in the near future.

Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 4, Insightful) 198

And as for emergencies just buy a radio. Don't force me to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on my car radio or more . . .

Odd to hear this take coming from you. Out of curiosity do you feel the same about other mandatory things included for safety purposes that also add to the cost of the vehicle? Normally you're quite keen on arguing for the government to force people to buy something you consider to be for their own good or to even go further and suggest the government deliver that thing itself. Not that I expect this to change your entire worldview, but the next time you want to go off about someone who'd prefer the government not to force decisions they don't want on them, you remember this.

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