You could be missing a brain, or just spent too much time on Instagram.

Was that toward the end? Like late 90s? It used to be great. But usenet is where the term "spam" originated, referring to cross-posting to multiple groups.

Global IQ is driven mainly by two things: improved nutrition and hygiene in 3rd world increasing the average, and higher birth rates among lower IQ populations decreasing it. However on a smaller scale, you are correct. There is indeed some evidence of a "reverse Flynn effect", where children in developed countries are less intelligent on average than their parents. Social media may well contribute.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3F...

I'll put it on the list. There is an update to the nginx ingress controller that patches this particular exploit, but this article should be considered a wake-up call.

Thanks for the reply.

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

So the camera is in a headset. How is that different?

Radiology, like other medical specialties is more akin to a medieval guild.
If it really was a free market, we'd already be sending all our scan off to India for reading, instead of importing their doctors.
A radiology nurse can go into business using AI to read scans.

Who controls the market? Who grants entry? The radiologist guild. They have incredible political power.
OTOH, the future does not look so bright for Uber drivers.

I feel like we are still living in the golden age of AI. Like USENET in 1993 or Netflix in 2020.
AI isn't perfect, but is incredibly helpful in many areas such a tech and education, though not all, and at least tries to be helpful.

Future problems:
- The trillion-dollar market caps of the infrastructure companies (like NVIDIA) and the multi-billion dollar private valuations of the pure-play AI models (like OpenAI and Anthropic) are only justifiable if the ultimate revenue stream is measured in trillions per annum. There will be pressure to generate revenue by any means possible.
- Content creators, SEO firms, and malicious actors know that LLMs are trained on public internet data. They will flood the web with AI-generated, manipulative, or false content specifically designed to influence future models.
- If Generative AI content dominates the internet, the models will start training on their own output, creating a feedback loop of consensus bias without grounding in real-world facts

The ultimate risk is that the fundamental utility of the AI assistant—its ability to be an objective, reliable source of information and help—is compromised by a shift in its primary allegiance from the user to the corporate bottom line.
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Currently I am using the nginx controller with microk8s, which uses it by default. Anyone care to run down the pros and cons of the other choices?

Why I don't understand is how any launch system other than SpaceX is able to compete with SpaceX.

Except China, which is probably going to monkey-copy what SpaceX is doing.

Earlier today I put in a search to google like "I could float away like a soap bubble". I was looking for a quote in the Orwell book 1984.

But the google AI seemed concerned about my state of mind. "It seems you are having disturbing thoughts." Something like that.

I added "Orwell" to the search string and I got my quote. But it felt weird to have my actions judged by an AI like that.

PS the quote: (seems apropos somehow)

Ha, I guess it you've never been there! The corruption is endemic at every level, not just the presidential palace.
But I take your point. Trevor Noah was comparing Trump to an African dictator seven years ago.

That not even close to true, that Africa is somehow more a "victim" than anywhere else.
It is a rationalisation, or as the kids say these days, "cope", where observed reality does not match up with ideology.

Like anywhere else in the world, historically most of the "fucking over" was by your own rulers and neighbours, not distant nations until very recently.
Sure, living on the coast might get you raided by Arabs in East Africa, or Viking in Europe. But perhaps the most unique aspect of sub-Saharan Africa's collective (pre)history has been its isolation from the bulk of humanity, who lived in North Africa, Europe and Asia - all connected.

Sub-Saharan Africa, like Australia or the Pacific Islands, remained primitive because of lack of connection, quite the opposite to your assertion.

Can you do September 1993? Well ... USENET was awesome. Finger me for my public key.

Adoption is well ahead of IPv5. IPv6 is an LTS version.

So are you are like one of those people who say "All Lives matter", when you hear "BLM" ? :-)