The show fell off a cliff with Jodie Whittaker and not at all because of her. The first three or so episodes I watched she put on a reasonably good performance. But the material they gave her to work with was just atrocious. Utter crap. Stuff they must've dug out of the very bottom of the "rejected ideas" bin.

The ensemble cast didn't work, like at all. I never cared for any of them even the tiniest bit. The Doctor, the most feared creature in the universe, a being able to rip reality apart and put it back together, someone who can start or end wars with a few words. The Doctor who literally said to the Aliens of the universe assembled above Earth as he announced he'll stand in their way and he has neither a plan nor any weapons, to "do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first." - and they all decided to fuck off instead.

So THAT Doctor suddenly became a bumbling idiot who succeeded only through luck and plot convenience.

So maybe going back to Rose is a chance of a restart. After all, she _was_ Bad Wolf. Though I fear they'll just cheap out with some "oh, I just picked a familiar face at random" bullshit.

I wish, but nah, this is pure SciFi.

Why? Because it's not all in the brain. The brain is connected to the entire nervous system. The "mind-body duality" doesn't exist. You're not a mind that has a body, you're a body that has a mind. We know that the body can survive without the mind (coma patients, some extreme cases of mental or debilitating illness, etc.) - but there isn't one case of a mind without a body.

Even if you could upload yourself to a supercomputer with the same processing power as your brain, I'm pretty sure the first dozens or hundreds of such experiments will go the SpaceX Starship way - lots of fireworks for every tiny bit of ground gained.

I personally think that we should do work on replicating less complex parts of the nervous system first. One, we'll need it if we want to do full mind digitalisation. Two, it can help people today (amputees, etc.). Three, there is already some work with great progress going on.

I double-checked and it's not April 1st.

WTF?

Capitalism is now packaging wage-slavery as a product and SELLING it to us?

I hope the AIs evolve quickly to take over. My hope for humanity is melting faster than the ice caps.

Yeah. Never, ever, do that. I've run a few online communities. Back when your own forum was still a thing and you could survive without being a group on Facebook, a subreddit or a Stackoverflow.

Your most active users aren't always your best users, and they almost always are NOT the ones you want to have as moderators.

If I could do all that again, I would give mod rights to the people who contribute just a bit, but consistently over a long time, and who read more than they write.

Yes, but for that you've gotta do something suspicious first. And that's the point - visiting a Star Wars fan site is not suspicious. Getting e-mails from someone@cia.gov is.

Where have we heard that before? Ah yes. The movie industry once swore in court that not making VHS illegal would kill the movie industry.

So sad that the court decided against them, and we all know the industrial wasteland that Hollywood became and how no movies were ever made again...

The 90s called, they want their parsing problems back, and they were incredily surprised that in 2025 we still haven't solved them.

(especially in HTML, where it's so trivial: & + known list of characters + ; - I mean, the moment you encounter a space you can stop parsing, for example.

Ah, there's your problem. It's managers thinking that the productivity of programmers can be measured in lines of code or some other silly metric.

Speaking about it, that DOES explain why everyone and their dog have shifted to the bullshit "let's put every bracket on its own line" style. More lines. Clever.

I don't think so. And also: I'm old enough to remember at least two times before were AI was "on the brink of revolutionizing everything". I agree that this time we're closer than before, but:

One, AI is still no guarantee to get what you want.
Two, sooner or later people will realize that if you can describe what you want in enough detail for an AI to do it, you could get a human to do it as well.
Three, the immense cost of AI is currently shouldered by a couple companies with deep pockets (or investors with such). Once the hype has gone down and people ask for ROI, prices will raise.
Four, in everything that I've used AI for so far, I would rate its competence level at intern - has some basic knowledge, mostly knows what it's doing, you definitely want to check the output for mistakes.
Five, there are still plenty of creative things that AI doesn't do, or only does in very specific ways. When you've done enough text or image generation, you start to see the patterns. The repetitive outputs. The difficulty of getting the AI to give you a DIFFERENT output once it's gone down one path.
Six, as AI is training more and more on AI output, quality is already dropping in some areas. For other areas, it's a real challenge to find good training data. Many of the coding assistants are trained on StackOverflow and similar sites, and they are good for producing example code, and terrible at producing performant and secure code.

In summary: There are still enough challenges in AI and it's way too early to predict the end of the human race, again.

Someone using AI to write their book probably uses AI as an editor as well.

I've used AI to do proof-reading myself. It's fairly competent at catching simple spelling and grammar mistakes. Other errors are a coin toss. I wouldn't be surprised at all if an AI "editor" missed these.

That's not an AI problem specifically, it's sloppy editing. The same would have happened to these authors if it weren't AI prompts but, say, editor comments. They didn't proof-read thoroughly.

Yes, it betrays that they used AI. But frankly, given that tools to do that are now in pretty much every text editor, it seems that's the direction the world heads into.

My Briefcase was like Dropbox for your 3.5" floppy disks. I think I upgraded to a Zip drive around that time. YIPPEE!

No.

Oh, the sentence went on?

So you don't need a nanny compiler. Fine by me, C and assembler were among the first programming languages I learnt.

But when you follow that up by "and here's our nanny memory leak checker instead..." and you don't notice the irony, I'm not sure if I want to trust you with my pointers if one redirect throws you off...

You finally got it.

Yes, I'm shouting "beware, they are thieves" before they actually took something - because they are, in fact, well-known thieves. This is the thing that's called "reputation" (just adding that since you actually seem to be new to the planet).

If they've done it a hundred times before, it is very likely that they'll do it again. It really is that simple.