I have completely the opposite experience. I've actually noticed that Win11 seems to carefully manage system load during and after logon to keep the desktop mostly responsive, and it seems to actually delay or carefully sequence the loading of "background" tasks.

I can literally log in, fire up a demanding game and Windows will happily continue "lazy loading" stuff in the background. It might take a minute or two for things like Dropbox or OneDrive or whatever to actually appear, but the tradeoff is you can actually do what you want to do immediately. Windows 10 was similar but it feels like post-logon interactive desktop performance is even more carefully tuned in 11, and it's one of the (few) things that actually feels like a usability improvement.

Of course I meant AlphaFold.

I strongly recommend this video from Veritasium about DeepFold: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP_fHJIYENdI. You might not see AI quite the same way after you watch it.

Why the fuck did he write this? Does he have a humiliation fetish?

Pleasure itself is a result of biochemistry. Endorphins = endorphins; the source makes no difference. In favour of sobriety you could argue the health benefits, the money saved, the drunken mistakes avoided, etc. but proposing that the pleasure from alcohol is a "trick" is an argument that can be dismissed immediately. All of your experiences are chemical.

It's not just that. Bi-partisanship has been eroding over the past 15-20 years to the point where the parties can't even get together on things they agree on. The non-stop mudslinging on social media has turned US politics into a circus and the people who actually want to get things done are too busy staying out of the firing line. Trump's decision to dig in and fill every post with loyalists has only exacerbated the issue.

The solution is not one-party dictatorship. The solution is all levels of government acting in good faith, with civility, and with the interests of the American people foremost in mind.

But some of those businesses belong to Democrats! Such wasteful spending would never be approved by the Department of Grift Enhancement.

"I love stupid people. If it wasn't for the left side of the bell curve, I'd be in jail right now." - Trump, internally

Incorrect. As of a few years ago you can run Windows 3.11 (but not WfW, yet).

FreeDOS' compatibility is still improving and it's quite impressive how compatible it is with the vast majority of DOS games and apps.

Sure... until they just remove them. Nintendo can, and will, at any time, simply remove these games from the subscription service. They're not for "sale" because you're not really "buying" them.

We have limbic systems and hormones and biological needs that all feed into our desires and our personalities and constitute who we are and how we behave in any given situation. Feeling - that is, both receiving and generating internal and external action-drivers - is, in my opinion, the root of consciousness. At least, of a type we can recognise.

By contrast, ChatGPT and all conversational AI are disembodied word-associating machines. They have no desires, emotions or even innate behaviours. They simply write like us because they've been trained on our writing - nothing more.

Bascially, it's impossible to have "will" if you don't feel anything - there's nothing to provide that impetus. And yeah, if we could computationally emulate the entire human body and all its inner workings down to the individual atoms you could probably say there's no functional difference between the consciousness in the emulation and an actual physical human... but we can't, and nothing we have built so far comes anywhere close.

The AI we have now can be useful, it can be impressive, it can appear insightful. It's not conscious and it cannot be. That is - I'm guessing here - centuries away. We can certainly build better chatbots though and gullibles can continue to be astounded by them, and companies can continue making stupid marketing claims about consciousness in AI to milk more investor money.

Why isn't there a -1 Delusional mod you can apply?

Pretty sure Google was just listening to his conversations on his Android device and the information "accidentally" bled over to its co-scientist AI. It's like when you casually mention coffee machines or something with your phone nearby and suddenly every advert you see on every webpage is for coffee machines.

Reporter: "[would you release] the Epstein files?"

Trump: "Yes! Well, no. Maybe. There's a lot of fake stuff there"

If the records are released you can be sure that a certain orange man's name will have been mysteriously redacted from the list.

The original xbox ran a modified Windows 2000 kernel, not WinCE.

You might be thinking of the Dreamcast, which did include WinCE but only a handful of games actually used it.