I strongly disagree with the comments claiming an “AGI” isn’t possible in the near future, but the premise is silly. The assertion that having additional “general intelligences” will somehow magically mean global domination is baseless.

My disillusionment in Mormonism and subsequent embrace of atheism is what set me on the path that led me here.

Maybe it’s just me but I like to look and feel like my own perception of what is attractive.

I don’t think that anyone’s preferences or identity is any less genuinely theirs just because they were influenced by culture. Moreover, what we find attractive can vary greatly from person to person, even within the binary norm.

We’ve got the University of Michigan here in Ann Arbor, Michigan State University is in Lansing. Very distinct and unique names /s

But yeah, checks out. Very much an affluent “middle class” city. The genocide in Gaza has stirred militancy in the student population here and in the surrounding area, Biden is not popular.

I cut out carbs and started hiking but I didn’t cut out all of my “vices.” Caffeine and the occasional shot of liquor, sex, video games. Way too much YouTube, the most pernicious of all.

Watching the weight go down on the scale also helped form a positive feedback loop.

It gets easier after a month-ish and you’ve somewhat adapted, but yeah it’s a struggle. I completely fell off when lockdown started years back.

Well for cellphones I was more thinking photography, audio EQ, voice commands, search, navigation, etc. Any problem that isn’t easily formalized and handled by traditional coding.

That’s gonna be a lot of wet Astrophysicists. Also anyone with a cellphone, really.

Yeah, I read the comment. The thesis of the title isn’t supported by the article, which makes for a confusing read.

That’s not based on the article is it? The article seems to attribute growth primarily to the war economy.

Not only is it not Linux, but the operating system is closed source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS. According to the article it’s built on top of “OpenHarmony,” but that does little to assuage my disappointment.

Yes, in that it uses the Linux Kernel. It’s not typically considered a Linux distribution because most everything else in the OS is custom and Google-suffused. In particular Android lacks GNU libraries and tools.

Which is doubly worse because those higher-level libraries are black boxes, and you can’t always fix things that arise inside of them easily.

If by “higher level” you mean something like Java libraries, I’d say the opposite is true - at least if you don’t have the source for a Java class it is trivial to decompile and have something immediately readable. Can’t say the same for something like a dll originally written in C++.

https://archive.is/vJlze

https://archive.ph/Iwvfl

• old webpages (like from the 2000s) are fast and snappy
• new webpages take much longer to load

Modern webpages are less like a page and more like a full blown application. If you’re not careful you’ll get an unoptimized mess, which is exacerbated when you put a bunch of ads on top.

That being said I don’t have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

Getting them to do anything other than spit up probabilistically correct information and sentences would require them to have comprehension, not just associations between strings of words.

I would argue that associations between pieces of information is the cornerstone of how you form comprehension. While I agree that the technology is somewhat overhyped, the fact that you can instruct models to perform arbitrary tasks that the model was not specifically trained to do is evidence of some level of “comprehension.”

While I appreciate his thoughts on MMT, I am generally wary of his analysis; 1Dime has previously defined “Petite Bourgeoisie” as “high income earners,” which is a red flag for me.

Playing devil’s advocate - it looks like the main advancement made by SpaceX is the reusable rockets. Do you think this has a material benefit to space travel going forward?

In terms of the real economy, I would think this is beneficial.

Devil advocacy aside, I’m skeptical that reusable rockets should take priority over other possible areas of advancement; and of course, the inefficiencies and waste of the private sector should go without saying.

I think you might want to rephrase that. The plan isn’t really to “release contaminated water,” but rather treated and diluted water.

Leftist spaces are also more likely to express backlash at anything that may contaminate the environment, with good reason. You need to consider your audience, and consequently, your rhetoric.