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Assuming here that you don't live in the US.

Which is?

I think what needs to happen now (not next) is fix the roads truckers drive on. I'm not one one of them but everything in America depends on them and we're making them drive unsafe roads.

Go out in an RV, big truck, or trailer and you'll see what these guys deal with on top of diesel prices, some of which is tax for road repair!

Will everyone stop saying "AI" (2 syllables) and say "Superintelligence" (6 syllables) instead?

We definitely have a system which believes that science solves everything, despite it not being able to create life or even really change how life works in any significant way.

I'm not implying any kind of answer or intelligent design. We don't have an explanation for life and that's ok. But it clearly isn't the domain of science in its entirety.

There's a lot of dangerous infrastructure in America. This is far from the only road that causes accidents and deaths on the regular because it is in inherently unsafe or was designed for different kinds of traffic than it has now.

The fact that this road was built in the previous century makes it part of that second category.

In general, we seem unwilling to invest in American road infrastructure. I'd be willing to bet that potholes, the unexciting normal kind you don't even notice in a car, cause more loss of life and loss of money than any particular dramatic road.

It opens with a sign-in screen and no explanation.

Noam Chomsky is a good person to ask. He spent his career asking that.

This article was written to refute that exact, and incorrect, belief.

For most of human history, it was obvious that life was of a higher order than matter, since the latter cannot be coalesced into the former.

An ignorant kind of scientism, narrow in focus, spent the last hundred years trying to rub out that basic truth and replace it with a system run by scientists, none of whom can make life but many of whom are very good at taking it away.

It's outside its purview, which is the domain of voltage high/low and Boolean logic. Those do not imply, require, or provide thinking.

Sure. Study any basic text about how a processor functions. Now watch a dog learn a trick. There is no correspondence.

It's fun sci-fi to think that people are machines, too. Descartes started it.

The corollary is that when the product gets this big and this good (it's terrific), someone is going to buy it.

It's a sign that the developers built a product with demand.

Three years is long term in the tech and VC world.

At a $300M sale, the project achieved its goal and it's time to exit.

Next they'll tell you they can make life because we're all just an electrochemical soup.

Uh, huh. Sure we are.

So Paul thinks LLMs, think?

We can add you to the list of smart folks who have lost their minds over this topic, and all for a failure to understand the basic computer science on which they're built.

I guess if you get too far away from the metal (and too high up in the boardroom), it's easy to lose touch.

This is just poor human speech and writing, which are everywhere, being parroted back by LLMs. They talk like we talk. And the worse level of speech and grammar in your prompt (and the less information you convey), the worse will be the quality of the output.

Whoever is collecting these is, himself, a poor writer.

Next time sometime gives you an answer or tells a story, see how many "no information" words they add. Lots! Most people's speech isn't information-dense. It's full of junk phrases, stalling techniques, and non-answers.

The article is terrible. The museum might be, too?

So they'll pay a fine. They don't plan to stop being an MLM, which means they will continue to drain the wallets of the vast majority of their people, while pushing a lifestyle that's not achievable (nor even socially or ethically desirable).

If you doubt Amway's power, a key family member was the Secretary of Education! I don't suppose we'll start educating children that all MLMs are scams.

Agreed, as long as the laws you're talking about are the ones targeted at humans.

If people are responsible for AI, then AI regulation is pointless, a case I've made many times.

Typewriter regulation is also pointless and would not have prevented the Unabomber. He preferred an Underwood.

We already have laws against bad human behavior. Trying to blame a machine is another form of delusional anthropomorphosis.

People are responsible for what people do. Not machines. And not corporations.

Elon may "live" in Texas but he didn't do his homework.

I'd be willing to bet the geography won't allow such a line underground. Texas is full of caverns, oil, and underground gas.

This small physical constraint sits on top of (underneath?) the rest of the reasons it's ridiculous.

What social controls? Apple and Google get a cut of all the business that runs through their apps, including gambling apps. This has been the subject of numerous lawsuits.

You don't think the Play Store or the App Store are just giving out those apps and not making money from it, do you?

The app platforms are not only complicitous, they're enabling gambling by allowing these apps at all. It would be very simple to take them all away with TOS that banned gambling apps.

What platform has the ethics to do that? None.

And that's how they get collapsed into a single person.

But it's not the justice system; it's TV. And we have lots of psycho male scammers on TV.

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I'm general, familiarity leads to apathy. When we get used to "bad" feelings, it's easy to keep choosing situations that produce those instead of good feelings.

This is how we get people who "prefer" to be sick, tired, angry, hungry, dirty, afraid, etc. -- all things humans generally don't want.

We can train ourselves to "want" to be sick or angry if we're not careful to steer things the other way. It's much easier to control people who are sick and angry (and sell them things), so most messaging in society amplifies these negative emotions.

Calling this a "tool" is a bit of a stretch. A calculator can be used to divide up a bill, and it doesn't require a login, either.

Apps like this are inventing problems in order to offer a solution. Folks can already split a bill, or they can stop being petty and quit worrying about every dollar between friends and family.

Mitigating and monetizing every human activity through an app is anti-human and unhelpful.

I've found this to be the case also. It's so heavily gated that there's almost no point in bringing up a new project or tool because it will be batted down if I'm the one that wrote it.

HN doesn't have that auto-gatekeeping but has taught me to really soft pedal posts about my own stuff. When I've managed to present it as a useful thing and not just my thing, I've gotten significant and sustained lift here.

Amazon uses a warehouse storage "planning" method looks a lot like this. Items are placed on shelves based on proximity and empty space, not on what the items are.

This "disorganized" warehouse is faster for the robots to access as they simply memorize where each item was placed on arrival.

"Psychological warfare" is a bit of hyperbole and nothing in this short handful of paragraphs suggests anything so severe.

While I also dislike the "all white" look, I don't think anyone is pining for an avocado fridge and brown pile shag, 'cause we already had that.