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> But what happens when a robot can do anything a human can? When a cheap machine can do anything you can do but faster and better, what makes you different from a horse in the 1920s?

I've already started to feel this.

One thing that made us special was our intelligence. We were, and were always going to be (unless some alien form of life arrived), the most intelligent things on earth. Is that still true today?

I'd prefer to see you and others who don't worry about these things attack the argument and not the messenger.

It's frightening to be personally concerned about the possibility of this powerful technology getting out of control and to see little but conspiracizing in response.

Do you have any thoughts on why the concerns of Bill Gates, Geoffrey Hinton, Eliezer Yudkowsky, et al. are wrong? It would make me feel better.

> The problem isn't even the AI, the problem is the people in charge of the AI. This is a fabricated crisis

This is a very confident statement in the face of a purported non-0% chance of human extinction.

For what reasons do you disagree with the dangers of an intelligence explosion, e.g. Geoffrey Hinton and other experts in the field? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/ai-godfat...

I'm curious why you and others seem to write off the possibility so strongly. I would love to feel more confident.

I don’t know how you quantify a very low p(doom), but this is why mine is high enough to worry me.

A million AI monkeys at a million AI typewriters, banging away at random, could do amazing damage.

It almost makes you understand how a well-coordinated artificial superintelligence could wipe us out, eh?

They’re out here solving previously-unsolved math problems. Famous scientists and mathematicians are speaking about their awe and worry. It feels a bit like you’re burying your head in the sand.

The same people you believe are just signaling the market have been offering these same warnings for years. Others around them have been saying it for decades. How do you square that? I’d rather first focus on the reasons why they’re wrong and not first conspiracize why they’re saying what they are.

And if you’re wrong?

Some people believe they’re talking about potentially world-ending situations.

This is unfortunately the market and “capitalism” working as it should. Price goes up, incentive to produce more goes up too.

Do you have a source for any of this?

I’d previously heard 1M a day.

A subjective sample of yourself isn’t representative of the overall economy or the way an economy should be run.

> Most states have a public real time map showing snow plow locations. Ask yourself why is it not a problem when their info is public. From what I’m reading, I imagine it’s because the snow plow trackers don’t individually identify their operators as this seems to.

Alpine + Livewire is the go-to stack for SPA-like Laravel functionality these days. If you "need" JavaScript for form purposes, Filament is well worth taking a look at as well.

We're excited to see how the open-source Lago (https://www.getlago.com/) develops. Does anyone here have experience working with it?

> as the internet is not so accommodating to those who lean right.

Keep an eye on https://twitter.com/facebookstop10 and you may change your mind.

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I'd say it depends. Which "CIA fabrications of today" are you referring to?

Many people likely have something that springs to mind, based on their own existing biases, but that differs between people. When naming a particular "fabrication" you'll probably encounter much more resistance. (Russiagate? HIV/AIDS? The moon landing?)

> There is no single scientific evidence that lockdowns save lives.

I'm all for science, but are you implying China's strict COVID lockdown strategy didn't save any lives?

Something tells me it's not the designers responsible for sensory overload on other news sites.

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There is a service for tracking weight that uses methodology from The Hacker's Diet: https://trendweight.com/

While COVID isolation did a number on my results, it's my favorite weight tracking solution.

> He snagged a Pulitzer for a story about something that never had any primary source, that was entirely fabricated by political operatives then working for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

There was a multi-year government report indicating that "the Russian government 'interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion' and 'violated U.S. criminal law'."

Source and further reading if desired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Russian_interfe...

The Justice Department under former Attorney General Bill Barr tried to determine who had leaked to the reporter, Devlin Barrett, because the information he published was accurate and classified: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/washington-...

I'm not aware of any laws I've unintentionally broken. Which kinds of laws are you speaking of?

> There's a UX problem on mobile. I have to click on something to make the GIF appear. What do I click? A link. Expected behavior of a link is to link me elsewhere, not to show a pop-up GIF, so I'm immediately confused when that happens.

The underlines being dotted, it's closer to an <abbr> element (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...), which does not act as a link.

I disagree. If someone is posting misinformation according to these standards, I'm happy about YouTube taking such things down.

How can we have an informed electorate when misinformation (whether intentional or not) is allowed to propagate? We know at this point that incendiary content tends to spread faster than the often-boring truth. Turning a blind eye is a race to the bottom that encourages political parties and those with an agenda to create more of this misleading content.

They give a list so you have some guidelines. Ultimately, you can argue with the guidelines and generally agreed-upon facts, and I'm sure many will.

I feel like you could ask similar "why" questions about everything design-related. "Why is no one asking why good-looking, modern designs are necessary?"

Many people interpret quality of design as an indicator of content or product quality.

To address your particular question, depth creates a more realistic and visually interesting representation of information on a screen. It can also serve to indicate the priority of information on a page. If depth draws your eye to or away from a particular element, it can help to achieve the designer's goals.

This used to be a bigger deal before HTTP/2 increased the number of concurrent requests to be virtually unlimited.

Unless I'm missing something, it's "optimal" for a site to have many split files. If their JavaScript were 1 file, a change to a single character would mean the need to re-download every bit of JavaScript. Instead, with 96 files, it would mean 95 of them are still cached client-side and only 1 is need of downloading.

The media is not the Pentagon and it's clear that both the Pentagon (per this report) and epidemiologists have been aware of this possibility for years.

I do not understand exactly what you're suggesting here. Is this unworthy of reporting? The implication you're making is that no such articles should come out reporting on this material, since you believe the media made mistakes. Or maybe you're just venting – understandable, but it gives the appearance that you don't believe the article.

I feel like both can be true – the motivation here is likely to both solve a real problem (aging and all that's associated with it) and to make some profit as a result.

This is ultimately a product like any other. Like a SaaS product making any hard process easy, you wouldn't expect the solution to be wholly free. People would still have the option to take a different route (caloric restriction) to accomplish the same, but it's clear many people struggle with that.