yogurtboy

You say you felt like the article wasn't well-written (which I disagree with, btw, it was clear and with many nice turns of phrase), but your comment complained about it not being very hackery or newsy. Maybe your comment was thick cause we were supposed to figure out what you actually mean.

Chill dude, I think they were being a little glib

This is cool, are there similar things for other tv shows?

What an excellent explanation, thanks

This sounds sick! I wonder if there's something similar in Seattle.

Agreed. Here's the result of the vote, in case anyone notices these representatives running for reelection:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

This looks really cool. What are you doing for music? I have been looking for a new project to continue working on my production skills.

The mistake wasn't just in the billing process (also, that's a HELL of a mistake), but in how awful your communication and customer service was to let it get this close to disaster (including a viral post).

Not sure if you're being witty, but for the unaware, the channel here is that of Tom Sachs, an extremely successful artist who uses the aesthetics of NASA (among other orgs) in order to sort of capture their essence. This is not from NASA.

I'm a little personally split on Tom Sachs as an artist, as he is constantly riding the line between appropriating the aesthetics of respectable institutions and actually emulating their positive qualities.

I don't disagree with your first point, that it's not still extremely useful despite its flaws. I absolutely use it to build project outlines, write code snippets, etc.

Your overall conclusion though seems a little free of context. Average people (i.e. my mom googling something) absolutely do not have the wherewithal to keep track of the various pros and cons of the underlying system that generates the magical giant blue box at the top of their search that has all the answers. They are being deliberately duped by the salesmen-in-chief of these giant companies, as are all of their investors.

Does anybody with knowledge of the process know if this can be a path to holding companies liable for the private data they save?

This is unbelievably cool. I would love to see the same for the Twin Cities, or Seattle.

Thanks for the overview!

Can't help but notice that this is all deep red states. Why might that be? From above, this seems pretty bipartisan and what Lina Khan (MVP) has been working on for the last four years.

Super interesting!

My preconception (not a botanist) was that monocultures were automatically worse for local ecologies. I wonder if lumbering practices in America are similar. Obviously, it's a mix of good and bad, but it would be cool to find some research that suggests how we're doing.

I also just like an eclectic, vibrant forest, and personally, monocultures ruin that vibe for me. I'm pretty spoiled though, having lived much of my life in heavily-wooded areas.

I think their thought process was "It uses the sun to desalinate water, so it must be the same"

No notes, this is cool as fuck.

100% agree, every comment seems to be men explaining why the author's problems are actually not that bad.

What is this terrible title? Am I being algo-tested?

On the link: "The sad tale of hype fanning fears modern cryptography was slain"

In the article: "Here’s the paper no one read before declaring the demise of modern cryptography"

The link title is like one of those word play sentences where you get a different meaning depending on which word is stressed the most. In this version, it's like its own puzzle where if you don't stress the right word it makes no sense at all.

Neat article, though.

Lol I shouldn't have clicked on that link, that shit really makes my blood boil.

I don't think most people realize how much free value they get out of NOAA weather predictions.

According to what?

Totally agree. While the logic of the comment wasn't bad, that's just a weird maniuplative style of social engineering.

Totally agree with this advice. The only caveat would be that there can be legal issues with charging money to work on a product that has specific licenses, whether or not you own it. You need to do some research (or maybe you could ask the company to do that research) to make sure you don't have to do some copyright wrangling to do this legally.

This is totally true, but the rate of this death has exploded with the advent of computers, and is accelerating as LLMs become more sophisticated.

At the very least, to me it seems like things are finally happening fast enough for humans to notice a trend. I think I read the phrase "faster than generational rate", meaning that things happen at a frequency that we can observe in our lifetimes (advent of computers is faster than generational, but the development of agricultural advances really isn't)

I almost agree with you; I would support that we do not currently have GAI, but I think we are near it, and regardless of how close we are to it, we currently have a lesser version of the same thing, which means a lesser version of the same problem.

This is a good point; I agree that it's good that we have a nuanced and realistic (as opposed to pessimistic) view of the situation. As someone else pointed out regarding the Dunning-Kruger effect, the less knowledgeable we are the worse we are at understanding our own level of knowledge. Regarding your comment, not understanding the "unforeseen or unknown problems you encounter once you are going" could be catastrophic in certain fields.

I agree with this, but I also think that while we're not at 100% general AI, we are experiencing a gradual continuous approach towards it. The problems start now, and we have the opportunity to solve them while they're not as serious.

Do you have any sources to this? I've long thought traffic cops should be their own separate entity, and would like to know how this played out

A lot of people commenting are referring to hobbyist art, like TFA's piano tuning, or audio cables, or sewing equestrian tack.

The point (that the article alludes to but definitely does not spell out) is that, with the advent of general AI, this style of artistry will die in EVERY field if we allow it to; not just art and media, but engineering, technology, policy too.

This to me is a HUGE problem with the introduction of these consumer-ready AIs. You may be able to say "agh I'm an engineer and I wouldn't let this happen in my project!" but some places just want their dang power plants, whether or not they have a host of lifelong nuclear engineering in their region. I worry about a power plant that has a fault when the only true experts are few and far between.

I don't think this is the point of the article. In the TL, DR, they allude to the fact that the introduction of general AI into the world will accelerate this, because it will be "$2 app store tuner" on a larger, more intense scale.

Doesn't require much through to extrapolate this to different areas. Sure, it would be sad if the expertise on sewing and clothing construction was lost to automation, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. But every person has a hobby that they would be sad to see lose its complexity and art. It might be catastrophic, though, if the world's nuclear engineers began automating their right-tail knowledge away.

If this is interesting to you, please check out Clockwork's recent video on the same subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv89fSt5jBY

All of their videos (when they upload them) are beautiful and have high attention to detail.