As I said, as your positions get harder and harder to find any support for, your posting has turned increasingly angry. Fun game—go through your last 50 posts and see how many different people you called stupid?

Sure, that's a common usage of the word pledge, but again, it's hardly exclusive. Pledge just don't have the connotation of "charity" in general usage in the United States.

Pretty interesting the Australian English has a very different connotation! Pledge is a common word in the states.

Some American examples of pledge in the public discource:

etc

Gweihir is kind of infamous for refusing to admit that LLMs have any possible usage or that anyone is using them in a productive capacity today. His posts have been becoming increasingly strident of late.

I don't like the term "AGI" because it's still nebulous and means different things to different people. The shifting window of vocabulary meanings in the AI field is rough. In the 1980s people regularly talked about chess as an AI problem. Now you can find plenty of people who say that's not AI. Ditto for Go (once Go became a defeated AI problem, it suddenly is no longer worthy of being considered AI). All the things I learned when I took an AI class ~25 years ago are now often derided as not AI (neural networks, A* and other search trees algorithms, etc).

There's a group of people who want to continue to goal shift until the only goal is "human intelligence" and if it's not human intelligence, it's not AI.

I think the definition of "AGI" = "Ability to learn" anything is close. But, can your average human learn anything? I'm not so sure.

Does it matter if the same AI program can answer math questions (or protein folding, whatever) AND plan a warehouse robot travel route AND summarize legal documents?

For now at least, throwing more people-time, processing time, and processing capacity at these models does seem to make a big difference. I've been playing around with some downloadable models, and this technology is improving so quickly. I can't imagine what it will be like in 2 years or 5 years or 10 years or 20 years.

I would bet on Zuckerberg over Gweihir.

I've seen that. It's pretty fun. I would, unironically, watch that spinoff.

While you can use the word "pledge" to refer to a promised future donation to a charity (see, e.g., "pledge drive"), it's not an exclusive meaning. For native English speakers, I would not say that "pledge" particularly brings up the connotation of charity. Pledge just means to promise or vow something. "I pledge allegiance..." or "I pledge my support for this candidate." Etc.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

They actually normally DO! That's always been one of the big Slashdot slanders of Apple -- that they're not the first mover, they just copy other people but do it really well. (I don't entirely agree, but that's neither here nor there for this conversation.)

Liquid Glass does give me serious Vista vibes, and so far, I don't get it. I've only tried it on one device so far, so I'm willing to give it a shot, but I'm not incredibly optimistic.

It's a real joy to use the old versions of OSX. I miss those days. Aqua was a lot of fun.

I agree. Though I remember at the time one of the explanations was that simpler, flatter designers were more manageable for scalable display sizes, resolutions, DPIs, etc. I'm not sure I entirely buy that.

Ultimately I think it came down to a pissing contest between Apple personalities after Jobs was gone. Jobs was the dictator with a vision who kept all the other creatives in line. Scott Forestall lasted about a year and Jony Ive won that battle (though Ive himself only stuck around, in a partial capacity for another 6-7 years).

I hooked up an old pre-OSX Mac recently. A lot of those programs had really solid, clear designs. The Apple HIG used to be a really big deal. The Liquid Glass rollout feels incredibly rushed and half-assed. It's like since Apple has dropped the ball on AI they felt they had to do SOMETHING quick.

Strong diasgree on that. I’ve had great results from uploading my schema, uploading a query to optimize (multiple joins, multiple subqueries, etc., that kind of thing), describing the output set I want and letting it come up with a query.

I would actually say I’ve had the _best_ luck with SQL.

Yeah, that's what's worked for me in maintenance. I no longer weigh myself every day but I do at least several times a week. If I get too high, I know to slam on the brakes for a couple of days (at least).

My wife, OTOH, she can't do that. Seeing her weight every day emotionally impacts her, and she eats emotionally.

I couldn't agree more. It's a real struggle to avoid crap at grocery stores. If you stick the produce section and the meat sections, you're in good shape. Once you start hitting the prepared foods, the frozen dinners, the candy aisle, the soda aisle, the chips and crackers aisle, it is really very hard to eat healthily.

I read through the rest of the comments under this article and I saw your name pop up frequently. I'm sorry you're having such bad weight and health problems, and I hope you're able to make some progress.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like_peptide-1

NIH https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4119845/

Beyond the scientific facts, if you read anything that people who take these drugs say, you'll find that turning off the "food noise" is perhaps the most central theme. So yeah, GLP-1 drugs do suppress appetite.

I'm not arguing against exercise, but with GLP-1 drugs, you literally do not need to exercise to lose weight.

In my late 20s, I lost about 60 lbs of weight, almost entirely through a small number of dietary changes--zero beverages other than water and unsweetened coffee, zero french fries, zero bagged snack foods, zero going out to eat for lunch. I also practiced intermittent fasting, sporadically, for 24 hours. I didn't change my exercising at all.

Now, since I lost the weight, I've taken up more exercise (bike, jog, lift) and I've maintained a steady weight for almost 15 years now.

Bodybuilders say "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym." They've got a point.