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Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 194

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

Comment Re:"Abstraction: Towards an Abstracter Abstract" (Score 1) 111

What we need is a 2nd study, using 400 students, separated into four groups:
1. Using Google ONLY by looking at the 3rd page of results (the first two pages are now taken up with Gemini AI and targeted advertising).
2. Using ChatGPT Only.
3. Using inventory computers in a large metropolitan library
4. Using old fashioned card catalogs and books.

I wonder if we chose a significantly esoteric subject, with a 100 question exam given after a week, if any useful clustering could be detected.

Comment Re:You're half right, Identity doesn't matter. (Score 2) 183

Bigoted asshole or not, he's got a point. You've both got points. Corporations adopted DEI policies across all industries starting about 2018. The problem is that it wasn't enough to push diversity in casting. The industry also pushed diversity in the writer's room. Companies brought in writers that primarily ticked boxes with a goal toward racial, sex, and sexual orientation variety. Writing skill and experience was a distant, secondary concern. As a result, we've all seen a marked decrease in writing quality across the board. Audiences have noticed too and have reacted by doing things like cutting back on theater attendance.

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