What's the population size that these 10 are extracted from? In an above post it's claimed that one was a guy that studies meteorites, and another was a nuclear physicist, so if the that's the range, it implies a pretty large population size.

Given the current government, I don't find that evidence of anything except that somebody in government doesn't like them. Perhaps evidence will show up at the trial, if they actually follow through.

They aren't bullshit concepts, but they also aren't even nearly practical now. Give it time. The Dyson sphere (practical variation) would need at least several centuries to be practical, and even then I think topopolis is a better approach, but it's not a bullshit concept. The "space AI" probably needs sustained space-based industry to become practical, and that, itself, has a few problems to overcome, but it's reasonable eventually.

It is at best a conjecture. Which is just half a tic above informed guess, and only a full tic above wild ass guess.

Hypothesis in the formal sense implies (or should imply) testability of some sort.

That argument isn't logic, though, is it?

You say that before AI, people still shot people. And after AI, people still shot people.

So it's not AI that's shooting people.

But then you jump into the McDonald's analogy which is implying that the guns (that were around before AI, and still are) aren't to blame either.

So there's no logic in lumping those two together by opposite arguments.

Now... you can say that PEOPLE are to blame, and that's fine. And people existed before AI and after AI.

But if the person who does it is to blame, and LEGALLY a human advising how to do that would ALSO be to blame (e.g. someone goading a mentally-incapable person to commit an atrocity on their behalf, which happens more than you think! Think child-soldiers, suicide bombers, etc.)... then there are PEOPLE to blame, not just the person.

In this case, those people are doing so via the use of a tool, the same as the gunman. Whatsapp isn't to blame if you want to plan an atrocity via Whatsapp, so the AI isn't the problem there. It's the people BEHIND the AI services. Because, to my knowledge, the Whatsapp software has never SUGGESTED to people that they should commit atrocities.

Either AI is a tool - and the creators and users are responsible for that tool. Or it's not a tool but a "person", and that way madness lies.

But if I wrote a bit of software that, say, taught you how to commit atrocities... even if I wasn't there when you ran it and learned how to do so... I'm pretty sure that I'd be in BIG TROUBLE. Especially if, for example, I was charging money for that software.

"Lug around"?

It goes into a rucksack.

Like I say, I used to carry a 19". That also went into the same rucksack.

And I don't mean a huge "hiking" thing, I mean... literally just a small bag that every commuter is carrying, the kind of thing you have your kids put their books into to take to school.

I've used it on planes, I've taken it abroad, I've taken it to people's houses... it's not big at all. This is precisely my point. 13" is the kind of thing that, working IT in a school, I give to the kids to take home. They all carry them home in their little bags, as little kids (e.g. ages 10/11), back and forth every day. Hell, I rejected 10" / 11" Chromebooks/laptops for them BECAUSE of that... the difference in size/weight is minimal but it means they aren't all squinting at the screens all day, and they are also often elbow-to-elbow in the classrooms.

Hell, mine has the RTX 5070 module, so it's more "sticky-outy" than the normal 16, but only by an inch at the back. It just slips into a "school" laptop bag I got from a vendor... 15 years ago? Maybe even 20? I'd had to do the maths.

The Thinkpad T43 released in 2009 had a 14.1" screen, ffs.

As an owner of a Framework 16, I honestly don't know how people are using a 13" screen in this day and age.

I'm the last to care about 4K resolutions, etc. and in fact am always moaning about such things because I'm an old fogey apparently, because I can't SEE that damn resolution.

But 13" is pathetic. I can cope with 16". My last laptop before this was 19".

I just hope this doesn't mean that we're going to end up with all kinds of "variations" of the laptop that it becomes a bark to find replacement parts for.

Try a different USB-C cable. Either that or you have one of the dodgy models of Sandisk SSD that's about to die. Maybe a good time to buy a new one.

But the company providing the technology also has some agency in the matter. How much it's reasonable to argue about,

It's worse than the halting problem, because different cpus will have different errors and error handling.

You mean just like lawyers and programmers?

I wouldn't call that "supporting". He plays the game by donating to both sides, so that whoever wins, they see him as an ally. And in particular, Trump responds to obsequiousness. There is a perception that by giving money, businesses can curry favor. Not saying that doing so is a good thing, but it definitely should not be interpreted as evidence that the business leaders are necessarily in favor of Trump's policies.

• On the one hand... "dynamic innovation" reads fairly sarcastic
  • On another hand... some people really have a raging hard on for capitalism
    • On yet another hand... the giant loopholes in this law mean people Maryland might be the first place businesses look to implement surveillance pricing.

Not to mention a Time Machine clone for local NAS storage. I don't want my phone backed up in anybody's cloud. I use iCloud because Apple makes it d**n near impossible to back up locally except over a wire.

Putting a hardware guy in charge of Apple might help the company return to its roots as a hardware-first company. They've been so distracted by silliness like trying to squeeze more money out of the App Store, iBooks Store, etc., resulting in fines and antitrust decisions going against them in the EU and the U.S. on so many occasions, mostly because the company has strayed too far away from its core mission — to make great hardware and build operating systems to support that hardware and produce a great user experience.

Build a great product, and everything else will follow naturally.

To be fair, that's nothing against Tim Cook. He always struck me as having a good head on his shoulders and being generally a decent human being. And he held the company together through a tough transition, losing one of its founders. That's not an easy task.

But Mr. Ternus has, in some ways, an even tougher job, showing the markets that Apple is more than just a company that sells phones. I don't envy him. But I do look forward to seeing the direction that he takes the company.