"...  Tech is moving so fast,...". Yes, the gap between ignorance and maliciousness is closing at a rate faster than the speed-of-light. Goto Palantirs' website  1st-page and they will show you their warp-drive ... it's labeled ...   'AI will make all decisions ' .   You will pay them for the hallucination, and no Scotty appears to "beam me up".

Poetry is fun to write ... cogent topics  nest in memory.  The ignorant kill your KARMA;  they only know algorithms. So out you go, cradle to grave just one more name ...

If Palintir don't think a pricey college education is worth paying for, then I guess they don't want to pay for it. College grads pull higher salaries for those extra years of education, whereas highschool grads can be hired more cheaply.

There's a sizable online sentiment that 'blue-collar' (highschool + on-the-job training) has been unfairly devalued, and in other contexts many people seem to agree that college is largely a waste of time. Yet in the context of Palintir, since it is 'evil,' everybody will adopt the opposite opinion immediately and presume that offering workers a job directly out of highschool is abusive.

Right, "fundamentally" nothing is exactly knowable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"People who are scared for their jobs will not innovate "I believe the current industrial employee  model  is that of Stalins WW2 gulags. He sent lots of engineers and scientists to Siberia, with the threat ... if their projects failed they would freeze in the tundra. It was a fear-driven model of innovation -- Stalin loved instilling fear --  and by all reports quite successful in developing new aircraft and light weapons. Modern western capitalists get woodies fantasizing they have Stalins power and drive. A well-maintained modern  (re)public of-course crushes out such scabs and ( sans bank-accounts ) migrates them to China. 

"Unions push the cost up for everyone!" As it should be. Increased worker wages more than make up for the extra expense "entitled" buyers are willing to pay. Those priced out of that specific market ... just don't consume that product --- I mean, you have no RIGHT to consume anything , but subsistence. OTOH increased worker wages means those workers will consume more of their own production ... if the product is worthwhile  --- unlike computer games/most services/EVs. More business for the company means more business for everyone ... I am excluding addictives like sugar/cocaine/"spice" ...

My current washers and dryers are "dump" in that they don't even have sensors.....

I just set the timer on them and hit start...they go through the cycle I set mechanically on the front.

When these go out...I don't want anything fancy...just simple on/off/time and knobs to set the cycles.

Why pay extra....the clothes end up JUST as clean....

Then you are using old water for each drink.

What, pray tell is "old water"?

LOL...I've never heard of water aging before....???

I mean, the only thing I can think of, would be that having water out of the tap for awhile would generally be a good thing.....I learned from brewing beer that if you fill things up out of the tap and let them set overnight, the chlorine will off gas and make your water less chlorinated....

But old water...please give me some details in this and how water ages and apparently goes "bad"?

Maybe they were; at this point they seem to be reduced to trying to invent a more compelling form of interactive pornography that they can sell subscriptions to. Color me underwhelmed.

Perhaps it was referring to golems? That idea dates back to 400-500 BC, although really they behave more like traditional computer programs than anything we'd currently consider intelligent.

Check this out - to transport a pair of shoes from Hong Kong to Rotterdam (18,600 km) via container ship generates 100 g of CO2. Whereas a 20 km trip in a car to get the shoes from the store is 1,800 g of CO2.

https://safety4sea.com/maersk-...

So on a mass-per-distance basis, the container ship is 16,740 times as efficient as a car.

I am not sure exactly how that translates to, e.g., a step van making a couple hundred stops vs. a container ship from China to LA and a train or semi from LA to Phoenix.

But transoceanic shipping is very efficient. True it's still a significant source of pollution, because it transports vast tonnage across vast distances.

Not to mention the whole driver fiasco complete with lawfare.

And now you come, hat in hand, asking for money?

Fuck you, you fucking fuck; fuck fuck.

I happen to be a member of a social club that's organized as a 501-C. I've sent a copy of TFA to the club's treasurer so that she can be on the lookout for any funny business and not be taken unawares. If any of you know about any non-profits that might be affected by this, please give them a head's up!

I don't need an AI to write my code, since I can write code myself. That said, it could be nice to have an AI inspect my code and point out anything it suspects might be a bug... there are already lots of static analysis tools that do this sort of thing and they are great, but I think AI might be able to find different classes of bug that are beyond the capabilities of static analysis.

Going a bit further, what would be even more useful is an AI that can run my program and exercise its GUI (or fuzz its inputs) and monitor the resulting behavior the way a human would, to look for faults during execution. Human-driven SQA is always a lot of tedious work, and a production bottleneck.

You will pay for that battery back-up with acid stains on the floor of the bedroom your daughter grew up in and left empty for college, but expects to be perfect whenever she returns. But,  next time she might bring her purple-haired boyfriend with her, so ... best to buy three acid-lead batteries that fume like Mt Vesuvius.