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Comment Meritocracy? (Score 1) 49

Now I know you're an idiot. Any idiot could see that human civilization is nothing like a meritocracy and that it's impossible for it to be.

Human beings form clicks and clans and in groups and out groups and we artificially advantage members of our group.

If we ever stop doing that we will have become something that isn't human anymore. And I don't think we're going to survive long enough to do that. We are on track to hand the nuclear launch codes over to religious extremist lunatics after all.

I want to say that your post is just AI slop but it's so carefully engineered to piss everybody off who would read it that I think you're a real person putting way too much effort into being a shitposter.

Even referencing that stupid spherical cow joke is clearly designed to get a certain class of nerd on your side.

Whatever the case the point of my post wasn't mathematics it was to try and get you to understand that the same trick gets used to control you generation after generation. The fact that you can't understand that is why the human race is doomed.

Comment Re: Missing Rust Language Specification (Score 1) 63

> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?

You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.

Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.

Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.

But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.

Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.

Comment I'm assuming this post was written by AI (Score 1) 67

Because I can't imagine anyone writing that of their own volition.

AI looks like slop because it's just grabbing a bunch of shit and stuffing it all together without any actual creative work.

The prompts have nothing to do with that. You can have the best prompts in the world and the technology is still going to produce slop because it's just slapping together something based on a large data set. There isn't going to be any individual creativity because there isn't any individual creativity it's just a mess of other people's work jumbled together by a computer algorithm.

The result is the most watered down garbage because it's a little bit of everybody from everything mixed together by a computer. It's not just about human creativity it's about individual human creativity. When people talk about the artist's vision that actually matters.

AI is just copying somebody else's work. Worse it's copying the work of a whole shitload of other people together. That's always going to make crap because there's no real effort in it.

All this is a moot point. The real purpose of AI is to replace employees. Everything else is just a goofy tech demo in order to get some data for the long-term goal of eliminating White collar work. Some blue collar work too since this AI technology is being applied to robotics.

And our species is very much not ready for a world where at least a quarter of the population has no purpose and no reason to exist.

Comment Re:What will make up that lost capacity (Score 1) 83

I have a UPS package shipped Overnight/Saturday Delivery on Friday and it now appears to be on a truck near Chicago. It was originally scheduled to transit from South Dakota to New England.

New delivery date is Tuesday. I hope the sender gets his money back!

(I didn't need it that quickly but the sender was making good on a delivery date guarantee, at a loss of his profits).

Comment Re:Remains to be seen... (Score 1) 34

I have a floppy controller on order that doesn't know how to read disks; it just passes through magnetic field data to software which is supposed to be able to reconstruct the disk image.

Hopefully these tapes will be OK to read as long as somebody can build a magnetic read head of the correct type.

Maybe with ML there will be a reasonable chance of reconstructing faded regions. Old audio tape is still mostly fine, so fingers crossed.

BTW, what a great job these folks have!

Comment Re:And this will go on and on. Until? (Score 2) 101

> No need for all that. Either "Judgement is for the other side" or "Case dismissed." Clears the docket, and slows down these kinds of submissions until they're at least doublechecked.

Interesting. I think you've changed my mind about this.

Economic incentives are probably the way to go.

Comment Re:Rediscovering the wheel... (Score 1) 28

> Hopefully there are more relevant "science objectives" than this dead issue.

It's an exoteric story. Really they want funding to build rockets and this is a technology demonstrator.

But there is a theory that the asteroid belt is the former crust of Mars. More data on that would be interesting.

It's of course "widely discredited" but not with a scientific method or anything. Comparing isotope ratios would be fun someday.

Comment Re: It's in the effort. (Score 2) 83

Most of the second guessing of the pilot seems to assume the pilot could press pause and work out the alternatives on a chalkboard for an hour or two and then resume real-time with a solution in hand.

The fact is, it all happened in a handful of seconds. I doubt the pilot even had time to fully assess the problem before hitting the ground.

Comment I suspect they've always done this (Score 3, Insightful) 101

But the courts are paying more attention now because it's ai and it's bad press.

But I would bet money if you did a exhaustive analysis of court filings you would find plenty of made up citations that nobody ever looked into.

Then again lawyers are famous for their honesty and decency so maybe I shouldn't make assumptions.

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