It looks more like the usual recipe of: trying random things, having no idea whatsoever why something was popular, then when something works beating it to death with repetition and increasing political correctness until even the hardest core fans wont watch it, then reluctantly canceling it.

> That's not a "greed is good" Gordon Gekko speech

You say this, but then you say this:

> but because money is how we keep account of the things we do eat

If you think people should be able to coordinate the economy and grow/create the things they want, such as food, what you are saying is that greed is good. Wanting to be alive and having things to eat is greed; all wants and "needs" are just greed after all.

Its a political question; given the earths unknown but certainly finite ability to support human life, should people's wants and needs all be thrown equally into a market competition to see what gets satisfied, or should some learned elite decide the questions of whose wants to live are allowed and whose are not.

> At some point they will run out of other people's money to spend on energy solutions that can't make a profit ... but there's politics getting in the way.

Both of those statements are true; what you dont seem to realize yet is that you cannot both want to fix the "climate crisis" and want to believe in basic economics: that people's wants should be served by a market. You have to discard one or the other.

There is a way to us DNN/LLM "AI"s correctly; use them like a search engine.

Ask a hyper specific question, and scrutinize the answer given thoroughly.

In the same way that crowdsourced intelligence made google a useful tool for search, and social media created a great pool of questions and answers for that search to run over, DNN's are just an extension of search.

They are a wonderful improvement in the areas of (1) parsing the query and (2) re-jiggering the resultant hits.

(1) They can decode the user's question more accurately, and get a more searchable rewording of what the user is really looking for. Previous incarnations of search really needed you to find a magic word that matched perfectly to get the hits, and when you were using common words it became near impossible. But large language models seem able to do that with a much higher accuracy rate, and dont get hung up without magic keywords or magic phrases.

(2) Instead of merely presenting a raw list of sources, the LLM's actually read the pages, and try to parse out the specific bits you are searching for and ignore the rest of the page. They can also, to a limited extant, specialize the answer to match the query, based on interpolation of the page content. Again this is something that was previously impossible, and saves human time.

I would say, with judicious use of a search-engine DNN/LLM, any programmer should expect perhaps a 1% to 2% productivity increase on average.

Any programmer who tries to ask it to write code or solve problems will likely eat the worm, and suffer a 20%-50% decline in real productivity. Hopefully, any programmer caught doing this would face some kind of disciplinary action.

> It's not intelligence. It's processing.

Its like a souped up search engine;

Its very good at not only finding the answers to a query, but recognizing the question even if it is worded differently than it has been in the past, finding the existing answers, and presenting those answers even if it has to tweak or assemble or rearrange them.

What it cannot do is actually solve novel problems missing from its training set, any more than a search engine can find an match for a document that does not exist.

Exactly; if their plans were not profitable without endless supplies of tax money flowing into their pockets, they never really intended to build anything.

The established theory held. The gold exploded as expected.

The only interesting thing about this finding seems to be that they have a very fast thermometer, so fast it could get a reading of temperature within the trillionth of a second window as the gold was in the process of exploding.

Also, can anyone envision a "spaceflight" application of this? I wasnt aware speedy thermometers were a major barrier to space flight development.

if a hackathon amounts to gluing together a hosted 3rd party api with python... and only using its canned features in the most trivial way... it wasnt much of a "programming" contest in the first place.

It almost seems more like an advertisment for a hosted web service ... turns out thats exactly what it was...

> Every doctor youâ(TM)ve met could probably become a software engineer. Same for most lawyers.

I dont know how many doctors or lawyers this guy has met, but I'm guessing zero.

I have yet to find a single doctor or lawyer who could learn to code.

The sun is hurtling around the solar system at ~230 kps (relative to the local standard rest frame), but so is the asteroid.

Since both objects can be considered to be orbiting the milky way at the same speed, we generally consider that speed to be zero for the purposes of comparison, and only compare the two objects motion relative to each other.

Its actually very good news that CO2 is up. We should be hoping for ~1000ppm, which would make the earth absolutely lush and gardenlike.

> Google Deepmind has a definition for AGI,

Thats not a definition, its just a set of subjective heuristics for measuring. And its not even as useful as the basic turing test, which is a much more concise yardstick.

Definitions of AI all seem to come down to "we'll know it when we see it" which is the exact same thing as saying "we have no idea what it is"

lol, no, unicode is not broken. Human languages are just complex things, and there is no universal way to upper/lowercase things.

Changing the case of a string is language specific, and thus should not and cannot be well implemented at this filesystem level, because a file system should work for any language.

Linus is right.

> So Signal knows where you are, at what time, and your phone number.

exactly; its a mass invitation to get spied on while thinking you are secure.

Signal also has truly terrible user identification design, as the recent war planning leak shows. Instead of requiring in person exchange of certificates, and having any kind of external certificate validation system, its basically "blindly trust someone based on their phone number".

i dont think there is any safe way to operate signal, due to the lethal combination of closed source parts, centralized servers, and extremely bad user identification and authorization practices.