Dune isn't really a story that translates well to a visual media.

Have to totally disagree on that front, especially after watching the recent movies.

Both Dune 1 and Dune 2 have so many amazing visuals...

Yes it is a highly political story but you can indicate those aspects visually which I think the new movies do a good job of.

I asked an LLM (doesn't really matter which one, they are fail in this same way) for advice on how to load a specific file type, it gave me three possible packages to use to be able to land the file...

But not one of them actually existed. When pressed further on one of the frameworks that didn't exist, it doubled-down and gave me a website for the package - which did not exist.

And that led me to think, maybe I should build out that package. Not in order to create malware as described here, but because you already know some people in a similar situation will be directed right to your package of that specific name without having to do anything!

So it's pre-made marketing just waiting for a product.

Hear me out. There are high res cameras all over the airport. The ticket scanner at TSA is connected to a network.

I'm talking more the area outside the security zone where you can go without a ticket.

But you are right that it's pretty meaningless you can opt out of Facial scanning to enter an area where they already know way more than most people about you.

Right to refuse Face scanning just means they finally perfected other recognition models, like gait tracking, and want to make you think you can visit an airport without being identified by automated systems.

Wear masks all you like, it's no use anymore. You will be identified and cataloged.

Advanced search engines will not help you. The AIs are already writing junk into the very web pages that your search engine will read.

I'm thinking of advanced search engines that are only indexing real documents you have written by humans, many places for example that offer SDKs have extensive documentation that today at least, was all written by humans... so a classic search engine that only referenced that catalog for example would still be reliable.

Otherwise I agree with you, and in fact if you think about it Google is in terrible danger here - because they are faster at ingesting and have broader reach they are the MOST affected by AI answers polluting the input stream, as they absorb the nonsense faster than anyone!

In the past month or two, for the first time EVER, I actually had to turn to Bing for answers because google was not finding what I wanted to find - but Bing did!!!

Wish I had thought to mention that as probably only you will ever see this response. But I just had to at least bring it up as an anecdote to support your point.

All of these boomers which have given me everything good I have in the world and a safe place to indulge myself

I can understand your offense at this, but please know I myself am a boomer as well, and that what happened there is I wrote "doomer" and auto-correct altered it for me.

Doomers have never given us anything good, only fear.

The "training" materials are effectively a closed loop of reinfocing the correcteness or flaws of the training materials,

I totally agree with this, in fact I think general LLMs will get much worse over time because of this.

However domain specific LLM's carefully trained not on their own bullshit, so to speak, might offer quick insights into a body of understanding.

I am actively fighting the use of anything that might suggest these programs are anything other than pattern matching algorithms

I see, have to agree that is a really great point. I will stop using that term myself as I agree with your overall goal.

I think I would maybe say, malfunctioning with sometimes backwards output.

In actual reality, a nuke can just blow up once.

WHy mucst nuclear haters be so ignorant as to science?

If you knew anything about them at all, you would realize nuclear power plants of this design cannot "blow up".

But then I guess you prefer to remain stupid and wrong instead of getting with the program and actually trying to save the planet.

Still safer and cleaner than all those broken solar panels. Read the article, lots of fun toxic substances now under concern for polluting the area.

They malfunction but I would say they are especially prone to malfunctioning in a way that people have termed "hallucination", where the results have made-up facts.

All of these boomers say we need to limit AI research because AI will "kill us all".

But here we find the real danger - people who wantonly deploy AI without realizing the limits it has, including hallucination of answers, AI as we know it today, should never exist in the role they have placed it in, given how it can simply make up information.

Instead some kind of advanced search engine should hewn been applied to look up online docs, or else the AI should have been heavily constrained to have to point to origin sources with a secondary system deciding if the origin source agreed with what it said.

Until we are anywhere close to eliminating hallucination we must allow for open ongoing research, and be more cautious about rolling out AI in positions of public trust.

Restarting the plan only works with government subsidies and continued government subsidies

Solar and Wind entered the chat

BOOM

They don't live without subsidy and massive government expense either. The difference is that the nuclear power plant will continue to provide power for decades going forward, when the solar and wind farms would have had to be replaced four times over before the nuclear plant shutters.

Being anti-nuclear is simply the most retarded possible stance at this point in time.

I personally disagree and would rather see the money spent on wind and solar.

Solar might end up being a lot more expensive than nuclear - weather events can break solar and wind farms, will do nothing to nuclear plants.

For the amount of power it will supply, certainly this particular pre-existing plant is VASTLY cheaper than new wind/solar.

This is literally a reactor from the '70s so you can't even argue that modern tech makes it safe.

That's a really stupid argument since it was actually RUNNING JUST FINE from 70's onward until recently when they shut it down, it's proven to be safe.

Nuclear plants do not make any financial sense.

It is your LCOE lies that do not make any sense. If you decide you can run a nuclear plant for decades longer, what does THAT do to LCOE? Why look, since all of the LCOE being high for nuclear is based around construction costs, it massively lowers LCOE when you extend the life of a plant - or re-open one. Because simply running a nuclear plant day to day is incredibly economical compared to solar or wind...

Re-opening the plant was cheaper than any solar or wind system that would produce an equivalent amount of power, over the many decade remaining lifespan of the plant.

If it was really an error around landing, you are not nearly high enough for a parachute to do anything but cover your mangled remains after the crash.