To be fair, if any of the major cloud providers went down, pretty much all business, whether their coders need the internet as a reference or not would be S.O.L. So this isn't limited to ChatGPT specifically. It does speak to the vast dependency of our economy on our tech platforms though.

No I'm saying that if the only evidence you have, of anything, comes through a simulation, your only evidence is useless. Because there is no reason for anything you get through the simulation to conform to reality. You can't even know that there are such things as 'laws of physics' if the only way you know about them is what you experience within the simulation. You're not thinking basically enough. The fact that we know there is anything at all, that something exists, is only because the sim tells us. So we couldn't trust that info itself.

I like it the way it is now. It's infinitely better than ChatGPT and/or raw Google. But if they start using Ads, I'm out. I am paying a monthly subscription, because I felt that was better than the distraction and extra navigation caused by Ads. If they put those back in, why would I pay them again? I wouldn't. Stay ad free for paying subscribers, or else, perplexity!

The reason I pay perplexity $20/month is because they do not show ads and they don't muck up my rankings with promoted ads. The second they do that, even one time, it's over and I'm gone. I know I wont' be the only one.

If you were really inside a computer, you couldn't reason about that fact, at all. How would you know that there are even such things as computers in the first place? Only via the simulated input you get from yours, supposedly, so therefore anything and everything you know about the world would be 'simulated' and thus cannot be used as a basis for reasoning about it. Even the rules of logic are only revelatory to you, so there is no way for you to use them objectively.

I love when people make technological prognostications like this, assuming that nothing will change and that everybody will continue to use the same algorithms they always have been that are just as energy and hardware hungry as they are now. 10 years is a long time to come up with something new. I'll bet we see something new before that

As for using boron and expecting nuclear things to happen, there is something similar that is already a thing. It's called boron-neutron capture therapy. It involves a chemotherapy medication that is not yet active. It incorporates boron in its structure, but is not actually active until the boron captures a neutron and transmutes into carbon. The idea is to inject the medication then aim a neutron beam at the tumor. The substance is transmuted at the beam and becomes active - but only there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

So transmuting boron really is a thing. Whether it captures a proton as easily as it captures a neutron is another question.

The moral of the story then is: don't comment on your official anything from a personal account and you can block whomever you like. If you're an official, then create an official account and comment from there, but you can't block anyone. Seems dumb, but ok.

I've had jobs I hated too. It's a fact of life. There is no inherent responsibility of an employer to make a shit job palatable. There's a reason they are paying someone to do it, and it's because they aren't doing it themselves. Many times that could be because the job sucks. It's still a pay opportunity. What next, are we going to bitch that sewer workers don't like their jobs either? GTFO

Imagine if you invented something only to be told by a judge that you didn't. (Not saying that's what happened here.) What recourse would you have? I guess if you need to document that you did something, you should document that you did it. Preferably in a way that can be verified later.

I recently read where the majority of the microplastics that we're finding every, including inside our tissues, in placentas, and such is coming from. Tires. Perhaps the car really is killing us, and the US is more in love with cars than almost anywhere. I wonder what these stats are like in Germany, possibly the only place more car-happy than the US?

I have no problem at all with teachers using tools to help cut through the drudgery. But, they had better damned well make sure it isn't saying stupid crap before they return it to the students. That's the actual least they can do.

We're dangerously close to a point in the world where we will not have access to TSMC chips anymore. China will own that place one way or another, and if there's a war to protect it, China would just take the fabs off the map for us. So IF you want the chips, you MUST build the fabs. Otherwise, quit complaining. Where's the breathless takedown of all the dirty energy consumed by the Tyson Chicken Nuggets plants? Nothing? Right. It's a political hit from somewhere, for some reason, trying to make AI companies look bad. Energy is one problem here, but it's the LEAST of the problems we're facing in this situation. The reason that we need to make plants here is because the others are in danger and those chips don't just power fancy job-stealing AI, they power everything in our lives, from the remote control on our TV, to the wastewater treatment plants that we clean the water we feed our kids. So get real about this, and do it now.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug.