"Smart" != "moral". Some of the most evil fucks have been pretty smart. Obviously, to be a smart evil fuck, you have to ignore some things, but high intelligence does not come with the skill to apply it competently and equally to all questions that arise.

Not true at all. LLM-type AI is fare more limited as even the dumbest fuck. The only thing it has is a stellar knowledge base. But actually doing things? Not so good. And understanding things? Zilch.

All the people fawning over LLMs do not really understand them or what they can do. Essentially it is somewhat better search with an NLP interface. Nice, but not a game-changer.

Indeed. As a group, humans are incapable to sanely evaluate individuals. The ones with the most money and power are almost always the scammers and the scum.

I've never seen generators on cell towers, and the batteries last a few hours. They're meant to cover the occasional western world power outage, not a major one.

That crap is not even worth an answer. But thanks for identifying yourself as a clueless true believer.

Pick any two. I guess we know what choice Google made.

Linux?

On the upside, AI lets anyone make a movie.
On the downside, AI lets anyone make a movie.

Including people who have terrible taste in plot, style, and everything else.

There's some genuinely good stuff out there - Gossip Goblin's work for example. But this is....

I'll just say, there's far better things that one could have spent half a million dollars on...

There was no way to know it was a grift. Unless of course you saw every other obvious grift he had run on his followers for years before.

"Business"-oriented people hire not by competence but by fame. One reason they are primarily a problem.

How are you defining "statistical inferences" as distinct from "logical inferences"? If you're defining fuzzy logic (e.g. not necessarily yes-or-no answers but allowing for ambiguity in conclusions), then we can agree conceptually, but your choice of wording is, I have to say, weird if so.

Good point. Obviously, a counter example is very simple in "proof structure", especially as it does not need to tell you anything about what an optimal result would look like.

I guess Mathematicians will continue to have good job opportunities after all.

As to what that LLM does, there are a lot of non-statistical tools it could be using. Obviously, if they tell us, say, "the LLM handed 100'000 possible counterexamples to Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Alpha picked the single one that was not nonsense", that kind of would destroy the picture they are trying to paint of their product. On a related topic, I am beginning to suspect that Claude Mythic may be running very conventional tools to help it find bugs in code.

That seems to be a newer thing. I had some other problems maybe 1-2 years ago and Brave fixed them. I do not mind using different browsers for some specific sites. Still, good to know, thanks.

Yepp, one of the reasons being that POTS will work even during power outages, as long as the central switches are powered. Your VoIP will be down if your house has no power. It probably is more efficient, but that "saving" is also simply shifting some of the power usage to consumers.

You know, the difference between you and me is I've actually asked Iranians I know about Trump's actions, and you haven't because you don't know any Iranians to ask. They are distraught that he's entrenched the regime by being so fucking shit at this. They wanted the regime to be actually gone, not bolstered. They gave him the benefit of the doubt for several weeks, but not any more.

Your last line sums it up perfectly. You find it literally inconceivable that anyone could be anti-regime and yet think Trump has done a shitty job and made things worse. That's because you're a fucking simpleton. Let's see if i can explain things to you with an analogy. Imagine that you have a broken leg and some guy says "trust me I'm a surgeon" but turns out to have actually chopped a leg, and it's the other fucking leg as well, and now infection has set in. You're not obliged to be grateful towards them. You don't have to think they've done a good job, just because you did in fact have a broken leg. You still have the broken leg, but now you're an amputee and you've got an infection. That's the position of Iranians today.