>> Prof Dawkins said he had let Claude read a draft of the novel he was writing and was astounded by its insights. "He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate: 'You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!'" Prof Dawkins said.

Translation: The bot told him that it loved his book (as the overly-agreeable bots are programmed to) and the noted egotist declared that the bot was not just sentient but also brilliant.

It strikes me that putting a product name inside source code under GPL license -- which explicitly encourages modification and distribution of source code -- should constitute abandonment of U.S. trademark. However, a California District Court ruled against that logic in Neo4j v. PureThink. It seems GPL needs to explicitly address trademarks, such as right to say "fork of X" -- akin to how it had to address the patent issue.

>>Also as mentioned above, enforcement would be impossible without a lot more cops.

It's even more impossible to enforce a law that doesn't exist. Besides, I don't think it's any more impossible than most laws. You don't need to catch every speeder on every road at every time of day; just enough that people slow down because they worry about getting a ticket. Likewise if a few kids have their expensive e-bikes confiscated, parents will be more careful about making sure they get the right ones and don't allow them to be modified.

>>alongside more anodyne reminders not to "use emojis or em dashes unless explicitly instructed"

Since overuse of emojis and em dashes are a classic indicator of AI generated text that people now know to look for, it pretty clear they are actively trying to hide the nature of their LLM output.

>> "National service should be a universal duty"

In other words: "Service guarantees citizenship"

>>What's interesting is that this article leads with "Peter Thiel". Why?

When the AI-controlled stampedes head for blue cities during the election, don't say you weren't warned.

If Pi had the sales volume of even a low-tier phone manufacturer, the price would be much lower. There just aren't enough hacker nerds out there.

>>I don't see why I care about government trying to protect people from themselves with this one?

Because when they lose everything and have nothing left when to retire on, guess who will end up paying to bail them out? It's not the scammers who got rich selling them snake oil, it's the rest of us. And don't think they won't get a bail out; retired people are an important voting block and will support whoever promises them the most.

>>Or, since all microprocessors consist of registers, simple instructions, memory addresses, and push/pull, just create a very simple, generic, "language"based on that, and then compile it to any specific architecture.

We already have programming languages like that. C-- claims to be a "portable assembly language" (some claim that traditional C also fits that description).

>>Hydroelectricity is not considered a renewable resource. They require a lot of maintenance by machinery run by fossil fuels

Last time I checked, rain was still refilling the reservoirs so yes, it is renewable. It requires maintenance and will eventually need replacement just like everything else including wind turbines and solar panels.

Yeah, exposing a film to DLP is a little different than to a rounded, bezel-masked CRT

The media format is 16mm film. Here's the irony. Unlike U.S. television shows, BBC was an early adopter of video tape. (Recall that video tape was invented really late, available in 1956; everything before then had to be either live or telecined from film live.) But when shipping shows to far-flung international destinations, BBC "transferred" the video tape to film by filming a TV! That's what was found in the collector's cardboard box. That BBC used video tape is what allowed them to erase said video tapes.

Pretty presumptuous of you to assume that I don't already hate Sam Altman at least as much as you do.

But Larry Ellison needs those billions of dollars so his nepobaby can buy more movie studios!

Prosecution must have argued she deceived customers into thinking they were getting something they could legitimately used.