Yeah, I think ultimately school is less about teaching you subjects and more about just teaching you to learn. Most people will never remember the history they learned in grade school, but maybe they will learn when things are happening in the world, to go back to history books and see if any previous time repeated this same situation. Also any job without step by step instructions require the employee to keep learning new things and how to apply them, hopefully they learned to do this in school, rather than just regurgitating facts.

I came for this post and did not leave unsatisfied.

I wish, I fell like the AI is more likely to figure out how much Arsenic improves the flavor of the coffee.

I've worked those glorified factory work jobs. Create a test based on requirements that is little more than translating human written text into code. Rinse and repeat over 5000 requirements. It isn't mindless, you have to understand what you are supposed to test and ensure you create the appropriate set of cases to get desired code coverage, but it is not particularly creative. That doesn't mean that there isn't creative work, which I've found since I moved on from the just get a paycheck phase of my life.

That has been my approach to weight maintenance. When I get above a certain weight the food goes away for a while and I just live with hunger pains. Some days I can't tolerate it but I can for enough days the weight is gone shortly and I allow myself to increase what I eat again. Exercise definitely has an impact, and seems good for maintenance, but for weight loss it seems less helpful than serious calorie reduction. This approach may not work for everyone, when I'm particularly stressed out it is much harder to stick with.

It depends on your definition of the touring test. If you want something that can speak like a human and mimic it, we are there. If you want something that can act like an expert in the field and converse with an expert in the field, hallucinations mean an LLM is going to act like a very confident liar to any expert. If we want AI capable of problem solving and reasoning, it isn't hard to show we really are not there yet.

I've been using AI quite a bit for a writing editor, though everything it suggests needs heavy editing, but it works better than me rereading it over and over again. The biggest problem is the AI always fawning over what I asked it to review. It takes a fair bit of digging through the almost sycophantic content to get the actual critique from the AI, even after asking it to stop flattering me a few times. Maybe some people will like this but it doesn't fit what I want from a friend.

Trump Is a Gold-Plated Security Nightmare

Sorry, couldn’t help myself after seeing that title.

I usually buy fairly new indie games that run great on old machines. However I will admit that most of the games I play were not actually made this decade...

Yep, my 10+ year old desktop still handles most of the indie games I like to play, even fairly new releases. Starfield is a very pretty PowerPoint presentation, but I don't need that level of graphics for most games I play. Sure my laptop with an NVIDIA 4070 card is the one I use to play when I don't want to go to the office and when I want high res screenshots for various artwork, but I don't feel like I'm missing out much when I use my "ancient" machine.

I will upgrade eventually, probably when there is less uncertainty on prices, but there isn't the need to move to new hardware because modern games have moved past or something.

Might as well...

Exactly what I'm referring to, but I'm pretty sure the lawmaker has no interest going after the lottery managers.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the poor tax either.

I didn't say the people who bought the tickets, I said the Texas lottery officials as they did not create rules to prevent this. Honestly this is mostly a sarcastic post that if Dan Patrick wants someone strung up for theft, the people who bought the tickets aren't responsible, the people who did not prevent this from happening with the lottery are, if anyone actually wants to consider this to be theft.

So are the people who allowed this to happen, the Texas lottery officials that were not smart enough to see this coming and create rules to prevent it, going to be charged for the theft?