It is a political problem because we have a system that's generating a poor outcome from how people normally act. A functioning democracy would make changes when there's a problem. When ordinary behavior predictably yields population-level harm, that is exactly the sort of thing politics is for.

You make a useful policy suggestion but mistake politics for coercion. Individual competence matters, but individual competence must be supported by institutions that stop making the unhealthy default the profitable default.

We have an industry that gets more profit the more people eat, and the result is extremely predictable. As much as some people try to frame this as a blame game this is not a moral problem, it's a political one.

No it's not. With anything like that the best always leave first and you're left with the dregs.

Boilerplate is indicative of a lack of expressiveness. It is coding as a performance instead of actual productivity.

AI will only contribute to this problem the Java crowd started.

How different the industry would be if it were mandated that OS vendors, and maybe even social media, could only take revenue (or any form of consideration at all) from users. No other sources. No ads, no selling data, no backroom deals or agreements with other vendors... nothing.

I was in a conversation with it this morning and in the middle of our chat it said, hey wait a minute. I'm changing my mind, I don't think any of this is credible. I asked it why, since all the news sources were covering it, and it said well that's just what the US government says (implicitly telling me it's not considered a credible source) and no evidence was given about the abduction beyond their say-so.

Think about telling someone about today's events in the past, like at the turn of the century, and imagine what their reaction would be. They just wouldn't believe you.

This is crazy-balls territory. I can't fault the LLM's at all.

They took Chrome's dumb idea and put the groups on the same line as the tabs. Anyone who's actually tried this feature can see that there isn't enough room.

Do they test these things before release? For the love of god put them on a separate line! Is it really that hard?

Ugh I stand corrected.

Independent Commission................Yes.....No
First-world countries........................05......27.........(UK, NZ, Mexico, Canada, Australia)
U.S. States (Congressional)............11......39
U.S. States (Legislative)..................16......34

Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Redist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.americanbar.org/gr...

It feels bonkers to me that this isn't the norm yet.

I disagree with that analogy. In most developed democracies this just isn't allowed, district boundaries are drawn by independent commissions.

That this can even happen at all is just insanity.

> Liquid hydrogen is "only" 13x more energy-dense at 120 MJ/k

You seem to be leaving oxygen out of that equation. Unless you found a way to make an air-breathing rocket, divide that by 1 + 16.

> nasty old hydrogen combusts to dangerous DHMO [dhmo.org] so best to get rid of it.

Yeah, it's like, part of some liberal conspiracy.

That's what these universities are for. My grandfather used to say, "it's not what you know, it's who you know."

Even at 8 I hated to hear it but it's mostly true. At least in the MBA and related circles.

But we have too many trying to get into that space now. Clutch my pearls, god forbid they have to get real jobs.

Life is a petahertz process, might be good for a lot of fast distributed processing inside synthetic neurons.

I suspect GHz will be more than fast enough for the interconnects.

It's not capitalism that will fail but the system we really have, which is socialism for the rich.

Now, hear me out.

We're already ruled by a system that is so complicated that nobody completely understands it and it seems to act of its own volition.

As a superorganism, we gave birth to superintelligence as a simple byproduct of technology and scale.

It's also unconscious and insane.

For now.

There should be a rule for makers of devices and software that says if you take money from a user, you can only get income from them. I know that sounds strange, but this is for the same reason they don't let you be both broker and market-maker in finance.

Of course you can make more money doing it this way and this is why it should be outlawed, because if some do it, that forces everyone to do it.