If you haven't read the interview, in it she relates a story where her young daughter's teacher asked her to write three things that made her child special. Apparently she is such an awful mother that she couldn't do that, and turned to AI for assistance. The AI shat out some generic Hallmark style platitudes, and she was delighted.

People like her want to dehumanize all of us to that level.

I can't read this without cringing. We can technically produce helium with fusion when China figures it out for us. But last I checked, we capture helium.

I disagree. I do it all the time. And if I ever see the word expert, I attack twice as hard.

Ministers of anything generally are fair game. But even now, Kristen Klemmet... Assumed to be female... She's my favorite whipping boy 26 years later. She, with her business degree along with Christian Thommessen (the folder show... parachute king) managed to destroy the Norwegian educational system while she was minister of education.

Gender has no place in the world of incompetence. In the arena of stupid, everyone deserves to be mocked equally... Or at least relative to their stupidity.

My baby girl is working on her masters in signal processing and biomedical imaging so she won't have to work at a company like Boeing. Are you seriously bragging about your daughter's misfortune? Or are you saying "my daughter is such a shitty programmer she had to work for Boeing, but she's still better than you". I suppose, at least it's not John Deere or... Ford (sorry, no one should even joke about that).

Now instead of randomly calling people incels, run along and apologize to your daughter for speaking so poorly of her.

You go to the right schools and you meet the right people and you get to pretty much do whatever you want. And you get into the schools because your parents get you there and their parents got them there.

If the working class had half the solidarity of the Epstein class we would live in a Utopia

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something you sell the people it's something you use to make things.

It's a labor saving device. Automation. In other words a job killer.

There are studies that clearly indicate that factory automation is responsible for approximately 70% of the Lost middle class jobs since the 1980s.

We have been automating away high paying jobs as fast as we can for decades and AI is just another extension of that.

The Epstein class doesn't want to sell you products. They don't want to have you as an employee. They look back at the Kings and emperors of old and say, that should be me. I shouldn't be dependent on consumers and employees.

They are planning a new world and you're not part of it.

And because nobody gets it unless I say it this way, like George Carlin said it's a big club and you ain't in it.

For some reason one Carlin says that everybody understands but when I explain it it's right out the window.

"Are AI Execs Too Out of Touch To Build For the General Public?"

"Yes"

Next dumb question please...

"A dedicated button turns off the microphones and any camera"

CORRECTION: "A dedicated button CLAIMS to turn off the microphones and any camera"

And if you believe that horseshit, come on over and I'll sell you the Golden Gate Bridge at a super-cheap price.

Six?

I can see benefits to all form factors, and letting users choose, but that means I also think they should be able to choose which UI they want to use. I can see the argument for locking the phone into a phone UI, at least while making calls, but otherwise I find the whole idea gross.

Apple was right that suckers would pay for a laptop and then pay again for a tablet with the same kernel but a different UI.

I find it's usually when I'm standing over the computer, like using it in passing. It's handy when cooking. Otherwise it's not very useful as you say. Though sometimes I would rather just touch the screen than use the trackpad, which I'm not used to. My work laptop has touch and I use it now and then.

We could put a mylar mirror at L1. They did it to increase insolation of Mars in KSR's trilogy, but you could use the same idea to reduce it. It's theoretically possible to do it with modern tech, though we certainly won't as it would require cooperation