Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?

It wouldn't have even been a problem if they were transgender mice. What is the problem with studying transgenderism, especially in a safe, controlled, environment that doesn't cause harm to people?

Leaving aside that dementia is not a mental illness, I'm unaware of any caused by viruses that aren't a side effect.

For example Alzheimers can be caused indirectly by viruses, but its cause isn't a virus, it's likely neuroinflammation, which can be caused by all kinds of things including bacteria and certain types of plaque.

Worse, the latter is generally because the brain's own immune system is causing the inflammation fighting said virus when it is a virus, and so a vaccine would cause more problems rather than help.

Using vaccines here is just not a practical course of action and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what dementia is. And mental illnesses? They're even less likely to have clear causes outside of genetics and exposure to various environmental factors not generally considered biological.

If mental illnesses were caused by viruses, sure. But the entire point of a vaccine is to stimulate your immune system into creating antibodies to fight specific viruses. I've pretty sure no mental illnesses have been found to have a viral cause (well, social media "viral" may be, but not biological...)

I think you vastly over-estimate how much MAGA cares. If the COVID vaccine had been conventional, they'd have been just as loud and angry and anti, but they wouldn't have put "UnPrOvEn tEcHnOlOgY" in their list of annoying arguments.

I'm skeptical about that second part.

As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.

It's just a story about Meta and AI.

Oh, nevermind.

For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.

> Funny, how the authors don't hate the would-be arsonists — nowhere close to their disdain for the "rich and powerful", who might (might not!) profit from the betting...

Not really funny, it's pretty obvious they're trying to discourage arsonists. If you'd read your own post before posting it, you'd have noticed they haven't written in opposition to people betting on "hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis", which you give as examples of "similar" things but give lipservice to the fact they can't be man made.

This is specifically about avoiding rewarding people for placing bets on wildfires existing and then organizing their creation. You'd have to be dumber than a libertarian or Trump supporter not to see that.

Given your username, have you not seen the sheer amount of pro-AI BS that's been infesting every aspect of society?

Even Bernie Sanders has bought the propaganda.

I use so little EA stuff these days Deluxe Paint is literally the first thing I think of when I hear the name!

I guess it's like hearing "HP printer" and thinking of those awesome postscript-running built-like-tanks laser printers nobody could afford in the 1980s/90s rather than $100 ink.

How the mighty have fallen *sighs*

Surely they're not going to cut off the data centers just so ordinary people can have electricity?

Does this mean I can't use Deluxe Paint III on my Amiga any more? *sighs* OK then!

> But that narrative was the only thing that could have made the large LLMs profitable and it was what brought the employee-hating CEOs on board.

Doesn't have to be sustainable, just needs to keep businesses using them for long enough that critical business knowledge is lost among employees who become reliant upon the LLM providers for everything.

The question was never "Is this unsustainable if taken at face value", because the plot was never to sell useful services, it was to take over most US businesses by making them unable to run themselves. The question now is whether they managed to keep it going for long enough that this will happen, or whether the crash will happen before that to happen.

People often describe BigAI as a con. But BigAI is better described as a heist.