Mod parent up. Very insightful.

That this vomit posing as a rational comment is moderated as "Interesting" just confirms that I made the right decision to abandon slashdot several years ago now. I occasionally drop in to see if anything has changed for the better, but so far, no, it has not.

There is nothing interesting about the parent whatsoever. It's not even very original, just the same old groupthink.

People gamble because they crave novelty/risk, but gambling addicts ignore that the same risk even exists. I suspect AI has many of the same social effects because it easily provides novelty with largely the same kind of at least semi-randomized results and has an acceptable accuracy risk for the occassional users. It also has the same problem for the addicted who ignore that the risk of mistake exists or that the novel claims produced are nested together factoids retrieved based on popularity and repetition rather than accuracy or any physical/logical/proof-based criteria.

Not sure what you're referring to. Let's try it this way.

Imagine you are a manager or a CO and you have an employee who keep spending an enormous amount of time working on the exact thing you hired him for. He gets frustrated when he finds stuff he CAN'T explain, wants to research further, and you just brush him off because you really hired him to NOT find anything.

ChromeOS is absolutely fantastic for normal, everyday users who only rarely need an installed app. For those people, I'd be very hard-pressed to give up the ease of remote management and the restrained user interface updates. Supporting Chromebooks is a breeze, truly.

But if users need more than just the rare installed app, "low-end" Macs are absolutely the logical move. The Mac Neo moves this an absolute no-brainer decision. Apple makes the best computer hardware in the industry, hands down. The OS is not as easy to use as ChromeOS, mainly because the UI is not as restrained. (Apple seems to change its settings apps on every release, just like Android and Windows. That is criminal. It's all just Linux under the hood, guys, for heaven's sake stop "innovating" on how to control settings!)

for you, not the AI

Anyone who is genuinely confused about whether they are ONE person or MANY shouldn't be in charge of anything, much less AI robotics intended for use by the military. What nonsense. Good riddance.

I have no desire to add any renewable power generation devices to my home. It was never designed with that in mind, starting with the siting. It will never be optimal. However, I am more than ready to be a consumer of renewable energy, the economics are very compelling. Installing bi-directional batteries, however, will have a negligible impact on my home -- maybe take up some space on my garage wall, that's about it. But having backup power right at hand is a great incentive. And, distributing power storage makes for a far more robust system.

This is a very interesting idea. I'm for it.

If we had called it "Automated Inference" from the beginning, I don't think we'd be having this debate. The original "bad metaphor" we have been using is "intelligence".

That's too bad. I donated to this project, thought it might do some good, and was excited by the prospect of a clean slate design opportunity. The lessons here are:

1. You don't create new opportunities with information tech, you expand existing ones.
2. Computer skills are essentially manual skills. Doesn't make you smarter, just more efficient.
3. Information tech is overhyped. AI won't make us smarter, either.

"The industry relies on air-separation units, which use giant compressors to turn air into liquid and then distill it into its many components. These machines are responsible for much of the industry's electricity demand, and their use alone is responsible for 2% of carbon dioxide emissions in China and the US, the world's two largest polluters."

In July, the EPA proposed rescinding its rule that CO2 is a pollutant: https://www.epa.gov/regulation...

It is incorrect to label these countries as "polluters". Carbon Dioxide is not a poison, it is an essential compound that plays an enormously important role in maintaining life on this planet.

This was the first starship test flight that bored me the entire time. A spectacular achievement. It's not a lowering of the bar, just the opposite.