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Comment What's his defense? (Score 2, Insightful) 98

Which one:
"I did it, but it is not illegal to destroy cameras."
"I did it, but I'm insane."
"I'm a nice guy, find me not guilty (even though both you and I know I'm guilty legally *wink* *wink*) because I don't deserve the punishment."
"It was self-defense."
"I didn't do it."

Comment How to make an e-Ink display (Score 2, Funny) 45

First, buy an e-Ink display..

WTF? We all know that once you have the panel you just make a frame and hook up a compute device and HDMI or whatever to it. I thought the article was going to explain how to DIY make an e-Ink panel from scratch using a matrix of chewing gum, cat piss, and squid ink or whatever.

Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 181

I don't know if you recall, but Republicans were very effective in 2016 in saying the "real" unemployment rate was that number by touting the U-6 number.
Rush Limbaugh (back then the most influential Republican, also a top advocate for cigar smoking): https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/d...
Rush Limbaugh: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/d...
Here's a tweet from Trump about it. https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/...

Comment Re:This is the plot for "The Blob", isn't it? (Score 1, Insightful) 59

What kind of baloney pansy shit is the phrase "Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should" ?? There are many useful things that can be done with it .. everything from studying how cells work to a platform for protein production. Just because you lack the IQ to see the value in something doesn't mean it has no value. We need science to advance. We need the attitude: "every experiment you can do is worth doing" (unless you know it will fuck shit up) .. forget the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" weak ass mentality. Nothing would ever get done with such an attitude.

Comment Re:Human brain (Score 3, Interesting) 111

Yeah but the computer is running millions of move simulations, but a grandmaster is doing 1 millionth of that computation and still playing well. If we restricted the computer to only do a few thousand evaluations per second it would fail miserably. Same thing with self-driving a car. A human can learn with 20 hours of driving school, meanwhile the FSD training models need tens of billions of miles driven in simulation and all kinds of scenarios reasoned through for it.

We're missing some fundamental thing(s) when it comes to computation. I have no idea what it is -- we only know that there's a way to do it but we don't know how. Somebody, or AI itself will figure it out soon (like within a century, maybe even a decade or two).

Comment Re:Core concept is stupid. (Score 1) 172

The only interesting story you can tell about Superman is bringing up the question... "If you're so powerful, why not just use it for your own purposes? Nobody can stop you. Why help people?" And the answer, which has always been part of the Superman mythos, was that he was raised by two salt-of-the-earth good people out in the middle of nowhere who taught him good old fashioned American values. He does it because it's the right thing to do. Does anyone remember "Truth, Justice (and the American Way)?" I think the recent Superman movie did a reasonable job of leaning into that, in an environment where the audience is jaded about American institutions. It's a tough sell, particularly trying to sell the movie to urban audiences to see everything rural as something to look down on, and rural audiences who see everything urban as selfish and corrupt.

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