You'd get your tongue stuck if you tried to lick that

You said this more eloquently than I could have hoped. Same reason we cant have a functioning light rail system in Los Angeles.

*screams in terror*

I used it for homework help. It's genuinely useful and capable of giving good answers if you break the problems up small enough as it will access tools to do the tensor calculations. You will have to have a good knowledge of the subject though as it makes mistakes and double check everything.

Why would people think making a bot that agrees with your every word was a good idea? We see this effect in the real world too, when people are surrounded by sycophants they begin to believe their own bullshit. They need to make bots that aren't afraid to let you know when you are full of it.

At best its a twin. It wont have the same memories or experiences as your beloved pet. It's like spinning up a new instance of a chatbot with an empty context window.... What a waste of money.

A CSP competition is a great idea... it spurred the creation of Dragon cargo and Dragon crew. If there are legit competitors to SpaceX then they can compete on a level playing field. Blue Origin had one (1) launch of New Glenn so far... they need to get going... Vulcan is expensive and also has one launch. There is room to compete in many areas, from suits to in-space propulsion to landers... spacex only has the advantage right now in launch... but there are many important areas. High thrust/high Isp propulsion (e.g. NTP, FRC plasma, vasimr, etc) is a big area that needs work and there should be a lot of room to grow... chemical isnt really good enough for crewed flights... too much radiation exposure and too sensitive to orbit dynamics... we definitely need faster solutions.

Is it possible that both Adam Smith and Karl Marx were influenced by the times they lived in... and that modern theories of economics must take into account both human sociology (humans aren't rational actors), upcoming automation, pricing in externalities such as climate change, etc. Maybe a well designed system could take the best parts of both Marx (min floor, max ceiling, some regulation) and Smith (free markets work for most things) and leave the rest... we need new ideas for a new age. When automation and AI start to really kick in we will seriously need to think about how to distribute wealth and abundance to prevent over concentration. At some point when the AIs are doing all the work does it make sense to allow some humans to own many orders of magnitude more than others when everyone can be fantastically wealthy? I'm looking forward to living in the Federation or in the Culture... Sure you can be rich if you want to, if you enjoy playing the capital game you can go live on Ferenginar or somewhere it is played... but everyone has access to abundance and you aren't forced to play the game to enrich others just to survive.

As humans continue to develop our now mostly metaphorical but maybe someday literal exocortices they will grow new pathways, new weights. Yes some capacity will be pruned, I can't remember as much Hellenic poetry as, for example, Homer (ÎOEμÎÏÎÏ), but I have a lot of memories he doesn't... like how to operate a car, ps5, navigate the web, find my way around Skyrim, or have useful conversations with AI agents. Someday hopefully I will have a BCI or artificial cortex I can modify as I choose to, for example, make me less autistic or increase my enjoyment of life or make me better at some skill or even learn Kung fu by downloading it ðY. So what? Neural nets adapt... as they always have...

Its not rocket science.. When it works one should expect to see statistically significant changes in at least some of the clinically meaningful biomarkers, physiology and behavior associated with age - the ones we already measure when you (or your dog) goes to the doctor, a fitness trainer, etc... Things like: weight, body fat % and lbm, liver and kidney function, VO2 max, cholesterol, grey hair, wrinkles, etc... Yes you should also expect to see meaningful changes in grimAGE, telomere length, epigenetic expression, etc... but the day to day ones are more meaningful for lived experience. For a dog i would expect this would translate into better overall health, more energy, etc... same as you'd expect in a human. If all it does is keep someone from aging further but doesn't improve day to day health in any meaningful way (e.g. I take it at 65 and stay physiologically 65)... it sounds like it would need improvement... See the story of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

We in the US should be trying to retain as much talent as we can. In grad school I saw many of my fellow students dealing with citizenship issues, and unfortunately several did have to leave after getting their PhDs or often ended up in situations with postdoc advisors who would abuse the fact that their continued presence in the US depended on maintaining employment. It is a travesty that we are not encouraging smart motivated students to stay and contribute to our nation after graduation.

The solution, though the publishers are loath to admit it... is free to cheap open access archives like ArXiV. If peer reviewers are paid nothing why should researchers have to pay huge fees to publish and readers huge fees to read? The difficulty is getting academia to shift to such a model when for decades the gold standard of research has been publishing in top tier journals like Nature, Science, PRL, etc. It is a shame that Sci-hub did not win it's case against Elsevior. But ultimately Sci-hub is a workaround to a broken system. The forcing function to shift academia from using the current pay for publication model would be legislation that bans taxpayer funded research from being published in paywalled for-profit journals and establishes standards for not-for-profit open access journals where work can be published for low to no cost and accessed for free by the taxpayers who funded the research in the first place.

How about Ready Player One style VR, *good, coherent* AI driven characters and plotlines for NPCs and MMO persistant worlds like SAO.. they've barely begun to scratch the surface... and IMO that is where gaming should be headed...

I would not have known it was ai generated if it hadn't been pointed out. It won't be long before one CANNOT tell if something is AI generated without specialized tools, watermarked, etc... I imagine many viewers won't care either way.