I've been reading this for him since the very late '90s, and I don't see what all the fuss is over rsilvergun. The guy's posts aren't bad at all. I've seen s*** posting and that ain't it. Anyone here remember when first post was always the n-word?

Except housing. Housing is really expensive. And declining real wages: people working two or three jobs; people choosing not to have kids because times are tight. Or people in medical debt. Or student debt. Or people over 50 trying to get jobs. There are having a tough time of it. But hot damn the Dow Jones off the charts crazy high!!

I'm a perfect asshole, so I have a foot on both sides of the line.

At this point, isn't AI training data something of a fait acommpli? The models have been trained and exist. No one seriously thinks the courts are going to make these companies toss all the models in the bit bucket. Lawsuits might ring some $ out of some AI companies. It might not. These lawsuits look less and less like slaying giants and more like tilting at windmills.

I just did some research. It does seem like 100 logical qubits might be possible by 2035. Possible, but not a sure thing.

A more more powerful quantum computer is still a toy. Wake me up when they create one with even 100 reliable logical qubits.

There are metrics for this kind of thing. If you give an AI a task, what is the probabiliy of successful completion in a given time?

https://metr.org/time-horizons...

I don't think you know what the word "cooperation" means to China. Or, more likely, you are a shill.

Taxing unrealized gains is problematic. We've reached the point where not taxing unrealized gains is also problematic.

The very wealthy have pondered the question, "How can I enjoy my wealth without paying for realized gains?" They finally cracked the problem. The tax system now needs to adjust.

The legislature can get out in front of the issue and address it sanely. Or they can do nothing and wait for crack-pot citizen initiatives to fill the vacuum

And Switzerland needs dental hygenists. If it weren't for Danish dental hygenists working in Switzerland, the Swiss not procreate at all.

I don't think the people pooh-poohing AI have much experience with it. It fixes bugs and adds small feature pretty darn well. But some oversight is necessary to get great results. We code review our peers' work before it gets merged, and we need to do the same what Claude produces. Some of the code is produces is sloppy. Some is not. Fix the sloppy stuff, or direct your code assistant to fix it. Invest some time learning to get good results from AI code assistants and you will be amazed at how your productivity and quality can improve.

For example, if you didn't understand why it wrote something, ask it why. When AI fixes some UI bug with CSS magic, I ask it to "explain to me, Barney-style, why your change fixes the error." I get a clear, understandable answer.

Don't post AI code unless you feel ready to explain to a colleague how the code works.

It's kind of true. The DoD proposals I've seen, even software, get labeled "weapons system" because Congress is more likely to fund it that way. In a very real sense, the DoD budget is the largest jobs program in America, and has been for decades.

I'm a left leaning Seattlite, but I'm not a fan of Seattle's empty virtue signaling. It's so tedious. Go solve a real problem.

The p.m. is giving companies a chance to get ahead of the legislation. If you are phone manufacturer you put together a plan and a timeline and says we can't do it in 3 months but here's our plan to do it in six. And then 4 months in you go back to the government and say well we've had these setbacks and we've had these things happen that we couldn't account for and it will be eight more months before we're compliant. Eventually government's to pursue these regulations will wane.

Computer science is math. You don't need a computer science degree if your vocation is software developer. When I lived in Switzerland, software developer was a 2 year technical school degree. Computer science was a 4 year university degree.