Comment Colossus: The Forbin Project (Score 2) 51
I remember watching this movie with my mom when I was 10.
Comment of course social media will change (Score 1) 54
Social media is always changing, and it will change more. Whether or not those changes are the result of any court case will never be clear.
Comment millions of devices (Score 2) 182
millions of devices that are not getting updates to their tzdata will switch back to standard time and on November 1 lots of people will not be sure what time it is
Comment machine guns (Score 1) 32
Stargate SG-1 responded to these things with machine guns.
Comment Some politicians routinely contradict themselves (Score 1) 68
I have low hopes for regulation of AI because its output is indistinguishable from the word salad produced by politicians.
Comment Ant Man and Endgame (Score 1) 67
I believe I saw these movies when Ant Man helped the Avengers defeat Thanos.
Comment Gaslight (1944) (Score 2) 36
We are all going to need defenses against what the AIs tell us is real. We already need them, but we will need more defenses when we are surrounded by many voices whose motivations are not in our interest.
Comment colors not experienced by this generation (Score 5, Funny) 119
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. The colors and intensities which were possible to display on CRTs are not possible with LCDs. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Comment two different articles (Score 4, Insightful) 45
strongly recommend deleting this post and starting over
Comment war, volcanic eruption, flood, famine, disease (Score 2) 302
Looking only at current climate change is tunnel vision. I can name ancestors who moved from one place to another because of war, volcano, epidemic. Obviously they did not give up on children.In fact, I can name ancestors from whom I am a product of a third marriage after the demise of earlier spouses.
Comment "likely be understood only" (Score 1) 396
Note to self ... Bloomberg articles are not written with me as the audience.
Comment demolition of DMV offices (Score 1) 50
The virtualization of DMV activities is partly motivated by state mandates for jurisdictions to build more housing. The city with the DMV nearest to me is already at build-out, but is required to build more, so they are set to re-zone the land with the DMV office and demolish it to build the mandated housing.
Comment Gorath (Score 2) 57
I have seen a variation of this movie
Comment personality disorders (Score 1) 82
Looking for a sliver lining, I hope a preponderance of output from large language models might evoke classroom education on recognition of personality disorders so that the general population becomes more aware and immune to misleading information from machine and people. Alas that will take a generation to realize.
