The parts per million, accumulate in the body as "forever" chemicals and are associated with elevated risk of cancer, in your balls particularly. If that doesn't worry a man, they get passed to children through breast milk too.

There is reasonable chance, as is the case for many US institutions, that your EPA is corrupt, being paid off or threatened to play down risks. This happens when a culture celebrates greed more than the well being of its people.

We live in a soup of industrial chemicals with no real idea how they interact in the body. Your flatpack furniture, house paint and carpets are outgassing formaldehyde all the time, a carcinogen used by undertakers to preserve your body for a funeral.

Reading into all this can be overwhelming, you can scare yourself silly worrying about an insidious unseen enemy . Underplaying the risk, or sticking ones head in the sand is one way to deal with it. The other is to turn to face it and take it on, that's what evolution looks like. Survival of the smartest. You might have to sacrifice a few comforts, but very little compared to your ancestors.

mmm yes , good point 8)

Though purposefully written in assembly , from scratch, I always believed that the best chance of being the most efficient and can leverage hardware specifics? I've known game coders to write stuff in assembly, for example.

A lot the AI story is solving problems already solved.

That's an AI job right there, rewrite my old man code as assembly

Sounds like suing progress or evolution. Too many lawyers.

Great tech, brain dead IP. Programmer art.

And I love watching my son play speed runs on mad level, I never had synapses tike that.

Doom 2, ultra-hard, co op, was super fun when I was supposed to be working.

You are alright cousin, Europe wants the best for you, you are our young punk of a relative, all the best of us and the worst. Jesus, you are a lot less scary than the Chinese or Russian alternatives.

I think of a nation, like an individual, we always need to keep ourselves in check so we don't get high on our own supply. Trump is a good lesson, that's what a class a douche bag looks like, try before your buy.

Good luck to you. Live long and prosper.

ok, I'll indulge a conspiracy theory

"money that can be programmed to only be spendable on certain categories of goods."

Surely that's possible now, most online trans are on credit card , its digital money by a different name, if a government wanted to control spending e.g. on booze, they could ban bottle shops or credit card companies from processing electronic payments.

I think we'd agree cash is a freedom we shouldn't surrender, and what it shares with crypto is that it is the preferred currency for some "dodgy" transaction, be that buying some drugs or buying a nuke.

I prefer simplicity, the cypto boys are playing a game of chicken with their funny money. Those invested in the infrastructure would love to see it go mainstream because they hold a lot of currency and would get rich. I don't care about making them rich and I see that as just handing power to some new crooks and scammers. There's nothing it for me, unless I want to buy something dodgy and believe its not traceable, and I don't.

You assume too much, you're having an argument with someone you imagine me to be. Isn't that a bit mad?

You are also stuck on the position of American Evil. Let me change that, call it human evil, that exists, America cant claim it.

Lets introduce other terms, Capitalist evil, Socialist evil, I am sure you can come up with loads of example of the latter.

Whilst we're at definitions lets define evil. The devil wants to dominate and control all life, like Sauron if you prefer, in much the same way as a corporation wants to dominate and control a market and choke out the competition. That's dangerous for many reasons, not least is it focuses too much power in too few hands and humans do show from time to time, a capacity for evil, like a tech company hosting or promoting evil content for revenue.

Anti Trust and Competition law manages the evil that can appear in Capitalism.

I like America, my disappointment with it is the people have surrendered their freedom, and get fucked by corporations and your oligarchy for a few home comforts and addictions. You got rid of one king 250 years ago and now you have something that looks like feudalism. I think you can do better, and perhaps policies like your NYC mayor is trying to implement will reset the balance in favour of the many, not a wealthy minority.

Stand up, be an American, not some scared peasant looking for a wealthy lord to protect you.

Nope, the explanation is simpler than that.

Marketing. Stock pumping.

My tech is so good it can replace humans. My tech is so good its dangerous, you better get it before someone else does.

High noise to signal ratio. AI offers some advantages in cognitive support in some roles, would have been a more honest assessment.

Apart from AI companies I haven't heard one commercial success story of applying the AI that is being punted at the moment.

It's great at making content, but that wasn't a problem. It's great at search and summary, maybe better than search, but it is too convincing when it gets it wrong, so its not reliable. It's a weak product.

On the upside in a few years there is going to be buckets of spare compute power around. Maybe science can use that to solve some real problems rather than these bullshit ones AI pundits are trying to find and solve.

It's not hard to be better than you is it? We could warm up a turd in a microwave and it would be more coherent and less hysterical.

What you appear to hate is a government doing it's job, protecting it's people and business interests. America does the same thing. More aggressively so with tariffs and snarling up the Straits of Hormuz for everyone.

I like America and almost all Americans I have met. At the moment America has a corrupt, cruel, bullying and unpopular administration that has done nothing to make America great again apart from make some rich, richer and the ordinary people worse off. Many people look forward to it passing, and it will, time always wins and Trump is an old sick man. And if the sky god stories are true, there's a nice hot cell waiting for him downstairs next to Epstein's.

So calm down dear, nobody hates America here, or you. Hysteria is not at all becoming of a gentlemen, lady or something in between.

If you are lucky , you'll drop dead , or you'll have a short fatal illness.

Looking around, recent deaths in my circle have been preceded by agonising chronic illness, cancer etc.. Medicine can keep you alive, but it starts to look like a crucifixion after a few years. The agony isn't just physical, it's hope , yours and your loved ones.

I keep active because I believe I will suffer less , or have a better chance at recovery. It also helps me immensely with my mood and resilience. I want to set a good example to my kids, and also those around me that frailty in old age, if I am lucky to see it, is partly a choice, we can manage the risk.

I've not always been like this , I had heart surgery at 50, in another time I would be dead already. I also keep active in gratitude to the angels in the cardiac ward that saved me.

Pedant here.. the article mentions ribsomes , google tells me they are interpreters of DNA as a blueprint, the article doesn't mention DNA. Aside from the chemicals was there no "starter" biological component?

If it doesn't haven't DNA, is that really a cell then ?

Dont want to take away from the remarkable of this invention, feels like we created life from chemistry, but always believed DNA was part of that.

.. probably more accurate. Oooo AI will rule the world.

Cnuts

So if we are AI haters, you are an AI Lover?

Assuming you are not some crypto bro equivalent of AI, pumping da stocks. Why do you love AI? Do you work in it, are you struggling to convince people of its utility?

I am genuinely interested