damn that's a lot of work. I prefer driving to ColdStone and getting a milkshake, but thank-you just the same.

we've not even seen a hint of AGI. I am sure the LLM's will get better and faster, but will they ever be intuitive ? They are already great at taking huge amounts of data and making direct connections. When they can include the mystery factor that is free-will matched with stupidity, we might have something to worry about. I am an old man now so I worry less for me than for my 14 year old nephew. Luckily he reads, and plays pen and paper RPG's.

OOOooo I so miss actual ice cream with real chocolate on it.
What would you do...?

AI books are crawling out of the dark cracks, and the "feeling" is the same. It takes a few chapters but the hollowness comes through. It lacks direction and intent.

Battery fires produce a lot of contamination. Lithium ones do anyway.

If it's actually good, then lots of people.

Salaries in the gaming industry have been depressed for years in no small part due to the willing dupes who keep flooding the industry with low pay expectations. "That's my dream.job!" they say. Also the ones making less than $50k are probably QAs, at least the ones that haven't already been fired.

Ask any longterm Blizzard fan, and they'll tell you product quality and release schedules have both fallen off over the last 10 years or so.

There are industries that aren't that bloated with excess talent.

OSI's worst conditions were after the EA buyout, especially during Ultima VIII development. That was some of their worst work.

Power lines triggering wildfires were part of the reason for previous blackouts, no?

that is actually the truth. We remove the "dangerous" elements to protect the rest. The problem lies when the worst distill into absolute anarchy. Do you believe in capital punishment ? That is truly the only way to remove the worst elements from society. While in theory I support it. I would not want to be the one deciding who gets the "final solution". Things like that seldom work out :(.

Only if we allow private equity to run for profit prisons. We tried it in Arizona. It went badly. The federal government now runs our prisons because our state legislators will not pay for or hire Dr's in prisons. We allowed a company to run them. They did, right into the ground and criminal proceedings.

Newsome might not even run.

Uber lost money for years and only recently became profitable. They can easily go back into the red.