Are any AI companies proceeding with significant work toward artificial intelligence that is not just applying fixes to the inherent problems with LLMs? Determining this has been difficult because Internet searches are polluted with noisy marketing bullshit.

Cory Doctorow's concept of enshitification applies quite well, here, no?

Bill Anders still spends his summers on Orcas Island, part of the San Juan Islands of Washington state. After retirement from executive positions in aerospace companies, he founded a small museum, Heritage Flight Museum, in Burlington, Washington. https://heritageflight.org/

Bill is famous for snapping the photo of Earth, taken while orbiting the moon: "Earthrise". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Here is a nice profile of the man, from about thirteen years ago: https://www.seattletimes.com/p...

The Ron DeSantis presidential campaign staff are investigating using this new tool to generate campaign posters of the candidate that are more human-like.

Hopefully this dangerous fidgety twerp will get reined in once grown up leaders return to the U.S. Capitol.

I'm a Yank; but, I spent a lot of time in Europe a couple of years ago -- spending the better part of a year in various Eastern and Western nations. In my opinion, Required Snark is correct.

Getting to know the locals, I noticed how much less cluttered their lives often seemed to be. This was true in both the East and the West. There were lovely apartments and lots of fancy cars, along with middle-grade housing and plebeian autos, flat panel televisions, computers, and smart phones. But, it was very apparent that my American lifestyle, by comparison, was just crammed with crap.

One thing that was consistent: the Europeans I met were just plain puzzled by the United States. In particular, our brutal form of capitalism, and our perverse fascination with guns.

So true. It makes me wonder just what percentage of our species are cretins. Probably not a small percentage.

Musk is nothing if not clever and audacious. I'm sure he's designing a whiz-bang death-ray module for the Tesla that will handle these yahoos quite well. Of course, the unintended consequences may get out of hand.

Hopefully, Silicon Valley's naivety about real-world complexity doesn't kill too many people before more mature leadership arrives, or the presently abundant investor money dries up. Pilot projects will quickly reveal how unprepared current technology is for handling corner cases where the system failure modes kill people, rather than just cause a BSD.

I couldn't agree more. I won't vote for her. Will be perfectly happy voting for an alternative party that isn't contributing to the corrupt status quo in U.S. politics. Apparently, nothing will change in the U.S. until the oligarchy is threatened with mass revolt. I'll probably be long dead by the time that happens. And it _will_ happen, unless the rich get smart enough to ratchet down their greed.

Maybe Arch isn't the right distro for that particular notebook. I've been using MintOS on my Yoga for several months. Works great!

You are right. William Langewiesche expanded on this in his excellent 'Fly By Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson'. Airbus engineers should receive a lot of credit for the outcome. But, of course, the pilot executed the turn to the Hudson quickly and managed the crisis very well.

I have a friend who is a recently retired captain at one of the major carriers in the U.S., who used to fly the Airbus A320. In reply to my question about this incident, he told me that his company's policy was to never leave one crew member in the cockpit. Upon exiting the cockpit, another flight crew member would enter the cockpit.

Apple requires all "social" apps to incorporate a flag mechanism for malicious content. App providers are supposed to moderate. The Yik Yak iOS app does provide for flagging. So, I am wondering:

1. Is Yik Yak not providing meaningful moderation?

2. Are the receivers of the malicious posts not flagging?