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Comment Re:Old argument. (Score 3, Interesting) 143

Innate capability and not fulfilling one's potential by wasting time are really two separate causes of being 'stupid'.

To argue for the point, none of the inventions you mention have offered the promise of doing your thinking for you.

I can see both sides but definitely some people will never achieve depth on any subject if they're asking an LLM to present a surface level analysis.

Yet some may say if an LLM can do it that's not what Humans are best at.

Predicting this future witht any certainty seems like the most Dunning-Kruger possible by the authors.

Comment Re:trump voter (Score -1, Offtopic) 143

Did you notice his handle?

It might be a reference to how Biden broke his foot 'pulling his dog's tail in the shower'.

German Shepard, but the GP probably would have to ask ChatGPT what the difference is.

I can't imagine loving a politician who doesn't even know me but some people are weird.

Comment Anomalies (Score 2) 33

This is interesting so it raises the question of whether other hurricanes strengthened last time this layering happened and one passed over.

That this storm strengthened /exactly/ when a solar storm hit Earth seemed like a more promising anomaly but a strong dataset would support their hypothesis and rule out a massive coincidence.

Comment Prurient Interests (Score -1, Troll) 145

As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."

Be careful about what people find interesting but be even more careful about what people find anti-interesting.

Especially the "free press".

Comment Re:Too much tech. (Score 2) 51

Yeah and those people would have thrown a bricked bike through the front window of their corporate headquarters.

Amazon tried real hard to upsell me a wifi sprinkler timer yesterday.

Ha, no, the $18 microcontroller-based timer will do just fine. They could have temped me with a Matter/Threads unit but no, they don't try that hard. Doesn't "Work with Alexa".

Imagine my garden dying because a tree fell on the Comcast line and it took a few days to rebuild. Such weird expectations! I wonder how many "smart" households went bonkers during the 4hr Starlink outage?

Comment Re:Is this really a 'breach'? (Score 1) 92

In the GSR (Gossip, Shame, Rallying) Model this is a biological imperative.

So you would expect high costs to be easily paid if the model is accurate and the service fills the need.

Some might say the theory fits the data.

I'm that weirdo who won't save fifty cents on a can of Spaghetti O's by signing up for a "loyalty" surveillance card but most people aren't in the slim minorities.

Comment DANE (Score 1) 66

A subset of people are really against DANE which lets you self-attest your TLS cert without a parallel PKI. DNSSEC was the PKI in that model.

There are pros and cons but a big con was people not paying for certs.

Now with LetsEncrypt we have DV certs almost everywhere, few people pay for certs, and two PKI's with little protection for anything else that uses DNS.

Oh, and LetsEncrypt would be marginally better off with DNSSEC. Their new observation standard at least helps mitigate BGP shenanigans.

Comment Released Early? (Score 1) 41

Interesting that power scaling wasn't available at release time, but nice that they're doing it.

Power bills never go down and AI is squeezing family budgets.

It might also help in warm climates without air conditioning, both to avoid overheating and not warming up the house as much.

Certainly that microclimate change is something they can actually have an impact on.

Comment Re:Dunning Kruger (Score 1) 158

> thinking they have special insight that others don't

I would have agreed with this but the paper says they think a majority believe the same thing.

I probably don't believe the paper is well constructed. I doubt it's a conspiracy beyond the authors but it's a good thing we have detectives, investigators, and prosecutors who all theorize about conspiracies and then try to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt.

Schizo behavior is sometimes described as conspiracy theorizing by people who are later charged with RICO.

Comment Re:And nobody learned... (Score 1) 31

Yep, I was working at an academic Medical Center in New Hampshire when they reassigned the Disaster Recovery guy to 1st level technical support to get him to quit.

The place became run by insurance and lawyers.

I quit when they said we were going to skip the code to prevent medication errors because it would be cheaper to settle the lawsuits.

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