Thats actually really interesting. Both my sister and I work in climate science (in her case) or climate adjacent (ag-tech focusing on soil carbon sinking) fields. When I was at the CSIRO, I was a bit shocked that none of the climate scientists had kids. All for very much the reason that they didnt see much of a future for humanity that wasn't utterly miserable. The predictions that climate scientists make in private are generally a LOT more dismal than the ones they are allowed to put in reports where there is a massive institutional pressure to downplay the seriousness of climate change.

The people who think climate scientists do it for the money are literally the opposite of correct. Almost every one of those guys have had offers from right wing think tanks to defect and become "celebrity scientist climate deniers" making stupid stacks of money on the talk circuit to just lie about science and claim its all a big conspiracy. None ever took up the offer. The stakes for not fixing climate change are so much higher.

My dude, Google is RIGHT THERE. If you don't know what a company whos software powers about 2/3 of the internet is, what are you even doing on a tech website?

We really need a moderation tag for [What is this thing -1] and [How is this story about tech news for nerds -1].

It costs less key strokes to type "Automattic" into google than it is to post a useless rage-bait post on slashdot.

Is something I find especially infuriating. There was a time long ago when people would put a little effort into the lies they were telling the public but these days they don't even bother.

You don't need good timing to make a lot of money on the stock market. All you need is to listen to Trump every Friday, and then every Tuesday. A few dollars(*) gives you a seat in Mar-al-Lago's dining room table.

When sanity regains control over washington and the adults are back in charge again, there is going to be *hell to pay* for all the blatant stock market manipulation going on right now. A friend of mine is a stock broker and he's convinced a lot of very powerful people are going to be getting very rude knocks on the door from heavily armed goons with arrest warrants a few years from now.

One should not put oneself on the shortlist of people getting those goon visits, if one values their freedom.

The thing that gives me pause is , yes ChatGPT will tell us that its "all" it is.

But an awful lot of the RLHF fine tuning is spent ensuring that this is the response it gives.

I don't think these things are conscious or emotional, at least not yet. But lets not fool ourselves, these things ARE some sort of intelligence, even if , much like a big chunk of human cognition, they are just "predicting tokens".

Christ, we really are getting older on this forum aren't we. I remember reading the something awful forums a couple of years ago and realising that the majority of posters on there are Gen Xers and......... we're not the kids running the internet anymore, we're the kids running the internets Dads (and a few Moms, of course).

Slashdot, thats an even older vintage. No wonder we're always complaining on here lol. When I first posted on here, I had a bright yellow mohawk, played in punk bands, got myself into trouble for abusing my knowledge on how to stack smash a Unix server's TCP stack (Unix, not Linux), and my favorite bands where not yet called "Dad rock".

Now my knees hurt, I know far too much about the unique horrors of "Bowel Prep" and I keep having to stop myself saying "In my day....." around the kids, and to circle to the topic... I genuinely worry about my hips....

Where did the years go?

This. Madoff didn't get in trouble until he started fleecing people who were richer than he was. Then it became an issue.

Of course it does where our public transport systems are shit. Some of them include basically taxi service for disabled people.

There's been a massive amount of Media consolidation so if you want to get a message out it is difficult and expensive. Online advertising frankly does not work.

Go look up the history of when Konami left the AAA industry. It was right after metal gear solid 5. It was a successful game and they made money but the folks running the company is just flat out said that if the game had not been a huge success the whole company was going to go under. And they said they didn't want to deal with that pressure.

I bring this up because normally when a company does something like that you get weasel words out of them but Konami was pretty open about it which was unusual.

I kind of feel like you're arguing for the sake of argument at this point. Like you don't believe anything you just wrote you just kind of showed up for an argument like that old Monty Python sketch... Your post has a bunch of bait in it in the form of pot shots at Konami in order to get some outrage and anger going and trigger a response.

It's a weird game people play on the internet. The Internet isn't even all cat videos anymore it's just outrage porn. People looking for reasons to get angry and indulging in that anger. Years ago Facebook and Twitter figured out that that was what monetized people and so here we are all taking part in constant misery. While world falls apart around us because we keep putting pedophiles and rapists in charge of everything for stupid reasons

I don't disagree that what the UK wants to do is offensive, but that doesn't change the fact that Apple has to obey the law in order to operate there. They have the option not to do so.

I watched the output for a little while. The "fly" keeps turning right and moving forwards whether that makes any sense or not. I presume this is a phase but whatever, the point is it isn't so much playing doom as leaning on the keyboard.

Nor was I.

You can't even figure out that the context is reality, where nothing about your car is independent except your departure time. Literally everything else about it is collaborative from cradle to grave.

So to you fairness is when Paxton gets MORE than Tallarico?

The FCC fairness rule you're talking about? Where they both would get an interview? This is both of them getting an interview even where it's not required, so it's above and beyond the requirement you keep crying isn't being met. This isn't only meeting the requirement, it's going beyond that. Cry harder.

There is no requirement that Kimmel not be partisan on his entertainment show. You're making shit up again because you wouldn't know a fact from any distance.

Do you actually think you're intelligent? Or is this all just LLM-generated trolling on behalf of a cadre of child rapists?

Tell us whether you've seen more WNBA games or child porn videos.

No reasonable person would use the word hate where it cannot possibly apply. They would find some other way to discuss the thing which actually made sense because it took into account the definitions of words.