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Comment Re: That's not what the studies show (Score 1) 293

Trump's "Agenda 47" includes most of the talking points from Project 2025.

"Most" is pretty vague. Which ones don't overlap? Do you even know? Have you read both? In full? Project 2025 is 922 pages long. Somehow I doubt you've read it, instead relying on the media to tell you what to think and say and do.

What if "most" of the overlap are things that are relatively mainstream, non-controversial things? What if the only places they don't overlap just happen to be the Big Boogeyman Ideas you're so terrified of? Did you ever consider that enough to bother reviewing both proposals? Or did you simply hear "Trump = Project 2025 and Project 2025 = bad, therefore Trump = bad"?

The sheer lack of curiosity about the stances some people are willing to take is stunning sometimes. Presumably you have a prefrontal cortex. You may wish to use it from time to time to think on your own and come up with your own opinions.

Comment Re: Here's one thing that didn't happen... (Score 1) 293

Teach a man to fish, and he'll be unemployed as soon as we build an AI-controlled fleet of fishing drones.
And we'll all eat forever.
This old adage may need some updating.

And yet who will build, program, and maintain this AI-controlled fleet? Another AI-controlled facility? Who will build, program, and maintain that? Or is it turtles all the way down?

At some point humans have to be involved, and those humans will be gainfully employed and benefit from their labor. Those who adapt to this new economic reality will prosper. Those who do not, will not.

This is nothing new. When mass production put artisans out of work, the same hue and cry was raised. The human race as a whole is incalculably better off today than it was when that happened. Those who try to stand against the march of technology to maintain the status quo will always get steamrollered. And we should not weep for them, for we all benefit from the march of progress. If you truly believe in the betterment of humanity, you cannot allow the creation of a society where stagnation is rewarded.

Comment Re:And how is Linus qualified to comment? (Score 1) 73

Microkernels are a great idea, but they need better hardware support (literally different architectural decisions) to work optimally. They can be made to work on modern CPUs, but they're never going to be great there. This presents a chicken/egg problem because nobody is going to invest a billion dollars making a new kind of CPU for an OS that doesn't yet exist.

Comment Re:Save money? (Score 4, Interesting) 206

Where I live, public chargers charge upwards of 80 cents/kWh. If you assume an efficiency of 16kwh/100km, that's 12.80/100km. Really not much (if any) cheaper than gas for an efficient car.

Home charging is where you save money.

To be fair, people in the gig economy don't tend to be good with math.

Comment Re:Serious risks? (Score 2) 36

Generative AI - such as Chat GPT and friends - doesn't create anything. It predicts the next word or pixel based on the sum of the input into a neural net. There is no creativity. Thus, by definition, it can be no more "dangerous" than the training data.

The people screeching about the "dangers of AI!!!!" are basically the DEI department in the AI world. They add nothing of value but get paid too much to leech off the companies that were doing just fine without them. They have to keep everything at emergency level so nobody will notice that there's no substance to what they're saying.

Ignore them.

Comment Re:A 100 year setence IS grotesque... (Score 1) 189

It's because the government has decided that basically every punishment besides prison is "cruel and unusual", so prison is it. It's insane, really. Nobody benefits from someone like him being in prison and there are other ways to punish him. Release him to the world, make him work a menial job with no computer access (not even a cell phone) for the rest of his life, have the court take all of his paychecks and give him enough to eat and pay rent, with any excess going to his victims. He can then be an actual productive member of society instead of a burden, and there's no chance of him reoffending.

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