People who lived in a big county could have to pay fees to call people in the same county! They were called "local toll" calls. Telcos have always been parasites.

Ah, gotcha. You were referring to the comment from the summary, not mine. Yeah, it's fun to watch the young'uns realize that they are absolutely going to spend their whole lives realizing they forgot something they used to know. It's even more fun to watch them the first time they look at code they wrote two months ago and say "Who wrote this stupid shit? Oh....".

Your post was quite reasonable, and probably true, until you wrote "AIs aren't capable of reasoning". There *are* definitions of reasoning for which that it true, but they aren't the ones in common use. Cicero would use that kind of definition in his "school of rhetoric", where he taught people how to win arguments". Socrates would not. He was trying to find truth.

Clearly AIs have limited reason. They can (at least in principle) do perfect logic, but the difference between that an reason is not well defined. (And logic can prove that you can't prove algebra to be self-consistent.) To me reason is evaluating a set of data and a goal, and using logic to plot a nearly-optimal path to achieve the goal. I think where AIs are generally most deficient is in their goals, though obviously they also have an imperfect understanding of the current state. (Well, so do people.)

That said, there are many areas where current AIs seem deficient when compared with people. This doesn't mean or imply that they don't have a modest amount of the features that they are deficient in, but merely that we expect them to have more. Think of capabilities as being gradients rather than boolean variables. This is commonly called "jagged capabilities". They're better at some things than most people are, and worse at other things than most people are.

How do you know?
I will grant that there are definitions of "feelings" that would make your statement true by definition, but I will guarantee that most people don't use those definitions.

If you want to claim "it's synthetic, therefore it can't be a feeling", you've deprived your mind of a tool for thinking in this space. Submarines don't swim, but airplanes fly. Perhaps it's not useful to think of submarines as swimming, and perhaps it's useful to think of airplanes as flying. And perhaps it's useful to think of LLMs as having feelings. (Also perhaps it isn't, but just asserting that isn't useful, you need to demonstate it. My wife found it useful to attribute feelings to her car. The model didn't work for me, but it worked for her.)

A quick search didn't provide an answer, but the indications were that the cosmic voids are much of the universe. The search of turned up things like https://link.springer.com/arti... , but didn't actually reveal the proportion of the volume of the universe that is contained within cosmic voids, but did *indicate* that it sure wasn't trivial.

LOL - from the representing the party of Swalwell. Dude, everyone knew and nobody cared...

Democrats basically invented all forms of modern political corruption. You need to let your hatred of Trump go and come to gips with that.

For the last 25 years or so the out of power party has usually polled exceptionally well at mid-terms anytime the economy isnt going gangbusters precisely because the nation is very polarized and the the 15% or so swing voters in the middle tend to vote their wallets.

Democrats are polling a lousy +3 right now. There is One and only One plausible explaination for that. Most of America is actually quite happy with the economy. It might be that inequities are disprotionately landing exclusively on people who are already reliable Democrat voters, but then who cares? You'll are America hating commie pricks anyway, so much the better.

Tesla shuts off before crashes
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17...

Tesla can't detect things even the most primitive AEB systems will stop for
https://www.theswansonlawgroup...

Idiots who Elon wouldn't piss on if they were on fire suck billionaire dick
https://slashdot.org/comments....

Well, I'm no expert in the field, but that's what I've read.

Oh look, you're morally bankrupt and stupid. Already knew that, though.

Oh, THAT is the specific kind of creeper dipshit you are. I wondered. I do not want or need Jesus to save me from what Jesus is going to do to me (send me to hell) if I don't love him. Your god is the most pathetic abusive substitute for an abusive spouse ever imagined by sad little men.

Really? Doesn't feel that way at all to me. What it feels like is that LLMs are a massive force multiplier for the skills I already have.

That is my point thought. They don't know they need to do these things. They sign in with a pin or hello for years, forget their password, something happens to the PC and they are foobar..

Their past experience for the last 30 years was everytime they get one to many copies of bonibuddy installed their cousin does something with the hard disks and gets all their pictures, works/office/oo docs, and quicken files off there. This time is 'sorry can't help you'.

Is it Microsoft's fault - no not really, but it also kinda is because local disk encryption wasn't really something they needed, from a threat/theft security standpoint and they lacked familiarity with the subject to recognize just how dangerous FDE is to them from an availability, and reliability standpoint if they don't take appropriate precautions around key backup and account recovery options.

For most personal/consumer users FDE is not something that should be a default, it should be something opted into after some number of scary looking "are you sure" dialogs.

so you take a bunch model training on literature that include documentation about every populist uprising in history, then play act as a caricature of the most abusive nobility/gilded-age industrialist/dictator you can image, the models respond by intimating the response of the humans in those stories.

That isn't a surprise, it is what the models were literally built to do.

I am sick of people saying we are when all the statistics say the opposite.

Look unemployment still near historic lows.

African American unemployment (usually a recession bellwether) still near lows.

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Wage growth only this past month slipped blow the inflation rate, unsurprising with Iran going on

Markets doing well, despite Iran

all this in a flattish interest rate environment

- Reality is the recession is tech sector thing, and only if you pull AI spend out. The rest is manufactured media driven mirage. The facts are the economy is good, maybe even very good, unless you are only looking at the gas station signs or have an easily automated mid-level tech job. If you really don't trust the numbers coming out the BLS because TDS or something just look at how Democrats are polling nationally at a lousy +3 when the opposition party usually looks at lot better, and in this case would be expecting to be over polling due to Iran.. The reality American's are feeling good and pretty secure as long as you don't color the conversation by starting out with "with gas so expensive.."

Why the scare quotes? Are you uncertain if she's a woman? Or do you not understand how to use quotation marks?

Did they steal stuff worth millions?

Though, of course, this raises the question of why someone would leave valuable masters in a suitcase in an unoccupied core.