The last I saw, 50% of peer-reviewed papers can't be reproduced. So a 40-60% funding cut is probably about right.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Interestingly I was talking at the weekend to a guy who used to work for a soda company here. He said the glass bottles used to be made and filled locally where he worked because they were heavy and difficult to transport, but switching to plastic allowed the company to centralize production in a city hundreds of miles away and ship them here instead. And, obviously, sack him and most of the other local workers.

But the MBAs got a boost to their stock options.

We're no longer allowed to bury plastic because it requires digging holes and digging holes causes Climate Change or something.

This is why we now ship the plastic to the third world so they can throw it into the ocean instead.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I think it will be difficult for the music industry to push 'this song was created by an AI in which 0.1% of the training data was a song we own' because that would pretty much destroy the AI industry which is based on being able to use other people's content without paying for it and the Tech billionaires are richer than the music billionaires. You're right though that the tech companies like Youtube might agree to block AI music 'because of unresolved legal questions' or some such nonsense.

Imagine the economic chaos if I could just tell my computer what kind of music I want to listen to and it could generate that music for me.

Think of the starving Music Executives!

Because The Mushc Industry must be able to continue rent-seeking and collecting most of the revenue that actual musicians create.

I know a guy who was a moderately successful musician in the 90s with a few songs near the top of the charts back then. He loves AI because he no longer needs a band and can create entire songs by himself.

That terrifies The Music Industry. Because its income is based on gatekeeping and rent-seeking.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

And Apollo 13 cost NASA billions of dollars and came close to killing the crew because they screwed up the oxygen tank tests.

If SpaceX didn't test the tanks before filling them that's probably retarded. But the Apollo 13 oxygen tanks were fine until someone damaged them with improper testing. It's not inconceivable that someone damaged these tanks after testing and either didn't realize or decided the damage wasn't serious enough to matter.

17 Apollo missions but only 13 Saturn Vs flew (including Skylab).

One of the earliest Saturn V launches (maybe it was the first?) lost several engines but was considered a success because it still made it to some kind of usable orbit. Apollo 13 came within about second of disintegrating during launch, but fortunately an engine shut down and reduced the hazardous vibrations that were going to tear it apart. Skylab's engines overheated because the interstage didn't separate, but that was due to a piece of Skylab falling off and breaking stuff on the way down. I don't remember whether any of the other POGO problems before Apollo 13 came close to destroying the rocket, but they'd almost reached the end of the Apollo program before they fixed those problems.

NASA also blew up a lot of Saturn V engines in testing, to the point where some people didn't think they'd ever make it work.

So, yeah, NASA blew a lot of stuff up to get the Saturn V to work and it only claims a 100% success rate because of luck and ignoring things that didn't really work right.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

Bruce Schneier posted this today:
Where AI Provides Value
If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest AI tools fail spectacularly. If AI recommends glue as a pizza topping, then you’re safe for another day.

But the fact remains that AI already has definite advantages over even the most skilled humans, and knowing where these advantages arise—and where they don’t—will be key to adapting to the AI-infused workforce.

AI will often not be as effective as a human doing the same job. It won’t always know more or be more accurate. And it definitely won’t always be fairer or more reliable. But it may still be used whenever it has an advantage over humans in one of four dimensions: speed, scale, scope and sophistication. Understanding these dimensions is the key to understanding AI-human replacement.

Read Dr. Neal Krawetz's "Hacker Factor" blog for insight into the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). If C2PA is deployed in its current state, it can lead to incredibly serious problems.

Nikon will continue to incorporate new elements of the evolving C2PA specifications