While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

Ads are just pissing on your brain, so fuck them for this in the first place.

No no no. You're mad at the wrong thing. I'm pissed, because now "Chocolate Rain" is going to be stuck in my head for the next 4 - 5 days.

Gone up to the big nuclear wessel in the sky.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

You're right, and I thought about this about a half hour after making this assertion. Of course, I'll have to crack the book and learn whatever new thing displaces Rust, or whatever.

I currently use qwen 3.8 27b on a system with a couple of RTX 3060s that I bought on ebay for personal coding projects. I've been a firmware engineer professionally for a couple of decades, and I recently wanted to branch into mobile app development. Last year, I bought a book on React to learn cross-platform app dev. But, last month I built this pieced-together system for local AI and have come to the conclusion that I will never need to learn a new programming language again. This lil' bastard does everthing!

And, professionally, my employer pays for a top-tier subscription that's able to code, run command line tools, build and install firmware, and even connect to a logic analyzer and debug data lines.

Yes, "AI bots" can write most of your code, if you're able to clearly explain what's needed in your planning and action prompts. And, beyond that, AI can examine an existing code base, very clearly explain its function, and provide recommendations for refactors and other improvements.

At this point, it hasn't replaced me as an engineer, but it's definitely augmented my abilities it in a way that "paired programming" and other stupid Agile-touchy-feely methodologies never could.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

none, its mostly theater imo

does not work for sid/forky due to libsodium

still no sid/forky

Yeah, remote assistance. That's different from the drone pilot driver scenario you alluded to.

Those are both for remote assistance, and neither are "overseas". Uh, nice try?

Right. So, for this to work, each car has to relay several video feeds to a central station, which then route to this "overseas" location. This would add seconds of latency. Then, these "overseas" taxi drivers monitor each car's video feeds simultaneously (maybe with a headset?), and perform steering, acceleration and breaking actions on a mock setup. This control data gets routed back to each individual car, which adds seconds more latency.

Do you really think this is how it works?