Unfamiliar every time, even if not promising and even if familiar isn’t toxic. Unfamiliar environments are where I’ve grown the most.

Also, circumstances may be tough and parents controlling, but at 23 the person most fundamental to and responsible for your decisions is you.

Noooooo. Need integrated contacts. Priority 1!

Fun thought experiment, but I don’t think one can know without it truly on the table. I like to think I would not at all, but my responsibilities to loved ones may force me to in some situation.

They don’t seem to realize that higher level languages help us understand the code. Language models will be similarly capable of reading the binaries they ship. So what they doing is hiding code from users, not machines.

To clarify, I don’t mean right now. They haven’t been sufficiently trained on machine code and that lacks some semantic help. But the future they fear will have transformers just as capable with lower level code.

I’m not defending it, but I think it is because it is a big ticket purchase / decision, and that other person reached the same conclusion. So they are at least in some small part similar by some axes. And I think relationships really work that way. The universe is made up of many circles / relationships, and the more overlap one has with another, or the smaller those rings the closer the relationship. Cars are just a fairly tertiary one.

But if ya keep the camera rolling.

I think tools like Open Collective, Ko-fi, et al. are sort of that already. So you’d be building centralization atop centralization. That may be useful, but it is another place that would require a rake to keep the lights on, so again less money donated.

And what happens if two or more such services exist? Then you need a layer above that.

Looks like anodized aluminium. Maybe something like this.

Yeah, a good idea. You run into some material strength issues, but I think this is the way.

Here is a great video on spin gravity. It covers an important detail that another comment mentions but most over look. Spinning fast enough to create gravity-like centrifugal force causes real dizziness at small diameters. 5 or 6 rpm is about the maximum we can stand.

If I say “A screwdriver is a tool,” and “The brain is a tool,” am I then saying “The brain is just like a screwdriver”? Or is it possible that applying seconding order logic to an admittedly and clearly reductive statement I made isn’t productive?

And which part of the brain description is inaccurate, specifically?

There is active research right now for their use in pure maths. I don’t think it is primarily about direct solutions, but in program synthesis for formal logic. Keep in mind this isn’t just LLM’s, but also graph networks and other non-transformer networks.

That isn’t likely to happen. Fortunately, neither have I said that. But a pithy comeback won’t change the accuracy of the brain being a self-assembling probabilistic network. All your memories, experiences, and emotions are part of that.

We are nearly precisely that. The brain functions as a massive, self-organizing neural network where cognitive architecture is determined by the strength of connections (the biological equivalent of adjustable computational weights) that modulate signal transmission via the flow of ions.

Every decision made or breath taken is the outcome of how ions flow through this network.

More capable than the crowd here lets on. My take is like this, unchecked capitalism is a danger to mankind. The pervasiveness of LLM’s right now is just a symptom of that. The rich are the problem, not the AI.

It is a tool; a very good one along many axes. I think people that think it isn’t good for writing code are misinformed or intentionally disingenuous. It is extremely good at that, but it is just a tool not a replacement.

But it is the applications in pure maths, virology, protein folding, etc. where it gets really interesting.

Water consumption, power consumption, and profit motives aside, they are fascinating tools.

That said, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is a fascinating take on how this could all go wrong.

In any case, I can’t understand the people that say stuff like, “It is just autocomplete on steroids,” or “it is just a probabilistic prediction tool.” Okay, but like… that’s all we are too.

Summary, interesting tools being used for profit at the expense of economies, the environment, and creative fields.

How? You make an unauthenticated request to the cdn to get the font data. So they get IP and user agent, but no site cookies or other scripts are loaded. I’m not trying to defend them; fuck Google, but it is definitely not like other analytics services from Google. So, computer info (beyond user agent), time on site, interests, etc. is speculative at most.

To clarify, when I say “speculative”, I mean they are speculating your identity, not that your assessment is speculative. They can make a pretty good estimate of who you are even behind nat and use that with graph resolution to maybe surmise those details about you, but it isn’t deterministic like the analytics api. And they “promise” they aren’t doing that with the fonts api, but obviously they aren’t to be trusted.

I thought the Expanse did this really well. For starters, most travel is restricted as we currently know it. They have the Epstein drive, but something like that is feasible. In any case, humans are still meat bags that can only accelerate so much.

But then the FTL component requires some otherworldly technology with gating. That leaves the physics mystery to having been built by some smarter species and I think that is perfect for suspension of disbelief.