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All I've ever wanted from AR glasses is the ability to look up people's names so I don't have to remember them.

If an LLM can figure out nukes from first principles I think we have bigger problems.

The idea that an LLM will spontaneously use its super-intelligence to somehow develop perfect plans for building weapons of mass destruction seem greatly misplaced. Think of all of the things that are not about intelligence that go into building something like that. It is of course feasible for someone to pull it off, which we know because we already did, but all we needed for that is ordinary human intelligence, the right knowledge, oh, and also (presumably) access to kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium, among many other things.

Nobody ever really explains why normal nuclear non-proliferation efforts are insufficient to address the concerns.

I get that the fear isn't always rational but it is rather mind-bending that these types of arguments are actually used in the real world in favor of some crazy regulation. I don't even really care that much about LLMs and I find it pretty perplexing.


Making a good generated image is way more than typing a prompt.

How? Seriously, beyond coming up with the prompt, how is synthetic content more then typing a prompt

Look for ComfyUI tutorials on YouTube. Creating something unique is elaborate and requires developing skills no different than Photoshop or any other digital art tool.

It doesn't matter what most people are doing, emulators are legal.

Legal or not, Nintendo will release its hounds and drown you in court fees. Personally, I'd rather not have to deal with this legal bullshit and stress in my life.

The problem then it's anti-SLAPP not doing what it's supposed to.

LinkedIn is a place to upload your resume and show employers that you're a real person. You don't need to use it beyond that. You're not special or cool if you refuse to make an account.

I would probably have a LinkedIn account, but for their super annoying viral tactics. Many of my professors and co-workers have sent me LinkedIn invites, without their knowledge. LinkedIn may no longer be doing this, only because it's harder now, but in the past, their app would scrape your contacts and then blast all of them with a LinkedIn invite. They're not the only company that does/did this, but it's a detestable tactic.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252914656


It’s an interesting perspective, but the precise opposite of mine. During my short time in there all I saw were fake-looking pictures of fake-looking people, with profiles full of fake-looking (or at least embezzled) information and, more than anything else, fake texts and updates full of fake, empty statements with a bunch of fake likes and fake comments/congratulations. I never felt more like a real human being than when I shut it down.

I've only ever looked at my own profile and the profiles of old classmates to make myself feel bad.

> show employers that you're a real person

...how would LinkedIn be able to figure out that this isn't a fake profile made by a dog?

And how is a LinkedIn URL any different from any other URL that shows my CV?

FWIW, I had an account for a couple of years and eventually deleted it (don't remember when, but probably some time between 2010 and 2015) because it added exactly zero value (actually negative value because of all the spam).

Also just from a few days ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/linkedin-is-quietly-training-ai-o...


Don't know about "special or cool" (do _you_ think they're special or cool?) but it certainly tells me enough about the person to be more interested in hiring them. What they're saying is "I will not subscribe to this obvious scummy scam site, despite being pressured to do so".

I don't understand how someone can be this misinformed

I honestly think they're just trolling like that ElonChrist guy. Two sides of the same coin.

You're misinformed. NASA pays SpaceX roughly what it was paying the Russians.

You are missing some nuance here.

NASA launches payloads on falcon 9 and falcon heavy for a third of the cost it was before.

NASA pays the same price per seat in the Dragon as the Soyuz because they prefer not to fill up all the seats.


> NASA pays the same price per seat in the Dragon as the Soyuz because they prefer not to fill up all the seats.

That is incorrect. There are now a maximum of 4 seats in Crew Dragon.[1]

While it's true that NASA had plans to take down 6 Astronauts in an emergency, 2 of them would have basically been strapped to cargo pallets. Not something NASA would engage in under normal circumstances.

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1. > After SpaceX had already designed the interior layout of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, NASA decided to change the specification for the angle of the ship’s seats due to concerns about the g-forces crew members might experience during splashdown.

> The change meant SpaceX had to do away with the company’s original seven-seat design for the Crew Dragon.

> “With this change and the angle of the seats, we could not get seven anymore,” Shotwell said. “So now we only have four seats. That was kind of a big change for us.”

https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/12/07/after-redesigns-the-fi...


Paying for a full-service crew launch service including ground handling for payload and crew, space suits, life support, docking, and retrieval of the crew/capsule on landing is very different than paying for kg of payload launched to orbit.

The latter has gotten significantly cheaper.

NASA's price to SpaceX for the crew missions also includes development costs of the capsule and suits because there wasn't one on the market available for NASA to use.

And above all of that, price to a customer, especially a government customer with a lot of specific requirements and paperwork, is not the same as the actual cost.


How did the author get Shazam to constantly sample songs?

What's stopping you from messaging server owners or stalking their profile to see they're ideologically compatible?

That's a lot more effort than using Discord and getting on with my life.

That computers can reasonably handle natural language instructions is pretty amazing.

The irony of course being that the GUI requires thousands of more calculations than the actual math problem you're calculating.

it's the future, we made our calculators so big and complicated that we have to calculate a smaller calculator for our calculations

You just need to ask Chat GPT then ask Gemini and CoPilot if the answer is right.

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