I won’t stop eating meat, eggs, or dairy, but if we can take the whole killing and torturing animals out of the process, I’m all for it.

Once we’ve got affordable synthetic equivalents (and I mean equivalents; synthetic milk you can make proper cheese with, cold meats, steak, ribs, eggs, anything you can make with an animal), we should outright ban using animals for food.

(Except for birds, of course. Fuck birds. Should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs, the bastards.)

No, it’s from some movie that took the book’s name and named some of its characters after characters in the book, but otherwise has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Asimov never intended the three laws to be practical.

He wrote them specifically so they’d break in interesting ways for Susan Calvin to analyse, or annoying ways to torture Powell and Donovan in a way that’s amusing to the reader.

They are intentionally bad, as demonstrated in practically all of his robot stories.

What I’ve never understood is why it had to be one or the other (or why they had an issue with this particular murder); they have, and regularly use, a device that makes copies of people and things, and murders or destroys the original (it’s been proven that the murder part is completely unnecessary, so they probably only do it to avoid paperwork and overpopulation).

Why couldn’t they just not murder the original Tuvix when they made the copies of Tuvok and Neelix? It makes no sense.

Same with that episode where some guy wants to murder Data to learn how to make androids; why couldn’t they just make a copy of the thing and murder that one, and keep their “original” one?

Hell, why learn to make androids at all? Just make more copies of Data without murdering the original! The whole Starfleet could be crewed exclusively with Datas and Tuvixes, if they wanted!

Guaranteed to keep your water cool.

There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.

Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.

As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.

(And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).

It’s the only viable option given how much we’ve fucked the planet up.

Stopping (not reducing) emissions won’t stop already ongoing feedback loops, it’ll just prevent going full Venus.

If human civilization simply ceased to exist it’d still take millions of years for temperatures to go back to pre-human levels.

Sequestering enough carbon or increasing albedo don’t seem like feasible options.

We need to put a shade between Earth and the Sun, it’s the only option that seems possible before we collapse, and it would achieve immediate results (of course it’d also give companies an excuse to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere, since the problem would be “solved”, so we’d be back on track for Venus style runaway greenhouse effect in one or two decades).

We’re 100% fucked.

Nah, fuck kids.

They’d better start learning what a fucked up world they’ve been shat into.

Get started on the depression as soon as possible so it doesn’t come as a shock when they grow up.

Kids these days can’t afford to play and be happy and not be traumatised. They’ve got to get ready to kill and eat each other in the water wars.

If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…

If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…

They’ll never be able to learn, though.

A LLM is merely a statistical model of its training material. Very well indexed but extremely lossy compression.

It will always be outdated. It can never become familiar with your codebase and coding practices. And it’ll always be extremely unreliable, because it’s just a text generator without any semblance of comprehension about what the texts it generates actually mean.

All it’ll ever be able to do is reproduce the standards as they were when its training model was captured.

If we are to compare it to a junior developer, it’d be someone who suffered a traumatic brain injury just after leaving college, which prevents them from ever learning anything new, makes them unaware that they can’t learn, and incapable of realising when they don’t know something, makes them unable to reason or comprehend what they are saying, and causes them to suffer from verbal diarrhoea and excessive sycophancy.

Now, such a tragically brain damaged individual might look like the ideal worker to the average CEO, but I definitely wouldn’t want them anywhere near my code.

My favorite use is actually just to help me name stuff.

Reverse dictionary lookup, more or less.

Now, that is something LLMs should be actually good at, unlike practically any other thing they’re being sold as being good at.

The junior developer can (hopefully) learn and improve.

Dymaxion.

Waterman is nice and all, but I don’t like the way it splits Australia and New Zealand, or how it puts Antarctica in a separate bit like Alaska in USA maps.

Dymaxion offers a nice continuous view of all the continents, and can still be folded into a sufficiently spherical globe-like thingy.

It’d be nice to have an alternative version that made the oceans continuous, though, for people who like ships and stuff.

As long as you don’t care about consistency, maybe…

(I mean, since they can’t learn without retraining the whole model, if you’re writing anything of any significant length you’d basically need to refeed them the whole context and backstory so far every prompt, which I assume would eventually hit some prompt size limit…)

Correct.

Therefore selling it as something capable of reliably correctly answering questions is a criminal scam.

That’s victim blaming.

The fault is on the scammers selling the faulty product, not on the users who fall for the scam.

Well, then maybe they shouldn’t be selling this shit as a replacement for search engines, or making search engines worse to make us stop using them and use this shit instead, or shoving this shit on top of search engines to force us to use it even if we’re trying to use a search engine, should they‽ 😤

The part you’ve missing is that it’d be Trump selling Alaska, not the USA.

He’d do it in such a way that he’d get most of the money, while presenting it as the yugest deal in history.

His base wouldn’t like it? Who cares, certainly not Trump. It’s not like he plans to hold any elections ever again. (You underestimate how much of a cult MAGA is, though; most of them would happily drink whatever coolaid he tries to sell them.)

It’d be economically, politically, and diplomatically disastrous? Sure, but what has he done that hasn’t been one, two, or more often than not all of the above? He doesn’t care either. He’ll keep on grifting until he dies or until he can’t squeeze any more money out of the country, at which point he’ll scamper away with his gains.

Plus, with Alaska in Russian hands he and Putin could invade Canada from both ends, and soon sign another yuuge deal splitting it up in whatever way benefits Putin the most. A definite win-win in Trump’s eyes.

It’s been common knowledge for a long time that Trump is Putin’s asset, because Putin’s got dirt on him that even he is embarrassed by (and also because he loves dictators so much that he’d do anything one asks of him even without the blackmail).