The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they’ve done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.

There’s really no need to recycle this misleading headline forever, they’re not in short supply.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

The role of a government is to do what’s best for the government. That usually involves keeping the people from getting too unhappy with them.

I don’t know. It just seems like one plausible explanation for what’s been produced. To me it has that feel to it.

People old enough to remember when you didn’t need any ID at all for domestic flights?

Maybe what’s needed is a “this is what I’d write on my blog if I had one” community to redirect people to when they try to wedge things in here by forcing their thought into the form of a question.

Sure they were subject to all the constraints of commercial prime-time TV, but as that video discusses in some detail with respect to DS9, the writers still had freedom within that corporate framework to tell woke anticolonialist stories beyond the classic sci-fi adventure fare of TOS which itself often explored what was new ground for commercial television at the time. Under some other corporate masters it might’ve been possible for the new crew to find similar freedom today, if things had worked out differently — and if any of them have the ability to do it and the willingness to try. But Larry Ellison and the forces he’s standing in for seem far more alert to the subtleties of it than they used to be. There’s bigger money involved now and they’re keeping it on a tighter leash.

For a more serious critique of new Trek that you might find more interesting than the angry tweets you refer to, consider this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5DroolqFU

Some people like AI because they treat it as if it’s the voice of God speaking directly to them.

It is not, so far as I know, an “extra network.” It’s one of many types of instance on the fediverse. Many of them have features that do not perfectly interoperate with others. The more popular ones eventually get to be widely supported as things evolve. Mastodon is not the standard, it’s just one among many.

Also, you’re a lemmy user. It’s one of the worst when it comes to interoperating smoothly with the rest of the network.

Where’s the “4chan” one?

Somebody once told me that it’s easier if you bring the water to a boil first before you put the eggs in to cook, as well as putting them in cold water afterwards. It seems to work for me.

Yeah — I was just trying to guess at what prompted your initial reaction. I still don’t get it. Now it seems like you’re saying approximately the same thing my initial comment did.

Shouldn’t the focus be on Windows 12? I thought it was supposed to be released in 2025.

The madness we collectively suffer from with respect to AI comes from vastly exaggerated estimates of its powers, mainly by those who covet the power they think it will give them. That’s all my original comment was intending to say.

Those who are credulous enough to shun AI because they fear that it will soon enslave humanity by the sheer force of its magnificently irresistible intellectual superpowers are also around, but although the pervasive criti-hype is exhausting, it’s obviously not the cause of our current troubles. If that’s what you thought I was talking about, perhaps you are among them?

Anyway I can’t believe the mania hasn’t burnt itself out yet. Maybe next year.

“AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can’t do your job.”

The typical return on investment for spending on AI is zero.

So you’re saying that the reason the British Empire conquered the world was that everyone just spontaneously decided that they were so awesome that it made sense to give them all the money and resources, and invite them to run everything?

How is it even possible to be alive in 2026 and not be aware that the rich and powerful have developed a strong tendency to go completely bonkers when the topic of “AI” comes up?

Yes, because humans completely lose their minds when they hear about it. Mostly the ones with lots of money.

The only reason AI is so dangerous is that many humans completely lose their minds when they hear about it.