I think this is the kpmg report? https://kpmg.com/xx/en/our-insights/ai-and-technology/ai-pulse.html

Which paints an extremely rosy picture of AI compared to this futurism article. I’m in no way a fan of AI, but I dunno if this kind of cherry-picking helps…

They don’t have a concept of truth. Nor of nonsense, hence their ability to answer any syntactically interpretable meaningless garbage and spew out an equivalently meaningless answer.

Corporations and governments are doing it anyway because MS is entrenched

Software supply is inelastic though?

Appreciated :)

I don’t live in the US…

But sure, be a dick. Very helpful.

Link?

Edit: oh, this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Platner

What did I miss?

The job they wanted enough to sacrifice their morals

Not a very big sacrifice in most cases

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Yeah. Also AFAIK, they bombed a bunch of buildings, but only at times they knew no one would be in them, and never killed or injured anyone.

No idea what your dad’s like, but I reckon we in the secular west are write off rituals way too easily. They can have lots of value - silly fun not least of all, but also community building and meaning-making.

Rojava, an socialist autonomous region in northern Syria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava_Revolution

And the Zapatistas, another successful socialist insurgency in mexico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation

The Weather Underground were a leftist militant group in the US who did a bunch of bombings and riots in the 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

There’s a decent documentary about them: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/

The Luddites were a labour movement with really admirable goals. They were only anti technology because it was being used to screw over textile workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Yeah. It dies (more often after procreating a couple of times). Death is also useful at a species level because it makes space for new (potentially fitter) individuals

Not quite. There are a few Christmas Islands. This one is one of the larger islands of Kiribati, in the mid Pacific. The one with the soldier crabs is an Australian territory in the Indian ocean.

Also note: it’s pronounced “Kiribas”, and yes that means the island is pronounced “Kirismas” - Christmas island (for the usual colonial reasons)

100% this. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, but also, those people need to know you’re interested, keen, and sufficiently capable to get started. Mentors have been very useful for me too.

Yeah, you’re right. Minimal useful explanation is necessary. It can always be expanded later too