I used to email the editor with examples of typos after I complained that their articles were in decline and he said they needed examples. So I sent a bunch of examples. That person was very receptive. He even said it was useful because they’d been discussing internally whether or not they were doing well in that area.

A few years ago, someone else took the position. I found out because I emailed the original person and he replied and CC’d the new editor. That person wasn’t receptive and never showed any sign that they cared that I wanted their articles to be high enough quality that I was confident sharing them with people who I thought needed more science regarding social issues.

Guess Ars is not gonna be among the sites that I trust to get things right from here on. And to hell with any editor who was ok with using agents when writing articles cause they clearly don’t have the internal structure to keep that from being a liability.

The smugness of her smile. Fuck this lady. She’ll go on to make life difficult for others for the next sixty years.

If I recall correctly, her mother is also a proud Karen.

Another airline that I won’t fly for political reasons. The other is United for having their security assault that dentist some years ago.

MacOS (less with each release). One of the Linux distros that aims to minimize the “Linux” experience for new users, like Mint. There are others that are also good for new users who don’t care what’s underneath. I’ll let others suggest them as I don’t keep track of them all.

For once, the admin might have found an issue that its base won’t let go.

Obviously further proof that scary brown people are responsible. /s

PiHole and Plex? Plex will help generate need for a NAS. It worked for me.

I would expect that leaded gasoline was responsible for the first gen stupider than their parents, but I have no data.

Gosh, you don’t say…

How was he supposed to know that ALL THE IMMIGRANTS would include him?!

I really need to stop just setting it down when I’m done, cause I’m tired of looking for it. Hang on…

All right. Here’s my tiniest violin…

Just finishing the job of our white ancestors, I’m sure. Ridiculous.

“My daughter, who was always mad about my guns, agreed to come see my new gun. I don’t know how it accidentally shot her in the head.”

That a grand jury in TX didn’t move on this is a real indictment of the citizens of that state. But we already knew what sort of people live there and are proud of their politics.

Struggle to paste the path to a file. Seriously.

Nope. He had the ability to control her. Nobody can stop our crimes. It’s bad.

Poor Rosalyn. Though she seemed to pull ahead with Calvinball.

Guess what car I won’t buy.

I want to subscribe to his newsletter.

In order to predict where thinking and reasoning capabilities are going, it’s important to understand the trail of thought that went into today’s thinking LLMs.

No. You don’t understand at all. They don’t think. They don’t reason. They are statistical word generators. They are very impressive at doing things like writing code, but they don’t work the way that is being inferred here.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation do good work. I would leave my cushy job if they ever had an opening I could pursue, but they primarily just need lawyers.