“A single Tuvix is a curiosity. A wonder, even. But thousands of Tuvixes – isn’t that becoming a race?”

Duplicating via transporter accident 👍
Merging via transporter accident 👎

Clearly, what Janeway should’ve done is Riker’d the Tuvix and then only murdered one of the copies.

LLMs are AI - always have been. The term “artificial intelligence” has always been broad in computer science: it covers anything that performs a cognitive task normally requiring human intelligence.

On the contrary, it’s not “AI” unless it’s a fuckton of hand-programmed if statements. I dunno what this newfangled “neural network” shit is, but it’s way too brain-like to be AI! \s

To be fair, what being “good with computers” actually means is being adept at figuring out a new thing you haven’t seen before.

Computer literacy is about synthesis, not rote memorization. I like citing this interview, talking about software as “building blocks with which you can create things,” as a great example of what knowing how to use a computer properly is really like. (Note that the point isn’t the specific detail of the UNIX CLI, but the principle that he can imagine a novel workflow and make it happen.)

Speaking of which, that’s my “something about how people view or use technology that needs to die:” the notion that you can be “computer literate” without understanding how to program, at least a little bit. The entire difference between a computer and any of the technologies that came before it is that a computer doesn’t have a fixed function, and you can make it do whatever you want it to do as long as you have the imagination and skill to figure out how to describe it.

They’ll work their way up to the Ls, Gs, and Bs eventually.

That’s all still just parts of phase 1.

Of course he does. He undoubtedly wants to mass-murder trans people, too. Baby steps.

Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to prevent people from blocking or ignoring channels they hate?

Sociopaths (euphemized as “marketers”) whose entire business model is based on forcing you to see things you hate.

You’d be better off asking for a whitelist of channels that aren’t.

He intends never to be a “former” president again.

That’s not what it said. It said, “if you don’t do politics, there’s not much you doo-doo.”

You can’t say that and not photoshop in his actual mugshot.

No, realistically what we’re looking at is a full ban on 3D printing as a whole because anything the printer does “might” be a gun part.

And then shortly after, a ban on property rights as a whole, because anything you own with a circuit board or a stepper motor in it “might” be modified to create an illegal 3D printer.

…And even then, they’re leveraging the open source under the hood. Even your locked-down Bambu piece of shit uses slicing software based on Slic3r.

I don’t see how this can be regulated.

That’s the neat part: it can’t. Which means attempting to do so anyway basically abolishes all property rights.

And thus the true purpose of the legislation is revealed.

It is nothing less than, I say without exaggeration, a war on property rights as a whole.

That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.

Then they could just immediately hold them in contempt again and put them right back.

More to the point, I’m pretty sure contempt is different from a “federal crime” in the sense that it is an inherent power of the court system, not a law passed by the legislature that was broken. I don’t think it actually is pardonable.

If that’s really what @givesomefucks meant, then I have no idea what the hell a “positive power co-efficience” is (other than a made-up/misspelled word).

…maybe a breeder reactor?

Like Zwift.

I’m guessing he’s talking about a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes (a “positive power coefficient”).