With all the stops, cycling is usually faster unless the route is uphill or you really don’t have a lot of stops and probably need more.

The guy betting on this even ran in to try and make Trump dance by shooting the ground under his feet like they did in old Western movies, but that didn’t work out either.

Not mentioned in the article but Gemini is obviously developed by the DeepMind teams, among many other things.

I don’t think utopias are a bad idea in general, but if they somehow are only reachable by collapsing most of the current system before any groundwork can even be attempted… a form that can be developed in parallel and take over at some point makes much more sense.

Think about the transition and hopefully it doesn’t require nuclear war.

Check the rotations settings. It’s off by default.

I can still do this with my FP4 running e/OS. Just had to put a checkmark at 180° in the rotation settings.

No, it has to do with growth. An adult eye no longer grows significantly.

I think the difference was that before other countries would see themselves as allies and thus as part of the West. NATO is just one of many alliances that went beyond just pretending.

Now Trump threatened all of this. Take over Canada? Get back the Panama Canal? “Rescue” Greenland? Get out of NATO? Suddenly it becomes clear that it was a mistake to trust the US so much and that the same rules should count for them as anyone else.

Had a similar experience when SCUBA diving recently. New pressure gauges these days are digital and I still think the analog ones are not only prettier, but also functionally more convenient. You don’t need to be able to read numbers to know you’re getting into the red. Maybe they have some extra feature but I didn’t need it.

You don’t sell the same amount of product when you have to increase the price. You may need to shrink your business to not get the remaining margin getting eaten up by operational costs.

I agree that 0-days aren’t numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.

On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.

I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.

LLMs are the only thing that is hyped. The other models and applications have existed already back when ChatGPT first hit the public and they have not had any special break through that would explain exponential growth in investment or a need for compute power. Language models had that with the transformer structure, everything else just develops iteratively.

The bubble we see now is because of language models and we can try and conflate it with other deep models and call it all AI, but it doesn’t change the fact that the generative models are the only ones requiring these resources and are looking for a problem to solve.

Best counterargument is cultural export. We don’t see it with Chinese nor with African French. If at all Japanese, Spanish or South Korean. But for the Asian languages the learning curve is much higher and the utility lower.

Assuming it was great at some point and people were trying, I would argue at the point when propaganda progressed far enough that enough people thought it was already great. You stop trying when you think you reached the goal. To this day no politician can afford suggesting otherwise unless it’s to make it “great again” I guess.

Works the same way in Switzerland. Some places may have a minimum wage locally, but it’s rare and on a national level there’s nothing. However the unions aren’t strong in all sectors so some jobs really do pay shit.

It’s a too snarky/cynical thought. Waging wars, destroying infrastructure etc. all have huge environmental costs. The US leaving the Paris accords, blocking clean energy adoption, cancelling projects as well as Trump’s anti-renewable propaganda has a net negative effect even if an oil crisis and economic recession is good for fewer carbon emissions as well.

Biden’s IRA had more positive potential.

That’s why you should travel and learn other languages when you are young. You’ll learn a different perspective, culture, way of life and even if you don’t make it your own, it’ll be harder to see one superior to the other.

I’m not sure this is still true in the industrial era where human impact is responsible for habitat loss, monocultures, mass extinction and loss of biodiversity and reduction of undomesticated biomass in general.

Beavers actually build spaces that allow for more specialized species to thrive. We could do that too, theoretically.

Soon you’ll have to pay for the privilege of communicating with a human instead of an LLM chat bot.

Edit: I realize I need to specify because I forgot to add relevant context.