Was it “The Damned Trilogy” by Alan Dean Foster by any chance?

I want to got to this donut shop just to get this receipt.

I mean this makes sense. It’s not unlike trying to grow your hair long. If one falls out it’s not like the new growth is going to be that long immediately.

So if someone my age dies, it’s not like a new 53 yo dude just pops into existence.

But yes still kinda depressing

Because any negative number x 0 is still 0?

Yeah mesh to me means you talk to one AP wirelessly and that AP talks to another AP also wirelessly to eventually get to a wired connection to the internet. Of course that can also be wireless (SpaceLink, Verizon, etc) but out to the internet. I much prefer each AP has its own ethernet backhaul because both latency and throughput are significantly better. Of course it’s not as convenient since you have to have wired connections at each AP location.

Nope we’re in those times right now.

Demongraphic

I’ve always felt discord was way too ephemeral and caused a lot of question to be re-asked over and over.

Immediately go buy a can opener?

I think they call that Windows.

Honestly as infrequently as I turn my machines off this really doesn’t bother me. The mouse on the other hand….

Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.

There are people way smarter than me that claim it will be a threshold and would likely grow exponentially after it’s crossed. I guess we won’t know for sure until it happens. I do agree most people get bored easily but if this thing is possible to think for itself without interaction it won’t matter if the humans get bored.

Very likely. But 4 years ago I would have said we weren’t close to what these LLMs can do now so who knows.

You’re absolutely right. LLMs are good at faking language and sometimes not even great at that. Not sure why I got downvoted but oh well. But AGI will be game changing if it happens.

I have lots of uses for Attack Insects….

Yep the current iteration is. But should we cross the threshold to full AGI… that’s either gonna be awesome or world ending. Not sure which.

Blues Clues was good. We banned Barney from the git go. We loved Wow wow Wubsy, Wonderpets and The Backyardigans. I didn’t mind those at all.

Cailou is a little whiny brat and always has been. I hated that show when my son was younger.