I’m a sucker for Nike outfits

Big fan of chilli flakes and just a little salt on seared pineapple.

In Mass Effect, it’s VI (Virtual Intelligence), while actual AI is banned in the galaxy.

The information kiosk VIs on The Citadel are literally LLMs and explain themselves as such. Unlike AI/AGI they aren’t able to plan, make decisions, or self-improve, they’re just a simple protocol on a large foundational model. They just algorithmic.

Simulated Intelligence is okay, but virtual implies it mimics intelligence, while simulated implies it is a substitute and actually does intelligence.

I feel like that one’s expected and therefore not the biggest threat. Everyone knows what the biggest threat is but only that it’s spineless and makes no sense, so good luck planning ahead for it. Numbers should help, but have seem meaningless in the past.

Too late. Globalisation has just sized up the US.

A new leader and government will help, but what a monumental pit to come out of. The first term will be mostly spent plugging holes and repairing.

Barely six months in and American citizens are on their knees—literally if ICE are there with an unmarked van—and no one’s doing a thing. It’s like every part of the American Constitution was just for show all this time.

How’s making America great again going?

They could do it if they pull the ol’ Uno reverse on NATO’s superhighway infrastructure, and like…just get away with that.

“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.”

Apparently something Epictetus used to say, according to Aurelius.

Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offer

Sounds like civil staff was top heavy and voluntary separation packages were offered. Those that accepted and NASA also agreed on would’ve been redundant (or close to it) positions already.

If you couldn’t get your project properly funded and found out $400M a year goes to legacy senior civil staff, you’d want them gone too.

Yesterday it tried to tell me Duration.TotalYears() and Number.IsNaN() were M functions in the first few interactions. I immediately called it out and for the first time ever, it doubled-down.

I think I’m at a level where, for most cases, what I ask of LLMs for coding is too advanced, else I just do it myself. This results in a very high counts of bullshit. But even for the most basic stuff, I have to take the time to read all of it and fix or optimise mistakes.

Play fireworks compilations on YT to desensitise. My dogs sleep through fireworks. They’ll some times bark but it’s because they hear other dogs barking down the road.

Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.

I need to watch things die
From a good safe distance
Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same, so
Why can’t we just admit it?

They are characteristically similar some times…

The US sees an item not referred to by a corporate brand name, and wouldn’t have it.

They’re not alone in it, but their suseptiblity to macro-marketing can only be described as “American level”.

I loved it in the tropics. 40C day, then right on 4pm, BAM!!! It’s 25C, there’s an epic lightning show, 10 mins later it’s gone, the roads are steaming, and a nice balmy 28C night kicks off.,

That’s not disturbing; that’s completely fucked up.

If they want to buy data to use for AI, they can pay someone to license their voice for its use. What they’ve done is no different to bootlegging, but it’s worse because it’s personally identifiable data.

You’re confusing the Muslimics with the Islamians.

I’ve had someone recognise I’m a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.

Well, it’s not the worst concentration camp, but I’d rather be in a POW one.