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No sound and the a and b buttons should be the other direction (a is to the right of b) on the keyboard.

I would be very interested in a writeup that talked about the likely trajectory of Apple's OS if they had bought BeOS instead.

I think the better analogy is kick-starting. Yes, you'd get model collapse eventually, but you can kick-start a new model by cloning an old one and then you start training it like a normal model from then on out.

I don't think that's what GP meant. I think the point is maybe they could build a moat by "knowing you" in a way that makes you care about using Claude rather than, say, Gemini.

Agreed. Terrible writeup.

Yeah. I don’t think anyone thinks cars with thrusters are a good idea on normal roads cmon.

The corpses that this thing generates will be astonishing.

Even if it does, these features aren't useful and can't be used in any realistic scenario. At best they're just party tricks.

1. If you start flying and land on someone or something, that's a problem. 2. My strong bet is what they demonstrated is as far as the thing can fly, which is definitely cool as a party trick, but that's it.

These cars are obviously chock full of machine-learning algorithms to be able to control themselves in the air in that way. I'd much rather see that ML muscle used for something that actually benefitted someone.

What happens if there's a rock in the road and it gets sucked up?

I wonder whether they will actually be able to recharge to that pressure level in a production car. I kind of doubt it, plus it will be noisy, consume a ton of energy and take a long time.

This sentence was obviously written by AI: "Six words. Certain meaning as a set. Decades of debate over the assignment."

No matter how researchers measure this, people on the left will always say they didn't do it properly. I'm personally satisfied that the work that has been done is "good enough" to establish reasonable baselines for many, and maybe most, countries.

Will the revenue stream last once people start pivoting their search volume in earnest across to LLMs? I basically never use Google search anymore.

No serious person in the field thinks this. Do some research.

It's because it's inconvenient to discuss. What you said is the actual truth.

No serious person in the field agrees with this.

Don't Finland, China and Singapore have the highest IQs of any countries? Why can't that be the answer? To me, what you do exactly in school is likely pretty secondary.

Yep. We just switched several classification jobs we run over to gpt-6 luna. Love the cost savings.

I don't actually think this interpretation is correct. ZIRP was the government printing money and buying bonds off the market. I think it had more to do with velocity of money, which ordinarily would have been corrected through a recession, but the government prevented that, which will create a much bigger recession at some point in the future.

IQ is not randomly distributed in heterogeneous populations. Do a little research, and you'll see what I mean.

I guarantee you that you do NOT know someone who tested B2 using an actual proctored Goethe Institute test, after only using DuoLingo.

> Why would I changed?

Exactly.

To be fair, Mensa is a Venn diagram between IQ and being a douche.

Look at GDP growth (it's not great). Where are the sales coming from? The modal revenue boost to Mag-7 companies since Covid has been a profitless tech firm wasting venture money whose source was debt enabled by low interest rates.

I disagree. The massive divergence between US household income and European household income since 2009 tracks almost perfectly Fed interest-rate policy and government deficit spending.

The federal government has spent the time since 2009 lighting the furniture and the house on fire to support unsustainable increases in domestic standard of living by effectively mortgaging the future. The problem we have dwarfs anything that was happening during the Bush era.

Likely the difference between you and me is this: I'm 50 years old, already wealthy from tech, and planning to leave the US. You're probably still trying to earn your way. Sadly, I'm pretty sure we've pulled the ladder up, and folks like you are going to reap the whirlwind, as they say.

I'll let you in on something. The "inexplicable" success is Fed interest-rate policy plus deficit spending.

I speak 4 foreign languages, at (fully tested through exams like the DALF, DELE, Goethe Institute) levels of C2, C1, C1 and B2. Take an actual test proving your knowledge and get back to me.

I've spent a lot of time with Duolingo learners. They're all pre-A1. You're just lying to yourself to make yourself think your phone addiction isn't "that bad." Take a real language class.

Agreed, but look at it the other way. Do you really think we'll never again have a recession? Some people genuinely believe that.

Not completely. It just means you can have an AI do the useless busywork instead of a human. Something can be economically useful but still have proponents in a firm.

In my experience, people who make fun of AI's ability to eliminate white-collar work are exactly the same people who are white-knuckling it, hoping they can make another $300k next year to buy that Rivian.

People who don't need a salary look at the situation more objectively and, in general, can see that a lot of white-collar work is in peril.

Yes. I was specifically referring to Zitron's circular-financing complaints. I can't defend his separate claims that AI just isn't that useful. If he were involved in the tech industry, he'd know how preposterous those claims are.