Used to be that troll science comics show off things that wouldn’t work in reality. Like tying a toast to a cat, so that the cat after dropping will endlessly spin in the air (buttered cat paradox).

Is “inbestros” a typo or a new term?

“Race” implies there’s a finish line. The tech won’t get to a point where the additional value a worker can produce when using it outweighs the additional cost of having the worker use it. (And keep in mind, according to some estimates, said additional value is 0). And LLMs won’t get to a point where they’re actually intelligent. The “I” part of “AI” is a not something we can reach with our current technology. In fact, we can’t currently define what intelligence even is.

The guy who wrote that Harry Potter fanfiction?

The English equivalent would be “Don’t hold your breath”

Eh, if you have savings, and family you can borrow money from, and a line of credit, then a quarter million is doable.

People who fall for these scams don’t invest only what they can afford to lose, they invest all the funds they can mobilize.

In order for this to work, the private key used for signing has to be on the camera, and would have to be kept secret from the camera’s owner. This is not possible. You can make it more difficult, use all sort of tricks to hide the key, but in the end, once somebody knows how you hide the key on their device, they’ll always be able to find it. And once they have found the key, they can sign whatever false picture they want.

You’re really interesting.

This tool argument bothers me. Tools are things you can become really good at using. You can’t get good at using gen AI.

Before puberty?

I said it doesn’t develop fully until adulthood. Not that it isn’t there at all until then.

The human brain doesn’t fully develop until the mid twenties, and empathy is one of the last things that fully develops. So the nihilistic online edge lord culture is one you can genuinely age out of.

The last game I played was “Timberborn”, and that one is a city builder, so the three possibilities would be: A) I become some kind of floating entity giving orders to beavers. B) I become one of the aforementioned beavers. C) it defaults to the game I played before that, which would be “Look Outside”. In which case I’m probably fucked.

10 Terabytes. 1 letter is 2 bytes in unicode. 10e12 bytes. 5e12 letters. 1 word is about 5 letters. 1e12 words. Assuming 500 words per page, that would be 2e9 pages. Page thickness assumed at 1e-4. 2e5 meters, if you stack all the pages. 200 kilometers high tower of paper.

Facebook is structured in such a way that Zuckerberg can never be fired.

You’d need self discipline to be Batman.

They added legs to horizon world!

Black body radiation is a real, but it’s an extremely inefficient way to get rid of excess heat. So you’d need huge radiators to get enough surface area.

Add to this the fact that terrestrial data centers operate at a loss, and there’s no way to run a space based one profitably.

Yes, but we need to be aware that it would get worse temporarily, and a lot of services we’re used to be being free would no longer be free. For example, Youtube would probably become a paid service.

There’s a theory that targeted ads are severely less effective than assumed amongst advertisers, and that traditional “spray and pray” advertisement is just as effective, but a whole lot cheaper. Essentially, targeted ads frequently target people who are already aware of the product, have already decided to buy it, or have already bought it. So, basically, company’s are overpaying for ads, and if they ever stop, the advertisement based internet is in trouble.