I apologize if the context/background comes off as an agenda. It’s not that I’m trying to convince people one way or another, but I am concerned the anti-AI sentiment may be causing people to dismiss useful tools. I was attempting to provide some of my thoughts including that concern as context to my more general question of what I might need to do to properly utilize the tools.

If it helps, I agree that you shouldn’t spend any money on anything AI. To me, most “generative” AI is like a programming package. NumPy is a genuinely a really big deal, and coding without it is foolish, but people who don’t code shouldn’t worry about it. It’s not yet clear to me where AI agents fall as a tool in the world, and I’m genuinely trying to work that out. It might be useful purely as a coding tool – at the very least I think I want to try it as a coding tool. I’m also a biologist so I’m very keen to use robots to automate routine tasks – not sure if the AI will be a tool to build that automation or be a part of it.

I’ve also seen the multiple sub AIs thing. I think they have tools too, but there is definitely an element of that.

For real, free house just because there’s a poltergeist of an eldridge daedric god? Who hasn’t had roommates like that?

What? No, Sims is way more fanciful than D&D. Which sounds more realistic riding a unicorn or owning an entire house? Exactly.

there would mechanisms in place to educate

Could you imagine if he was quietly black sited and came back from lake laogai all “there is no war in ba sing se” upstanding citizen?

Also, I think this is more vocational training anyway, so probably not far off from the educational system you want anyway.

Eh, give it twenty years.

In that order or …?

Very true, failed to turn Vance away from evil though.

Hate it, but I honestly think this will pass. Most people won’t even notice as Windows already requires an email, so this will probably just add some sort of take a picture of your face thing. The concerning issue is when this leads websites to be able to request the identity of users. Huge chunks of the internet will basically die for anyone who cares about privacy. Linux users can ignore a lot of this, but linux will remain in the minority on all devices, and when most websites plus government websites start using it to access papers and such things… yeah then even linux users will have to figure out a work around maybe scrapers or something… It’s dystopian.

350 square meters is a mega structure? Is that like just the ground floor? That’s like a large house or small mansion. Aren’t there mountain ancient villages? Surely they’re larger?

I mean, … it’s not like he was successful.

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Cereal is runny oatmeal, which is thick soup, which is heavily dressed salad; thus, cereal is salad.

Also working on some 3d maths.

I’ve used the free versions a bit, but not really to the extent that I’d call it vibe coding. The chat bots often know where to find libraries or pre-existing functions that I don’t know. It’s also okay at algorithms for well defined problems, but it often says be careful not to do something I absolutely need to do or visea versa. It’s very hit and miss on debugging. It’ll point out obvious stuff (typos) reliably, and it can do some iteration stuff usually, but it usually doesn’t pick up on other things. Once in a rare while it will impress me by suggesting I look at a particular thing, and I think it manages this better in new chats, but most complex issues fail for it. I use it as a faster stackoverflow, but you need to be able to work through the code yourself, understand what you’re doing, and test that individual steps are doing what they need to do. The bots can’t really do any sort of planning or breaking down a problem into sub-problems, and they really suck at thinking about 3d stuff.

To be fair, no one taught me how to apply for jobs.

The article described the paper’s calculation of tidal and electromagnetic forces forming a tunnel. Isn’t there some concern on the accuracy of values where two very large numbers are canceling out? I suppose this paper is all theory, so it doesn’t really care beyond asserting the possibility, but it seems like even if wormholes could form they’d be extremely unstable.

This sounds like a if black holes collided “just right” sort of issue.

Realistically, I think they could’ve gotten away with it. He could shut the whole thing down and the scientist would still come in to at least help them land. I think you’d have riots if he tried to stop that.

When I was young I was really into Star Trek, and viewed the Prime-Directive as a good approach to foreign policy. As I got older and more into politics, I advocated isolationism. People countered that we should all help each other, and for a time I found that a compelling argument.

Now I see good intentions corrupted – sudden withdraw of help causing massive damage. I see a government that does whatever it wants around the world with nothing but apathy from its citizenry – facilitation of genocides and support of authoritarianism. I see the rounding up and abuse immigrants on one side and the use of immigrants to fill labor needs rather than fund proper training on the other. I see globalization used to cut workers wages under the guise of mutual dependence maintaining peace.

There is certainly value to helping others and maintaining peace, but generally, I think Americans need to push our government towards minding its own business.

I still think universities and academic societies should be hosting instances and funding them with dedicated endowments. It’d also provide a great way to request more money from people who feel a reciprocal obligation due to using the instance.