Prison? …No. You’re just wrong. That’s bad no matter what.

What a terrible graph. You don’t know if the numbers are good or bad at a passing glance.

Oh that’s possible, but I think the number of votes that she’s likely to get is so low that there are much better ways to try to win the election than worrying about her antics. But if Harris were to lose, it sure would be convenient to have someone to blame, and Stein’s an excellent scapegoat.

It has to be there, because politics is connected with lawmaking, and open source software is dependent on laws.

A lot of people like to say that politics isn’t in their life or that they keep politics out of their life, but the reality is that’s just not true. The rules that govern society affect you, always, either with or without your input, either with or without your acknowledgment.

You’re probably trying to say that we should keep pointless politicking out of open source software, and I agree, but that’s going to come down to personal definitions of pointlessness.

That’s one opinion, and it certainly has its place, but it also leads to weak candidates like Hillary Clinton. Not surprisingly, if you push weak candidates and argue that we should vote for them because they’re not as bad as the person on the other side, a lot of voters will stay home.

After all, if you’re going to hell, does it matter if it’s slightly slower or slightly faster? Yeah, it probably does, but that story takes a long time to tell, and many people have short attention spans.

And then in 2022 and in 2024, Republican funded sources started releasing new data just a few weeks before the election to make it look like the Republican candidate had already won, trying to trick people into staying home on Election Day.

Times have changed, and if you’re not up to speed with the Republican playbook, today is a good day to start.

Do you think all of those people who have been saying that third-party voters are going to destroy the US will be apologizing in the comment section here?

I don’t think people who think very much would bother to ask ChatGPT, unless they didn’t have any friends, because it’s quite obvious that relationship advice is delicate and you certainly want the advice giver to know something about your situation. You know, like your friends do, like computers don’t.

We don’t even have to look at the low quality advice, because there’s no way it would be informed advice.

Your feelings are of course valid, that’s how you feel, and it’s a perfectly normal thing. On the one hand technology keeps changing, but on the other hand people are trying to drum up money by selling promises of new technology as if it were snake oil.

All of the talk you hear about AI, it’s 95% nonsense. Of course we can see some new cool toys, and we should be happy that we have new cool toys, but it’s not like something totally magical has happened in the last 2 years, and it’s not like something totally magical is going to happen in the next two years.

With all that in mind, you just got to take a break from the news, whenever you feel like it, and try to be open-minded about what the future will bring. A couple of decades from now is certainly going to be different from a couple of decades ago, and although that can be scary at times, remember that the same thing was true for our parents and their parents and their parents.

In my experience, only the minority of professors reply to such emails. Perhaps you’ve had better luck than I.

That’s generally false. But even if it’s true, all the boss has to do is argue that medium-term profits will be generated by whatever policy they want to adopt. Since nobody knows the future, they might be right, and they’re legally rock solid.

In other words, the duty to increase value produces unfalsifiable policy claims. So it is meaningless.

The Pirate Bay will always be with us.

She didn’t vote yes, which means she cares, at least a little. That might not be all we hope for, but it’s far better than almost everyone around her.

The shape of my body.

Lol. Fans and critics aren’t creators. Don’t ask them to do your job better than you are.

The article did mention a fundamental obstacle. It said quite clearly that we would run out of resources before we had enough computing power. I suppose you could counter that by arguing that we could discover magic, or magical technology, or a lot of new resources through space exploration.

Of course things get more efficient. But in the past few decades they’ve gotten efficient in predictable, and mostly predicted, ways. It’s certainly possible that totally unexpected things can happen. I could win the lottery next week. Is that the standard? Are you pushing the stance that says AGI is somewhat less likely than winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning, but by golly it’s more than zero, how dare you suggest that it’s anywhere close to zero?

In your edit where you say that many people take this too seriously, that’s you taking it too seriously. Stop being so sensitive. Don’t have a hissy fit. We’re all just playing around, right?

The man couldn’t even focus his energies on one single debate. There’s no way he could do a lengthy campaign that involves travel and focusing for hours and days and weeks on end. He knows that, we all know that, and it doesn’t affect anything in a bad way.

If he can hold it together and make okay decisions for the next few months, and then retire, everyone will be happy.

Well yeah. If she copies Hillary, maybe she’ll get what Hillary got.

Jesus. They’re the news. Why would they show stories about things you don’t need to watch? … /rant