Crazy. As someone whose job it is to automate, automating my job means getting more work. That’s kind of the definition of being more productive: by focusing on automation one person could do work that formerly took multiple people

Sidewalks would be nice too. Y’all are over there wanting fancy transportation like protected bike lanes when all too many places don’t even have sidewalks

Damn, I can do all of those things. I wonder how big the bounty is and what you need to do to qualify. I can use a vacation in a tropical hellhole paradise and a little something to retire on …… it’s probably more likely to pay off than social security

No but Biden helped boost the economy on a long recovery after Covid, set us up for the future with a huge investment in long neglected infrastructure, and gave us hope for domestic manufacturing by investing in upcoming technologies.

You can see how Trump would want to undo that. /s

Did musk claim to be working toward AGI? I hadn’t heard that but I also stopped paying attention.

I can see his logic for Optimus. Personal robots were a 1960s dream of the future, just like electric cars. He had perfect timing to scale up to the first affordable, compelling electric cars, and disrupt that market. He had perfect timing to scale up 1960s style self-landing rockets and disrupt that market. Now you look at what Boston Dynamics and similar can do, so maybe the timing is right for humanoid robots to suddenly hit the big times! Personally I’m skeptical because there is no market but also I think that dream faded. Why would I want a personal humanoid robot when we have dirt cheap Roombas, drones, 3d printing? Why would anyone want a humanoid robot for manufacturing when real automation will always be faster? So we’re down to Amazon distribution centers? Who’s the remaining market here?

And Grok makes sense from the perspective of desperately trying to get self-driving to happen, and to make the robot work, and maybe he even wants to compete with Alexa, etc.

But LLMs are not a path toward AGI. Neither is the neural bet that drives the cars.

Yeah the scam seems pretty obvious; I don’t know how the politician doesn’t recognize it. A company with no prior datacenter history promises to build in your district more datacenter value than pretty much exists. Right.

Can you say “stranded infrastructure”, anyone?

If you want to stretch that even further, the bright side is that when it pops, there will suddenly be a large amount of excess power generation, giving the opportunity for a massive, visible shift to renewables!

Surely they’ll shut down excess fossil fuel generation first, right?

No change is too small to waste the time of high level officials to revert out of spite

I started watching YouTube in the last year after successfully withstanding it all this time. I make at least some effort to protect my data with mixed results.

But the algorithms has decided what it wants to show me. And yes it includes a large category of revenge against militant feminists. They’re clearly ai slop and entirely fiction. But I have watched some (which means I got more 🙁) and I do like a good case of karma

So yes, there is significant ongoing effort to paint the term “feminist” into the worst case scenario. If you keep watching that, it will affect you

…… and I have to figure out how to make the algorithms the work for me. Unfortunately that probably means giving away more personal data, including truthful data, so you can’t win

That’s the catch isn’t it? In a lawful society and under normal due process you’d expect to start with a crime, reasonable suspicion, and a search warrant. Then yes, if it’s reasonable for you to expect that you’ve destroyed evidence, I’d expect you to be so charged.

But the entire issue with this immigration crackdown is the assertion that constitutional protections no longer apply, laws no longer apply, due process no longer applies. They have claimed for years the right to search smartphones at a border, without a warrant and we didn’t object. Now they’re extending it beyond their jurisdiction purview to search away from a border, away from their intended task, and still with little to no due process or civil rights. Now they’re trying to extend this suspension of law to a protester whose activity they don’t like. This is where the Gestapo analogy comes from.

A bit of speculation here but you can configure your phone to wipe itself automatically for exactly this type of oppression. He could very well have done so. But in what seems similar to me, companies can not destroy evidence by deleting email but they can have a policy to automatically delete it after, say 60 days. It’s automatic, a normal process, so it’s ok. How would a normal process to wipe your phone automatically not be the same?

So this guy thinks he can tell other companies what to hire while never doing so himself? Why would anyone pay attention to that?

Sure but it’s reasonable to say it’s too early.

My company is one example of a paying customer. Someone is earning a significant amount of recurring revenue from us as a customer. This is something new this year

Those providing companies had better be looking at the usual

• new customer rates
• income growth
• investment
• forecasts of profitability

While we have no information as to whether they are properly looking at it from a business perspective, it’s reasonable.

Presumably the forecasts are insane, as the only way to make sense of that. But time is the solution. Business people are looking at the numbers going up over time: that reality will fix insane forecasts. The bubble will burst when the business people get hit in the face with that reality.

I imagine they’re trying to charge him with destruction of evidence. I don’t know how that should go if this were actually a legal proceeding but would certainly hope it would require reasonable suspicion of a specific crime and a search warrant.

Looking at Nvidia…. Of over 1,000 job openings USA, only one matches keyboard “technician”. It’s a marketing job requiring a bachelors degree and three years experience

I also see a section of their website on campus recruiting and globally there are college internships.

This might be a good place for the NVidia CEO to start looking.

I don’t believe it’s specifically forbidden, just that dolphins don’t have fins or scales. That includes a lot of things in the sea

Historical. Dolphins have the reputation of being cute and intelligent.

Maybe pigs are intelligent but we already know what bacon tastes like.

I’ve also seen too many whaling videos showing all that blubber. Unless we’re resorting to whale oil again, that isn’t attractive

Edit: I found this https://iere.org/why-shouldnt-we-eat-dolphins/

The problem is they were too successful at it and all too many have that as their definition of feminism. That’s all they know.

I do think a different term might be called for, because that one is lost to many

Anti-feminist propaganda is a real thing. As a guy I like to think I’m fairly progressive but believed a lot of the hate against feminism even as an adult. The women I knew were “the good ones”.

The thing is it was based on caricatures of feminism, outliers and extremists, and the claim that feminism is no longer necessary. I’m sure those extremists exists and we are closer to gender equality than historically but feminism has helped us all and we do need more of it.

We had children before there was any paternity leave in the US. I must have been complaining that I wished I could spend more time with my newborn, but it was the feminist group at work who went to demand there be paternity leave, because equal is equal and paternity leave helps everyone

I get lastic because I pay either way but plastic is more reusable than paper.

I’m finally getting into the habit of bringing bags to the store, although I recently accidentally recycled them so now I have to buy more

I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash

Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each