At this point, you’re a towel.

Cause they got your SSN from the dark web. Come on, man, think!

I do love that generative AI is getting better at imagining text.

If our present reality was described accurately in a novel written in 1985, it would be firmly cyberpunk.

You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I buy local eggs and tea, and mangoes are gross. But good on ya for being conscious of exploitative middle men!

What makes the “spicy autocomplete” perspective incomplete is also what makes LLMs work. The “Attention is All You Need” paper that introduced attention transformers describes a type of self-awareness necessary to predict the next word. In the process of writing the next word of an essay, it navigates a 22,000-dimensional semantic space, And the similarity to the way humans experience language is more than philosophical - the advancements in LLMs have sparked a bunch of new research in neurology.

I donate directly to artists, but fundamentally believe art and commerce are antithetical. And I won’t be shamed into paying exploitative middle men.

Not OP, but speaking from a fairly deep layman understanding of how LLMs work - all anyone really knows is that capabilities of fundamentally higher orders (like deception, which requires theory of mind) emerged by simply training larger networks. Since we don’t have a great understanding of how our own intelligence emerges from our wetware, we’re only guessing.

At least as pretense, the primaries are meant to prevent the need for that. And we like to pretend a third party could be successful if the other two are sufficiently incompetent/corrupt. In practice, the lawmakers will never implement a process that gives any amount of their power to the people. There was a window of time in the 90’s - 00’s where we thought the future might hold something other than the cyberpunk dystopia we all see coming. Now I’m reduced to just trying to enjoy the last vestiges of the middle class before it’s gone. Umm, but yeah, we should be able to vote no confidence.

WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018.

The format has spotty support across applications and some vulnerabilities were discovered that required patch efforts last year. It’s not clear why you should do anything.

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Violence against Nature.

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Yeah, but the Nuclear war was preceded by the Eugenics Wars and the Second Civil War, so we’ve got a while.

This is another good use case for gAI. Copy/paste the comment into a GPT and tell it to re-write the content at the desired reading or technical level. Then it’s available for follow-up clarification questions.

I’m still hoping for TNG, but people forget they had to go through WWIII and being the Vulcans’ pets before they got to space communism.

That’s how I communicate my intention to pay a parking ticket. “Bowing to regulatory pressure”