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The AI optimists are not that much more rational if you dig deep. Like any deep problem it is best to look at the facts not the hype and make up your own mind, outsourcing your thinking to other people never ends well.

Agree, but natural languages have ambiguity, the AI output should really include the assumptions and we seriously need to replace the word "prompt" with "conversation".

I noticed an ex-colleagues sci-fi novels are all now free epub downloads here for anyone interested in sci-fi [rodyne.com] - halfway through his last book and really resonating so far.

Good, I hope he spends it all on big fucking rockets, fast cars and space cities.. but I am sure the usual haters will find some reasons why we should all be angry..

I think its obvious that a few billion neurons connected together are not conscious either.. Yet!

Why bother, if the bad actors was that good it could just make up the conversation using your voice and AI.

There has been a very big adoption of ENGLISH as a programming language in the last year or so, and, painful as it sounds, AI is already generating machine code without compilers, so let's see where we are in 2030.

If people are going to live in space for any period of time then they are going to need gravity so long term, yes.

Kindle gone, Kobo in. Bit more friction but I mostly just read library ebooks, free ebooks or the 500 ebooks books I took off my old kindle library a few years ago before I left.

Keep Calm, (Install KoReader) and Carry On.

Valuable real-estate, it wont have any tariffs!

Shame, I only tried one once and it tasted quite nice, too expensive though. I guess I was in the minority.

Interesting looking at the data, that Norway generates 4x the electricity of NZ and they are roughly the same size and population I assume it exports most.