It amounts to noticing that few if any of the people you know or are acquainted with through two or three removals from personal contact, have suffered or died as a result of using said technology, and basing your own confidence solely on this privileged form of hearsay.

It sounds like something that should not work, but actually does a pretty good job as a high-pass filter for safety.

Lots of them practiced - indeed an entire industry is dedicated toward promoting and validating - making daily affirmations on their own, long before LLMs showed up to give them the appearance of having won over the enthusiastic support of a "smart" friend.

I am increasingly dismayed by the way arguments are conducted even among people in non-social media social spaces, where A will prompt their favorite LLM to support their View and show it to B who responds by prompting their own LLM to clap back at them - optionally in the style of e.g. Shakespeare (there's even an ad out that directly encourages this - it helps deflect alattention from the underlying cringe and pettyness being sold) or DJT or Gandhi etc.

Our future is going to be a depressing memescape in which AI sock puppetry is completely normalized and openly starting one's own personal cult is mandatory for anyone seeking cultural or political influence. It will start with celebrities who will do this instead of the traditional pivot toward religion, once it is clear that one's youth and sex appeal are no longer monetizable.

Its called kleptocurrency for good reason.

Those who support it on philosophical grounds will destruction on everyone else for the sake of their own gain, and should be viewed with all possible hostility as they constitute an intentional community of public enemies in the plainest possible sense.

watts/unit thus seems fine to me, whatever the unit may be, even if it itself is derived from time. watts per day would just work out to joules/second/1/24*60*60, making 1 watts per day a derived unit that expresses joules/84600 seconds, or an instantaneous rate of one 84600th of a joule.

Someone has to be first (in our speed-of-causality bubble), maybe it's us?

It's curious that the list of suggested activities includes conventional headshot-framed work activities as well as full body view stuff like exercise routines.

How does this chip, and your wonderfully whimsical mega SoC implementation of it, compare to the claims (and the even more fantastical dreadnought-class workstation scenario) of the Cerebras WSE3?

Interesting analogy, made more interesting still if one replaces "heart" with "brain."

And what if you reverse mitochondria and host cell? If you remove the mitochondria, is the host cell still alive? The analogy would be to remove the heart from its 'host' environment, and asking if the remaining body still can be called alive.

"for a man cut open is, so far, not a man. And if you do not sew him up speedily you will not see organs, but death."

I haven't touched them in quite a long time and I don't know if they now do this, but it struck me that their lack of (even simulated) curiosity was a major void in the popular dialogue about whether they are or are not "intelligent."

TikTok's market function burns the internet's race-to-the-bottom candle at both ends: depth of the typical content piece and attention span of the typical content consumer dynamically reinforce each other's approach to a common local mimimum of zero, a point which forms a saddle with the local maximum of exploitability and profit.

Fermi paradox might be coming for us next.