My wife is from south India, and I’m a frequent visitor to India.

It’s evident that Hindi nationalism is to the benefit of the north, while southern culture is slowly being replaced.

Seems to me a basket of Euros, Yen and MAYBE US dollars is better than relying on the USD.

I wouldn't call them stupid, but they are hardly bright.

On the contrary, I believe it's been detrimental to the open internet and only serves to control us by the powerful.

I never trusted Github and never will.

Don't listen to the naysayers.

Ed Zitron is bearish on everything to do with AI.

I also don't believe the ROI is great investing in OpenAI and other similar corporations. But unlike Ed, I see the value in the technology. It's just the valuations that are wrong.

Why should we hand over even MORE power to the owner class?

In a fantasy world this could be possible yes.

A broken clock…

But it was never cool. Having money can fake being cool though, at least for a while.

Now the capitalists who control the technology are in bed with the government, it certainly is uncool. But in a totally different way than before.

You can still hail cabs off the street, it’s just that it’s an inefficient way of getting a ride.

Using uber I will immediately see the price up front and I can tailor the cab to my needs and price.

ChatGPT, which is usually quite reliable, refuses to answer me because law.

In the end, an extraction should work any plant material depending on potency, skill and available equipment.

After the extraction you can evaporate the ethanol(carefully since it’s highly flammable) and increase potency.

A mix of own research(basically emulating others) combined with strong models we can do a lot more than we can do ourselves.

Yesterday I decarboxylated some weed buds in preparation of making a cannabis tincture using the QWET method. Curious how Claude would respond, I asked how to do it.

It walked me through the process and gave accurate, nuanced answers.

Let me know what your 2 year old thinks I should do.

From the wikipedia article you linked to:

"More recent studies make use of modern global circulation models and far greater computer power than was available for the 1980s studies. A 2007 study examined the consequences of a global nuclear war involving moderate to large portions of the current global arsenal.[36] The study found cooling by about 12–20 °C in much of the core farming regions of the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and China and as much as 35 °C in parts of Russia for the first two summer growing seasons. The changes they found were also much longer-lasting than previously thought, because their new model better represented entry of soot aerosols in the upper stratosphere, where precipitation does not occur, and therefore clearance was on the order of 10 years.[26] In addition, they found that global cooling caused a weakening of the global hydrological cycle, reducing global precipitation by about 45%."

So the current theory is that there will indeed be a "nuclear winter"?

Seems pretty logical to me that if you blow up extreme amounts of particles into the stratosphere, that that will cause a reduction in energy that hits the surface from the sun...

A 20C drop sounds pretty bad.