While I understand your point, I think it’s unwise to read too much into the language very close people may use. I have forever called my wife “Gorda” which is “Chubby” in English even thought she is not and has never been chubby, it’s a nickname she loves.

Same with my son and daughter, we have all sorts of pet names and inside joke language which won’t be understood by anyone outside of our circle without explanation.

Ultimately, language is no different from physical contact… I rough house my grown kid to show him love (and probably to see if I still have it hahahaha) but I’d never dare do that at work (very on the nose example, but you get my point I hope)

Sure it is… you do not need to know the “right” answer to be able to know that some answer is “wrong”

So your point is that it is more valid to base an assumption (yours) on zero examples or even theoretical mechanisms?

Not to mention that concerning AI, we’re the ones directing the evolution.

Precisely, it is not an unknown. We already do KNOW the current misnomer that is AI cannot reach sentience… same way we know the coffee maker we designed cannot suddenly develop feelings and decide to start making cookies instead of coffee

what’s to stop sentience from emerging on silicon

nature does not evolve silicon

I don’t know what the square root of 22589853 is… but I know it’s not 0

what’s a reddit?

and Muricans go: “wE aRE noT thERe YeT!!”

Great and Powerful OS.

loved this

you don’t need to jump off a building to research gravity…

the specific issue that is claimed to have made the entire project unviable is easily spotted a mile away

nothing odd… just greedy oil industry and corrupt politicians

like I said, it’s not a novella… I did not pick these books expecting a love story… I was expecting an intereting sci fi saga and got that

Honda is Giving Up period

not all cultures write soap operas… this is a hard sci-fi trilogy, the lovable characters, comic relief and product placement you are used to are not to be found here

They didn’t think of that when designing this?

when i thought Apple couldn’t get less cool… they thought differently and proved me wrong

Nothing to hate… some forums have turned pretty caustic but other than that, the software and the community are awesome

Re Flatpaks, I did not like them so I do not use them… not need to hate a thing I have barely any interaction with, choosing not to use them has not limited me at all

Never had wifi power management issues either (15 years on Linux)

and Americans once again will bravely <check notes> sit down and take it

I read this somewhere but I am paraphrasing:

“The US economy has been an increasingly shaky house of cards for a long time… and now Trump came in and order all windows opened in the middle of a hurricane”

The giant cracks are starting to open (latest job reports is worst than the one caused by COVID)… I’m guessing by the Fall things will be obvious although they’ll keep denying everything… but there is no way Mango Mussolini gets to 4 years pretending things are better than ever

Isreal is not entirely to blame for this historic war crime

I don’t think “the rest of the world let me do it” removes any blame or responsibility from Israel… it only adds blame and responsibility to the rest of the world, deservedly so

Yes, hand in hand…

Anecdotal of course, but every person I know who claims AI is a huge productivity booster simply trust it blindly.

I can’t even get “Copilot” to return a proper answer from its own meeting transcript… just yesterday there was some confusion about an IP address we exchanged in a past meeting… I asked Copilot to check the transcript and give me the IP of the vendor’s server (which I pointed by name of system and who spoke it in the meeting) and it gave me the IP of MY server, functionally the complete opposite of what I was asking but with full confidence in its answer