But it’s changing it before submission. That’s a problem and annoying, but correctable. Next up, your posts and emails get “fixed” after sending them.

In the top ten rules for time travelers is don’t kill Hitler. So many reasons why, but it’s too obvious a target is one.

It turns out that this timeline is the best it gets. So just realize how bad others must be.

It’s scary that not all of the choices are the same level of risk.

The rovers there don’t gather rocks, but move around and look closely, including drilling into rocks to examine them. If there were fossils on the surface then they’d find them, but there’s other ways to detect existing and previous life, as well as an environment that would favor life, and that’s what they’ve been doing. I can’t give you a summary of all they’ve done, but NASA certainly has its archives and websites that will show the data as well as explain what some of it means. It’s an ongoing thing, lots of times discoveries come years after the actual photos or other data is collected.

The ice caps would be an interesting place to explore, but also a bit more risky since the ice (mainly water ice but also CO2) comes and goes with the seasons so adds more things for a rover to navigate. It also might make communication with Earth and collecting sunlight for energy a lot harder since it would be at a much higher/lower latitude on Mars.

“I have nothing to hide.”

So a camera in your bathroom.

“Why would that be anyone else’s business except my own?”

Exactly.

Aside from all the other factors that would push oil prices up, some real, some artificial to keep profits high…

Maybe having multiple tankers hit and presumably spilling oil into the water might be some effect. The front, side, and back falling off. Not very typical of how tanking crude oil should go.

They aren’t going to make laws against grifting. That’s their bread and butter. They would double down with more of their own. And people will buy it, once again. Which, caveat emptor, and idiots will be idiots, but it’s overall killing the economy and giving the rich even more money.

He also broke the internet. That link is everywhere.

Or 98SE. We bought a new laptop with ME on it, couldn’t understand why it was so slow compared to what it replaced. I finally said screw it, whipped out my 98SE CD (which everyone had around), and replaced that POS ME. And it’s amazing how the new laptop ran fast and now had none of the issues with things like printer and stuff. I don’t know what it was about ME that made it so bad, but it was.

“You bastard,” I said calmly.

The Foundation book series doesn’t really start into psychic stuff until the second book, Foundation and Empire, with the Mule. Big turning point of the overall plot because of him. I wouldn’t classify the Second Foundation as psychics as much as having the ability to predict patterns mathematically and socially influence populations. The fourth book gets into some other psychic influencers.

I’m okay with the TV show parts I’ve seen, but it is vastly different in its approach (and so more psychic type things going on). I knew a visual version would have to take a lot of liberties as the books just don’t translate well in the way they’re written.

Although many people use a downvote for disagreeing with someone without actually adding to the discussion (lazy imo), upvotes were really originally meant to sort out the more important or relevant, or hot topic of the day vs. the regular posts, and downvotes for off-topic posts and replies. Basically a way to moderate the content of the forum without being one.

Based on history, until it breaks, and then everyone tries to save themselves as it comes down. That’s just a financial crash though. Not sure about if AGI or whatever actually is part of the failure. Maybe watch for some insiders who suddenly duck and cover.

That seems to be SOP for any large company these days. AI is a larger scale of money dumping, but it’s the same idea. Got to get that stock number up for the investor, even if it means screwing the customers and damaging a brand name and product reputation. Line go UP!

Humans can’t align with each other. That fact makes any suggestion from them that they can align a literal alien intelligence completely ludicrous. And they aren’t stupid, so they’re just hoping most people will buy it and not pay attention. We have three directions at this point - a) AGI developed and is not aligned, things go bad in some way, b) AGI not developed but current level AI is not aligned and goes rogue in a critical way (we’ve already had some stuff happen, just not deadly yet), or c) AI stays at the current level and we manage to contain or put out the fires as misaligned actions occur, BUT human directed AI does something deadly.

There’s d) we find safe ways to do either low leve AI or AGI. I can’t see that happening, we’re aren’t being careful enough, slow enough, nor is our motive to make the safest product possible. The motive is $$$, and that only ends in a/b/c.

When have they waited on final approval before? Oh, you mean Trump hasn’t picked which things to make gold vs. not.

The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.

Not developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.

So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.

I know it’s hard to believe, but there are more upgrades in store. I don’t know how they manage to put all that in the same place.

Web rings would be far better than internet searching now. Give me back HotBot and Altavista (which I know are buried under Google’s evil now). Hell, give me the OG Google.