I think that most Trump voters support isolationism symbolically. They want a leader who prioritizes them rather than perceived others, but they don’t actually have a strong opinion about specific foreign policies per se. Attacking Iran does challenge that symbolism, but in the absence of direct effects on their own lives, their trust in Trump’s established “America first” reputation will go a long way.

We’re going to end up in a situation where whatever is necessary to train AI is permitted, and the main question is whether that will be through (re)interpretation of existing law or the passage of a new law.

When my family came to the USA from the Soviet Union, one of the weird things about the experience for us was how friendly American retail staff were. Brighton Beach in NYC is a neighborhood with a lot of Soviet immigrants, and you can still go there and experience retail staff glaring at you because you’re creating more work for them by coming into the store.

If you don’t want legal or medical advice from an AI, you can already simply not ask the AI for legal or medical advice. But I don’t want your paternalistic restrictions on what I may ask.

The content of the article does not match the title. It doesn’t actually talk specifically about the tech industry or claim that it is in particular difficulty.

DIME MYSTERY

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Nothing is sacred.

There’s nothing in this article about problems with AI specifically.

So if you know at least 30 people and none of them have ever been struck by lightning, that means you’re a giraffe.

It’s not just the tree - it’s the whole scene. (Complete with random pumpkins that you wouldn’t ever include unless you were deliberately copying Minecraft.) As I’ve said, I don’t know if that’s illegal but it’s certainly derivative enough that I have no sympathy for it.

That’s not just similar to Minecraft - it’s nearly identical. I’m not sure that the DMCA notice isn’t justified. I don’t know the law well enough to judge where the line between legal and illegal Minecraft clones is.

I gave up on console gaming for the same reason (the last console I owned was a Super Nintendo) but that’s because mouse+keyboard is just so superior that using dual-joystick controllers feels like punishment rather than entertainment.

I think the opposite is going to be true. One thing I noticed when I moved recently is that’s it’s getting cheaper to throw out perfectly good stuff and then buy it again rather than paying to have it shipped long distance too.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/bats

Should have used this Homer…

Ewww she turned into a human.

Another good article about this.

I used to know a pathologist who would get called in on her days off to do autopsies sometimes. She didn’t laugh at my jokes about patients who really ought to lie down, chill, and wait until Monday.

Park Scene With Amorous Young Woman by Berthold Woltze.

During the first winter after I got my dog, it took me a few days to notice that the reason he wasn’t asking to go outside as much in the snow was because he was sneaking into the unused bedroom and pooping there.

(Oddly, he had still only peed outside. I guess that’s where he drew the line himself.)

What’s wrong with that? To me, women of some ethnicities are on average significantly more attractive than women of other ethnicities (and the ethnicity I belong to is not the most attractive one) but I don’t think that has any moral implications - it’s no different from the fact that to me, brunette women are on average significantly more attractive than blonde women.

There’s no obligation to have the “type” that you’re most attracted to be the group that you belong to yourself.