But, some questions have verifiable answers. Especially programming questions. P != NP It can be easier to check an answer is right than to figure out the right answer. By, like, miles and miles and miles to the power miles. You think it's a long way to the post-office? You should see the […]

I know half of you here think the AI machine is useless planet-burning boondoggle. I am myself actually afraid that it's filling the internet with spam in ways that make it seem like spam has metastasized 😱 There are amazing downsides, and it is completely resistant to uninvention. 😒

Have you ever been annoyed by someone who thinks they know you well enough to finish your sentences but gets it wrong? And as you talk, they constantly try to finish your sentence, wrongly? What if they did it not even after every word but at every syllable? #ai

Went to see Rob Newman do an hour of practice and work-in-progress at the local tiny theater. He seemed a bit nervous and a little stuttering, I guess this stuff isn't well practice and honed yet. Biggest laugh from the audience I think was when he explained […] [Original post on boing.world]

@cstross I'd sooner leave my phone at home than hand it in to the law/teachers/administrators. Frankly the authorities can't be trusted with physical access to my device. It's either decoy-phone or empty pockets.

We've joined up with a bunch of corporations to ensure the fedi doesn't fall under corporate control. Oh, and one of them is Facebook. 🤦 https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113193395332307465

This is a good point. A GPU/NPU tax of roughly $1/year per watt of power consumption would work wonders to blow up the AI bullshit! Your Android or iPhone would pay pennies, a gaming laptop might pay a ghastly $50/year surcharge … but LLM-grinding data centres would get slammer for billions a […]

@cstross The doubters seems concerned it would hurt them personally but it wouldn't hurt a single person personally if you just said it applies to businesses not people. You want limited liability, there's a cost to that.

Look at the size of mine! Its the biggest you've ever seen isn't it? Biggest I've ever seen. What a huge one.

Over at Twitter they're fixing* the block button! No longer will blocking someone mean they can't read your posts, instead it will mean they can still read your posts but can't reply. The reason for this, they say, is that blocked people can always just view the posts anonymously. Which is […]