Yeah I don’t disagree that they should go check it out with enough people but that’s, what, 40+ officers? To an incident supposedly involving two people? What are they all supposed to do? It’s just chaos and I don’t think they are helping the situation.

Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.

I think twenty cars is still too many

no u 😭

looks like a teletubby

I’ve answered this in an edit to my comment which I had already started writing, anticipating this reply.

Sorry, but Anthropic’s marketing claims about how good it is are not trustworthy.

Yeah and travel near the speed of light, profitable fusion power, etc. are all theoretically possible too, but there’s no indication they’ll be practical in the near future. I don’t object to the philosophical argument about the possibility, I’m saying thinking it’s a near-term problem is a vast overestimation of our capability.

you can just observe the history of artificial intelligence and extrapolate

You actually can’t just extrapolate data points and expect to predict the future without a really good mechanistic reason for why it’s okay to do that. You can find countless learning materials with funny examples of over-extrapolation if you care to search for them.

In this case, we even have good reason to believe that the trend will not continue: with seventy years of research and straining the limits of our physical global production capacity, we have been able to replicate a miniscule fraction of human cognitive ability. With the current technological basis for AI, increases in cost and material requirements scale exponentially with increases in complexity. We have neither the resources in the entire world, nor the data, to replicate anything like human cognition with current architectures.

Of course, some breakthrough new technology may someday get us there, but we don’t even know the theoretical basis for what it could be, and such profound changes take decades to go from academia to being practically applied.

If you think there is such a thing or there will be in our lifetimes, I have a bridge to sell you

there are plenty of things which are fun to watch which didn’t involve spending billions of tax dollars on killing machines

It’s hilarious to me that their criticisms of each other are both basically accurate

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I don’t think that’s relevant to their comment, this isn’t branching out of their field when they’re old and senile and success has gone to their heads. This is probably in the top 100 most famous paintings (or at least some from that series are) and extremely recognizable, just the fundamental basics of the field. Even when he started on his crazy vitamin C megadosing bullshit, Pauling almost certainly understood the electronic structure of atoms just fine.

Yes, you’re right. I did mention those. Denmark is not much higher though, Luxembourg is only an option for people in specific fields really, and all three are tiny compared to Germany whereas the US is an enormous labour market. If you adjust those neighbours for their population size compared to France, Poland, Netherlands, Czechia etc. then it’s still higher than the overwhelming majority though. Real wages in Austria are pretty good for academics but otherwise not great either. But yes.

The thing is that despite Germany’s slow economy they still have higher wages compared to all most of their neighbours and any of the large ones, and most of the EU or EEC. In the US salaries for professional jobs are often almost double what they are in Germany so it’s attractive from that point of view, while in Europe the only real option for that is Switzerland, maybe Luxembourg. They probably also already speak English quite well and the language barrier is higher in other EU countries.

Toss some mushrooms and ~1.5" chunks of zucchini, red pepper, halloumi, with olive oil and your choice of seasonings (eg paprika, some herbs, lemon zest…) for some nice skewers

damn, Charlie really fell off

it’s pretty deep for people in Palestine I fear

Ok and? You don’t think to evaluate your use of language at all before adopting it? Do you go around using slurs because that’s what everyone else does too?

Oh, very cool, just a fun little joke about the ethnic cleansing and erasure of an entire civilisation and the forced starvation of hundreds of thousands of people

I love that understatement

In vitro is in the lab, literally “in glass” (e.g. a petri dish or test tube). In vivo is in the living organism. In vino I guess not very much survives at all, the ethanol concentration is too high.