Very fitting and fun read, thanks for sharing it!

Alphafold was definitely a better era for intentional AI use, assuming that’s the kind of thing you mean.

I think there is some difference. In the UK, children’s home providers are contracted out and effectively paid rent, creating the incentive structure you’re highlighting.

But in Denmark most of these homes are owned by the municipal governments themselves, not rented. It’s broadly just a government service, not a rent contract market.

This BBC article has a great infographic that breaks down the difference, and does a better job highlighting the ideas in general: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2vxp48y8o

After the U.S. has continued intentionally delaying and “misplacing” materiel that EU countries have paid for, this just doesn’t seem like a good idea. I get the impression the U.S. will run away with the money.

One of the many reasons that using centralized exchanges and custodians defeats the purpose of using cryptocurrencies at all.

I had the exact same realization recently when our internet went down for a few days. I have a local LLM on my PC, and used it as a fake Google search, and to help me troubleshoot a couple programs. Not always accurate, but it did feel cool to have basically an internet search on my disconnected computer.

There’s an open question here about best practice, because ultimately shifting labour capacity from humans to machines should be inherently good, if its labour we did not want to be doing. I’d rather have machines capable of doing everything from my laundry to large data analysis, among many other things that don’t interest me.

The problem tends to arise in how the transition happens. If capitalists continue to separate labour from surplus value, it’s entirely possible that the benefits of automation are only experienced by capitalists, and the humans who were producing the labour are left destitute.

Really I would like to see a better regulatory environment mixed with stronger social support systems, so the benefits of automation are felt by everybody. Sometimes it feels like the focus shifts to stopping automation, when in my mind best practice should be to mitigate externalities and spread out the benefits.

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Out of curiosity, could you link to/share your research for us? The open source stuff in particular?

Calling this terrorism is ridiculous. They were trying to get in to a military base which stationed bombers actively used in the ongoing war. Reminds me of the ploughshares movement if it wasn’t sponsored by Iran.

I’m not going to argue against your conclusion, I strongly believe we do not have anything resembling human consciousness in software yet.

But Penrose was definitely not proven right (unless you’re talking about black holes), nor was the Orch OR theory about microtubules proven, nor was consciousness proven to be a quantum phenomenon. Here’s an easy, accessible article that goes over the state of the research: https://www.breezyscroll.com/science/new-quantum-evidence-is-reopening-the-debate-over-penroses-theory-of-consciousness/

Sounds like we’re going to get more details on what associate membership means pretty soon, which will be nice.

Also neat to hear about the joint wildfire prevention efforts and all the new water bombers!

It also creates fewer philosophical problems if you distinguish between countable and uncountable adjectives. Though, I suppose that’s a less philosophical point than you made.

I hung out with my wife, watched some t.v., played some video games, did some gardening, and surfed the internet.

After a long, busy week, it was exactly how I wanted to spend my weekend. I feel rested and recovered.

Fun question!

I don’t quite understand, Scotland and Wales already aren’t part of the common market. By seceding from the UK, they might actually have an easier time joining the common market and strengthening the EU, which is the real unified power block.

Just because they operate out of China, that doesn’t make them anti-capitalist. Frankly, despite its name, China has a capitalist economy, just with much stronger authoritarianism than most.

I can’t understand why anybody uses these products.

Okay, I can, it’s marketing and ease of access. I guess it just annoys me that people don’t care.

You can find stats showing that support for the Conservatives falls in Canada as education rises. So depending on region and definition, it’s not just you.

That being said, that doesn’t mean there are zero. Jordan Peterson as a famous example.

That’s fair, I’m not in favour of military equipment, only scared. If Ukraine hadn’t had missile defense systems they would be ashes by now and I worry about that happening here. Do you have a better suggestion?

I would describe it as very rich. Also fruit adjacent, not quite fruity but sort of like that flavour.