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> humans are social animals.

True, but the driver is a stranger to me.

Herd animals like cattle/horses, are highly suspicious of, and stressed by, strangers. And imagine how uneasy two chimps could react when meeting for the first time.


> The original iphone was full of tradeoffs that made it not a great phone at launch.

Hard disagree. It was a great phone. The only disadvantage was battery life, if you were a heavy phone user you needed to charge it to get through the day, but as a phone itself (phoning/messaging people) it was delightful!

Look at the clip here of Steve scrolling through contacts like it is butter and the awe of the audience: On other phones large contact lists were cumbersome.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9kahkr/11_years_ago_...

Than visual voicemail! On other phones you called into voicemail and had to hear sequentially through all. With At&t Apple had the unique feature that one can scroll selectively through voice mails.

Of course the second iPhone 3G with the wjooshing sounding light saber app and the app were a beer is poured out made it cultural viral. And then Apple noticed withe the 4/4S that a good camera in your pocket was THE must have killer feature (especially for the women and newborn parent demographics). But the first model was a great tool for just phoning people.


Zero alcohol

They way it should be

With this logic one cannot enjoy a drink with a restaurant meal and then drive back home. Seems excessive to me…

[edit-typo]


That's how it is here in Japan by law - zero tolerance, even one drink is too many.

One solution is "daikou" taxis - they drive you home in your own car, with a chase car to bring the driver back. Where I live they're subsidized (volunteers I think) and can actually be cheaper than a taxi https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/運転代行 (use your browsers translate tool)


Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell. Drinking and driving is obviously not OK and deserves at least huge fines, so I don't get your point.

How is a researcher quitting a PR stunt?

Bc “the ai so dangerous and powerful he had to quit for moral reasons” sends a signal to investors about capabilities. And it could totally be legit. It’s hard to say. I feel like once a researcher is truly ringing the alarm bells no one will look bc it’s been done so many times already. It’s unfortunate imho

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they said to him "I will give you a million and your job back after IPO if you resign".

To be clear, I don't believe this is what happened here, I'm typing this half jokingly, just I wouldn't be surprised.


https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476208908972230...

From Jacob:

> A common response is “if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?” At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.


For a few million a year, I'd say the same thing.

The idea in AI Risk circles is that the first true Scary Intelligence wins, as it can recursively advance itself and exponentially outgrows/hack any following (weaker) B or C intelligence.

No. Public Law 80-242 applies strictly to terrestrial geography. Outer space and celestial bodies fall outside the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

lol as if this administration is concerned about or following laws.

administration: "Look! More laws we can break!"

This is just intellectually lazy. Do you think Google has a team to maximize law breaking?

Yes, their legal department.

>Do you think Google has a team to maximize law breaking?

Just to get as close as money can buy.


They are called lawyers

> Apple's App Store centralized despite trillions of dollars in ostensible market damage

Please. The Androidfication of iOS with malware/scamware would cost quadrillions in market damage.


So the market damage would be more than the entire planet's GDP?

Citation needed. The idea that somehow my mum can't even find the space bar on her keyboard and yet is competent enough to go through several warning screens to install a custom .apk is just laughable.

> is competent enough to go through several warning screens

What about "is incompetent enough to press the buttons when the nice man from Microsoft calls about the viruses on her USB"?


She's laugh at him and disconnect. She might not know where the space bar is but she's not an idiot.

Good for her - MANY people fall for these scams, however.

The internet is full of scams. If you desensitize someone to that reality, then you better disable Safari access, iMessage, calls and FaceTime for their own good.

Indeed, it would be a good idea for iOS to have a mode for the elderly that is almost exactly like that (similar to child mode, and for similar reasons).

I interpreted GP as referring to the higher quantity of questionable software in the Play Store, not custom .apk installation.

Quick question: Did you use AI for that post?

Oh, use they did, 100% Pangram score for a whole text doesn't come from small polish.

Just for the final polish, the post itself is written by myself.

It’s not bad, but does start sounding like AI if you’re familiar with their writing style:

> Gradient correction. Noise reduction. Separating stars and nebula. Stretching the faint structures carefully. Working on contrast and colour. Putting everything back together.


As in, rewrite? Your earlier blog posts don't sound like this

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