Sample size of 1, admittedly, but we’ve had life on earth for 4 billion years. We’ve had life capable of radio communications for about 50 years. That’s .0000000014% of the time life has existed. Maybe it wouldn’t be a bad assumption to think that only that proportion of stars would have even had the time to get to this stage.

This is good advice. Pick a person you know and drop hints that you’re them. Bonus points if that person is terminally online. Anyway, gotta get back to running X.

I’m sure the 8 minute training course these division rejects got covered these nuances.

It could be that. or it could be that the AI gives the illusion of reasoning and this is an example of the illusion breaking. But no it was probably that it knew it was a trick question and decided to answer wrongly because it is very very smart. Yeah.

This is a good way to think about it, because the three door version makes it almost seem like the host is guessing. But if you pick door #8 and the host eliminates every door except #8 and, for some reason, #682,025, are you more confident in 8 or 682,025?

I think it’s actually just the perception that it’s doing that from people who are so far away from the working that they don’t have any clue.

Like 300 years ago if you wanted to be a sailor maybe you started by rowing oars, or swabbing decks or dealing with ropes and rigging or whatever. If you’re a 19 year old seaman in 2026 you’re probably using a throttle controller that’s 26 different systems disconnected from the actual mechanical work. No one says “oh that guys not a novice seaman” or “the boat literally drives itself hurr”

If you’re a graphic designer in 1970, you’d cut out and hand lay a magazine page out on a big glowing table, page by page, resetting the type so it fit along with giant physical images so you could design the page. In 2026, you’d use Illustrator and lay it out on your computer. No one says “oh the magazines just lay themselves out” or “that’s not how you lay out magazine”. It’s just done with the tools available.

What’s going on is very few people seem to understand the difference between a tool and a solution. A tool is a thing that does something. A hammer is a tool. A solution is something that solves a problem. A hammer is a tool but it is not a good solution for a crying baby.

we gave all the kids updoot buttons that give a dopamine hit whenever they just post “slop” in response to anything. What would we expect to happen? What if we treated the idiots who were like “FIRST” in every thread back in 2003 like they were geniuses analyzing the dead sea scrolls?

wow happy new account day

what are you talking about? If I told you Candidate A and candidate B are running. Oh, B is a pedophile BTW, you’re acting like a proper response would be “Yeah but is that an election issue?”

If you’re ok voting for the pedophile then you’re… ok voting for a pedophile. the fuck are you defending here anyway?