The number one and number two most cited living scientists across all fields think scenarios like this are not only possible but likely to happen. And the average AI researcher thinks there is a 16% chance of AI causing human extinction.

assigning a number to it makes it scientific

i had a feeling about FUTO because of rossmann's involvement. became leery of him after this youtube bullshit from 2018:

Let's discuss why journalists are afraid of Elon Musk right now(and why they deserve to be)

Elon Musk wants to come up with a way to rate the credibility and accuracy of media organizations & individual journalists. This blatant misrepresentation of his words, given in the middle of this conversation, is a PERFECT example of WHY this is so badly needed in modern society.

I'm not a fan of Tesla for being, in many ways, the "Apple of cars." That being said, whether or not I like Tesla when it comes to a repair standpoint has nothing to do with the hate being thrown at Elon for something he never meant in the words he said, and is entirely separate from my agreement with him on the idea of a media credibility rating platform.

i don't think it's fair to assume that a billionaire who dresses up like a bat to extra-legally fight crime necessarily engages in shenanigans when donating a satellite to his vigilante friends

this reminds me of that episode of justice league unlimited where the superheroes are all on a satellite and batman says getting it built was just

a line item in the Wayne Industries R&D budget

though, to be fair, that explanation is more plausible than starcloud working

the poster is referring to the function f(z) = z^2 + 1

Watched a debate between Emily M. Bender and Sébastien Bubeck

an OpenAI researcher

from March. As usual, Dr. Bender fucking rules. Bubeck struck me as an idiot and kind of an ass.

It's worth noting that, unlike a real function, a complex function that is differentiable in a neighborhood is infinitely differentiable in that neighborhood. An informal intuition behind this: in the reals, for a limit to exist, the left and right limit must agree. In C, the limit from every direction must agree. Thus, a limit existing in C is "stronger" than it existing in R.

Edit: wikipedia pages on holomorphism and analyticity (did I spell this right) are good

I use Mullvad Leta, which is basically a front-end for the Google (and Brave) API. It used to be exclusive to Mullvad customers but I believe it's available to everyone now.

It doesn't support image search, but so far this has been consistently good enough for me.

Appreciate both responses. Thank you.

Before today I didn't know the difference between a compositor and desktop environment and I thought Wayland was fine. Now Abra and I are very close.

I guess there’s sway? none of these options entice me to be honest

I used to use Sway. I found it tedious to configure several different things via config files. Kanshi in case you plug in a monitor, Waybar, Swaylock^[Also there was a bug that allowed people to bypass your lockscreen by mashing keys. Sort of made me hesitant to try anything Sway again, although I believe the problem has been fixed.], etc. And, I may be misremembering, but you had to edit the Sway config to launch these programs at startup. There was just friction everywhere.

I have been daily-driving COSMIC for about six months and it works pretty well, although there are infrequent crashes (less so since the beta release, I think). I like it as my tiling WM, but also occasional crashes don't affect my workflow too badly.

Wayland protocols are an almost ideal way to create intentional incompatibilities and network effects.

Would you be willing to elaborate or follow up on this? I checked out the core protocol but think I'm way too out of my depth to relate it to what you wrote.