Its worth remembering that EU fines are not one and done, if you don’t fix the problem they fine you repeatedly.

To be fair fusion energy got less than the minnimum ‘fusion never’ funding, AI on the other hand is getting all the money in the damn world.

I feel like LLMs didn’t hit a deadend so much as people started trying to use them in completely inappropriate applications.

Agreed, a lot of sci-fi infastructure is technically feasable its just the logistics and our lack of organisation as a species that gets in the way. We could also technically start on a dyson swarm and a lunar space elevator (not an earth one though) with modern technology and materials.

To be fair in the US you have 2 realistic options and OPs description applies to both… unfortunately the case in a few places right now.

10 Mbps is like average Scotland internet unless you’re in a major city.

Invidious sadly doesn’t allow for an account and subscriptions, at least not without running your own server which appears… complex.

The problem with conservatism is you eventually run out of others peoples stuff to sell.

What I really don’t get is that there are in fact models that you can feed a document too and they will directly copy/paste quote relevant parts of that document in their reply complete with a little reference to the correct page. Basically a smarter ctrl-F function that can take sentences as input.

When that exists why is google using the probabilistic shit in their search?

It occurs to me that generally speaking, the majority of people are good and don’t try to accumulate power beyond their needs, while bad people are few but accumulate as much power as possible across multiple generations. Perhaps the half-life of a given empire or civilization is just how long it takes the few to accumulate enough power to fuck everything and cause a reset.

Super hearing, to the point of echolocation (Which apparently some blind people can actually do in a very basic form as a learned skill!?)

Unions are part of the social contract, its very simple. Those that have aren’t too harsh on those who have less, or we drag them into the street and tear them limb from limb like wild animals. We’re simply working through the various stages between complaints and dismemberment.

Just out of curiosity how does one connect to the snowflake in the event that normal Tor does not work? (in minecraft)

Pretty sure even that wouldn’t work? Once inside all directions become further in, or all futures become further in, or some bullshit like that.

I think a better version is:
“If this was painted by a random person and not a well known artist no one would like it.”
Which is very often the case with abstract art.

Yeh so’s food and heating, its amazing how everything is outpacing inflation yet somehow that’s not the rate of inflation.

And cybernetics that won’t play adds in your brain until you have a seizure!. Seriously settings like cyberpunk and shadowrun are starting to look good by the standards of what we’re heading for. (Shadowrun is also old enough that you could actually just barely survive on a part time job without sharing an appartment even in the dystopia)

For $1000 you could get a small furnace for cintering, a regular 3D printer and some of that special PLA that has metal powder in it that you can print and then cinter into a solid metal piece (The PLA bakes off) and just make the fucking thing yourself.

People who fawn over generative AI haven’t tried to use it for more than 5 seconds. I wish it could run a ttrpg game for me or even just remember the details of its original prompt but its not even close.

Got Linux on my laptop, literally just waiting a year to put it on my desktop (Linux does NOT like brand new hardware)