OMG dude, this inspires many parallels between Putin and Palpatine. In the end, Palpatine dies in a nuclear reactor core. I hope life does not go on to imitate art. Also, wonder who Vader would be.

Defenestration must have been quite common in the USSR, which probably led to the window scene written by Lucas' writers.

Excellent post. Vintage /r/Futurology stuff :) It's a bit too optimistic for my thoughts, but a pretty good set of ideas. We might have a wave of "consolidation" and a battle between the status quo and these new technologies (like in the music industry) before the more egalitarian society shapes up.

This has been true at every point in modern history (since the invention of the gun and the European voyages into the world began)

And yet, there are more musicians and youtubers around the world making money than music staff ever employed at a given point in time. Bullshit jobs will be cleared out and skilled jobs will replace them. If the previous waves of automation are what you base your predictions on.

I have an entirely different take: the climate crisis will create hydrology, botany and genetic engineering jobs like never before. Labour will be needed to dig the trenches to trap rainwater, construct vertical or mixed farms. Precision fermentation / lab grown meat will employ a large number of people directly and indirectly. Solar panels, wind energy installations and related jobs will multiply. That's just 3 major industries I can immediately think of.

That long snout is a time capsule in constant use, capturing places and scents frame by frame whiff by whiff.

India's not a terrorist state. We don't actually kill civilians in other countries for exposing crimes. That only happens with Indians in India. If you're famous enough, you will be imprisoned forever, not assassinated.

That will stop a further loot of the country.

It's a sunk cost, let it go.

We take whatever remains and rebuild.

The earlier such people get out the better.

Hopefully these rats take the ship with them.

But that's not what is going to actually happen. India's misfortune is not ending any time soon.

Which of the 25-30 fugitives are back?

Forget the 15 lakhs and Swiss bank accounts from pre-2014/pre-2016, the amounts transferred after 2014 are not coming back, and in fact increasing.

And considering that there are cheap train and flight tickets to everywhere in Europe. You get all the terrain you want with a proper visa.

What's amazing is that the officials acted rationally with the cost involved and stuck with the plan in letter and spirit. I think everyone needs to look at the Dutch education and political systems as well. We all know the Dutch already have better police than most places due to psychedelics and CSWs being perfectly legal and regulated. There must be more worth learning.

I have no beef with any particular online password provider. Because I use Keepass with the password file shared on a google drive folder on very limited desktop / laptop computers. I don't use a smartphone.

Specifically this: https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-side-iterations/

> Biden wanted to promote how many people have applied for new business licenses during his administration. A number Biden says is 10.4 million people: "That's more than any time in American history in a single period."

> such as the Pile.

TIL. Thanks.

Funding one time's fairly easy. Getting a copy of that data is a little harder. That data will become stale in real time as the world moves forward, so that's the other big thing to keep in mind. I wonder what legal challenges will come up in the event the model copies stuff from litigious IP owners like Disney, the top music artists, Hollywood and the like.

The part that really made the article worth reading was this:

> Like ChatGPT, PaLM + RLHF is essentially a statistical tool to predict words. When fed an enormous number of examples from training data — e.g., posts from Reddit, news articles and e-books — PaLM + RLHF learns how likely words are to occur based on patterns like the semantic context of surrounding text.

So, even when you ask it to create a completely new fictional mishmash story about Darth Vader landing his Death Star in Aragorn to save Thor from being assimilated by the Borg, it will spew out sensible sounding sentences because it knows those references and what comes before and after those words (e.g. Darth Vader, Aragorn, Thor, Borg) and how to link the "before" and "after" words to stitch up a story by combining the same / common "before" and "after" words of the others.

It gives an impression of really understanding what it is saying in some sense, possessing mental models of some sort. But it does not. And that is why it will at most be the next replacement of web search - the truly smart assistant.

But it is nowhere close to real intelligence of any kind because it has no model of reality.

It is great and useful and will it make money and result in productivity and economy? Absolutely, it will change computing services dramatically.

Is it intelligence? Nope. Not even close.

what could possibly go wrong?

I see that the AI bots have grasped contemporary fusion engineering theory and are arguing with each other /s

Very informative comment, btw, thanks.