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Well, only slightly more than half of us are, apparently. I'm glad we won, but it's depressing that it was so close.

And in other news, water wet, fire is hot and the rich truly don’t give a fuck about us

Yep, turned 31 a few weeks ago. Life isn't about dreams anymore, it's just about making sure things don't get worse.

[Derek Lowe is far *far* more familiar with the topic, and has an extensive write-up on why there are only a few facilities in the world capable of producing a mRNA vaccine right now](https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/myths-of-vaccine-manufacturing). The basic summary is that there is a critical step, requiring custom machinery. Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, CureVac have pr…

Don't forget testing, packaging, and assembly. A bare integrated circuit is not useful by itself; it needs to be carefully and precisely mounted to a substrate or circuit board. TSMC manufactures the integrated circuits for AMD's CPUs, but [they still say "Made in China" on them](https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-3600/images/title.jpg) for a reason.

Why are people here being so obtuse on total emissions rather than per capita? > Indian energy minister Raj Kumar Singh rebuked developed countries for using up 80% of the world’s carbon budget. That, he said, leaves little room for billions across Africa, Asia and Latin America to follow the same path to prosperity. His point is extremely valid and the fact that so many people here (as…

End government use of facial recognition. This was a good outcome but it’s too authoritarian

This. As a manager I see them way too often. People trying to suck up for a promotion recommendation or a raise coming to me with gossip and backstabbing. Bitch, why would I promote you when you just showed me you can't be trusted? What stops you from backstabbing me next time?

COVID is here to stay. It might already be calming down to being a more manageable disease, or we might have one or more really bad variants on the way (omicron could be really bad or basically a big flop, we dont know yet). Climate change WILL GET MUCH WORSE. All signs point to an acceleration in emissions, warming, and ocean acidifcation. We're going to dealing with mass plankton die offs, a …

I left a comment pointing out that DHS using shoddy, and often racist, facial recognition software is a diplomatic incident waiting to happen. They don't give two shits about human rights, but maybe they might care about facing congressional hearings because their facial recognition software caused them to detain an foreign dignitary on a false positive for being a smuggler.

Actually I remember a “salute your shorts” episode where AI taking over art and music was some kind of fever dream by the smart kid. It’s getting further and further away from when that happened so I don’t recall as clearly.

While i agree with the sentiment. The exciting part of chatgpt is not what it is but the potential of what it may become.

While i appreciate the comparison to avian mimicry, I feel obligated to mention that parrots can actually be highly intelligent, and their vocabulary can often go beyond just making sounds for attention. They can certainly learn to associate words or phrases with certain objects and emotions. See African gray parrots for some great examples. However the main reason I'm typing this is to actually …

It is not pure mimicry. It mix and rephrase, the result doesn't need to exist from before. It can be something new. You can also get it to play games like 20 questions, make it be a dungeon master for an extremely simple and short quest, or ask it to invent new words. But yes, at the core it is a sort of mimicry. But the worst part is that it lies when it should say it does not know. When…

There are a great many studies showing that self-awareness is very common among non-human animals, along with human-like values of compassion, caring, bonding, friendship, aesthetic pleasure, and a whole host of other things. Is it so difficult to imagine yourself as another type of animal, with self-awareness and desires, pleasures and fears, and to recognize that you, as that self, also desire…

Privacy and protecting people's data is a fundamental right in European countries and should be respected, there is no inherent link between protection of privacy and the ability for ChatGPT to operate. They just need to get their code right. You downplay the value of taking a more cautious approach, which could save countries from making very costly mistakes. Also, the idea that US and China h…

Steven Hawking's brilliance at his expertise didn't exactly translate into brilliance outside of it. AI was squarely outside of it. Also, he was famous for being wrong and losing bets on plenty of topics in his own field.

> I hope up and coming programmers use it to learn rather than a crutch because it really knows a lot about the ins and outs of programming but not so much how to implement them (yet) As someone who has tried to learn programming on my own a number of times over the years, this is how I've been using it and it has helped for sure. I treat it sort of like a tutor, asking it for potential ways…

Yeah, I feel like for junior programmers it is going to be a hurdle for becoming a better engineer for the reasons OP outlined, but for senior devs it is a tool to help us write better code more quickly. If someone stitches a bunch of code spit out by chatGPT together without much understanding shit is going to hit the fan when some awful edge case bug creeps up, which is something I have doubts…

I dunno with all the new strains these days I wouldn't be suprised if someone came out with fuckin space robot weed. "Get your computer high as shit, works on aliens too" AI tested, Martian approved.