After Sobos bricked their old hardware to force upgrades, I wouldn’t trust Sonos if they sold analog jack headphones.

They’ve turned blocking thieves into an income stream. Consumers will have to let CVS collect their personal data to be allowed to purchase baby formula.

Re: Shining

Mom dropped me off at the movies to see Star wars (again). As I walk in the screen showed elevators doors open and a waterfall of blood pour out. I found an usher because I thought I was in the wrong room.

Trailers, man.

??? The success of the Mini PC formfactor has caused a big resurgence of egpu products. Now they are sold as empty pcie slots with a thunderbolt or occulink port. You provide your own GPU and power supply.

Here’s a new product from last month:

https://youtu.be/o-csSxd3TJo

First, riots are illegal.

Only if you lose. Get your man in power by any means necessary and he will pardon you.

Protest what? He was just elected president.

Trump losing in 2020 was the only reason needed for a riot.

Boomers are a minority of voters. They caused problems but now everyone else is to blame for continuing them and making them worse.

As to misogyny, the world is on a clear backwards slide. Nor did boomers invent body shaming because they were the ones that normalized morbid obesity. The generation before boomers were not as fat.

If it wasn’t for his claim that he was using AI instead of people, you’d have a point.

His success is making more money for himself, not creating a better product.

Isn’t layoffs his point?

It’s not hard to understand.

The electoral system gives an advantage to rural states. Those states are significantly religious and want to ban abortion nation wide. Trump gave them the first step. They want the next.

Or you can always keep looking for reasons to get upset at strangers you don’t know for demographics they belong to that they can’t control.

My point was it isn’t a Gen X, Y or Z thing.

Kids thinking they’re better than Boomers are deluding themselves. We have the proof it’s getting worse, not better.

Rising Nazism isn’t limited to the US.

Which is why more of you voted for Trump than in the past election?

“In the 2024 election, there was a distinct shift among people ages 18-29 towards Trump, especially in men. Fifty-six percent of young men were in favor of the former President in 2024, compared to only 41% in 2020.”

https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/11/gen-z-voter-trends

At least previous generations waited until middle age before turning hard right. (The I got mine vote screw everyone else vote.)

Well somebody voted for Trump. I’m X but many X’s must have gone MAGA. I can’t say my generation is any better.

For the past 20 years all I’ve heard is “fundamental Christianity is dying” “things will get better as Boomers die off”

Vance is a Thiel bloodboy. He’s working with Musk.

Current LLM’s aren’t that stupid. They do have limited learning. You give it a question, tell it where it’s wrong and it will remember and change all future replies with the new information you give it. You certainly can’t ask a goldfish to write a c program that blinks an led on a microcontroller. I have used it to get working programs to questions that were absolutely nowhere on the internet. So it didn’t just copy/paste something found.

Well yeah, because they’re not infinite. ;)

Apple should add “console” into their branding to solve all their problems.

The all new iPhone 17+ Console.

There isn’t any significant difference between a Switch and an iPhone

even with infinite context memory

Interestingly, infinite context memory is functionally identical to learning.

It seems wildly different but it’s the same as if you have already learned absolutely everything that there is to know. There is absolutely nothing you could do or ask that the infinite context memory doesn’t already have stored response ready to go.

It was invalid when he originally proposed it because it assumes a unique mystical ability for the atoms that make up our brains. For Searle the atoms in our brain have a quality that cannot be duplicated by other atoms simply because they aren’t in what he recognizes as a human being.

It’s why he claims the machine translation system system is incapable of understanding because the claim assumes it is possible.

It’s self contradictory. He won’t consider it possible because it hasn’t been shown to be possible.

Searle argued from his personal truth that a mystic soul is responsible for sapience.

His argument against a computer system having consciousness is this:

" In order for this reply to be remotely plausible, one must take it for granted that consciousness can be the product of an information processing “system”, and does not require anything resembling the actual biology of the brain."

-Searle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room