Rhaedas

Two easy ones:

No 9-11. There would have eventually been an attempt somehow, hell, maybe it would have been worse, like a dirty bomb. But the ball wouldn’t have been dropped on staying alert. Climate activism. Still think it was far too late even by 2000 to prevent the worst that’s coming (which tells you were I think we are now), but at least Gore knew the science and would have tried to change something.

Still would have had our problems, but it’s such a different path, it’s hard to say what would have still happened.

And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles They can always fly away from this rain and this cold You can hear them singing out their telegraph code All the way down the telegraph road

Hell, both Gemini and Claude have done well for me in throwing some code together for simple apps, but I still looked it over before running it. I try to do that for even human-made open source code, although at least in principle, if it’s been up a while, others have at least tried it and given feedback.

I’m sure this is just a joke or a proof of the issue; you’d have to look at the PDF or whatever it gives and see that something is way off.

And for the record, the best code that I’ve gotten from an LLM has been the first few runs of an idea, one that was thoroughly explained in the prompt. If you put together a vague prompt and continue to add to it, it will get worse quickly, with the LLM even changing parts that were perfectly fine. Maybe turning the temperature down, if possible, will help with that randomness, but it’s always better to keep sessions short and precise.

Not fully. But I’m not saying gravitational theory doesn’t qualify as a theory, I’m just saying we understand evolution very well.

I’ll call. We understand much of how evolution works. Do we really understand how gravity actually works at the core level? There are a few theories, but that’s just it; we’re not sure, and have different models to try and explain what’s going on. Not one.

It’s a miswording. I meant the act of being falsifiable. Testable. If we found something that went totally against the core of the theory and was shown to be factual, we’d have to reconsider what was wrong. But the only debate within evolution are the details, not the main concept, which still hasn’t found bunny fossils older than dinosaurs (to use a common example).

Sure, there are levels of inspiration and skill, but there’s still work to bring it to fruition. There’s also the artist’s eye to see a sudden masterpiece for what it is, and even stop before they make it less. One could say that someone using digital tools has to have that ability as much as any artist to be successful.

Not a believer, but I recently learned that a correct reading of the original Hebrew doesn’t say he created everything. He created the waters and the earth from the void that was already there.

Back to the sign. Dude is making the claim; he has to support it. Evolution is the most proven theory we have, it has been tested over and over. He’d first have to understand the basics of evolutionary theory, which I guarantee he doesn’t know; he wouldn’t be there if he did.

Just a subset of the idea that we’re all born sinners and have to claw our way up to show worthiness. It’s about control.

My hope is for Iran to return to a time before the US got involved with it at all. Pictures from the 60s show an incredible country and people, but over time, Western manipulation drove them back to religious suppression and anger at the world.

I would argue that the medium used doesn’t define the artist, but rather how much effort is put into getting the final result. A few prompt words and a button click, that’s not an artist. Finding the right combination of things, taking those results, doing further manipulation, that becomes more like artwork, even if it’s all digital.

The line has become very blurry, no doubt there. But the people drawing a line aren’t helping.

There are lots of problems, but some are more dependent on the others, so pick your battles. There are also predicaments. Whether or not the biggest problems are really that is debatable. But have to start somewhere.

This isn’t the first one made of him. So it took a few to push people over.

A reminder that it isn’t Trump, but the ones who support him that are the problem, and there are so many of them. And even they are also just a symptom of a deeper illness. A self-perpetuating one.

Either Grok or Co-pilot. Grok because it’s insane, and Co-pilot because it’s just bad.

I tried to switch over to Bottles for my app, couldn’t make it work.

(I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, but Lutris worked out of the box, so… )

This is the real problem. Enablers. He doesn’t have to stay in power.

He’s embarrassing Kim Jong Un.

Transporters also have different modes based on the precision used, the lesser one being used for cargo that doesn’t have to be reassembled as perfectly and takes less energy and time to do so. I hope they have safety measures to ensure a newbie transporter isn’t moving people in the wrong mode.

TNG episodes have touched on that very point. Data had played his music by duplicating famous musicians exactly, but, following Picard’s advice, he began using variations of two or more combined, which Picard suggested was more like human creativity.

This wins the internet today.