It’s great having a crap car. The radio barely works, there ain’t no one stopping me.

I suppose an appropriately trained parrot might do.

To be clear though, you should just watch the birds.

Yeah often my phone will go into night mode on its own now (I’m sure didn’t used to do that) and make genuine dark scenes look really mangledly gloomy.

They have always been bad at lying. Every lie this administration tells is obviously transparent, if they were good enough to concoct a reasonable lie they would be intelligent enough to not get involved in a war with an oil producing country without first restocking their oil reserves. No one this administration has any brains at all.

If only this wall could have been prevented. Sadly that was impossible since the US started it for no reason at all, oh wait.

Have you seen any World War II movies? The mines are changed the ground as per usual, that one’s obviously come loose. So yeah, that single mine is not much of a threat but it’s invisible brethren still are.

Well it’s a major shipping corridor isn’t it and mines tend to be sort of a detriment to that that’s kind of the whole point really.

Add on to the fact that China isn’t all that industrialised and tends to import a lot of its food and you’ve got a problem. The Chinese government are more competent than most (not really a shining endorsement of capitalism is it) so they might have pivoted to India but I don’t know how much time they would require.

The amazing thing about all of this is it probably isn’t going to increase the price of RAM, so that’s the first for 2026.

I’m going to save this for when I go on my killing spree. I can pick up some kidney beans on my way back from mushroom foraging.

I’ve never seen a double whoosh before. It’s one thing to not get the joke, it’s another thing to not get the joke after the joke has been explained to you.

People used to say the same thing about books. There was a lot of moral panic about children sitting inside reading rather than being outside and playing with their friends. Then it was comic books, then it was TV, then it was dungeons and dragons, then it was the internet, now it’s chatbots.

If there is some detrimental effect, I would like an explanation as to how it’s detrimental, rather than just a lot of hearsay.

Sheep are incredibly expensive to farm as well which is why the meat cost so much.

People think sheep are dumb but that isn’t true, they are anti-intelligent, they secretly hide vast intelligences that they use to come up with ingenious ways to injure or kill themselves. You can put goats in a field and fence them off and be reasonably confident that you will still have all of your goats when you come back in the morning.
Sheep on the other hand will use their psychic abilities to manifest some broken glass, and then step on it.

Then the supermarkets don’t want to pay very much for them and so now you’ve spent a lot of money looking after them and got very little in the way of return.

The only reason that sheep were traditionally found was because you could put them on pastures of land that was completely unsuitable for any other animal. But it’s the supermarket aren’t willing to pay a fair price then that doesn’t really count for anything.

If we have colonies on Mars I can’t see why we also wouldn’t have colonies on the moon if only to support ships going further out into the solar system. Refuelling on the moon makes much more sense than refuelling on earth.

The only way that isn’t the case is if we build a space elevator to bring resources up to spacecraft orbit, but if we’re at that point I still think we would build colonies on the moon just because, even if it’s just at the level of a Saudi Arabian vanity project.

Would we be able to see it from earth?

I’ve seen pictures of the earth from the moon and you can barely identify the continents. You definitely can’t see individual open cast mines.

Ok but walk it back a bit, why did they become homeless?

If somebody is completely 100% mentally healthy I can’t see how an AI can convince them to kill themselves any more than another person could convince them to kill themselves. Only vulnerable people join cults, because it’s difficult to pray on people who have proper defences.

I’m still not convinced that the AI isn’t just triggering some underlying mental condition that other people in their lives are just not aware of or not willing to accept.

Some people think that LLMs are true AGI or at least they have thoughts that run along those lines even if they can’t articulate it like that.

They tend to be people who aren’t particularly tech savvy and so they see this thing that seems to be pretty much a miracle of technology and believe that it truly is a super intelligence.

I’ve seen evolution simulators come up with some truly interesting behaviour, like finding shortcut glitches in Mario that no human has ever found, if I didn’t know how the program worked I suppose I might believe that there was some intelligence there.

I’d had a negative opinion of Asimov’s laws of robotics being used to control AI for most of my life, and LaMDA successfully persuaded me to change my opinion.

Then he’s an idiot.

Asimov’s laws of robotics aren’t some kind of model by which to control AI, there are plot device. They’re literally not supposed to work, if they did work it would be a very short book, so obviously we shouldn’t use them for controlling AI.

I don’t know any serious IT professional that has ever, at any point, ever forwarded the opinion that an AI (should we ever a create one, because there is an arguement that LLMs aren’t AI) should be ruled by a plot device from a book. Equally if we ever invent warp drive and find aliens I’m assuming we’re not going to be restricted to the prime directive.

I think the important point here is that just because the father is doing Google doesn’t necessarily mean that Google are at fault. People tend to feel that if an individual is suing a corporation for malfeasance the corporation is necessarily guilty. But reality doesn’t always run like that.

I can’t see any reason that Google would want to encourage more suicide so I have to assume that it’s just an unfortunate interaction of a mentally unsound mind and a product that frankly even its own creators don’t understand. This is highly unfortunate but I’m not certain where the crime was.

Yes people can have mental delusions and psychotic episodes; I’m not necessarily convinced that they are a separate unique condition simply because they were triggered by an AI versus anything else.

For one thing I’ve yet to hear a decent (or indeed any) explanation as to the mechanism by which AI triggers psychosis that is materially different from any other trigger. Most people who suffer from this condition can be triggered by literally anything, including mundane things such as seeing a red cars slightly more often than they believe they should, then they concoct this conspiracy about an evil cabal of red car owners.

A little bit alarmist I feel, after all if it was this easy to be affected by AI about half the population would be dead by now, so clearly it’s not that simple.