The Foundation book series doesn’t really start into psychic stuff until the second book, Foundation and Empire, with the Mule. Big turning point of the overall plot because of him. I wouldn’t classify the Second Foundation as psychics as much as having the ability to predict patterns mathematically and socially influence populations. The fourth book gets into some other psychic influencers.

I’m okay with the TV show parts I’ve seen, but it is vastly different in its approach (and so more psychic type things going on). I knew a visual version would have to take a lot of liberties as the books just don’t translate well in the way they’re written.

Graph Neural Network is probably what was used here. It shares some of how LLMs work, but each is designed specifically for its purpose. The broader term would be an Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI). Machine learning is even more broad. The LLM marketing ruined the use of just “AI” as a descriptor.

Although many people use a downvote for disagreeing with someone without actually adding to the discussion (lazy imo), upvotes were really originally meant to sort out the more important or relevant, or hot topic of the day vs. the regular posts, and downvotes for off-topic posts and replies. Basically a way to moderate the content of the forum without being one.

Based on history, until it breaks, and then everyone tries to save themselves as it comes down. That’s just a financial crash though. Not sure about if AGI or whatever actually is part of the failure. Maybe watch for some insiders who suddenly duck and cover.

That seems to be SOP for any large company these days. AI is a larger scale of money dumping, but it’s the same idea. Got to get that stock number up for the investor, even if it means screwing the customers and damaging a brand name and product reputation. Line go UP!

I’m going to propose that they already had this fix in mind, they just didn’t make it standard equipment because they tried to save money raise profits by not putting it on them. Didn’t Teslas have this issue before and they designed a retrofit for them?

All this time we were thinking it was a complicated mess created by reliance on the car and truck infrastructure and suburban sprawl growth over decades, and this guy comes along and just spits the simple truth. Where was he before, he could have saved so much energy. Genius.

“GPS, directions from America to America, using the longer route through America and avoiding America.”

GPS satellites voluntarily hurl themselves into the atmosphere to burn up.

I will agree that change is up to the workers, but self-inflicted? When we’re born into the system and will probably die before there’s a lot of change, even if there was a push for it? Must have been a vote that I missed somewhere. I’m old now and wage theft was already underway.

Humans can’t align with each other. That fact makes any suggestion from them that they can align a literal alien intelligence completely ludicrous. And they aren’t stupid, so they’re just hoping most people will buy it and not pay attention. We have three directions at this point - a) AGI developed and is not aligned, things go bad in some way, b) AGI not developed but current level AI is not aligned and goes rogue in a critical way (we’ve already had some stuff happen, just not deadly yet), or c) AI stays at the current level and we manage to contain or put out the fires as misaligned actions occur, BUT human directed AI does something deadly.

There’s d) we find safe ways to do either low leve AI or AGI. I can’t see that happening, we’re aren’t being careful enough, slow enough, nor is our motive to make the safest product possible. The motive is $$$, and that only ends in a/b/c.

But we can build ballrooms and arches and multiple attempts at a blue pool. Odd.

It’s more of an observance day for many, which makes my point even more when most people think of Labor Day as a time to buy things on “sale”.

The slide was probably when the IRS made providing insurance a tax shelter for employers. Truman was suggesting a single payer system for the country in 1945, but we went the other way. One thing added to another.

Probably the first modern holiday that demonstrated how quickly we forget the why.

When have they waited on final approval before? Oh, you mean Trump hasn’t picked which things to make gold vs. not.

I know it’s not his line, but it fits. “Nobody knew this would be so complicated. Nobody.”

Well, you’ve messed up my claim. Yes, some cats are totally like that, and would never survive on their own. Others wouldn’t give their past human servants a second thought if they found themselves outside. Still, they are not right wing.

Not true. All cats are members of the same anarchy organization. He just duped them into thinking he is in alignment with them.

Maybe not even competently. The bar is so low even a badly run admin by her would be better than what we have now. Simply because the narcissism and ability to act on it wouldn’t be there.

That last line is a powerful analogy and exactly how it feels.