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I'm a bit old-school in my attitudes about buying things. If I own it, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it. This is why I really despised Windows and all such things where what you buy isn't yours to do with as you want. This is why I build my own computers, and use Linux. This is...

If you check the ages of the fuckwits in charge today, you'll see that many if not most of them were the dumb jocks in the 1980s who were bullying the nerds.

There are reams of studies about space adaptation syndrome. Certain physical causes aside, anything that adversely impacts the vestibular system will cause it. Almost every astronaut has had some level of it at some point. My understanding is that the variables which play into when an...

The use of probability is simple. The understanding of the rules of probability are not. Assuming logical use of two sided objects for decision making (like flipping a coin), then one gets into the nuances of differences between yes and no. People get that not all decisions are in black and...

I expect later this year. When OpenAI collapses, so will Grok and the rest of them because investors will flee the market and sue to get back what little of their investments remain. The stock prices for those will drop to pennies, or even fractions thereof. And an executive order won't fix...

And that doesn't even look at the larger economic conditions due to Trump's delusional wars and other economic policies. My expectation, mostly because of the same flavor, if not means, involved of inflating the "value" of things beyond its actual value, generating hype without producing actual...

Congratulations! You're not stupid. But based on more than half a dozen decades of life and observing people, I wouldn't trust the vast majority of them to tie their shoes right. An AI of any kind is no more than a curiosity on the "should I trust it?" level. The answer is ALWAYS, "Fuck, no...

There's still a lot of loot on the wood pile. Not a penny of it is from actual profit, because they have no profits and can't make a profit the way they do it. So it's all VC cash being diverted to this propagandist nonsense. Yes, it reduces the amount of wood on the pile, but my guess is...

If they need it, they're gonna get a hell of a lot more help from those scientists and engineers who made it possible than they ever will from some invisible sky friend, that's for sure.

I don't think I'm wrong yet, but I believe if you disabled Assistant in the first place, and just did the 2010's thing and type it in, you'd probably avoid a lot of aggravation and high blood pressure. Having an Android phone and with all the updates and latest version, and admittedly one who...

PLEASE do not breed. Humanity is far better off with a person who can actually think rationally.

TIL, there's something called "Google Vids". I don't recall ever hearing about it. Obviously, not a thing I'm into. Not a thing that will enhance my life in any way. I guess some people need a hobby, though. I'm busy enough with mine. Doesn't sound like I'm missing a damned thing. I am...

One would think that the evolution of life would be explosive if the conditions are favorable. But postulating climate change being a lot slower, you still have tipping points. The development of a new kind of life in a rare case of favorable environment - a niche form - is common. But the...

TL;DR: It IS history-making, but IMHO it falls a bit short of "historic".

Personally, I'm OK with it as long as it's a small minority of articles. I assume they're there to get clicks that helps keep Ars online. Sort of like advertising. Sometimes they're informative in a general sense. Yes, the deets would be better, but Ars staying online is more important to...

There's a much simpler way to describe it: "play" Play is often just fun problem solving. They probably get a kick out of it, since there's a decided reward to their efforts. That they continue working the puzzles after that reward has been reaped has to be because they enjoy it, and that is...

Yeah, UFO's are decidedly real. But the only ones of extraterrestrial origin would use "falling" instead of "flying" for the F part of that acronym since they're typically meteoroids and meteorites. Anyone who legitimate thinks otherwise is fucking delusional.

It can be in some places. The issue isn't so much that the official was insulted. The issue is that AI was how they were insulted. The fuckwit had to use AI to figure out an insult. So, already a mouth-breathing moron, because public figures, for the most part, offer PLENTY of examples of...

It's all window dressing to bolster xAI because there's no way to make a profit at that game. Period. Musk of all people aren't going to do it. This isn't an albatross. It's a fucking anchor, sucking down revenue without any hope of generating equivalent returns. Musk is using the financial...

Considering I'm not that desperate for entertainment, and when this streams it's going to be on Paramount... I'll have to hear really good things about it before I buy it. Considering the times, my demographic and the way people generally are, I don't go out to any indoor venue with lots of...