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Even so I think it would be totally reasonable for them to block web scrapers, as they provide better ways to download all their data.

I didn’t want to be exposed to exploits, so made sure to never install the Google services stuff.

Why not just roll back to the previous version? The Pixel 4a isn’t supported anymore so it’s not like you’re missing out on security patches or anything.

Hate to break it to you, but that’s not what you’re supposed to do with the joystick.

Sell it to the merpeople, they’ll be happy to have a proper house for once!

Almost as if any election “fraud” by immigrants is so minor it has zero influence on anything, who would’ve thought?

Quantum entangled particles can’t influence each other; they just allow you to infer information about one particle by observing the other. It’s like if you randomly put a red and a blue ball in two different boxes without looking, then moved them far apart. Opening one box and seeing a red ball instantly tells you the other box has a blue ball, no matter the distance, but no information has been transmitted faster than the speed of light (because the boxes can only move slower than light).

True, my estimate for tokens may have been a bit low. Assuming a 7 hour school day where someone talks at 5 tokens/sec you’d encounter about 120k tokens. You’re off by 3 orders of magnitude on your energy consumption though; 1 watt-hour is 0.86 food Calories (kcal).

Around a year ago I bet a friend $100 we won’t have AGI by 2029, and I’d do the same today. LLMs are nothing more than fancy predictive text and are incapable of thinking or reasoning. We burn through immense amounts of compute and terabytes of data to train them, then stick them together in a convoluted mess, only to end up with something that’s still dumber than the average human. In comparison humans are “trained” with maybe ten thousand “tokens” and ten megajoules of energy a day for a decade or two, and take only a couple dozen watts for even the most complex thinking.

I liked generative AI more when it was just a funny novelty and not being advertised to everyone under the false pretenses of being smart and useful. Its architecture is incompatible with actual intelligence, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. (It does make an alright autocomplete though).

“mostly unusable”

Just so you know, your name’s visible in the “Gemini crashes” image.

George Orwell’s 1984 becomes more of a reality every day.

Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.

Making Win 11 even harder to install is a bold move from Microsoft. Most average users are content with using the OS that comes with their PC and upgrading it when necessary. But if the option is to either buy a new PC or fiddle with registry settings in hope that Win 11 will work, I think a lot more people will start looking at Linux instead.

GrapheneOS with a Pixel 6 Pro. It works perfectly for me. Most Google apps don’t work, but that’s only because I’ve chosen not to install their spyware “services”.

Do you really want a job at a company that uses AI to review their applicants?

Wouldn’t the immunity also work in reverse? A bacteria with opposite chirality wouldn’t be able to digest chiral nutrients from regular organisms (sugars, lipids, nearly all amino acids, and more). Seems like that would limit the damage it could cause to existing organisms.

Vaccination? Antibiotics? The Haber-Bosch process? Computing in general?

Nope, computers that are mediocre at pretending to be humans are clearly superior.

Guess we’re never getting AGI then, there’s no way they end up with that much profit before this whole AI bubble collapses and their value plummets.