I like to just call them by what they do. Image generation model, text to speech model, word guessing engine. All of these things are within the computational field called “artificial intelligence,” but not a one of them contains a lick of actual intelligence. Now that people outside computational academics are exposed to the term, I don’t want to confuse them into thinking intelligence has been achieved. It’s just an aspirational name, and folks are confused enough already.

Pelosi: “Wait, what the fuck?”

A coal miner with his family, one of whom is also a coal miner despite still being a child.

Eh, more descriptive, but it’s a bit long for a title.

He leaves behind a legacy of all the harm he caused to so many people.

To be fair to him, his water park was actually pretty good. I have some fun memories of going there as a kid, till they had to shut it down because it started falling apart fast enough that it wasn’t worth repairing.

Looks like you only need to worry about it if you need to know which artificial yellow food dye is in it. Looks like they swapped dyes but failed to update the ingredient list on several batches. I’m not dismissing this as harmless though, people with a Yellow number 5 allergy could have been seriously harmed.

Essentially yes. I don’t know a lot of details about how trials work either, but it’s common in murder trials (and maybe some other types?) for the judge to allow “impact statements” from people affected by the crime. They can kinda say whatever they want, and sometimes they do include what they think the deceased would have wanted to say if they could.

I recall hearing about this case when it happened from a legal commenter I sometimes watch. They ginned up this video by having a text to speech read the statement they wrote for their allowed impact statement. The defense objected of course, but the judge thought it was a wonderful idea and enthusiastically allowed it.

I saw a bit of the “AI” video, and I can’t imagine why they thought showing that was a good idea. It was so cringey it would have kept me from taking any of it seriously if I was considering that case. The sister says she made it to help humanize her brother, but to me it had the opposite effect.

It’s a tough standard. I only punched a hole in drywall once in college. Does that count? Was I only a man as a romantically frustrated youth, or did I lose my masculinity since then? Does it help if I also punched a few other objects during that time?

If you go with the stand your ground solution, it doesn’t matter what the driver thinks. Because you have all the evidence needed that he came at you with malicious intent, and also the driver is dead at the end and cannot contradict you. If a trolley comes at you like that, you have a legal right to stand your ground and defend yourself with lethal force. At that point no other moral or philosophical factors matter once you decide to stand your ground. (Legality may vary by jurisdiction.)

I assume that people drop out as they get tired. Eventually, there’s few enough people involved that it just no longer counts as an orgy. At that exact moment, some people are still going, but the orgy has ended.

“Hey, get in this black plastic sack.”

“Nuh-uh, I read the sign. I refuse to.”

“Damn, foiled again.”

The true solution here is to stand your ground and shoot the aggressive attacking trolley in self defense. Sure, it won’t stop the trolley, but you’ll get to legally shoot someone and you might even still have time to jump out of the way after you run out of bullets.

Bees have a separate stomach just for storing nectar that doesn’t have any digestive juices, so it’s not vomit vomit, but they do swallow the nectar down as they drink it from flowers and then regurgitate it back up into a cell in the wax comb back at the hive. They then evaporate most of the water out of it with air from their wings. When it’s full of honey, they cap the cell off with more wax.

At some point the beekeeper takes a portion of the honeycomb out of the hive, and brushes any bees still on it off into the hive. The caps are cut off to let the honey out, and then typically it is centrifuged to get the honey out quickly. There’s a lot more details of course, but that’s the jist of it.

Looks like Debbie is just letting men with long hair like me just roam around free. I’m happy to wander about, but I guess it doesn’t hurt to ask if you’d prefer otherwise.

For sure, I agree on all of that. I just meant it would be really neat to find out that a nationally known political figure actually was at the center of such a group. Admittedly it would be a terrible idea political strategy-wise and I don’t recommend it, but I would enjoy it. Some “christian” politicians may openly claim and join in with their “prayer warriors” or whatever so that’s normal, but for obvious reasons none of them ever publicly ally with the witches. Would be a nice change of pace if one did, aside from the whole tanking their career part.

Awesome if true.

I mean, it’s obviously not, but it would be hella cool if it was.

Well, see, normally those evil spells would have reduced him to a gibbering idiot barely clinging to his health, but thanks to the constant prayers of good Christian MAGAs he is shielded by Jesus and remains an articulate stable genius in record breaking good health just as GOD ordained him to be.

barf

You know, I don’t take advice from any soda that doesn’t have its doctorate.

Oh yeah, that’s already been happening and going to get worse, especially so as long as the “AI race” narrative holds sway.

The important thing to keep in mind is that we are not currently at risk of anyone inventing a super intelligence. The word guessing engines are getting amazingly good at guessing words, but the huge jump from that to actual intelligence, super or otherwise, remains out of reach with currently known technology.

I agree that if we did manage to invent that, the biggest threat would be the humans doing short-sighted, greedy and generally stupid shit with it. No coincidence that that’s also the biggest threat from current LLMs.

Edit: “Super-hammers could break containment and kill us all if we don’t invest more in controlling them!” shouts man wildly swinging around a hammer in a crowded room. “The government needs to regulate this technology so that only people like me, who use it responsibly, can have access to it,” he added. He tried to say more, but was out of breath after some particularly enthusiastic hammer swings.

The hilariouschaos one, which is sincerely conservative.