The problem with a monopoly is that it tends to abuse its position, no matter the intentions of the people in it.

Multipolarity with international rules that are followed out of self-interest because conflict is more costly than cooperation. That’s about the best equilibrium we can hope for. Until we have O’Neill cylinders, ofc .

Kalaka?

Q: What do they call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?

A: Doctor

cheat like hell like they do

Sociologists find that universally, in countries with persistent corruption, the populace believes “everyone is doing it” – and that therefore, they are being taken advantage of unless they do the same.

It’s this pervasive sentiment that makes it so hard to break. It is a memetic social disease.

One of my great regrets is abandoning my 4-digit slashdot ID (I decided I was wasting too much time there when I should be working LOL)

So now I’m user 27,537

You forgot to wish everyone a Blessed Kirkmas, you insensitive clod

And the breakdown of international cooperation as USA implodes

remember: the terrorists cannot win even once

psychotherapy

Incredibly important during this time

You should edit your post title; I almost came here to give advice on the paperwork for establishing a temporary monopoly on your intellectual property ;)

For parenting, YES it gets much easier physically really just about now (2-3) as they start to be able to play more independently, (esp imagination games – encourage it, play along a few times and they will continue on their own).

It gets a lot easier physically when they go to school even that half-day a few times a week gives them a lot to process.

Beware, it gets much more challenging emotionally right around 3-5. This is where they will try to find what the boundaries are. Set clear boundaries and stick to them. Be a hard immovable rock just a few times and you both will really appreciate it for years after.

EDIT: oh yeah and be prepared to go into another room, yell obscenities at the little brat into your pillow where they cannot hear, and come back into the room as the Patron Saint of Calm Parenting. DO what you can to avoid losing it right in front of them or worse at them. They will test you.

Not in Quebec. Straight to jail!

All technology has this included for free

Because I set it up like 5 ywars ago as a pandemic project and that was the top option from my searches

A handful of prodigies are still able to sometimes beat the AI.

I count that as solved, the same way a few crumbs on my plate means I have “finished” my meal

Go isn’t a solved game

Depends what you mean by “solved”

Mapped the entire state space so next move is just a lookup in a huge table? No, Universe not big enough.

Game is no longer generally winnable by humans no matter their level of skill? Yes, that happened.

It was one of the first instances of genAI. The team at Google figured out that you take a classifier, flip it round to make a generator, then set it against the classifier to train itself

you don’t really need to brute force every single possibility

And Elon is reading the correct CS/math blogs by pointing out that only legal moves need to be considered.

If he was a little more on his toes, he might point out that Go has a vastly larger state-space than chess, yet it was one of the first problems that fell to GenAI, which is able to find crazy-complex high-dimensional heuristics/“intuition” navigating such spaces.

“I keep losing because this game is TOO SPUPID”

There’s a commercial on the radio in GTA:VC. A baby is crying and the voiceover says, “This American baby is starving because you bought a cheaper, higher-quality Daihatsu!”

OpenVPN on a VPS from Njalla paid for in Monero

I’m not being silly (other than that I’m a freakin’ tinfoil hat compared to most people)

This is my actual setup.