So you’re saying the ad driven internet will die? And we will be left with what? Wikipedia and Lemmy? I for one welcome our AI overlords!

Our big brains take a lot of care and feeding for sure.

We also adapted for endurance hunting and fine motor control in our hands. A Chimpanzee could tear your arm off, but they could not throw a curveball.

Just to add to this all data is ultimately stored as ones and zeros. In order to translate it to a piece of text or some type of number the computer needs to determine what type of data it represents. If the computer guesses the wrong type you just get garbage. Languages like C allow you to store data without rigid type definitions, it is up to the programmer to make sure the code gets the type right. In a strongly typed language you are not allowed to use variables of one type as some other type without some explicit conversion. It is safer but a little annoying.

Not sure why you got downvoted, it is a fair question. Real time multiuser editing is a powerful feature. That said it is really only needed a small fraction of the time for specific types of collaboration. Also, it can cause problems as well. Libreoffice Calc meets most of my home spreadsheet needs: calculating mortgage rates and future value of investments and such.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806

I am going to recommend Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle series. Its an epic yarn that stretches across the globe during the 1600’s weaving in real historical characters and events. The book is kind of a prequel of sorts to the Cryptonomicon, while you don’t need to have read it first, if you have you notice the tie ins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle

This is also a big issue for me. When I felt embarrassed because of something I did, I would tall myself, “You’re so stupid!” Which launched me into a shame spiral.

What has helped me break out of the spiral is to notice when I tell myself I am stupid and actively respond, “No I am not”

Sounds like screentime.

If you could somehow inoculate them against smallpox you might have a fighting chance.

Of course I want to think I would do better. Maybe I would manage to integrate with the local indigenous people, but the reality is I would likely die. Either way my knowledge of science and “advanced” civilization will benefit me not at all.

You would die. There are many, many examples of explorers from “advanced” civilizations getting shipwrecked or stranded in an area where primitive hunter-gatherers live. Unless they are saved by the hunter gatherers, they are doomed, despite their knowledge of science and technology. Joseph Henrich talks extensively about these examples in his book, “The Secret of Our Success”

Check out this video to get an idea -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoQh6BoH3c

He lost the case in that particular court but he won in the broader court of public opinion. The real loser was Wlliams Jenning Bryan.

Clarence Darrow, known for his defense in the Scopes “Monkey” trial, and more recently, Alan Dershowitz and Johnny Cochran.

Incidentally, the transcript from the Scopes trial is awesome. There is a book about the trial called “Trial of the Century” and it quotes from the transcripts heavily, a great read.

You can tunnel over SSL with stunnel. TCP latency can be brutal though.

From the chapter headings:

LibreWolf

Zen Browser

Mullvad Browser

Tor Browser

Vivaldi Browser

Ladybird

Orion Browser

Brave

He has some really good, in-depth youtube explainer videos on LLMs. That said this bit on Apple Intelligence does not seem to reflect what people are experiencing.

“In the study, 298 regular cyclists – who rode at least once a week over six months – were surveyed and found that 11.4% of respondents said they’d had an accident they believed was due to a bike fault that was previously unknown.”

That’s super-interesting! Could you share some details?

When I close all my tabs, i ask the question, was this hard to find? If for example I am looking for information on Tolstoy and the article I have open in my tab is the top hit when you search Tolstoy I will not bother bookmarking.

“You know, it occurs to me that the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.”