Thanks for this. As a 30+ years software developer, I empathize with your pain, understand your points, etc. I also am old-school and would expect reasonable support / fixes from $200+ software packages back in the day.…
That depends. My employer sells to enterprise / Fortune 500 companies. We have very responsive support staff. We've been around 15+ years. The question was asked: would we ever consider a scaled-down version of our…
Especially in 2026 with the majority of traffic being bots..
UBI can also be a backstop against deflation, can't it? If no one has income, it doesn't matter if bread costs $1 per loaf instead of $3-5 now - no one will be able to afford even $1 eventually, after they've sold their…
Sam Altman doesn't BELIEVE in UBI - but he knows it's the only way to SELL his product, therefore he pretends he believes in it. None of these guys want one cent going to anyone but themselves.
What about RTX 3080? Too little VRAM?
Then they can get a license for that class of vehicle and add "towing up to NNNN lbs" option.. Anything over 500 or 1000 lbs towed, for example, IMHO, should require a license. Obviously not for a hitch-based bicycle…
I think it depends if you have: a) picture, legal name or b) picture, legal name, dob, all addresses/phone numbers/email addresses they have ever had, SSN, employers past and present, same info for spouse, kids, which…
And people loved "free next day delivery" from Amazon, when it started. It's not quite the same level of service anymore, and membership has gone up in price. Would these businesses pay 2x? 5x? 10x? What is their…
How can it end well, when it's mostly owned / controlled by narcistic billionaires who would love to eradicate anyone who so much as looks at them sideways? And who view "mass population reduction" and "I'll get to be a…
Sure, they brought in artillery and a small freelance militia to shoot at the unionized workers, but the point is, the survivors are back working the mines...
Creative is still around? They always had great hardware, but their software was never what one would consider "great".
If you feed the same prompt to the same AI with the same random seed, you'll get the same answer every time. If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same?
Chiang has, in fact, written on this topic before - see "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", and has speculated about sentience in AI, etc. This is not a "one-off", "I need money" type of article. I dare say he has…
It can't even natively understand how many letters there are in words - how will it understand the meaning?
I would maybe agree with you if the entire realm of human existence was limited to words. There are many human experiences that transcend text, and indeed can hardly be adequately described using text. Sure, it's the…
AFAICT, Star Trek has ALWAYS been a vessel for political messaging.
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Yes. I'm currently not convinced it can ever be so. So until I hear something convincing to the contrary, I believe no machine can be conscious / sentient unless mimicking human behavior. And if it mimics human behavior…
Infinitely reproducible at 0 cost means people will be treated as disposable by the rich.
>If I build a Markov chain based on a statistical analysis of word sequences in Hamlet, and then use it to produce a new sentence that isn't found in the text of that work, I have not created a derivative work of Hamlet…
There are people voting to make their lives worse, as long as "other's lives" will be made even more worse as a result.
They are quite amazing to see.
Is he though? I find he still has a STRONG positive image among younger tech people..
This is not a robbery, though. Not in the "break in and steal stuff from your house multiple times" situation. Legally, each of those are separate events, and one doesn't really affect the other unless it's all the same…
Thanks for this. As a 30+ years software developer, I empathize with your pain, understand your points, etc. I also am old-school and would expect reasonable support / fixes from $200+ software packages back in the day.…
That depends. My employer sells to enterprise / Fortune 500 companies. We have very responsive support staff. We've been around 15+ years. The question was asked: would we ever consider a scaled-down version of our…
Especially in 2026 with the majority of traffic being bots..
UBI can also be a backstop against deflation, can't it? If no one has income, it doesn't matter if bread costs $1 per loaf instead of $3-5 now - no one will be able to afford even $1 eventually, after they've sold their…
Sam Altman doesn't BELIEVE in UBI - but he knows it's the only way to SELL his product, therefore he pretends he believes in it. None of these guys want one cent going to anyone but themselves.
What about RTX 3080? Too little VRAM?
Then they can get a license for that class of vehicle and add "towing up to NNNN lbs" option.. Anything over 500 or 1000 lbs towed, for example, IMHO, should require a license. Obviously not for a hitch-based bicycle…
I think it depends if you have: a) picture, legal name or b) picture, legal name, dob, all addresses/phone numbers/email addresses they have ever had, SSN, employers past and present, same info for spouse, kids, which…
And people loved "free next day delivery" from Amazon, when it started. It's not quite the same level of service anymore, and membership has gone up in price. Would these businesses pay 2x? 5x? 10x? What is their…
How can it end well, when it's mostly owned / controlled by narcistic billionaires who would love to eradicate anyone who so much as looks at them sideways? And who view "mass population reduction" and "I'll get to be a…
Sure, they brought in artillery and a small freelance militia to shoot at the unionized workers, but the point is, the survivors are back working the mines...
Creative is still around? They always had great hardware, but their software was never what one would consider "great".
If you feed the same prompt to the same AI with the same random seed, you'll get the same answer every time. If a hundred people see the same event, will they all respond the same?
Chiang has, in fact, written on this topic before - see "The Lifecycle of Software Objects", and has speculated about sentience in AI, etc. This is not a "one-off", "I need money" type of article. I dare say he has…
It can't even natively understand how many letters there are in words - how will it understand the meaning?
I would maybe agree with you if the entire realm of human existence was limited to words. There are many human experiences that transcend text, and indeed can hardly be adequately described using text. Sure, it's the…
AFAICT, Star Trek has ALWAYS been a vessel for political messaging.
username checks out!
Yes. I'm currently not convinced it can ever be so. So until I hear something convincing to the contrary, I believe no machine can be conscious / sentient unless mimicking human behavior. And if it mimics human behavior…
Infinitely reproducible at 0 cost means people will be treated as disposable by the rich.
>If I build a Markov chain based on a statistical analysis of word sequences in Hamlet, and then use it to produce a new sentence that isn't found in the text of that work, I have not created a derivative work of Hamlet…
There are people voting to make their lives worse, as long as "other's lives" will be made even more worse as a result.
They are quite amazing to see.
Is he though? I find he still has a STRONG positive image among younger tech people..
This is not a robbery, though. Not in the "break in and steal stuff from your house multiple times" situation. Legally, each of those are separate events, and one doesn't really affect the other unless it's all the same…