I knew I’d have male pattern baldness and early grey hair when I was a kid because I looked just like my grandfather.
So when I was in my 20s, I went from luscious wavy hair to a set of clippers.
Short hair is awesome. Wish I’d done it earlier. I don’t have to do anything with it other than keep it short, and as the balding progressed, it just made me look more manly.
Remember that fingerprinting can be your friend… because it’s much easier to fake an online fingerprint than a real one.
You can generate a unique fingerprint with each online interaction; this means that you will always have a unique identity.
Or, you can ensure you always have the same fingerprint as a large number of other people.
Think of it as the difference between using a different valid loyalty card each time you shop vs using one of the famous numbers that millions of other people are also using.
Of course, in both circumstances, you do give up the benefits of being uniquely identifiable.
My mother goes by mum or grannie, but my wife goes my mom, pronounced “mum”.
That’s because “mom” is a shortening of “mother” which is what she is, but “mum” is a shortening of “ma’am” which is a shortening of “madame” which means “my lady” and is what you call someone of a higher social class than you. And she wanted to get as far away from class hierarchy in the house as possible.
They’re both generally “my mother” when spoken of in the third person by me or my kids.
Seems to me that such a system could be taken even further to also operate artificial appendages, a wheelchair, or even a MANTIS suit.
I just hope that someone discovers a way to reverse sclerosis and neuropathic diseases soon so that none of this is still needed. But the more tools in our toolboxes the better.
I regularly (weekly) run 25k runs. If I had milk afterwards, sure, I’d retain that fluid for longer, but I’d get all congested and start seeing spots in front of my eyes. I know this because I’ve involuntarily done it.
What works best is small sips of water every 2k or so after 10k, followed by a glass of water when I’m done to flush my system, followed by water with trace amounts of sugar, sodium and potassium added.
Binding water up in your stomach is totally useless for maintaining electrolyte and water levels in the body, even though it’s technically (temporarily) increasing fluid uptake.
So… nothing to stop those export tariffs on energy and steel now?
Not everyone can be piccolo, Shirley….
Why not announce it when you’ve done it? Intent only gets you so far.
Most Jews want to go to Israel about as much as most Anglo Saxons want to go to the US.
Notice it’s to protect Jewish organizations, not Jewish people.
Apparently it is now antisemitic to speak out against an organization you disagree with, even ones that bear a strong resemblance to what would otherwise be labeled a terrorist organization.
The problem of course is that there ARE antisemites out there mixed in with all the people upset with the US and Israeli governments.
Exactly. People see “AI” and think LLMs and diffusion models. Those are both probabilistic translation engines. They’re no more intelligent than an AC/DC converter, just a lot more complex.
However, there are neural networks and sense arrays in the field of AI, and those are designed to replicate the process of thought.
The real route to a thinking AI is likely a combination of the two, where a neural network can call on expert systems including translation engines to do the heavy lifting and then run a more nuanced decision tree over the results.
Thing is, modern LLMs and diffusion models are already more complex than a single human mind can fully comprehend, so we default to internally labelling them as either “like us” or “magic”, even when we theoretically know them to be nothing but really deep predictive models.
Just remember to keep stuff cycling; batteries need charging, iodine tablets need replacing, and even the food and water need regular refreshing.
There are very few goods that don’t go bad if left unattended for over 3 years, for instance.