jonhendry

It's partly that and partly a mad dash for market share in case the get it to work usefully. Although this is kind of pointless because AI isn't very sticky. There's not much to keep you from using another company's AI service. And only the early adopter nerds are figuring out how to run it on their own hardware.

The Vatican, now using shipping containers as diplomatic pouches.

Assuming the common use of third world to mean "poor countries", then I suppose a "fourth world" country would be one that is poor and *also *not really a functional state, perhaps with some armed conflict going on.

But to describe NYC as that? Nonsense.

Why even involve ChatGPT? The "against" side should have been allowed to bring a speak 'n spell.

I hope Sailer is happy he finally got the "African 'big man' presidency" he was sure Obama would be, from Trump.

I wonder if anyone's going to show up naked because they assumed it was an orgy.

National ID wouldn't change that unless voter local registration and change-of-address updates were all rigidly and securely integrated.

So long as voter registration is a locally-managed list of names and addresses it's possible to go in and arbitrarily declare some of the registrations void.

I'm starting to think maybe it was a mistake to let nerd media take over the world.

I suspect Google wouldn't publish this.

Eugenics? A guy going bald that early?

Has he never heard of a humidifier? Good lord.

will automate millions of jobs if it works, might kneecap the economy

will kneecap the economy if it works, too. Because companies certainly aren't going to keep people employed in those millions of jobs.