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The internet speeds everything up so much it's all lost meaning and importance.
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Just saw the news story about a kid who saved a school bus full of other kids when the driver had a seizure (?) or some kind of medical emergency. The kid saw what was happening and grabbed the steering wheel and hit the brakes...And they said that Every other kid on the bus was on his/her phone and had no idea what was happening!
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Thing about AI is that WE ARE building it. And have been since electronic connectivity. We don't have to. It isn't commanding us to do so. Only basic human emotion of greed is.
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@Keatah: agreed re: not writing the code, but AI's basically an arms race at this point. Nobody's going to stop developing it because the other guy will just keep doing it.
It's weird: growing up in the 1980s knowing that I and everyone I cared about may only have 12 minutes to live was a lot less frightening to me than the implications of this technology.
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I don't know if things are much better than the 80's. I currently live in between a shut down nuke plant with nuclear waste storage (the big ugly CA lie about having no nuke plants) , and an underground natural gas storage center that connects to two large natural gas pipes that run for who knows how many hundreds of miles. Also live right under the flight pattern of jets landing at Sacramento; at least they are still high up there and I do not hear them, and there are less flights due to the covid era. So I am always telling the jets not to crash here or at the two sites mentioned above...
As far as the computer "experts" that are creating AI, it seems like a sickness,"We just have to develop this AI."
And don't even get me started on robots....
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Got the itchies to purge all my vintage PC stuff and parts.
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I never understand all this talk of antiques....Resistors,...Tubes...Ya got tubes? Prolly takes up 2 rooms of the house with almost enough power to run a 10 line BASIC program...My advice is to take it all out back, build pedestals of various sizes using AOL CDs you were sent in the mail, set your gear upon them, then grab a rifle and go to town. Then tuck away the shredded refuse into the empty pockets of yer barrel and let the trashman get'em on Friday...