But iMessages are already stored in iCloud and will be available on your computer or any new phone when you log into iCloud again if enabled. Wouldn't that already solve that use case?
> the first of its kind in any state, are now coming into view
Lets hope Oregon will be shining beacon of inclusivity for all drug users, anywhere in US! We should not rush into any conslusions for at least 30 years!!!
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> People only really learn when they’re surprised. If they’re not surprised, then what you told them just fits in with what they already know.
And under that is picture of quad-bike, where wheels fell off!
People do learn from mistakes. If you are "surprising", and loose all wheels, people will learn from that mistake! But they will never ever interact with you again! You will get on banlist as a moron and clown!
Real value is in boring, predictable and repeatable stuff that delivers. Like I spend 90 minutes on lesson, and it gives me 1.5% skill increase. I do it 100x times and I have something. You will never be able to "surprise" me and deliver value 100x times! Smart people do not eat junk food!
You won’t be able to change my mind with an empty quip - people can and do learn by being surprised; and other folks learn differently. I’m not sure there’s much room for debate about that, but if it makes you feel good, spend the energy.
This is the Real Deal, but not in away you would imagine.
So far "nigerian email spam" was easy to recognize. Grammar mistakes, bad translation, very bad wording... But now every fringe group, can generate gigabytes of text and arguments that make sense! This is the end of debate, consensus and interactive communication, as we know it!
Similar moment was in Africa in 1960, after they got AK45 and other cheap weapons. It was easy to dominate Congo River Basin with a few Maxim machine guns mounted on boats, when opponents had only spears. But when every tiny village gets comparable fire power, there are no colonies!
> So far "nigerian email spam" was easy to recognize. Grammar mistakes, bad translation, very bad wording... But now every fringe group, can generate gigabytes of text and arguments that make sense!
"nigerian email spam" contains grammar mistakes, bad translation, vary bad wording... by design. To weed out those unlikely to end up sending money.
I don't know how you can make an argument that makes sense about being chosen by royalty of a country to help them in some way.
> "nigerian email spam" contains grammar mistakes, bad translation, vary bad wording... by design. To weed out those unlikely to end up sending money
this theory is popular, but ignores the simple fact that mostly it weeds out the 90% of people whose email provider offers spam filters which are entirely uncorrelated with gullibility, as well as how low-risk, high reward email exchanges with the tiny fraction of people that bother to reply are to anonymous scammers in faraway low income countries.
I agree LLMs aren't that helpful though: the better scammers are able to generate leads even more easily through copy/pasting other people's classified ads or genuine business enquiries. And yes, having fooled a relatively smart person with someone else's prose into sincere interest in doing business with them, they then reply with poor English, unsettling disinterest in anything other than the money and repeatedly reassuring you it's safe, and a payment proposal that makes no sense (not as a filtering technique but because that's the best they can do). LLMs only solve the first bit.
> mostly it weeds out the 90% of people whose email provider offers spam filters
Do you thing it weeds out 90% of politicians who talk total gibberish?
At end, it will enforce people who are in your social network. Some random celebrity will be ignored. Dude who lives 1 km from your location will be boosted.
If someone is running an actual 419 scam in crypto, probably yes; they only want the really easy marks (because there's a non-zero incremental cost to each person engaging so they only want the ones who are likely to convert). Most crypto scams are either pump and dump schemes or some sort of Ponzi, though, and for those it really doesn't matter; there's no incentive to cut the number of participants.
Thank you! LLMs have raised the floor; not the ceiling. It's much easier to do stuff that was already kinda easy, but not easier to do things that were hard.
Maybe LLMs free up intellectual bandwidth for some, but what will we do with that increased productivity? Mostly scams for now, but I'm sure it'll be able to find many other net-negative or wealth-extraction applications.
If this is true, I wonder what it does with western corporate green agenda. There are huge money invested in it. Cheap superconductor would change a lot.
Similar situation was when EU banned incandescent light bulbs. Many manufactures (mainly western based) lobbied to have them banned, in favor of fluorescent light bulbs. However cheap LEDs were developed and eat their lunch.
If this superconductor is true, it means major power shift from central government, to local community! Distributed smart electric grids. Electric cars manufactured in a garage...
> it means major power shift from central government, to local community! Distributed smart electric grids.
It doesnt even go that far. If it leads to cheaper, safer and denser battery tech, so many people will chose to invest in their own homes and not pay the huge fees for electricity and gas. Electric cars only sweeten the deal even further.
Wouldn't it have the opposite effect, of massive centralization?
If you can make a perfectly superconducting electric grid, then it's better to build power plants in a single optimal location (e.g. nuclear power plants in an isolated area with no environmental risks) and deliver to the whole world via superconducting wires.
No. A superconducting grid will mean the end of nuclear, because you can just put renewables in a really wide geographical area and transfer power arbitrarily. It'll fix the problem with intermittency entirely.
If we move into "light science fiction" area, we can imagine setting up a global grid, so that there's always sun shining over solar panels somewhere in the world. Or maybe allowing countries like Chile to provide energy accumulation services by pumping seawater up the Andes.
Setting aside the fact that things like BBC have nothing to do with energy taxes...
Let's say there are X things government currently funds thanks to energy taxes, and overnight everybody stops paying for energy - do you think government's wouldn't just increase other taxes if they needed to make up for lost revenue?
These seem like completely different problems, and your wishing you paid less taxes doesn't mean the world can't move to better energy systems.
Lobbying by companies who make money under the current system and who aren't best places to react to developments is the biggest roadblock, not government fearing the loss of energy taxes.
I would love to have a superconducting energy storage device, where I could store up all the excess summer solar power (60ºN, 20h/day) to feed to the heat pump the rest of the year. But I'd bury it, to contain the damage in case it breaks down. Would it need a Faraday cage too ? So many questions.
Something that runs in docker container on my home server. If my phone gets stolen, I have 1 hour old backup....