No number of additional blue votes in Massachusetts or Hawaii was ever going to matter.

I can’t believe how often I have to repeat this but: remember the electoral college? Your vote for President only matters if you live in one of a few states. Your full stop is premature.

two former friends and their very different paths–one towards infamy, prison and suicide

What’s up with this being uncritically repeated

How well does the “AI detection startup’s” product work? This is a big unsolved problem but I’d be hecka skeptical.

That will show that pesky receptionist

A supporter said this…? What a non-story

Wait did they do one?

If he is giving a foreign head of state reassurance that US policy will change if he wins, he is also subverting US policy. This is far from a nothingburger.

That would be a fun can of worms

What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds? Where it’s the same year, and you’re the same person… but everything else is different? And what if you can’t find your way home?

There is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—indeed, every AI researcher and vendor to date has repeatedly emphasised that these models don’t think.

Geoffrey Hinton, for one

Love the switch. The only reason I’m still a console gamer at all.

What was this program?

Good question. Presumably games like this will have a server that is proprietary, and the compulsion may simply be to make the server source or executables available, rather than creating anything new

Man THIS is what the Internet was all about

Ditto

No, generative ai is a blanket term that covers them both. Lots of people are both forcefully opinionated about this topic, and clueless. Like the person you’re responding to

I am… very interested in the particulars of this zero knowledge system.

A lot of people don’t seem to “get” digital privacy and this is really well articulated. Will be sharing when it comes up

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