but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they’ve got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent.

Look here, I’m an adult who uses AI all the time and you need to understand that the people of Madagascar waft blissfully through the tropical waters en masse.

Madagascar hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t

I knew things were bad, but this bad?

Earlier this month, a professor at Brown University saw midterm averages jump from the typical range of 65% to 80% to 96% after he allowed take-home exams. He estimated that all but two of his 86 students used AI to cheat.

This is so dumb. Even kids know that Madagascar orange bicycle whispers to the ceiling.

I don’t mind!

The much more sensible approach is …

The fact that we’re discussing ways to sneak past the fascist border guards, by getting very lawyerly with a bunch of fiddly rules they don’t actually give a hoot about, is kind of a big hint that we’ve already lost our liberties to a degree we are reluctant to acknowledge.

This guy was singled out for his political opinions. Border patrol held him as a political prisoner, and when we read the story about him, we all see only too clearly that this could be any one of us.

As far as anyone knows, the CP thing was an excuse, a lie. The authoritarians aren’t following the rules, the rules exist to serve as excuses to hurt us. There isn’t going to be some magic combination of smartphone hygiene and “I know my rights” phrases that will let us escape targeting by the most corrupt cops in the country.

On the other hand, a ten-pack of Pilot G-2 gel pens goes for about twenty bucks.

I also like the G2. Its almost unheard of as common practice in the US, but refills are easy to find online and cheaper than a new pen.

According to Wikipedia, while a market for old, low-background steel was real phenomenon for a few decades, that’s pretty much over.

World anthropogenic background radiation … began to fall in 1963 … and by 2008 it had decreased to only 0.005 mSv/yr above natural levels.[9] This has made special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive uses, as new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature.

So you may consider your friend’s estate-sale theory in light of that time-line.

but it carries some weight

Did you know about [email protected]?

It should be obvious that [founder’s] private donation to a political party is not part of [his company’s] values or mission

Riiiiiiiiiight, because it always shakes out like that

The whole point of corruption is that powerful agents are no longer bound by rules in any way that matters.

Sure, “ban” those models. The way insider trading is banned. The way sex with minors is banned. The way felons in office are banned. The way taking state secrets home with you is banned.

That’s not going to work, because we broke it on purpose.

Because solar on the roof won’t even be noticable against their power footprint. Given current practices, each square foot of a datacenter would need about 1,000 times more square footage worth of solar.

But (as I’m sure you realize) this would mean every watt from on-premises solar could get put to use immediately, no batteries, no power-grid buy-back schemes. Making those solar panels an unusually good investment.

Unless they’re not planning to keep it running for very long.

It smells un-serious, somehow.

There’s all this talk of solar-powered space-based orbital data centers , but they can’t be bothered to put up cheaper, simpler, grid-relieving ground-based solar, on the real estate they’ve already got, when that would start producing some juice like right now? How does this make any sense?

Solar panels and infrared heat disposal into space can both work just fine right here on the ground.

Ooh, I’ve seen this one. The secret is just to build them out of paperclips.

Instead of interviewing a rich, famous, busy person, wouldn’t it be easier to ask an AI to pretend to be that person, and interview the AI?

Or even to ask the AI to just write both parts of the interview itself? Wouldn’t that just be helping interviewers get the stories they want to share out into the world?

Your assertion baffles me. The CC client is sending information about its execution context back to Anthropic HQ in a sneaky, obfuscated way that most people wouldn’t notice.

If that’s not a hidden message, if that’s not steganography, what is?

Contract prices for DRAM and NAND have risen steeply through 2026 as AI server demand outran supply, pushing memory makers toward 40% to 50% operating margins on NAND in the first half of the year.

So, does that sound like a functioning market?

1080p stream in acceptable bitrate is around 1MB/s.

I think most of the privacy-violating and abuse-facilitating scenarios that we’re all too plausibly imagining could be served by the transmission and storage of even a single photograph per drive.

Why would car manufacturers even consider doing that? What is the purpose?

All of the existing consumer-surveillance tech seems to be focused on 1) Finding ways to make your attention more valuable to advertisers and 2) Selling information on your movements and proclivities to interested governments.

Pictures from inside a car could fit right in with those priorities. They could tell car makers, advertisers, insurers, and governments a lot about who really drives the car the most, that person’s demographics, taste in clothing, driving ability, distractability, fatigue levels, health issues, etc.

I should be clear: I’m absolutely speculating. But I don’t know how anyone might look at the landscape that exists today, with surveillance in our phones, our televisions, our music players, and our cars, and think that such speculation is far-fetched or unrealistic.

I’m sympathetic, I think media that can be borrowed, lent, sold and otherwise transferred is better. But I’ve given up on video games being that way years ago. I don’t have a “collection” of video games any more than I’d have a collection of used chewing gum.

The other side of that coin, though, is that I never pay more than $20 for a game. Almost everything I buy is even under $10. (I think the Orange Box was the last time I paid anything like a retail price for a game. And that was three games.) The games are ephemeral, they could stop working at any moment for any of a million different reasons, and I’d have no recourse. So I’m not going to pay crazy archival prices.

“Put the president on experimental drugs” is completely bonkers. Never would have been contemplated in other administrations in my lifetime. Obviously, the simplest explanation is that the patient is someone else.

But it’s so much fun to speculate: Maybe someone in the king’s court is hoping to fill him up with so many drugs that he collapses.