Right, but I legitimately love the taste of coffee now. Am I wrong? I know I didn’t like it as a kid, but does that mean I was correct to not like it then or correct to like it now?

I don’t know, but my instinct is that being able to enjoy the flavor of coffee is a real benefit. For instance, I can taste the nuance of coffee flavor in tiramisu. Without gaining an appreciation for coffee flavor, many foods that use that flavor would just taste bad.

Well I’ll always use Firefox, no question about it. There is incredible value in using a browser with no alterior motivations, no additional products to sell you, no reason to spy on you.

All I have to say: Windows 7 forever!

And, less typing. That’s a plus for me.

It’s a solved problem too. You just run the prompt and the result of the generation through a second pass of a fine tuned model checking for jailbreaking or rule breaking content generation.

But that increases cost per query by 2-3x.

Huh, so basically it’s like every time my mom said “think before you speak”. You know, just run that line in your head once before you actually say it, to avoid saying something dumb/offensive.

Well I mean it points to our inability to control the use of ai systems, that is in fact a very real problem.

If you can’t keep people from making stupid memes, you also can’t keep people from making misleading propaganda or other seriously problematic content.

Towards the end of the story there was the example where they couldn’t stop the system from giving people a recipe for napalm, despite “weapons development” being an explicitly banned topic. I don’t think I need to spell out how that’s a problem.

Looking forward to playing the sequel. Also, the original is $3 on Steam right now!

Hey, thanks for the tip! I totally just gifted this to a couple of my friends.

Well, photovoltaic panels are already only good at converting a specific range of wavelengths of light into energy. If you want to build more efficient panels (for normal uses), you often need to layer them, with different layers able to use different ranges of the spectrum.

Lasers (and LEDs for that matter) only produce a single wavelength of light, so there is some potential for using it to transmit energy. You just need to tune your laser and your panel to be on the same wavelength. So there’s some tuning that needs to happen, but it’s basically traditional photovoltaics we’re talking about.

Although even then, I’m not sure what the theoretical maximum efficiency of these panels would be, there would probably still be a lot of energy loss. AND ALSO, I have some serious concerns with giving the military giant space based lasers strong enough to power a military base, that’s generally called a death ray.

Somehow, I’m actually more comfortable with the military having small nuclear reactors…

I’ll tell you a secret, it has always felt like the end of the world is coming. It’s been a constant throughout history. People will always look around and say “well this whole thing is all going to hell”. This will never change and it has more to do with individual human psychology than the state of society.

We’ve kinda done that before, the first communications satellites were just giant reflectors, made to be as bright as possible.

C. Yeah, nature is always more beautiful than our creations.

I think that’s obviously debatable. Natural things are not innately superior to designed things.

Well it’s like a lottery but with more variables and where better knowledge or analysis can mean some "players"are more likely to win than others. It’s inherently less fair than a lottery, which should be totally random.