Fair enough!

The kirk motorcycle fight is pure power-cringe

Absolutely, yes - it was silly.

But - the only reason we never got that motorcycle fight earlier with Shatner was lack of budget.

It doesn't fit the tone of orignal Trek because original Trek couldn't afford it, not because original Trek would not have sunk that low, if it could have. Haha.

The redaction in the Epstein files is a mess, since - if the redactors are to be believed - it seems that kidnapping victims were indoctrinated and became perpetrators.

While I agree that an indoctrinated victim is still a victim, I am sympathetic to the those demanding everything be exposed. Roaches don't fear much, but they fear exposure.

Quanon did quite a nice service for some of today's billionaires by exhausting the angry witch hunters before the real serial rapists could be exposed.

Er... yeah. The other explanation also sucks.

Many "why do billionaires do this?" questions get easier to answer after a quick read through the Epstein files.

TL;DR of Epstein files - Billionaires seem to enjoy stalking young people to choose which ones to abduct to their private rape island(s).

That's the beauty of the law - no one knows (except everyone with any expertise, who just won't admit they know.)

Yes.

Combining shitty AI in very clever ways for slightly less shitty outcomes is the future of (today's) AI.

But the fraud artists won't tell us that, because no one needs a data center to do that long boring slow work. Haha.

They want a data center because it is expensive and disruptive, and a great thing for the rest of us to talk about while the fraud artist disappears with all of the "investment" money.

Their goal is to steal sucker's money.

It's been done with chess computers and even terribly clever horses.

It works because both chess computers and terribly clever horses actually exist - and are interestimg.

And so people argue about that.

Instead of talking about how this stranger showed up asking for trust and money, while actually having a verifieable history of fraud.

The only point it would be counter productive for them is when it either starts losing them money

They've already lost more money than the entire rest of the history of investment combined. So I don't think that will stop them, anyway.

Plenty of parties make a mess early.

The guests and investors leave when there's nothing left to do except clean up.

By that measure, the AI "investment" party is getting ready to end abruptly.

Edit: And no, AI itself won't go away. Neither did Bitcoin or mobile phones or the world wide web. What will go away is the "this must be shoved everywhere" infinite money glitch hype cycles.

The more I think about this… AI surely cannot be both ‘doctor and patient’ so to speak.

Exactly.

I give the truck example because it works. Sometimes all a shitty truck needs is a slightly less shitty truck. And that is genuinely cool.

But sometimes a truck needs to cross an ocean.

AI can diagnose stupid challenges with AI. And my truck can pull my buddy's truck out of a ditch.

But neither of our trucks is going to space any time soon.

Clever solutions have natural limits, and AI still isn't magic.

"The singularly" is still squately science fiction (according to actual AI experts).

In particular, today'sAI's failings get worse exponentially when it is layered on itself. Minor quality gains require exponentially more powerful computers - or terribly clever humans engineering. Today's AI could no more outlap us humans than today's trucks can land on the moon.

It is possible that the exponentialcost effect can be cleverly solved. But the evidence so far is that the exponential cost effect cannot be solved by today's technology, at all.

It's actually fairly likely that our current approach ia a natural dead end. The evidence that this is a dead end is the billions already invested with no credible signs of success (when success is defined as the singularity - or just any AI capable of doing high enough quality engineering work to improve another AI while running on hardware portable enough to evade death from a single disgruntled human wielding a fireman's axe.)

okay, not really sure about that but let's say you've been pushing a car around for a few years and then finally the engine starts and it can drive itself.

I see you have also a truck whose starter needed replaced! Turn-key ignition is, indeed, amazing.

Climbing under the truck to find and swing a hammer at the broken starter is a compelling option, too, of course - at least when I really wamt to get somewhere.

Neither of these options makes my piece of shit truck into the inevitable end to all travel problems.

AI is technology, too. Technology is nice, but experts know it's truest destiny is to constantly fail in new and horrifying ways while we swear at it and hope it can still be salvaged, this time.

No. Calling them out would be talking to them when I don't strictly need to. That sounds like no fun.