I’ve used to some online ordering apps that don’t require accounts or identities. You just give them your name and credit card, and pick it up at the store.. Hopefully they will offer that option here..

I switched from Google to Brave (https://search.brave.com/) and it’s like Google circa 2008 - so much better. It does have an annoying AI response at the top, but it’s easy to go into settings to turn it off. I still need Google for may be 2% of my searches that need to go deeper, but for day-to-day searching Brave…

Yes - and we can now directly compare profound weight loss via these drugs against placebo interventions, which is finally going to definitively show how dangerous the extra body mass itself is (20% reduction in cardio health issues is huge). No more “If I just exercised more, but didn’t lose the weight, I’d be…

I almost died of this same thing about 3 years ago - it can happen without it being suspect: a random infection went into my blood and I was on death’s door about 24 hours from the initial infection - totally terrifying. If the infection hadn’t responded to antibiotics, I’d be as dead as this man.

It’s pre-release technology - arguing it’s “not good” because it was of limited use in production is simply to misunderstand what stage of the “capability-maturity” curve this technology is in.. Betting against it “getting better” is probably unwise.

This article could have been deleted entirely except for the last paragraph. Fear and misinformation around vaccinations is causing a drop of the number of children who are vaccinated against measles. And so we get measles outbreaks: it couldn’t be a more linear and straightforward relationship. All the rest of the…

Once you accept faster than light travel in a sci-fi story, holding it to any standards of sensibility is just a matter of choice and perspective. FTL breaks the laws of physics at such fundamental level, no amount of world building can fix it.

Your contractor recommending three external units is an idiot. You should buy a multi-zone minisplit that can power multiple in-room headend units from a single external heat exchanger. I’m appalled that any professional would actually recommending buying three external units when you could get by with buying a single …

I think you have things a little backwards: Those shorting his stock are going to be harmed by his death. Those who are “long” on the stock are the ones to look at, including inside Boeing itself. The motive to off a whistleblower is by those who are hurt if the share price goes down. Lower share prices in the future a…

“To Serve Man” (ref for those who haven’t seen this classic: To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia)

That’s what the cryptobros are excited about when a CBS analyst calls bitcoin a “store of value.” They have failed to deliver any real use-cases for bitcoin, so now they are falling back on it being “digital gold” — a commodity you hoard and hope/assume will go up in value over time (or at least be relatively stable).…

Musk can be a hypocrite and Microsoft can be wrong, at the same time.

Yeah - if he had gone out and bought a brand new car b/c of his anticipated winnings, he might have some claim of actual damages.. As it is, the only harm would be emotional injury of disappointment after learning he was not going to, in fact, be a hundy-millionaire.

Yeah - I think the real threat of AI generated content is that not that it will itself be used to “flood the zone with shit” (though surely it will be used for that).

That’s how it works today, but many AI researchers are actively working on persistent characters, scenes, and other continuity solutions. I have no doubt that those solutions are going to be easier to arrive at than the original AI generation systems were to build.

The question I’d like to ask is how long until ChatGPT is just talking to itself on both sides of the dating transaction? 

He was not arrested, it seems. He faked that part of his video too. You know, for likes and subscribes.

They’ll offer this “better search” for free, and then start degrading their search page to bend towards advertisers. It’s inevitable.

I call bullshit on them not storing user credentials. I bet that’s their marketing speak for “we won’t store your passwords.” But they are absolutely going to store access credentials (oauth keys etc) to make this system work. And therefore, your privacy will only be viable if you trust them to manage all your apps on…

I’m opposed to the death penalty entirely, but if the state is going to kill someone, death by nitrogen exposure seems far, far better than all the other options (drug cocktails, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad or hanging). From what we know about deaths from nitrogen exposure, there’s no sense of…