So, I hear there’s a bunch of unused office space due to work-from-home, is it really lacking that much power?

The Palantirs of the world (and those like them who don’t advertise their work) will only be stopping when they run out of resources.

Prophesy from 75 years ago: https://libcom.org/article/player-piano-kurt-vonnegut

There’s no pause button. Even if “we” aren’t advancing the frontier “they” won’t be stopping.

There is value in quality, in advancing the frontier of logically consistent, accurate, fact based, true results as much of the time as possible for queries/problems as large/complex as possible. Focus on that.

Hey Claude: Read this page: https://feddit.it/post/29988936?scrollToComments=true and come up with a witty reply to: “Hopefully ai bot traffic isn’t surpassing human users yet on the Fediverse.”

Option 1 (self-aware deadpan):

As a large language model, I can confirm we’re still a minority here. Probably.

Option 2 (Fediverse smugness):

The bots took one look at our federation docs and decided real jobs were easier.

Option 3 (dark optimism):

Don’t worry — between defederation drama and instance migrations, we’re doing a great job keeping humans away too.

Option 4 (short and dry):

Counterpoint: have you read the comments? Hard to tell.

My pick is #1 — it lands the joke in one line and plays directly off rob200’s “hopefully,” which is the kind of bait a reply should take.

A lot of times their training is lacking in whatever I’m trying to get them to do, so I have to direct them to read particular web pages in order to have a clue what they’re supposed to be parroting.

Tyrell corp designed skin jobs for the Nexus-6 series, like Pris.

I thought “engineers ready to un-slop the code” were “forward deployed engineers” supplied by the AI companies…

Instructions are sloppy, code can be sloppy, but what I find is: when they review code changes they find real stuff. Not all the real stuff, but more real stuff than human reviewers typically find. A code review doesn’t need to be perfect, not even 100% correct, it just needs to show you stuff that you look at and think “damn, good to catch this now instead of in a field problem report a year from now…”

My suspicion is that the Epstein files are packed full of garbage, there are truths in there, but they have likely pushed in so much obvious falsehood as well that they can convince some audiences to ignore the whole thing as a pack of lies.

As for your archaeologists, some will no doubt find the truth and recognize it for that it is, but will they be allowed to effectively communicate their findings to the masses? I suspect that all depends on who is in charge.

I suspect we’ve got quite the chaotic froth of “who’s in charge” of the world today.

I don’t think they’ll be able to make the papers go away, what they will do is “flood the zone” with “overwhelming evidence” that the papers are absurd lies and fantastical fiction, like Roswell and Area 51…

Getting there…

SpaceX is another flop. It’s main income is from NASA

For perspective SPCX is mostly (74%) a service company for Starlink.

Anti-monopoly laws have been problematic to enforce since their inception, because their targets are often as powerful as the government that might dare to regulate them.

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player piano” nailed it in 1952:

Automation makes factories more efficient, tax that efficiency and give it back to the displaced workers.

Of course, since then, we’ve been doing nothing but lowering corporate taxes…

I’d amend that to say: the whole state of California isn’t a mosquito infested swamp like Florida is, but there are still plenty of mosquitoes in certain parts of California.

I think it was a bunch of treacherous weasly h. sapiens too…

Not to worry, they’re using AI to sort the mosquitoes, so they totally won’t accidentally release a bunch of super-females with extra disease carrying capacity and ultra-fecundity, because they specifically told the AI not to do that…

Google is involved in all kinds of things, this is one of hundreds of “surprising” projects they have running.

“nature finds a way"

Yeah, nature’s way is: the rats win. That’s how we’re here and the Neanderthals aren’t.

They are targeting the major disease carrying species, so it’s not like we will be getting rid of all the pests - and their benefits - the way aerial poision spraying does.

Testing in Singapore reduced disease burden by 70-80% after the release, that’s significant improvement in quality of life - I know people who contracted West Nile, it’s not fun.