Protip: If you’re the government, you can just take stakes in these companies without giving them money.

He’s right. I used to think of Israel as just another country, and now I regard them the same way I regard North Korea.

Suggestion: Deploy anti satellite 🛰 weapon, and extort other nations by threatening their satellites in order to pay off the national debt. Somebody get Donald Trump on the phone.

I’m only half joking. Kessler syndrome is probably going to happen sooner or later anyway. And I do think it would be possible to convince Trump the scheme is a good idea if you had access to him.

Death in combat is neither necessary nor sufficient. It does increase your chances, though.

“Absolutely no warranty” means you can’t be taken to court if your product is bad, it does not mean “immune to criticism”.

The business is not selling AI art on Etsy, it’s selling courses on how to sell AI art on Etsy.

The traffic calming in Eugene, Oregon, has already reduced the number of annual traffic fatalities from 22 to 10. I don’t know what you can call this other than a resounding success.

“Dogs” in “unions for the dogs” refers to cops. And police unions are stupidly powerful.

Unironically yes. Traffic jams when the road gets full, and people have a time budget for traveling. So by slowing traffic down, you reduce demand, and thus the risk of traffic jams. Which in turn leads to a better experience for everybody. Bonus points if you also provide alternatives for car travel.

Nvidia is not selling AI, they sell the hardware the AI runs on. They’re selling shovels in this gold rush, but they forgot the one golden rule: “Cash up front”.

None of this stuff is actually difficult. For the front-end, I’d recommend Silly Tavern, which also offers recommendations for the backend, quite a few of which can be run locally, assuming you have a decently powerful PC. And the bots themselves are basically made up of a short text describing their personality. The whole thing is about as difficult as assembling Ikea furniture, and you should encourage your kids to seek out more challenging personal projects.

Personally, I like to drive my 🚗 at 🚲 speed.

If your population was being hunted for food, would you rather have the hunters eat all of their kill, or only part of it? Keep in mind that in both scenarios, their energy needs are the same.

Height and build alone would narrow it down significantly.

Ah, the good old Swedish Drink.

Great work, team. Now as soon as the Alcubierre drive team delivers a prototype, we can settle the cosmos.

If AI really were that good, it would have naturally displaced human written answers by now.

Those are more tongue in cheek than straight up jokes. There’s an actual explanation in there: Cold stresses the battery, so the self driving car moves somewhere warmer. This is the humorously framed as if it were talking about an animal, rather than a machine.

Because Mens rea being provable in this specific case is immaterial as to whether it needs to be proven in order to reach a conviction.

Only the “find a mate” bit shows that you’re making a joke.