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I’ve always been skeptical of niche archival formats, even ones as robust as this. Even if the technology itself is sound, companies go out of business and formats go obsolete. I’ve been using plain o…

> On Metaculus, a group of forecasters has taken to estimating when AIs will have the chops to out-predict an elite team of humans. Last January, they said there was about a 75 percent chance this…

I didn't change the title. The NYTimes did after I posted it.

I just reread E. M. Forster‘s 1909 short story “The Machine Stops.” I feel it should be assigned reading on an annual basis for everyone working in tech today. https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu&#x…

> In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a “close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer,” and that Claude would be subjected to a…

https://archive.is/dfuzP

Unfortunately, the simulated videos of the brain, showing its various areas lighting up as the musician plays, are not available in the archive. But if you are a NYTimes subscriber, do not miss them! …

Why wouldn’t they include a mg of caffeine per ounce (mL) column?

I feel that anyone that has ever suffered an injustice (and who hasn’t at some time or another) can relate to this film. And survivors of all kinds can understand what it means to “crawl through a riv…

Trust your technolust!

It was right in the tagline: “Their only crime was curiosity.”

I love them both but they are entirely different. War Games was going for a degree of verisimilitude. Hackers is extremely stylized.

I agree. In the early 2000s I spent an absurd amount of time hunting down mp3s, tagging them, organizing them, and burning backups. Looking back, it was a ridiculous amount of effort compared to strea…

They hadn’t figured out how their body cams worked yet.

This is a fun, new speedrunning genre.