That sounds more like diplomacy speak for “These tariffs are a giant insult but since we had good relationships with the US in the past we will not immediately react in the way we obviously should but will make a token effort to negotiate with the madman in charge there now”.

The problem with current autonomous driving is the car can only infer what other cars are doing and what is around it

With a flying car that is directed by an AI that knows where every other flying object is, what every flying object is going to do

Spoken like someone from a culture where drivers are the only thing around because they have gotten so used to ignoring pedestrians, bicyclists, animals (wild or otherwise),… that might be found on the road and hasn’t considered what else might be in the air at all.

The problem with a flying car for the general population is that people are already bad at navigating in 2D and that any technical failure in the air means a vehicle drops onto something and the average person is not going to do a proper checklist and rigid maintenance schedule on their private vehicle.

That is not really what that phrase means though. That phrase refers to people whose neutral facial expression makes them look like someone unfriendly when the person behind it is not. In Vance’s case this is not true, his inside is just as ugly as his outside.

I am not talking about degrees of intelligence at all. Measuring LLMs in IQ makes no sense because they literally have no model of the world, all they do is reproduce language by statistically analyzing how those same words appeared in the input data. That is the reason for all those inconsistencies in their output, they literally have no understanding at all of what they are saying.

An LLM e.g. can’t tell that it is inconsistent to talk about someone losing their right arm in one paragraph and then talking about them performing an activity that requires both hands in the next.

it is plausible that, stumbles aside, AI achieves superintelligence in the very near future.

No, it absolutely isn’t. AI hasn’t even hit the slightest sign of actual intelligence so far so there is no reason to assume that it will get super-intelligent any time soon without some major revolutionary break-through (those are by definition unpredictable and can not be extrapolated from prior developments).

AI has all signs of having hit some major walls where it won’t improve anymore unless someone discovers something new that is at least as revolutionary as the original discovery that lead to ChatGPT.

Meanwhile the results of current LLMs are pretty much unusable without manual review for 99% of tasks where we would want AI, pretty much for all tasks other than “laugh at what the AI said” kind of use cases.

Is she going for the record for shortest-lived social media platform too now?

That is especially true since the US is at the ass end of nowhere so actual threats to its national security are incredibly rare.

Guess what else used to be normal in societies where large families lived in one building.

It is all fine if that is what you really want. It can cause depression though in people who didn’t really want it but tried to get it anyway because that is what society told them they should do.

It is probably unhealthy in a very similar way to parasocial relationships with celebrities are if people take those too far.

Russia has the remains of what used to 5k nukes 35 years ago. All with an annual military budget that is less than what the US spends on maintaining their nuclear arsenal and a culture of corruption that is likely the most prevalent in areas like the nuclear arsenal where nobody corrupt ever expected missing maintenance to be noticed.

Pretty sure we even have plenty of depressed and lonely people who have actual sex. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them aren’t depressed and lonely precisely because they are surrounded by so many people who supposedly care about them but really don’t.

Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming language and doesn’t cause a computer to crash.

If that is their level of understanding of what constitutes code quality I am not surprised they think LLMs can actually produce usable code.

In reality Windows isn’t the most widely used platform, not where it counts, among the developers of those libraries. And finding competent Windows developers to contribute also isn’t easy while finding Windows users demanding support is quite easy since the factor of developers per user is so much worse on that platform.

DOOM choose your own adventure style e-book?

That might be related to the sleep phase you are in when waking up. Try adjusting the time you go to sleep or wake up by small increments and see if that makes a difference to how you feel (even if just to understand your own body better).

I would say the US is the one with the most restrictive residential zoning.

Maybe multiplying each driven distance by the number of owners? I wouldn’t put it beyond them if they code that crap with AI.