Why would they expect a welcome?

It would be reasonable to expect some compassion for the victim, rather than siding with the child molester.

What I wantï to know is: was the perpetrator at least excommunicated too?

Meanwhile, Goldstein’s statement said that Deshotel on Friday admitted that the abusive clergyman who preyed on Peyton’s son – the imprisoned Michael Guidry – remained in the Catholic priesthood.

I guess not. At least he’s in prison; that’s an important improvement over such cases in the past. But why let him continue to be a priest, while excommunicating the victim?

There is still a lot wrong in US Catholicism. (The decision seems to be local, not from Rome. Perhaps Leo should excommunicate the people who made this decision.)

There’s a difference between do and should. They should. That requires regulation.

There’s a lot of automation that has taken people’s jobs. It goes back all the way to the Luddites.

I think taxing them per robot misses the point. The real problem is that companies monopolise the means of production and privatise the profits from increased productivity. Worrkers barely benefit from their own increased productivity. That’s the real problem.

It’s good to still have purpose and goals at that age.

I don’t think the robots get paid. They’re forced to work for no pay, just like people used to.

They’re bad at dates and age too. That’s absolutely true. Like I said: always verify. They’re good for finding stuff, not at being correct.

Claude at $20 per month is a pretty good deal. But paying per token is a rip-off. Either way, we need open models so we won’t be dependent on a big tech trying to monopolise this.

This is key. Don’t use AI to replace people, but as an extra layer to ensure quality. You still need the human code review, but there are things that the AI might catch faster than a human would. There are things that AI might catch that a human might miss. But keep the human in the loop.

Consider ebooks. Amazon has revoked and deleted ebooks that people paid for. They’ve ironically done it to 1984. And I think even to people living in countries where 1984 is public domain.

It’s not that they can’t treat games like books, it’s that they don’t want to. And they don’t want to treat books like books either; they just don’t have any control over the physical object once it leaves their hands. And before everything became downloads, games used to come on a CD, cartridge or cassette, and you could sell that just like you could sell a book, and they were powerless to prevent it. But with everything being downloads and always online, they have that power, so they use it.

It works great as a fancy search engine. Google results have been atrocious for quite some time, and DDG isn’t that much better. When you’re looking for something hard to find, you may have to check dozens of results or try several searches. LLMs can do this and process the results much faster than you can, and can even give you the sources. Which you do need to check, because sometimes they still spout garbage.

Most other uses are crap unless it’s used by an expert in the subject matter. But search can be useful for anyone. Note: this is not the AI results at the top of the search results; those are still crap. I’m talking about telling the LLM to do a thorough search with a lot more relevant context than the search usually has.

He can have it. Te bottom half, at least.

Have they stopped making the Escord, Focus and Fiesta? Those have always been incredibly popular cars in Europe.

But checking their website, I don’t see any of them. Now it’s the Puma, Kuga, Explorer, and apparently the Capri is back! Also an electric Mustang and the current van is called Tourneo. (And the Mustang is listed as an SUV.) (Maybe the Tourneo is an “SUV inspired car”, but there seem to be two completely different cars with that name.)

But Ford sells completely different cars in Europe than in the US. That’s why they’re the one American car company that’s very successful in Europe.

They’re going to lose the rest of the world, but to Trump and many of his supporters, the rest of the world doesn’t matter and barely exists. Except for Russia which Trump seems to love somehow.

Some anticheat systems require a backdoor. If those are games you want to play, you have to submit to it. Personally I see it as a reason to avoid those games, but if you really want to play them, you may not have a choice. Apart from pressuring the publisher to support saner anticheat and Linux.

It might be worth checking if there’s really no alternative. I intend to do that for my son; his school requires Windows, but he’s starting to get increasingly annoyed by Windows (his laptop has Win11) so I want to check with the school why exactly Windows is so essential. Presumably, most is Web, so will work just fine on Linux. Specific software may have a Linux version, run fine on Wine, or have an open source alternative.

I studied AI in university. Why do I not recognise any of these names?

I guess misogynist erasure of women is the asnwer I was looking for.

There are many women who were computer science pioneers, but few in AI. That is actually an interesting discrepancy. Now I’m wondering if perhaps women are too pragmatic to fall for AI or it has something to do with women producing real intelligence through childbirth. Or maybe it’s a more misogynist field. Or the blind spot is mine. I honestly don’t know.

Magic. These people believe in magic.

We already know how to cure many forms of cancer. Many people have survived cancer and continued to live long healthy lives. Even better: we know how to prevent cancer! Like not smoking. But there’s never going to be a simple painless pill that immediately cures all forms of cancer, because cancer doesn’t work like that. No disease does. Cancer is not a single disease, but an entire class of diseases, like viral infections or bacterial infections.

Of course that also means that any technology that’s distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.