The Man From Earth was a great movie. Hopefully it qualifies, even though there are a few parts outside the cabin. Based on a play of the same name. It’s also one of those movies where you can’t recapture the first watch. Those who have seen it understand. I’ve heard the sequel wasn’t nearly as good, and I’d figure as much, some stories just need to have their conclusion and let it sit with the viewer.

When have they waited on final approval before? Oh, you mean Trump hasn’t picked which things to make gold vs. not.

Making it so most of the traffic is in a merging state is a really bad idea. So many accidents happen because of people changing lanes, and here a large part of the traffic needs to do that, plus has little space and time to do it in. I’d love to see this made in something like City Skylines, just to show how bad it gets (without the car accidents, though, unless newest versions also simulate that).

I’ve always heard that in civil engineering the ones who design parking lots are the worst of them, based on the results we see in the world. Maybe this was from one of them accidentally handed something outside their normal work.

The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I’ve had local models do better, years ago.

The look the paladin gave the one who stepped on the bridge was absolutely the DM looking at the player who messed up what he had spent hours putting together. Let’s give him credit for not just saying rocks fall, everyone dies.

Not developing AI. We’ve been working on and with ANI for a very long time, and constant research on what might make AGI possible. What side railed everything is some companies found out they can do lots of amazing things with LLMs, a subset of AI science, and investors will pay them to make better versions. They talk a lot about how what they’re doing will lead to AGI, but these people (or the scientists doing the actual work) know better than that. LLMs can possibly be part of what AGI uses, but it’s on the wrong branch. And they’ve given up following the other branches because this one is paying off.

So in short, we could have done better (both ethically and core results), but once again money got in the way.

Great movies have little stuff like that which makes repeat watches worth it.

It’s what all of us first asked either in our head or out loud.

Having a sequel that does well isn’t easy, but with the right script that format can easily work again. There’s so much to pull from. I’m surprised (no, I’m not) that Paramount passed on it, unless what they presented wasn’t a good fit. The first movie didn’t do as well as it should have, but that’s because no one knew what it was about and D&D movies don’t have a great reputation.

“We must avoid reaching the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit.”

“We must make the overshoot as small and short as possible, limiting how high temperatures rise and how long they remain above 1.5 degrees Celsius.”

New talking point unlocked.

The schools don’t care. A lot of the teachers do, but jesus, what a system to try and do your underpaid job in. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s much like most work environments. Asked to do tasks in not enough time to do it, not given the resources to do it, criticized if there’s any complaints about the work or the pay. Oh, and it’s got that retail mix in where you are customer-facing and take the heat for what the school is making you do.

But paying and asking for permission first would have been costly at the start and slow. They made a decision, maybe at the beginning, maybe as they realized ethical would mean lost time and placement in the race, and they said screw it, let’s go. They also sidelined any AI safety research they were doing (some were making an effort on a difficult problem, but again, $$$ wins).

Depends on if existence in this level of 4D is dependent on being at this level. Using your 2D in 3D example (aka Flatland) what if the 2D plane is at sea level pressure, but changing the Z axis there is a different pressure (as we understand, but the shapes would not), to the point where Mr. Square dies if we lift him too far up.

Now imagine a 4D version, where it’s not air pressure, but something more fundamental about physics changes if we’re moved from our current 4D state. The idea being that space as we understand it is 3D, but perhaps exists as part of higher dimensions along with other universes. But they could be completely different, and movement from ours to theirs by just sliding in 4D would change the “space” we’re in, in a bad way.

Or we could just wink out of this 3D space, but be in just a different state and be fine, seeing a weird cross section of what we’re used to.

A more nuanced question would be where is it legal or illegal, and what are the restrictions or conditions where it is legal? How is sex in general seen in those places? The correlation, if any, may highlight some things.

A leak that experts in the area have told the idiot in charge something that anyone outside the military has been saying this whole time? Oh no.

Time for another “no one could have seen this coming”. We definitely haven’t had any historical evidence of pushing operations into places for made up goals only to find out it becomes long and drawn out with limited or no success at all. Nope.

If he knew anything about business, he’d know this isn’t that simple or fast to do. If they were even willing.

Boy, he sure is trying to deflect attention a lot, isn’t he?

I’ve seen the same question asked about Lex Luthor’s plot to sink California for a land monopoly in the first Superman movie. As others have said, the weapon yields in these movies aren’t nearly powerful enough to do more than register a small local quake, if that. Also, while the mantle (mainly lower part) is fluid in the sense that it moves, it is very dense, so liquid doesn’t always mean easier to move.

The interesting part of this is you can’t have good discussions on the different aspects because any leniency towards the broader parts of prejudging something that doesn’t exist yet means people will jump on you as supporting the current topic. And the danger later if and when such things develop into actual incidents is some level of Patriot Act where everyone says “we told you so” and approve blanket laws that supposedly take care of that problem, but also affect totally not connected things.

It’s been something talked about in the tech world for a long time, how slow government is to react to changes in technology, and the gap widens as things speed along. Meanwhile we still aren’t talking about things like AI safety and how to regress some of the damage done by how LLMs were developed ILLEGALLY. Rather than trying to be ahead of the curve (if that’s even possible at this point) the laws will be late and draconian to appease the loud crowds.

And get mental health aid, right? Right? No, guess not, based on the decades of lackluster aid from other veterans needing it.