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Using the same logic... why aren't automobiles illegal?

> I think that maybe I just have more distrust for LLMs than these people?

Context management is not something users treating it like a friend instead of a tool tend to think about in my experience.


Interesting that there was no mention of Symbolics Lisp machines.

"Reduce Loud Sounds" does dynamic range compression. If you pair this with "Enhance Dialogue" you'll probably have an easier time making out what is said.

> Complete side note but anyone else bothered by how they type?

Every non-programmer I know north of 50 or so types like this. It's often the result of using TTS.


> I imagine these will be in apartments soon.

This would constitute illegal wiretapping. You have a legally-defensible reasonable expectation of privacy in your domicile in the absence of a warrant.


It’s only actually illegal if a landlord went to jail for doing it, otherwise it’s just a cost of doing business.


> Everything can be "sold"

How do you sell having lost $50M on research which ultimately went nowhere?

If you can't, then how do you guarantee that your research will always bear fruit?

The bottom line is: You have to be willing to fund MASSIVELY-expensive losses in addition to wins in order to make real progress. Scientists aren't magicians.

For every success there are countless failures which you don't hear about.


> The private sector can fund projects which are opportunities with an economic basis

You've inherited a nation built atop research which, at the time it was done, had no immediate pathway for economic viability. The groundbreaking research out of Bell Labs and DARPA provide many examples, among many more from other institutions, to support this claim which changed the entire world in addition to our nation for the better.

To think that this research would have been the product of economic incentivization is folly.

We, as a nation, have been spoiled by these gifts of our past and, like so many spoiled trust fund children, are flushing our inheritance down the toilet.


>no immediate pathway for economic viability

Investing in research towards creating digital computers and a global messaging system are pathways towards economic viability.


I suggest you look more into the research conducted at both Bell Labs and, separately, the research funded by DARPA.

What you listed is but a tiny fraction.


>"What you listed is but a tiny fraction."

I mean, likewise for you:

>"Bell Labs and, separately, the research funded by DARPA."


I don't understand why calls to "Protect the children!" don't include health insurance.


Because of course it's not genuine. It's always a smokescreen for policing morality.


Because the US already has CHIP and various other programs that mean the vast majority of children DO have healthcare, if they need it.

It's just not a real pressing problem for most people, because either they're covered by CHIP or similar, or covered by work, or just don't care.


Yeah, all my friends who struggle without their desperately needed medications "just don't care".


> surely people aren't "using" em dashes deliberately

I've had a "trigger finger" for Alt+0151 on Windows since 2010 at least.


When I worked in company that did content marketing and had a lot of writers, one of the coffee mugs they gave to us had Alt+0151 in it!

Em-Dash was really popular with professional writers.


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