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Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

Freedom*

*To work really hard so that you can hand it all straight to banks

If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance

It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can’t remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as “You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can’t do both”

Outside peak hours, by very slow-moving delivery vehicles. This is a solved problem all over Europe

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Nothing more capitalist than expecting vast amounts of free infrastructure from the government

The last one might be punchier as “I wouldn’t be driving in front of you if…”