Hell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.

That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.

That’s great news! Strengthening ties to other nations more interested in creation than destruction and stimulating R&D across borders are both very worthy aims.

Well, yes. But it’s hard to imagine being more efficient with space or energy consumption than that. Single Cell (Organic) Protein production from yeast (or fungus) isn’t a sci-fi concept taken from Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk took it from the real world. The general process has been known since 1781, although research into its use as animal feed was only kicked off by Max Delbrück much later. It was used by Germany during WWI to counteract food shortages, and later by many others, notably the Soviet Union for the same purpose.

Maybe shouldn’t have listened to BP’s “great” idea of using paraffin refined from oil as the feedstock though. Turns out - surprise! - that the residual alkanes are more than a little unhealthy.

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-cell_protein#History

This being the Internet, that’s definitely also a valid option.

Frankly, this is the first time I’ve ever heard of yeast oil, although I’m certainly glad that a more ecologically sound (and likely healthier) alternative to palm oil exists.

Not that I was eating anything with palm oil in it as it is, but I’ll be happy to try this ever I ever see it around.

It was nice knowing you guys.

Kindergarten-level divide and conquer. I know that, you know that. Everybody knows that. Question is: Does Trump know that?

“Okay, people! Can we come up with additional ways of committing genocide without actually calling it that?”

“Well…”

“Yes?!”

“We could make eating a capital offense.”

When I read the headline, it immediately made me wonder where ‘abroad’ Orban is admired. It certainly isn’t in my neck of the woods.

Meanwhile he has drawn admirers around the world, including US Vice President JD Vance and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. US President Donald Trump has called Orban “smart” and “a tough person”.

Ah. Yes.

Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

It really doesn’t. I highly doubt there isn’t office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that’s likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

I suppose I could paint my windows with yoghurt. Or, and hear me out: I could eat the yoghurt and invest in some white curtains.

Those are some interesting and creative suggestions. Now, I’m no weapons engineer, but I believe there’s a term for aerosolized gasoline when deployed to put out a fire, and that term is “thermobaric bomb”.

Never mind that though, it’ll totally work: Not only is a building that no longer exists not a building on fire, but it’s guaranteed to never catch fire again. Problem permanently solved. If you’re in the market for a job, I’ve been told that Hellfire (“We may not put you out, but we’ll definitely put you down”) Inc. is hiring.

“Gilette - Follow The Road, Don’t Cross It™”

It’s like reading an article about a petrol refining company, who, having prior experience with gasoline as a useful and profitable substance, decides to seek venture capital for the development of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher. They obtain the funding - presumably because some people with money just wants to see the world burn and / or because being rich and having brains is not necessarily strongly correlated - but after having developed the product, tests conclusively prove the project’s early detractors right: The result is surprisingly always more fire, not less. And they “don’t know how to fix it, while still adhering to the vision of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher”.

Here I’m imprecisely using “LLM” as a general stand-in for “machine learning”. The only role I see for LLMs in that kind of endeavor is to allow researchers to ask natural questions about the dataset and get results. But with that correction made, yes, even simple polynomial partitioning of hyper-dimensional datasets is incredibly good at detecting clustering/corelations/patterns no human would ever be able to perceive, and is helpful in other ways - predicting (i.e. guessing) at properties for hitherto unknown compounds or alloys based on known properties of existing ones, which has been very helpful in everything from chemistry over material sciences to plasma physics. Point is, there’s plenty of useful and constructive uses for these technologies, but those are not the ones actually being funded. What investors are throwing money at is either tools that rip off other people’s work without compensation, enable positive (in the bad cybernetic sense) feedback loops with users or aim to replace large amounts of the workforce with nothing to replace the jobs lost, which will obviously do nothing good for societal or economic stability.

Yeah. While I agree that “Europe isn’t the US” and that we definitely need “smarter AI rules”, I highly doubt my idea of what that means matches that of those corporate entities.

By all means, use a LLM to chew through huge scientific datasets to search for correlations a human would never have noticed or come up with a 400 page mathematical “proof” that can at least inform a human-driven refinement process to achieve actual understanding, but practically ever other use of “AI” I’ve seen so far is a blursed waste of power at best and societally corrosive at worst.