Inclusion of Erowid in the training corpus had initially seemed like a good idea.

For cords, IIRC you can make them taste bad.

hits Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Cord-Protector-CritterCord-Protect-Hazardous/dp/B000EH2I5O

Maybe it’d be possible to make something similar for phone cases.

The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will “reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027.

I suppose that it depends on the metric you’re using. There are some tasks at which humans are outperformed now.

But I am pretty comfortable saying that come January 2027, the great bulk of things that humans do will continue to not be able to be done by existing AI.

We aren’t going to just tweak an existing LLM somewhere slightly, throw a bit more hardware at it, and get general intelligence.

keep portable charging devices out of pets’ reach

Realistically, I suspect that a smartphone battery is enough to start a fire. I doubt that there is any chance that every dog owner is going to keep smartphones out of pet reach.

They were forced to sell TikTok’s operations in the US.

Ah, thanks for the clarification on Lesta.

Well, we don’t live in a bubble. Countries are going to influence people.

the national security risks raised by the Saudi government’s access to and unchecked influence over the sensitive personal information collected from EA’s millions of users

If you don’t like that, then maybe tamp down on what game publishers are legally allowed to harvest, and restrict what data can be obtained on various platforms, and what can be accessed. It’s not as if other game publishers isolate that data from foreign countries; they can sell data or be purchased for their data. China’s TenCent bought Oxygen Not Included a while back, and I’d be more-concerned about national security regarding China than Saudi Arabia. 2C is a Russian publisher that publishes some major milsim games. The Russian state seized control of Lesta Group, the World of Tanks publisher, a while back. Steam games don’t normally run in isolation (outside something like flatpak on Linux, which provides a limited amount of isolation). If their software is on your PC, they have read and write access to the data on your PC.

Those kinds of old text-based adventures are definitely worth a shout, but I think you mentioned their biggest flaw - that other means of interaction are much more natural and intuitive than text parsers.

I think that they improved in later years, and experience and improved design helps with “hunt the verb”.

You might look at https://ifdb.org/

That being said, I haven’t played much in recent years, so maybe that’s a condemnation of them.

I think that if I were a Chinese multinational company and it becomes a problem, I’d probably just set up an R&D office abroad in a suitable country that doesn’t have the degree of political resistance.

Probably still slightly bad for China, but I don’t think that it necessarily is going to be some insurmountable problem for Chinese firms.

At this scale of immigration, what matters is going to be the individual’s skillset. They aren’t going to measurably bolster the country’s population. Doesn’t really matter that much whether they settle in China and raise kids and such.

My guess is that the administration backs down. Maybe they could lose some of those, but if they can’t even get Fox News and Newsmax onboard, they’re just basically shutting down their media coverage.

EDIT: Also, I’m amazed that the administration managed to dick things up to that degree. I don’t have a very high opinion of Hegseth, but if there’s one thing that you’d think that his experience would be relevant for, you’d think that he’d at least be able to handle media relations with Fox News. The guy spent the last decade there.

The number of kidnappings of South Koreans in Cambodia has soared in recent months, prompting national security adviser Wi Sung-lac to form an emergency task force for the swift repatriation of citizens affected by scams.

Victims of scams are typically lured with promises of high-paying jobs before being confined in compounds and forced to participate in online fraud operations, particularly voice phishing scams, according to multiple sources, including Yonhap News.

Who in South Korea is going to Cambodia with the intent of getting a high-paying job?

goes to dig up per-capita GDP numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

$34,642

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia

$2,870

South Korea is over 12 times as high.

since I can’t replace it any more.

There are small numbers of used Steam Controllers on the market.

https://www.google.com/search?q="steam+controller"&udm=28&shopmd=1

checks

I don’t own a Deck, but Wikipedia does say that the Deck has HDMI out. I guess that having the Steam Controller available would presumably let you use the Deck as a console — plug it into your TV, pair a Steam Controller, and then you get a big screen and a lighter controller.

“Stay tuned! After our commercial break, we’ll be talking to Mike Evans, a Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, to get his take on both the women-excluding Muslim group and the trans-exclusionary radical feminist group.”

I kind of wish that Valve had kept producing the Steam Controller.

It really made sense in the context of sitting on a couch and playing mouse-oriented games. And when the Steam Machine flopped, that kind of killed a lot of reason for it.

But people also did find a use for them, and there isn’t a real alternative.

EDIT: Well okay, there were those mods that involved tearing up a Steam Deck and using the components to make a DIY controller, but the price and technical barrier-to-entry there is gonna exclude most people.

Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: “Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women’s place in public life.

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I kind of wouldn’t be surprised if the Party of Women does things that exclude men.

kagis

Ah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Women

The Party of Women (POW) is a gender-critical[3][4] and anti-transgender[5] single-issue political party in the United Kingdom, which opposes what it refers to as “trans ideology”.[6][7][8] It was founded in 2023 by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) and registered in February 2024.[9]

Is it just a Wikipedia editor beating up on them?

checks website

No they appear to be pretty explicitly upset with trans stuff.

https://www.partyofwomen.org/about-us

Kellie-Jay Keen founded Party Of Women to make sure that people can safely say

No woman has a penis

No man has a vagina

There is no such thing as “non-binary”

And “transitioning” children is abuse

reads further

• Repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 enables individuals to legally change the sex marker on their birth certificate.

• Repeal the Equality Act 2010

• Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

The ECHR has become a tool for imposing ideological interpretations of “rights” that conflict with national sovereignty and women’s protections.

We will:

Withdraw the UK from the ECHR.

End the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights over UK law.

Yeah, I dunno how sympathetic I am to that group either.

Understanding customer needs is essential for business success.

“How do three grown men not have 30 STR between them”

I mean, 3d6 for each stat for an ordinary human PC. Average (1+6)/2×3=3.5×3=10.5. No gender bonus with D&D rules. That doesn’t seem that unlikely.

My understanding is that if it’s an Index, you should be fine.

That being said, I don’t use one.

‘Their resilience is a lesson to us all’: The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We’re the global champions at that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.

They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.

By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.

The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.