Jesus Christ Keith, you're a grown man.

Lizza, his bamboo unchecked.

This is kind of a prime mover problem, I think. None of use speak except in response to prompts as well, at bottom anyway. And I imagine you could have an LLM client just operate discursively if you wanted it to, though I don't know enough about them to say for sure.

Now though, we can sometimes save kids who are born at 23 weeks gestation, and starting at 24 weeks kids really have a fighting chance. Kids are born with all sorts of congenital anomalies that we can just fix. We've basically cured spinal muscular atrophy; it's all amazing and banal at once.

Surgery has been good for that for me. Every day I help with routine surgeries that don't seem like a big deal because, in some sense, they aren't. But these are techniques that didn't exist within living memory, and some of the kids with these conditions simply would've died; there was no hope.

The fact that you can now not only speak to a computer program in natural language, and get a reasonable response, but that that program can also do real work based on your completely unfiltered (ie not put into code) requests is truly amazing.

That might be the thing that gets me. I remember a game that came out quite some time ago, Starship Titanic. One of the selling points was that the NPCs could respond to natural language prompts from you the player.

This game came out in 1998; you can imagine how good it actually was at that.

Which, again, I think is wrong. But I'm not sure why I don't feel so dismissive of it, nor how to convince other people in similar situations to me who ARE dismissive of it.

That's especially true for those of us who work in fields that don't use AI at all. I'm a nurse in a pediatric OR, and so I never use AI at work, and have no reason to use it at home either. Under those circumstances, it's easy to dismiss.

But I understand why people who have no real way to assess what this technology is actually doing, or how its development is going, retreat into their baseline assumption that most of what SV hype people say is just crap.

I do think that, for those of us who don't have any real understanding of this technology (which is the substantial majority of us I assume), it's hard not to look at SV's history and assume this is just another hype cycle.

I think you're right that it isn't and this is meaningfully different.

It is MADDENING that this isn't standard practice for journalism outfits. If you're writing a story about a judicial opinion, or an executive branch memo, or a police policy manual, then let me read the damn thing!

In the environmental law system, the Yautja are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The Predators, who cull the human population, and the Game Wardens, who arrest and sanction rogue Predators. These are their stories.

This seems very unlikely to be true. Are they actually 5000 jobs presently available at Ford, that would pay a new hire 120 thousand dollars?

Bhattacharya's whole game has been to intone darkly about people being silenced by the establishment.

Now that he's in the establishment, silencing people he doesn't like isn't, apparently, such a problem for him.