Also, if you had those glasses you'd be so distracted while driving you'd probably crash and end up in hospital....

Not so easy. There's a saying, "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?".

It's quite reasonable to ask AI-toting blowhards to put their money where their mouth is. In this case, if their "AGI" can't make as little as 100B in one year, then their other claims about being superior to humans in science and technology are clearly suspect too. You might say it's hard, but we already have one example of a human making 100B in a year, and he's definitely no genius.

Turns out, all they had to do 25 years ago was change their user agent string to "AI" and that whole lawsuit would never have happened!

It turns out it's a thing.

I searched for it, and got this link *****://www.doordash.com/near-me/category/voffee/.

Of course when you actually click on it it's just a list of coffee shops none of which are called Voffee. Pure clickbait for AIs looking for voffee. What they need voffee for nobody knows, maybe it's an attempt to drown their circuits in blackened water while they're busy hallucinating a credit card number. The kind of ruse JT Kirk would probably come up with.

But yes, it's *technically* a thing.

Moreover, the choice of JSON is stupid. It should be XML.

There's an obviously true theorem of mathematics that Euclid's fifth postulate can be derived from the other four. It's so obvious that an LLM can easily come up with the same claim.

But upon closer inspection, no proof or disproof was discovered after 2000 years of believing it obvious. The LLM-equivalents who diverted generations of mathematicians onto this topic held back the field of geometry a long time on a wild goose chase.

It was eventually realized that curved geometry does resolve the issue without it being true nor false. Although that was rightly a triumph, it turns out that the ancient Greeks already knew about curved geometries themselves.

Nice link! I think it's reasonable to make a distinction between the pre-modern usage, eg 18th century, and the recently popular revival. At least it's quite clear from the comments that learnings had almost died out: I conclude that I'm not losing my mind :)

This is my core learning for this decade [...]

As an aside, I find it interesting that the noun "learning" is being used a lot these days. I see it all over the place now, substituted where previously the noun "lesson" would normally be used. It would be interesting to trace the etymology in current usage. Is it a reaction to the fake "learning" of AI (iterative convergence claims without real convergence)? Do people want to re-appropriate the word for themselves? Do people want to signify that they can "learn" like AIs too and are therefore valuable? Is it some weird TikTok meme related to talkin' like them cowboys? Maybe it is just people picking up the language from their copiloting tools? I ultimately don't know, but once it is seen it cannot be unseen :/

Yes. There's this society where people say some convicted felon is good and should make all decisions. They attack anyone who disagrees, belittling them and sending them death threats. So obviously, that makes them less likely to embrace being told what to do by "AI", because they'd rather be told what to do by "convict".

Agreed. The industrial capacity and expertise in China today dwarfs the American equivalent. The size of the population does too (= more intellectual cream on top, because the cup is bigger). The proximity and access to emerging and established Asian markets through both land and sea is better than America's. And btw, the Chinese aren't using the ISS. They've already built their own space station.

Because it takes effort to actively remove functionality? Things break as much when you remove things as when you add new things.

It is like thinking of a Trillion, except that it is backwards.

Well done! You now understand logarithms! Here's a slide rule, please sit anywhere you like :)

That's because their role models in America are con-artists and rich brats. When society accepts and encourages the rot, it's no wonder kids pick up on it.

This reads like an embedded Google search without the "I feel lucky" button!

True. But remember the TACO trade. You can thank me later.