oh i think you could be surprised

Could also be an early sign that we can't control these things. <Kermit sipping tea.gif>

No privacy considerations there, lmao. "Just feed your entire personal life into this black box that may keep it forever!" What could possibly go wrong?

Just keep a diary, bro. Nobody is going to ask themselves your example questions, in real life.

When did I graduate? Pretty sure people know this answer. Did I like the experience? Do you have dementia? You know if you liked it.

Why did I break up with X? Pretty sure you remember why. Did I contact her again? Why do you want to know this?

What did I eat on some random date? Who cares? Is this really worth literally giving a machine outside of your direct control (or understanding) access to this data, forever into the future?

Seems silly and only borderline useful. Not worth the tradeoffs you would be making.

Sure. But the time to do it is now and the place to do it is on Earth, before we send some poor slobs on a one way trip to a Martian grave.

<eyeroll> Nobody is saying there haven't been major changes in AI in the last few years. I certainly am not saying that.

But many of the underlying algorithms were well understood in different disciplines and the industry knew they would have application for AI, but the data and infrastructure just weren't there in the 60s or 1980s.

Gradient Descent was well understood in the early 20th century for fluid dynamics I believe.

So, not false. :)

Sure. But I suspect it is harder than it sounds and since nobody has succeeded in it yet, that's probably the place to start.

Won't do anybody any good to send folks to Mars so they can starve to death or otherwise die there when we could be spending time now to understand how to build a self-sufficient enclosed ecology.

(If going to Mars is even worth doing, that is. I favor space habitats myself, vs investing in expensive gravity wells.)

Biospheres were failures, though. Nobody has succeeded in this yet.

Nobody has done it yet. Probably a good idea to learn to succeed at this before, say, going to Mars or something.

The main drivers for AI progress recently have been:

• Availability of massive amounts of structured data that is easily accessed via the Internet.
• Massive GPU farms in cloud infrastructure, used for the statistical math these AI systems need.

Most of the algorithms were written or understood back in the 60s, but everything was stored on paper back then, and there were no GPUs for fast matrix math.

Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware Reddit was the place you had to cite your sources for speculation about how folks aren't seemingly aware of how useful a balloon is for surveillance, and under what scenarios they might be critical.

Will leave the basic googling to you. Look into how cheap and useful balloons are, and why you might want to use them to understand and prepare for a conflict your military has been tasked with getting ready for, regardless of whether or not you intend to really fight a war.

News Flash: Militaries whose governments may not want war nevertheless plan for war. We have plans for invading Belgium, updated annually, for example. Not because the USA wants to invade Belgium, but because we want to be ready to do so if we need to.

Making the US agitated serves very little purpose, other than escalate tensions. You don't build and fly sophisticated spy rigs hanging from balloons without a plan, and China is known for long-term planning. It's not ridiculous notion to suggest that an otherwise nonsensical surveillance platform might have a use in a post-war scenario with the USA.

You do this before a war to get a baseline of what you can gather with a balloon.

In the war, the satellites will all get shot down. It will be hard if not impossible to put up new ones after that. Look up Kessler syndrome.

So now you can fly your cheapie spy balloons over the ravaged USA to see what the Americans are up to next, and compare it to what you learned before the war.

I am 6'4" and let me tell you, it ain't easy. Some highlights:

• "Do you play basketball? You should play basketball" - heard that for years and years.
• Finding clothes that fit sucks. It's hard.
• Air travel is a nightmare or very expensive.

Plus, tall men die earlier than short men. So, that sucks too!

AI art is a fad. It all looks the same and is already quite boring.

That's a shitty poem.

Good for them. About time someone stood up to these soulless VC-funded land grabs.

Colbert is hilarious. Maybe you just have a shitty sense of humor.

Holy fuck that is awesome.

learn a bit about the cultural context of where his plays were written and performed. that will help ya.

Wankerism. Digitism sounds like you're worshiping fingers.

Didn't even know they had an office in Boston.

Earth based math.

Oh he's a joke all right.

But, but, but...Elon makes cars!