You don't want to make the Sultan mad. If he gets mad, he won't sell you rare earths.

All jokes aside, I'm pretty sure both are still used. Non Turks still use Turkey.

Ah Prolog. So the full circle back to expert systems is complete now, yeah?

They tried brute forcing it, now it's back to programming it directly.

> Which Zuckerberg is doing his best to completely turn them into commodities

By giving them out for free??

Yes, exactly. In the same way that IBM "gave away" investment in Linux to grow their IT Consulting Business revenues.

"Commoditize your complement."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." and what we have witnessed is magic.

Just pump and dump, boys. Pump and dump.

I’d rather we pump and dump new technologies and investment in renewables, scale out compute, and all the transferable benefits for the investment than NFTs.

I’m kind of curious where it all leads to. There’s a non zero chance it’s amazing given what is in my hands today is already amazing compared to what was in my hands 3 years ago.

I don’t think the choice is like AI or curing cancer. I think it’s more like Doge coin and meme stocks or whatever finance fad.

Or pick the right shovels.

And profit!

60 billion is a beautiful payday. That's now clean (hopeully), he can now start something else.

When governments do such things, expect bad results. The protesters' demands aren't unreasonable at all. Just be meritocratic in civil service appointments.

Yep, it's easy. Just flip the "off" switch on the privilege structure that a huge chunk of the people who operate your society benefit from (and expect their children to benefit from). What could possibly go wrong?

It's not so obvious to me. I think it's easy for a rich country to just "solve" security by throwing money at fancy gear, but these poor countries they must have some way of incentivizing people to die helplessly in a ditch. Handing out privileges to relatives is one such way.

There is some similarity to the system of nobility. Although this seems to give lesser privileges but to more people compared to that.

Now what these protests reveal is that similar to the warriors of the past, these protestors are willing to risk death for these privileges. This suggests a pragmatic solution, that instead of abolishing the privilege, they could offer a path for these protestors to also be granted it. This could redirect their youthful energy and ambition into more useful avenues.

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Excuse me, are you The Qu?

Meta's next for him? There's lots of money being poured into their AI division and there's lots of compute & being able to do any kind of research he might want.

I doubt it, the internal politics of it are enough to drive most people crazy.

They should have told informed every customer about this "feature". It seems Boeing waits for something bad to happen to then reveal the feature that caused the accident. Same thing with the MCAS.

Inform me of whether the pilot can adjust their seat? What am I supposed to do with that info?