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I’m a TMS technician and yeah: a Neurostar TMS machine has a Windows computer running it, while a Brainsway TMS machine has a Linux computer running it. The huge capacitors and magnets make them TMS machines, but without the computers underneath neither can do shit.

Like most problems with AI this too is not a problem with AI it's a problem with the mad gold rush around AI.

I have my issues with LLM and generative AI, but the really big problems are very much human behaviour, exploitation and public funding and regulatory capture by big capital.

I think this is true. I also think that people expect that if AI can perform the task of coding then it can perform any task which they intuit to be easier than coding.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.

Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.

I think Vader is an example of someone who cannot defeat plot armor, something more powerful than the Dark Side of the Force

"So imagine Colin Powell is aetting readv to invade Iraq, and for some reason he has this monk hanging around him. No one reallv knows why this monk is hanging around, but he's Cheney's right hand man, and has some mysterious history with him so has to be treated respectfully. While the Joint Chiefs Of Staff are discussing invasion plans, the monk says "all your weapons of war are insignificant compared to shaolin kung fu" So general Petraues is like "ok MR Miyagi, but grownups are talking' And then the monk hadoukens him.

we're kind of fucked

on twitter it would be "what if artificial intelligence could transform you into a jew-hating asteroid"

every time a post gets circulated out of the oomfie extended universe its only a matter of time before i have to set it followers only no qts

at this rate yall only gonna have rubber duckies in a bathtub

what navy

Is Nate Silver reviewing this probability assessment

a thing I just realized about the Flashman books is that he really benefits from dueling becoming socially unacceptable as the nineteenth century progresses: in the first book he faces the prospect of two duels, one of which he cheats in and the other forces him into marriage.

"competitive lesbians"

We all know some.

how did you get those numbers bud ? show your damn work

Suspect a lot of the sudden pleas for urgency to take AI seriously can be understood as anxiety in people whose jobs have any significant exposure to coding.

One thing that examples like this show is that this mode of thinking is out the window with LLMs. In traditional computing world, when output is produced, it means your instructions were followed and, as long as your instructions were right, the output is correct. Not so with LLMs, evidently.

why is it parrot astrology and not the tarot-keet

Parrot astrology - Wikipedia

oracles come in many forms

platonists on the hustle

long term automation is always good but right now the political preference across developed democracies is "no more immigration" and "no inflation ever" which adds up to automating mundane menial tasks to make more time for mundane menial tasks that are also gross and humiliating

Arguments that strategic bombing of Germany "didn't work" or that it "didn't reduce production" are economically illiterate. If it was so useless why did Germany spend the majority of its war budget (since anti-aircraft shells were a majority of ammunition produced) defending against it?

They also are doing it in the real world while dealing with the public rather than just saying, “so what” in response to we turned pictures of your kids into porn.

Vader is fundamentally the Empire's Michael Scott; a man promoted out of his core competency into middle management.

I don't know the name of the Waymo CEO and this is a good thing

because my god is there such a basic deficit of this kind of behavior right now

There are, of course, a lot of reasonable objections to what they are doing and how they are doing it, but from the vantage point of 2026 its behavior that needs to be rewarded for others to emulate it

finally, their product is not something superfluous (making an agentswarm to shit out too many hentai for anyone to watch in a million lifetimes) or downright evil (automating dead people's social media accounts). A road system comprised of automated vehicles will save lives

They are doing something that is far harder than any other AI company right now -- making a system that controls hardware in unforgiving physical conditions, under a thicket of regulations, and they have been doing it without you needing to see their CEO mouthing off in the news every day