There are multiple ways to be “unconscious.” Head trauma, sleep, general anesthesia, fainting, coma - for example.

The experience varies wildly: from absolute nothing under general anesthesia to extremely vivid stuff during sleep.

It’s not dependent on constant software updates.

I bet every modern fighter jet is. “Dependent” might not be the best word, but if you can make your existing jet better just by optimizing the software, then of course they should.

It’s probably true to say that F-35 is objectively better than a Gripen, but it’s way more expensive too. More Gripens might actually be better than fewer F-35s. My understanding is they’re more focused on electronic warfare.

Even broke the warranty seal over the USB port.

Firstly, it’s not just about the price of the drones being shot down - it’s also about the price of whatever they were going to hit if you didn’t stop them.

And secondly, that’s entirely beside the point anyway. The Dutch need stealth fighters just as much as anyone else would.

The interesting thing about general anesthesia is that it’s quite unlike dreaming. It’s like you’re just instantly teleported into another place and time without any sense of time having passed in between. You were effectively dead for a few hours from everyone else’s perspective, but for you there was no gap at all. It’s not like there’s a blank section in the film - rather like someone entirely cut out that part and you just jumped instantly to the next act.

I can’t help but wonder if something similar happens when you actually die. By definition you cannot experience being dead, so what if your consciousness just jumps over the being-dead part and continues from whatever is next? Even if there’s a million-year-long queue before you get to respawn, that would still happen instantly from your subjective experience. Perhaps death is only for your physical body, but your consciousness can only continue to have experiences wherever there are experiences to be had.

I think this idea is called quantum immortality.

I think the consciousness they’re talking about here is the subjective sense of something happening - that it feels like something to be. The fact of experience itself. Unconsciousness in the medical sense doesn’t necessarily mean the end of experience.

Either you’re talking confidently about something you couldn’t possibly know, or you’re risking the rest of your life in prison for leaking top-secret military info. Which is it?

It was Dutch F-35s that shot down the Russian drones over Poland. It could’ve just as well been a Russian fighter jet they scrambled to intercept.

Yeah, they do need a stealth jet. Stealth is what lets you fire your missiles before the enemy even knows you’re there.

General intelligence refers to human level intelligence where it’s not only limited to one task like playing chess or generating language. General intelligence exists - just not artificial one.

Saying that it’s good at one thing and bad at others.

But that’s exactly the difference between narrow AI and a generally intelligent one. A narrow AI can be “superhuman” at one specific task - like generating natural-sounding language - but that doesn’t automatically carry over to other tasks.

People give LLMs endless shit for getting things wrong, but they should actually get credit for how often they get it right too. That’s a pure side effect of their training - not something they were ever designed to do.

It’s like cruise control that’s also kinda decent at driving in general. You might be okay letting it take the wheel as long as you keep supervising - but never forget it’s still just cruise control, not a full autopilot.

It’s a Large Language Model designed to generate natural-sounding language based on statistical probabilities and patterns - not knowledge or understanding. It doesn’t “lie” and it doesn’t have the capability to explain itself. It just talks.

That speech being coherent is by design; the accuracy of the content is not.

This isn’t the model failing. It’s just being used for something it was never intended for.

What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?

You couldn’t really warn future civilizations about the dangers of a true Artificial General Intelligence - because there probably wouldn’t be any future civilizations.

And even that assumes the problem magically solves itself once humans disappear, which it wouldn’t. A real AGI would be perfectly capable of continuing to exist without us around.

I’ll start paying for YT before I ever start watching ads. I won’t as long as I don’t have to, but the second they finally figure this out, I’m subscribing.

It’s well worth the money considering how much I use it and for how long I’ve used it for free. It’s honestly one of the few streaming services actually worth paying for.

Apparently there is a way around it as I’ve been watching YouTube all day and haven’t encountered a single ad.

Well, they don’t in this case either - they just add an extra step to it. You can buy a bit like that off eBay.

I went looking for a screenshot of that scene but got distracted by all the shop-vacs painted as R2D2. Off to buy white and blue paint.

Not to defend BMW here but it’s likely a very specific part that this screw is used for and 99% of home mechanics probably are never going to encounter it. Most likely having something to do with the high-voltage system which you shouldn’t be messing with anyway.

That’s why I don’t immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that’s okay.

I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they’re capable of independent reasoning.

It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it’s just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The “stamp of approval” from people like that is basically worthless.

Probably didn’t read it because it was clearly low-quality slop - not because the final output was written by AI.

People don’t mind AI-generated content when they don’t detect it as such. It’s the low-effort garbage they don’t want to deal with.

Nobody has a perfect radar for AI content. This is just the good old toupee fallacy in action: “All toupees look terrible because I’ve never seen a good one” - except the good ones are the ones you never clocked as toupees.