I enjoyed it for what it was and was sad to see almost everyone disliked it that talked about it.

Three notifications on the hour and one five minutes ago, sounds like he’s a two pump chump and on round 2.

It finally hit the corner straight on.

I could see them being archival backups for TV broadcast, quite a few are still using tapes for long term archive.

Damn, if you’d actually watched the video you’d know he spends about 40 minutes covering the issues with crypto as it’s crucial to understanding NFTs.

Nice try, though.

A fraction of what it takes for thousands of machines to perform rework of the same problem.

This isn’t the good argument you think it is.

Pound-seconds, I believe. Good ol’ LM giving imperial numbers to NASA.

Oh I’m not European, just a well travelled American.

Northern Europe, Finland or Sweden I believe, but yeah that’s the general thing they do for lost children.

System Shock 2 for old school, Prey (2017) for a more recent one.

I bet they regret blowing their load on Cortana already with their useless Windows 10 feature.

Now their actual AI isn’t named after the AI from the videogame they specifically used for brand recognition. What a fuck up.

Copilot is an official Microsoft offering like Outlook or PowerBI, of course they’d rather you use a product officially sanctioned by the company you already pay to handle your productivity software.

Choose your patrons wisely.

You could say the same thing about psychopaths, since they believe that everyone has the ability to understand that they’re sinful, etc.

That’s why I said there’s no real logic, it’s all just cherry picking the parts they want to believe and ignoring the real world aspects that don’t conform to their presuppositions.

As someone who was raised in the church I think this completely misses their perspective.

They believe that God is completely fair and just, and wouldn’t make someone in a way that was contrary to how he wants people to be. So it’s impossible for being LGBT to be something innate and unchangeable, since that would require God created people specifically in a way that he says is wrong.

So instead they go with “it’s a choice, they were ‘converted’ and it’s possible for them to mess up everyone else too.” It’s just to stave off cognitive dissonance, essentially. You can’t believe in a God that says being gay is sinful and then creates people to be gay, so you have to believe it’s like alcoholism or something and can affect anyone.

There’s no logic behind it and clearly no scientific data, but that won’t stop them because they arrived at the conclusion based purely on it being the only thing they can believe and not change the way they understand the nature of their God claim.

It’s almost like an author can write about different societies and not just one that they specifically agree with, but I guess that makes them “ideologically inconsistent.”

Well sure, but that specific focus I believe was pioneered by Heinlein in the same way that when you think of Asimov you think “AI and the three laws of robotics.” Along with his obsession with free love meta human abilties were his biggest returning concept.

Just because Herbet ripped off Heinlein’s ideas doesn’t mean he used the same format or character work. You’re taking me to mean “Herbert copied Heinlein in every respect” which I didn’t say.

Heinlein was writing about meta humans with psychic based abilities for decades before Herbert wrote about the KH in Dune. Clairvoyance and neutron dampening/excitement, eidetic memory, inherent mathematical ability (mentats, anyone?), control over human physiology, twins having quantum mental bonds which work outside of light speed limitations, the ABILITY TO ASTROGATE AND LITERALLY CAUSE MATTER/ANTIMATTER REACTORS TO FUNCTION WITH YOUR MIND.

Pretty much all of Herbert’s ideas about human evolution and the people that make society possible without thinking machines were based in Heinlein’s prior novels and short stories.

So spend money to get bad info, sick.

As if Herbert didn’t rip off half his ideas from Heinlein.