Ah, I’m thinking of the 30-year update they did on the model:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-right-about-collapse/

I thought it was resource depletion?

And we wouldn’t have it any other way~

I don’t think I fit their demographic. XD

I cannot, and they can’t stand me either because I’ve deleted more bitcoin than most of them will ever see and I’ve personally killed about $5million in crypto scams before they could pull out the rug. XD

Tried looking it up but I’m not finding any academic research on the drag coefficient of hair as a property of its length.

I do know that drag scales with cross sectional area, but I imagine it would require a very voluminous afro to function as a parachute.

Solving the drag equation for velocity and assuming* a drag coefficient around .5, then for a 80kg person to be slowed to a 7m/s parachute landing speed they’d need a 'fro roughly 10.5 feet in diameter.

*this assumption is most definitely wrong, but close enough for humorous purposes.

It could have been, there’s nothing preventing such a network from providing a degree of anonymity by leaving your signature out of a post and adding a few increments to the distance on its onion route to obfuscate the source.

And in any case, you’d only need to make one remote friend to reach an entirely different segment of the network.

IMO, it isn’t decentralized enough. The federated model is better than centralized corporate services, of course, but it still suffers many of the same pitfalls in microcosm. We need private, encrypted friend-to-friend connections that enable friend-of-a-friend onion routing to those outside one’s personal social circle to effectively mimic how real human social networks actually work. The only middlemen we need are the friends we made along the way.

If there’s only one option on the ballot then it isn’t democracy, it’s a hostage situation.

That’s a hard business to run these days, I haven’t seen a net cafe in a decade.

Incorrect. The people who designed it did not set out with a goal of producing a bot that reguritates true information. If that’s what they wanted they’d never have used a neural network architecture in the first place.

Agreed, but there are a ton of those so I can’t get any more specific.

“Unintentionally” is the wrong word, because it attributes the intent to the model rather than the people who designed it.

Hallucinations are not an accidental side effect, they are the inevitable result of building a multidimensional map of human language use. People hallucinate, lie, dissemble, write fiction, misrepresent reality, etc. Obviously a system that is designed to map out a human-sounding path from a given system prompt to a particular query is going to take those same shortcuts that people used in its training data.

Counter-counter-counterpoint, people can’t go on vacations and stay in hotels when their wages are so low that a majority of the country is just one missed paycheck away from bankruptcy.

According to the American Hotel & Lodging Associations’ 2016 State of the Industry report, the combined total of salaries, wages, contract labor, bonuses, and payroll administration is ~40% of total hotel operating costs.

Note that this figure also includes salaries, bonuses, and payroll administration. One could double the wages of hourly employees and the cost of a night’s stay would never increase more than 20%.

Do you have any idea how small labor costs are compared to the other expenses associated with the operations of a hotel?

I upgraded to an older car that doesn’t have any of that nonsense.

Ditto~

And don’t get me started on the its, theys, and etcetera. The weird ones are so cool~

Furry sysadmin here, also trans but not a girl =D