Well this is interesting

Quantum code breaking? You’d get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

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But it’s just round the corner like cold fusion and AGI.

Truth is, if we mix the three together they will all fall into place!

Magic!

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Yes, Gutmann mentions this.

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So have most tech brollianaires in the last year or so.

ETA
Usually only two at a time but Bill Gares is a particularly ridiculous example. I assume Sam Altman is too but I never get past “Altman says” in anything I read.

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Horrible news. Fallout from Trump suing CBS and complaining about Colbert. Note also that Colbert on air the other day criticized Paramount for giving into Trump re the lawsuit.

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to end in May 2026 - CBS News

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Apparently on the list of “red flags”: Self-described Influencers

(archived NYT)

Livvy Dunne Tried to Buy Babe Ruth’s Former Apartment. An N.Y.C. Co-op Board Said ‘No’. - The New York Times

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I would love to see that! Judging by much of his work alone, I long ago deemed him a Grade A asshole.

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“Homo juluensis”

So named for the discovery at their sites of stone blades clearly suited to slicing foodstuffs like carrots and celery into very thin strips.

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:rofl:

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They went extinct in wars over the correct way to sharpen flint knives.

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As opposed to juulensis!

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It’s a good thing they never made it to the iron age.

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Want to know about my theory of what caused the Bronze Age Collapse?

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The market for ‘baby’s first shoes’ collapsed?

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They died of food poisoning from an improperly-cleaned bronze frying pan?

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The bronze all failed because it was alloyed with really bad quality copper.

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Somebody should write a complaint.

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