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Surely someone committing suicide and taking hundreds of people with him in the process wouldn't lie about it.

I watched a very comprehensive and professional video by Captain Steeeve on this subject earlier today. He didn't outright literally say that one of the pilots deliberately downed the plane, but it was very clear that he thought that was the only explanation that really made sense here. Why do you say it sounds like they "did not mean to do so"? The switches are designed to not be movable without considerable deliberation and intent, you can't just bump these with your knee and switch them off. And both pilots were plenty experienced enough to know that you don't turn those switches off at that point in the flight.

Yes, though not a "traditional" one. I've got a voice recorder, I use it when I'm walking my dog to ramble on about whatever's on my mind. The day's events, my personal thoughts, to-do lists and notes, whatever. When I get home I dump the recording into a folder where some scripts I've written process the audio to produce a transcript (using the Whisper model from OpenAI) and then an LLM to create summaries and subject tags and so forth from it (currently Qwen3), entirely local on my computer. I've got an index for searching through them based on those AI-generated tags and summaries so I can more easily find old stuff if I need them or am curious for whatever reason.

I use entirely local AI because I am completely open and honest in there. Probably a bunch of blackmail material to be found if you dug deeply enough. I'm very careful with data security, none of this ever leaves my local systems.

I've been doing this for over ten years now, almost daily. I've always had a vague plan that someday I'd feed it all into an AI, it;s only just the past two years where that's actually started to become a reality. This weekend I'm going to experiment with upgrading my transcription AI to WhisperX, if it does a significantly better job I may have to rerun the whole dang thing through it all. Could take weeks, maybe months. I'm almost hoping it doesn't work. :)

An equally-true headline: "At last, a promising use for AI agents: debugging smart contract code." The availability of this tool should make smart contracts more secure in the future, and cryptocurrency more reliable as a result.

Indeed. This sort of thing goes way back - the term "barbarian" was literally a result of Romans making fun of how non-Roman languages sounded to them (they used the onomatopoeia of "Bar Bar" to represent what they thought foreign languages sounded to them). Dismiss their language as meaningless gibber and you dismiss their thoughts as meaningless too.

Yeah, this looks just plain awesome. Grocery stores are so bland and samey, it'd be nice if they had more creative decor like this.

Saying a black person is "well spoken" is such a common slight in the US, as if it should be surprising somehow that they're not all speaking Jive or Hip-hop or whatever. If people insult African-Americans like that what hope do Liberians have?

Really, you think all existing uses of data centers stopped now that there's AI in the mix? There may be specific facilities under construction that are intended primarily or solely for AI use, but all the existing demand is still there.

That's how all medical advances work, they are expensive when they are first developed and then over time they generally become cheaper as patents expire and processes are refined.

Once upon a time only a handful of people could get insulin to treat their diabetes. When it was first discovered you had to process huge numbers of pancreases to extract enough for one person. Should we have opposed research into treating diabetes because only the rich would be able to afford it?

Well that's even less likely to cause our extinction, by definition.

I think people often conflate "the collapse of the comfortable familiar civilization I'm currently part of" with "the literal extinction of the human species, full stop, the end." The two situations are not remotely comparable.

That's not really how these things work. It's not going to be like someone eats the very last edible thing one day and then a week later all of humanity is dead.

Do you think it is not a widespread or harmful condition?