The good news is that we already have the tools to fix this, in breeding, soil health, markets and policy.

Why isn't composting part of the solution? If those minerals aren't going into our bodies then they should at least be returned to the soil instead of to the dump.

Here's the list to save you a click, and also got a lego hasbara ad while reading so maybe gizmodo doesn't deserve a click:

❌ = Won't call it super intelligence

❓ = Hasn't weighed in yet

✅ = Calls it super intelligence

❌ Altman, Sam: open AI

❓ Amodei, Dario: anthropic

✅ Bezos, Jeff: former Amazon

✅ Benioff, Marc: Salesforce

✅ Huang, Jensen: Nvidia

❌ Jassy, Andy: current Amazon

✅ Musk, Elon: spacex / Tesla

✅ Nadella, Satya: Microsoft

❓Pichai, Sundar: alphabet/ Google

❓Zuckerberg, Mark: meta / Facebook

Leave it to Democrats to fuck up a cost of living mid term with high gas prices and a president in the low 30s approval rating.

This should be the biggest blow out this century.

Legit question, is that because construction is still controlled by the mafia?

Saw "plumbum metallicum" yesterday in the homeopathy section of the coop I go to.

That's magic sounding word for lead for those who don't know...

I think they're talking about planned obsolescence for the mobo / socket not the CPU. Yeah most people want the latest CPU but they don't necessarily want a mobo upgrade too, but Intel will release a new socket so that you have to get the new mobo.

If they just released an updated CPU on an old socket plenty of people would buy that but Intel chose not too to juice mobo sales.

Domesticated ones only survive because of humans, so they're advantage is being a good meat sack?

but it’s not comparable at all unless the math you’re doing is simple arithmetic.

That's what they were studying on the math side

For the first experiment with 354 participants, one group was tasked with solving 15 basic fraction problems

Also

If you’re doing calculus, the skill you’re working on isn’t arithmetic, so the calculator isn’t much of a factor.

Calculators would be a big factor in solving calculus problems. Haven't done calculus in a while but if I recall correctly you are breaking down or rearranging the problem into smaller steps that are more basic arithmetic. One part of a calculus problem could be finding out what the square root of 7 is , if you have a calculator to do that you're more likely to solve the problem more accurately and to not give up on the problem, which were the two metrics this study was looking at.

remember pets.com

I think pets.com is probably the best analogy to what will happen with this first round of AI companies. In hindsight pets.com's business model was fine and modern companies like chewy are doing the same thing successfully.

The problem was timing, internet adoption was low and most people didn't understand how to use the Internet or trust it. Combine that with a flood of speculative dollars that mostly gets funneled into marketing with no adoption to justify it and the business falls apart.

I think we'll see the same thing happen with some of these AI applications, the use case may be valid, but people, and the devs, won't know how to use AI and the people won't trust it so adoption will be low even with high marketing and the company will go bust. Then 10 years from now we'll make fun of that AI party planning app that went under while we all plan our parties through some new AI app.

Basically, the AI lab told backers to expect revenues approaching $50 billion — far shorter than the explosive $70 billion number reported previously.

Though that $70 billion figure was also based on leaked investor memos, OpenAI wasn’t in any hurry to deny it, digging itself into a $20 billion hole.

So they told investors they'd make $70b and now they're bringing down the forecast to $50b . $50b is still insane, that's more revenue then any other software company except Microsoft (and probably anthropic), next closest is Salesforce with $41b, and Salesforce built that revenue over decades. Open AI finished 2025 with $13b in revenue, that's nearly 4x growth in a year on more then 10 billion in revenue, that has never been done before.

Idk if this is a sign of a bubble collapsing just because it's record setting growth and revenue aren't as explosive as they initially said. It is still very much explosive, but more a fission bomb then an h bomb. It seems the market agrees, Nvidia is down ~1% on this news, but still up 5% on this month and 20% yoy.

Might've been the other way around, his family was named after the procedure:

The term has also been explained as deriving from the verb caedere, 'to cut', with children delivered this way referred to as caesones. Pliny the Elder refers to a certain Julius Caesar (an ancestor of the famous Roman statesman) as ab utero caeso, 'cut from the womb' giving this as an explanation for the cognomen Caesar which was then carried by his descendants.

Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn't have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans...