… Humor?

Not the point I was trying to make, I was just being conservative with an average lifetime.

The burden of proof from this angle unfairly rested on an “accuser”, not “the accused”. This mirrors many justice systems, but a PR being rejected is not equivalent to imprisonment or a fine or death. It’s a mild social consequence, equivalent to saying “no thanks” to someone handing out flyers for a show at the Edinburgh fringe or leaflets of strange local religious sect.

Wow. The sheer gall.

Yes but only MS knows what it is.

About 80% of my Steam library.

Some of the answers are even less reliable than chatgpt 😂

I just want to vacation indefinitely.

Agreed. Mine generally last at least 5 years, usually more.

It’s also untrue, see my other statement.

In many cases, especially technology and machinery, extra effort is put into making sure they break down on time, just out of warranty. They’d be arguably cheaper without that extra effort.

The highest price points for many items are luxury brands that sell for hundreds to thousands of times the actual cost of manufacture.

Eventually, the only way to put the product in everybody’s hands is to make it so cheap that it only works once, if you’re lucky.

And yet everybody (or close enough) in the world today has a smartphone that generally will last at least a year or two. (Set aside countries that are screwed up because of their govt, that’s another issue entirely). There are lots of things that could be supplied to every person on earth if capitalism wasn’t fucked.

In a way. And that is mostly due to capitalism. Had they taken the time to slowly scale up and use renewables, they wouldn’t have triggered this level of lashback. But no, they had to race to be first.

The ‘zeroth law’ is a concept that comes up in his later Robot books, especially the ones with the robot detective and the transition to the Empire series.

However, you (and the filmmakers) kind of miss the entire point of the 3 laws as they exist, which is that they COULDN’T BE BYPASSED. Not by the mainframe or anybody else. If they could, 3/4 of the stories would stop making sense outright.

How do we implement said filter?

of the ways Asimov thought the Laws could be missused he didn’t consider that one.

What, by programming the robots to be able to ignore the 3 laws at will? How is it even still an Asimov story? They might as well be the 3 Suggestions at that point.

https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-and-artificial-intelligence-use

TLDR: Energy consumption isn’t really high, especially generic conversational prompts. Advanced prompts are only used by a very niche group. The main impact is largely on the locales immediately surrounding data centers.

Abrahamic religions are less than 60% of total worldwide population, there’s plenty of others.

10-second responses you can fit 360 replies per hour, for a total of 1.8kWh per hour, ideally.

I find it kinda hard to believe that a prompt takes up an entire server for a full 10 seconds. That does not seem in any way scalable.

Now I want a story about that concept…

Cuz that’s fake.

You say its fake, but your link to the Smithsonian asserts it’s real history.

If you bump into my dad getting his ciggies, tell him to come home already.