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The plot thickens!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/mike-lynchs-co-defendant-in-us-trial-fatally-struck-by-car-while-jogging

Thank god I misread your comment and thought he had pivoted to AI.

RE: the recent discussion about Robert Heinlein and the origins of the word "grok", here's an archive link about him:

TNR: A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness

Apparently that's what the company wants too.

Although putting your progeny into a device named for a Reddit avatar is questionable behavior.

I believe there are apps that can translate handwriting to normal text (doubt they would be able to deal wth mine...) but the time between them arriving around now and the demise of normal people taking notes on paper is too long. An entire generation has aged out of the habit.

(you do see people extol the virtues of specific German notebooks and Japanese fountain pen, but when I do, I cross the street to get away from them)

A golden calf, perhaps.

What makes me laugh (well, chuckle silently) is how this cult member obviously has not gotten the memo that all legislation is useless and the only thing preventing non-aligned hostile AI is long-ass LW posts.

I'm sorry but did the company not have anyone in their org who has had kids???

Bassinets are, as mentioned, used for 5-6 months. Reselling expensive baby gear that's only used for the first months of infancy is very common. Established companies, like those making baby carriages or car seats, know this and make their money upfront at purchase time, ~~preying on~~relying on ~~baby-brained~~doting parents with more money than sense to buy the latest and greatest.

The people designing this product and/or their financiers should be ashamed of themselves.

Or they could have open-sourced the protocol and relied on dudes like this one to keep it going:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41285690

It’s some proposed California legislation.

Tangentially related. In 1878, some asshole exhumed 25 human skulls from an abandoned cemetery in far Northern Sweden and took them to Helsinki, where he and his buddies measured them to "prove" that people from the region were less advanced.

Now the skulls are finally being re-interred thanks to pressure from the local community.

Here's a background on the cemetery and the skull-snatching (in Swedish):

https://kulturmiljonorrbotten.com/2023/09/29/akamella-odekyrkogard/

that human-sandworm hybrid looks anemic af

correct, see edit