Live Your Lives

linguists have estimated something like 31,000 languages have existed in human history (and that’s the lowest estimate). Currently, there are roughly six thousand languages spoken in the world. We don’t know exactly, because we’re just beginning to classify some languages in remote locations. But using conservative figures, something like 81% of all human languages have become extinct.

What worries linguists, however, is the current rate of language death in the world. Over half the languages spoken today have fewer than 10,000 speakers; that’s about like the population of Wasilla, Alaska. Around 82% of languages have fewer speakers than there are people in Waco, Texas. Linguists estimate that at least half the world’s languages will become extinct in the next one hundred years. That means, on average, a language is dying about every two weeks.

Taken from a page on the University of Houston’s website.

I get where you’re coming from because people and those directly over them will always bear a large portion of the blame and you can only take safety so far.

However, that blame can only go so far as well, because the designers of a thing who overlook or ignore safety loopholes should bear responsibility for their failures. We know some people will always be more susceptible to implicit suggestions than others are and that not everyone has someone who’s responsible over them in the first place, so we need to design AIs accordingly.

Think of it like blaming an employee’s shift supervisor when an employee dies when the work environment is itself unsafe. Or think of it like only blaming a gun user and not the gun laws. Yes, individual responsibility is a thing, but the system as a whole has a responsibility all it’s own.

Is this actually a thing rich people say? I’ve never heard it said before.

The DHS itself and Nikita Bier, a bigwig at X, have made posts on X denying it. But obviously they aren’t the most trustworthy bunch to use in this case, hence the desire for independent verification.

There hasn’t been any independently verified evidence of this so far.

If my choices came down to having a car with power windows or a car with low speed cruise control options, I very well might choose the latter. It’s so nice not having to also keep an eye on the speed you’re driving at while going down tight residential streets with kids playing in their driveways.

Most fish have teeth, actually.

I remember watching parts of the original trilogy and thinking they were interesting but were ultimately full of that boring interpersonal drama stuff. When the prequels came along, they really got me into the world building aspect of the story and gave me a love for Star Wars as a whole. After that and getting older, I gained a greater appreciation for the older films as well, even though I’m still not much a fan of interpersonal drama stuff (and, perhaps unsurprisingly, movies in general.)

From what I understand, the sequel trilogy doesn’t fit very well with the established world building, and is iffy on the interpersonal drama as well, so I don’t have much desire to watch them.

In case you didn’t know, diorite is a real type rock as well that is similar to granite.

I wish I would have had that issue instead. What happened for me was that it would shut down like normal, but then I would get a BSOD on startup, have to restart the computer, reinstall the update, and manually choose restart again (it had to be from the startup menu, not from a windowed program) to actually get it installed.

I get a decoder failed error when trying to see it, is it just me?

Stumps are a pain. You doing that with just a shovel?

Wait, what changed in 2019?

Someone needs to give me a diagram

Stop being greedy?