Do you see what's going on around you or do you just stare at pictures of cats on your iPhone™

When you invest you get shares. Shares come with votes. Do you think these people are voting to make your life better or do you think they're voting to arbitrarily raise prices to increase the value of their shares?

No, someone probably setup a fake feeder pretending to be an ADSB receiver.

ADSB sites aren't any sort of official thing. You can send whatever data you want to them. Just because it's there doesn't mean it ever went over the air as an ADSB broadcast.

Lets assume auto-complete does continue to progress at a rate that threatens most knowledge worker jobs and then we manage to automate the rest by using it.

There is a particular mental disorder where people will horde wealth at absolutely all costs, personal or societal, until everyone else is dead (see NZ bunkers). We commonly see this as "the billionaire class".

IF things go in that direction we need to be ready to depose all of these billionaires. I mean that quite seriously.

IF this future comes, there is a very quickly closing window where preventing them from killing all of us for their own gain is possible. After a point, surveillance and their control over state violence will be so complete that it's impossible to do anything about it.

I've always wanted a keyboard+screen with a slot for a phone as the trackpad. Saving any money over a regular trackpad? No. Cool as hell? I think so at least...

That's the thing people are missing, the models plateaued a while ago, still making minor gains to this day, but not huge ones. The difference is now we've had time to figure out the tooling. I think there's still a ton of ground to cover there and maybe the models will improve given that the extra time, but I think it's foolish to consider people who predicted that completely wrong. There are also a lot of mathematical concerns that will cause problems in the near and distant future. Infinite progress is far from a given, we're already way behind where all the boosters thought we'd be my now.

I believe Sam Altman, perhaps the greatest grifter in today’s Silicon Valley, claimed that software engineering would be obsolete by the end of last year.

Bear in mind that lead may be, in large part, from the tooling rather than the model

OP is talking about (mostly) TATP here. It's very easy to make, harder to detect with traditional methods and potent enough to be a problem. It's also hilariously unstable, will absolutely kill you before you achieve terrorism, and if you ask people on the appropriate chemistry subreddits how to make it you'll be ridiculed for days.

Yes, peroxide chemistries famously don’t show up on a lot of explosive scans. TATP is an example but not the only one and far from the best one. They are largely missing from common literature because they are too chemically reactive to be practical e.g. they will readily chemically interact with their environment, including most metal casings you might put them in, such that they become non-explosive.

That aside, TATP is a terrible explosive. Weak, unstable, and ineffective. The ridicule is well-deserved.

Dual energy x ray has been around forever though, like decades.

Certainly, but a) not at the prices people wanted to spend to get 25,000 of them b) not at the maintenance cost for 25,000 of them c) without the software to (by someone's metric) discriminate between shampoo and bomb with enough error

25,000? Interesting. Is there anywhere I can read up on this?

There are a lot of airports in the Us and 2.5 million passengers transit them daily.

Ohh, I thought by

> a) not at the prices people wanted to spend to get 25,000 of them

you were referring to the number of images being taken (per passenger / piece of luggage):

> spin an X-ray machine around and take a ton of pictures to recreate a 3d image