I just received my annual TCP-1 letter from LLNS and a summary of the LLNS Pension Plan. Looked in pretty good shape in 2013. About 35% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 134.92%). This was a decrease from 2012 where it was 51% overfunded (funding target attainment percentage = 151.59%). They did note that the 2012 change in the law on how liabilities are calculated using interest rates improved the plan's position. Without the change the funding target attainment percentages would have been 118% (2012) and 105% (2013). 2013 assets = $2,057,866,902 2013 liabilities = $1,525,162,784 vs 2012 assets = $1,844,924,947 2012 liabilities = $1,217,043,150 It was also noted that a slightly different calculation method ("fair market value") designed to show a clearer picture of the plan' status as December 31, 2013 had; Assets = $2,403,098,433 Liabilities = $2,068,984,256 Funding ratio = 116.15% Its a closed plan with 3,781 participants. Of that number, 3,151 wer...
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For the first time I am starting to get scared for the future of the nation. Musk is going crazy and AI is getting more powerful, imagine that
kind of power in the hands of the conspiracy theorists, the uneducated, the hateful, and supremists. If we just let anybody have access to this it will lead to disaster and we all know it. Guys like Musk use misguided ideas of free speech so that nut cases can get access to technology to spew all sorts of hate. We have to stop this.
Some of the news on Gemini was that parts of the demo were "faked" or exaggerated, meaning that the capabilities demonstrated were not fully present in the prototype, but may be in the near future.
https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-already-here/
That is, humans have a natural bias that they are "better" than chatbots, while in fact chatbots simply have a different form of intelligence.