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by pjc50 1mo ago
This feels like a distinction without a difference, like the endless wrangling over which piece of metal in a gun legally constitutes a firearm. The combination of the two may or may not be dangerous, but it's definitely the more usefu
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by pjc50 1mo ago
The killer robots are expensive and dependent on physical supply chains. While text is sufficient to radicalize humans into attacks.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Ender's game model, presumably: the AI helpfully assists a human to build a nuclear bomb / pandemic virus / autonomous killer robot swarm in their basement. But again, I would like people to be clearer about how the threat is
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by pjc50 1mo ago
How exactly does that work? The nuclear system of MAD relies on physical threat, lab A achieving ASI (artificial scary intelligence) does not prevent lab B achieving it. I would like everyone involved to be a lot clearer about their threat
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by pjc50 1mo ago
China is a regulated discourse environment, but I get the impression that they're nowhere near as pessimistic. Why would they be? Everything in China is under the control of the government. That includes the AI, all the telecoms infras
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Internet isn't real. People (well, public discourse) have got extremely bad at dealing with forseeable risks and their mitigation. You can see this in things like climate change and vaccination, but also in discussions around regular c
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by pjc50 1mo ago
This is just a bizarre thing to say that you're working on technology with that high a downside potential. If you were saying that while running a biology lab, or building a nuclear reactor, people would be demanding your head on a spi
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by pjc50 1mo ago
> I understand people often like to express extreme positions on the Internet, but I think it's pretty easy to see an ideal society has rules somewhere in between "you're not allowed to know your customers" and "
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by pjc50 1mo ago
The panopticon is only supposed to look out, not in.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
It takes the structure, the affair with Julia, the "we have always been at war with", best buddy/big brother, and the forced rehabilitation from 1984. This is also part of the joke, the reader is expected to twig.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Prepping should be local. Here in Scotland the things I would prioritize are snowstorms (once had food delivery to supermarkets delayed for several days) and high winds (friend was without power for six days). Here we don't get true hu
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Well, yes, that's a huge structural problem in many American cities. When people perceive the police as more of a threat than crime, the situation deteriorates. Somehow "make the police trustworthy" isn't considered an o
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Back in 2005 (and indeed all the way back to the first boom in the late 90s), people were a lot more optimistic that they'd be able to participate in the boom with a good idea and some hard work. The mood has soured with enshittificati
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Guy building a lan party house is extremely harmless behavior, and has probably employed a number of local trades. The spectrum of rich person crank behavior has got a lot worse these days, going all the way up to "buying Twitter"
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by pjc50 1mo ago
It does actually matter that the US president is continually deriding Europe and making weird threats in English language social media where we can see it, while the Chinese leadership is politely selling us discounted cars. (When is the fi
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by pjc50 1mo ago
This would be more convincing without the weird bullshit around Greenland and Canada.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Not being able to take the territory, having a ceasefire over the territory, and actually conceding the territory are three different things. The world is full of unceded occupied areas. Korea. Taiwan. Northern Cyprus. Palestine. Nagorno-Ka
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by pjc50 1mo ago
I think the very fact that PbS and for that matter NiFe have been around for decades and aren't widely deployed for utility scale probably counts against it. I suspect the answer may be that weight matters enough just in the cost of de
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Tesco are indeed suing Broadcom in the UK, because they bought what was sold as a "perpetual" license. And also complaining to the UK competition regulator.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
I think people overstate the tech and understate the role of radicalization in providing motive, for attacks which are carried out with the ubiquitous technology of cars, knives, and (in America) guns. Consider America's most recent hi
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Kind of passed that point at the Trump election. If there is to be a world-destroying event, it will be triggered by human fear, greed, and aggression. (I also think people massively overstate schizophrenia as an attack driver)
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Note that execs are usually given stock grants in part to ensure they are long rather than short. But you'd not be making money shorting Broadcom (AVGO); they're up on the year and YTD. They're an "AI stock" now, do
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by pjc50 1mo ago
The idea has been kicking around for a while because it's superficially appealing. Benefits: - you can store huge amounts of energy in relatively cheap tanks - because the + and - storage are physically separate, self discharge can be
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Yes, but as the article points out, the process likes to evolve free cynanide in operation.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Downvoted but basically correct. Difficult to pin something as all consuming as WW2 on "about" anything, but we can look at who fired the first shots, which was clearly the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in the east and the German
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by pjc50 1mo ago
> closing their borders to fleeing Jews. This is such a landmine topic, because most countries did this, including the UK and the US; see e.g. the MS St. Louis. This is why there are several "heroes of the resistance" that in
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Euromaidan was (a) good (b) organic (you cannot pay people enough to get shot in the street) and (c) to the extent that there was "US" sponsorship, it was mostly by the Open Society Foundation, which is run by a Hungarian Jew who
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by pjc50 1mo ago
Difficult to defend America as reality-based when it's going around renaming bodies of water that do not belong to it. Also I'm not sure people understand what Swiss (or for that matter Irish) neutrality means.
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by pjc50 1mo ago
The legal justification is that it's a library. This does actually seem to work for them in general, although they badly overstepped with books and lost in court. Any creator-based outrage should be directed first and foremost at the f
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by pjc50 1mo ago
I wonder how long technical protection measures will last in the era when everyone has an AI with a spectacular reverse-engineering capability. See the current MIDI piano thread. At the very basic level you can have the AI spot when ads are

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