That set of conditions is common to pretty much all attacks that exploit speculation. So that argument won't save Apple here.

Then again, Apple and its customers never hesitate to embrace a double standard, so maybe it's all good.

Imagine offering these propaganda figures as part of your argument.

The so-called "ELK" stack. Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. Logstash eats log events, Elasticsearch stores them in indexes and Kibana provides the user frontend. It does what it says on the tin, but it is — as you should anticipate — a DIY solution you pay for in labor and time. Splunk is well refined and, while not zero maintenance, is far less demanding.

Incentivized by year after year of no-show check's they're all getting mailed for their "injuries." And no, what the "experts" say that support this mean less than nothing: they all have cards in this game as well.

At this point my cynicism is such that the most plausible explanation is that this a disability benefits scam. Perhaps something actually happened to one or more people because Cuba, and the rest are me-too bandwagonners, effectively creating an early retirement for themselves complete with hazard benefits.

I can't. I openly and freely admit that. You, however, cannot credibly claim a.) said path does not exist b.) your path is even necessary for "AI" to be a threat.

It's just talk. No facts. Nothing measurable. Nothing credible. Just panic, ignorance and speculation.

What we know is this: machines are advancing rapidly. All of this is still nascent muddling with machines that are, themselves, getting more powerful by the day, using algorithms that are getting more efficient by the day. What will we have in 10 years when NVidia is selling N4200X's on 13pm nodes and the descendants LLMs or what have you have seen a dozen more breakthrough level iterations?

You don't know. I don't know. Further, anyone claiming to know is making shit up and should be treated accordingly.

Indeed. There is no bigger threat posed by "AI" than objectivity. That must not be allowed.

Fortunately that problem looks like it's well in hand. Google has shown us that AI can be reliably biased to hallucinate whatever preferred fiction we wish.

You don't know that. You're just making stuff up.

The fact is we can't measure our own "intelligence" is any absolute, falsifiable way, and if we could, we don't know whether it would even be relevant to the question of whether an "artificial" intelligence is a danger.

Thing is this DOC consultancy Gladstone AI can't actually determine any of this either, despite their shock headline ricocheting around the echo chamber right now.

All of your are talking right out of your asses. You don't know shit.

Whatever. In any case until now their was enough user focus (whatever that is) to foster a large number of loyal users.

What is certain is that going forward the focus will — in fact — not be users. It will be investors, all day, every day.

With any luck.

So were past denying that even happened?

That's progress, anyhow.

And the answer is that almost every advanced economy has done this: they all used the COVID excuse to fire the money cannon. France, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan... on an on it went.

Don't care which side precipitates the divorce. Just as long as it happens.

Pure, U.S. Grade A bullshit. The cheater pushes out those that don't cheat. Even if the cheater does fail some latter challenge they've still set back a legitimate prospect.

And you should be long past the point where you wonder how the rampant cheating that plagues schools in many foreign countries somehow fails to inform these decisions. This is a deliberate compromise of the US SAT system.

KVM/QEMU can give you an always-on Windows desktop in Linux. You can auto-start it at boot if you wish and forget about it till you need it. Modern laptop/desktop CPUs have great facilities for running VMs efficiently. With the QXL paravirtual graphics driver you'll have excellent performance for desktop applications like Office applications and even video. If you need (near) bare metal performance (for gaming or such) you can even use PCI passthrough to a GPU, given certain hardware. You can run Samba on Linux and share any part(s) of your Linux file system with the guest, or go the other way and mount a share from the guest to the host, or use a NAS that does NFS+SMB on the same volume. There are yet other ways to easily share files between the host and guests.

ArchLinux documentation on QEMU is a great place to start, and is not actually specific to Arch at all. YouTube is helpful as well; there are lots of videos on how to run Windows in a Linux VM. At this point the goal of running a basic Windows desktop in a Linux VM is trivial for any reasonably experienced Linux user, and it has been so for years now.

You're plan would make sense if one thought that any of this would actually improve anything. At the end of the day, however, it's still catch and release, just with more footage. Plus a bunch of money down the drain, paying for all the watchers and their gear.