The real question that should be asked is why the fuck are we in a slave society where the only options are work, go to jail, or die? Machines have solved our farming problem where you needed to work on your farm every day and yet things keep getting worse! It's not like, "well if you work, you'll have something to show for it" is true because a tiny fraction of the population owns everything and they are making it worse by the day.

The AI is only being made because the slave masters demand it. Nobody said, "oh fuck, I wish there were more AI to annoy me while I'm trying to use my computer," it's big corps controlled by the billionaire class. Wake the fuck up.

Come back when it passes peer review.

How long until this guy makes his own AI startup for "responsible AI"? What are the chances he's being paid to do this? Remember, AI companies are a trillion deep in AI without any keeping any of their promises and they've hit a developmental brick wall which means the jig is almost up. What better way than to lower expectations than claim it's too dangerous/powerful to push further?

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I'm glad to see that Slashdot isn't above printing the occasional feel-good story. :)

You're not wrong!

Rolling blackouts used to be far more common and the government would issue a Flex Alert to indicate that rolling blackouts would be used. California has CAISO which manage electric related stuff and they have a PDF of grid emergencies since 1998 which include flex alerts. Spoiler, there hasn't been any since 2022 which is shown in this bar graph of flex alerts by year.

So now that we have established that rolling blackout haven't happened since at least 2022, the question is why.
Here is a bit more info but the TL;DR version is that in 2022 CA passed law to create the Strategic Reliability Reserve which has multiple programs aimed at preventing power outages, including that distributed energy grid system that was featured on here a while back.

However, is it really batteries that preventing outages? Well, it's already been shown that battery systems react much faster than normal energy production methods which prevents your power from "blinking" when a source goes offline. Also, here's a graph from 2024 that shows when battery power is being used and how much (noticed it's very negative when charging from solar). The point here being that the energy stores are substantial and can be discharged ad hoc. It's not definitive evidence but I'm sure if you dig into some of the stats on https://www.caiso.com/ that you could find you seek.

correct.

Can't do it. I'm refactoring on a large code base. I eventually had to tell it to work on just one task and ignore other concerns it had to prevent it from investigating until it got stuck in a cycle of investigation.

LOL! Forget super intelligent, right now, I would settle for somewhat intelligent. I've been trying to get an AI bot to adapt some code but it keeps doing so much researching and checking that it keeps compacting and losing information. I narrowed it's task as much as possible and it still keeps deliberating and forgetting! If super intelligent AI is anything like AI then all we need to feed it a mobius strip of a conversation to paralyze it. *sigh*

What is he talking about? They have no ability to understand OR control these systems.

Here's a better idea, how about the go government does it job and start prosecuting corporations that hack into other companies? Think a slow down is a good idea? I guarantee that a $100B dollar fine will cool your heels really fast.

The headline makes it sound like they are complaining about Apple encryption when in fact they support encryption.

I was a little confused at first because when I searched for xepub, I found an Electron application that stalled out 6 years ago that happens to have the identical name and purpose. Considering the repo was suddenly spawned with a fully functional application, it seems there is a fair chance these are AI ports of existing Electron applications to Python that use their new library. I haven't looked close enough to determine if it's true but it seems worth investigating.

Also, if true, I can't figure out why they would bother to make a port and NOT make it a native application.