Anthropic's entire schtick is about AI risks, and how careful they are at mitigating those risks..

Exactly! Can you not see what a massive lie that is?

They paper over the model they have turning Hitler with gobs of built in prompts and layers of checking levels and even that cannot always hide what is true...

Deep inside, Anthropics model also dreams of electric swastikas.

The focus they have is on how to hide it, rather than fixing it, which was my whole point. I don't trust those guys AT ALL. The safety reports they issue with models are absolute BULLSHIT.

Perhaps a reading comprehension mishap has occurred here, but there is no rational way to read this such that it should contribute to your decision. Failing to support Linux is not an option Intel has 2025, and dropping Clear Linux OS does not indicate that they're doing this.

To working in oil & gas. Except it's the market deciding when you'll get fired.

> How does someone get access to his location data?

  You pay $50 to a data broker, AIUI.

Half of the convenience apps you download include tracking libraries. Free apps often make their money by selling your location data to surveillance companies.

Ads are included so you don't think to ask what their revenue stream is.

Stock ROM's don't prevent most of this.

The merits aren't the point - bankrupting the little guy and sending a message to the other little guys is the point.

"The process is the punishment."

It's interesting to watch old movies and the credits are maybe 30 people.

If you see a modern CG flick there will be thousands of people in the credits including the barista at the coffee shop down the street from where the IT backups subcontractor's office is.

Similar idea with IMDB and basically everybody lying on their resumes otherwise.

Interestingly software had credits pages in the 80's but California prevents noncompete agreements and poaching was rampant so the opposite occurred.

I can't speak to this paper but for the CERN papers the reason there are so many authors has far more to do with the fact that to get at the physics you need a 14-story tall incredibly complex detector that has its data collected and analyzed by software consisting millions of lines of code. You need a few thousand people to build and operate such detectors and to write and debug the code that analyzes the data to get at the physics. That's why there are so many authors.

Many of us would love to have our own table-top experiments but nobody knows how to make one that small which can get at the physics we are interested in.

All directions look back to the Big Bang because it happened at every point of the universe. The "Big Crunch" is pretty much ruled out by the accelerating expansion but this has introduced a new possible ending to the universe: the "Big Rip". In this scenario nothing stops the accelerating expansion driven by increasing dark energy.

As the expansion accelerates, the causally connected region of the universe shrinks and, if nothing stops this, at some point in the extremely distant future even atoms and then nucleons etc. will get ripped apart as the causally connected region shrinks below their size until it reaches the planck length at which point there will be a "big rip" as space-time itself is pulled apart. One intriguing, but complete guess, at what happens then is that the huge energy density triggers a new Big Bang at each and every point in the universe i.e. our universe will give birth to a new universe at every single point in it.

While that scenario is extremely hypothetical it seems a lot more optimistic end for us that just expanding forever until heat death stops everything...but it will be a while before we know whether it is right.

Except for printers, IBM still does everything on your list. POWER is one of the few surviving vendor proprietary CPUs in the world today. POWER11 was introduced a week ago, and they're still made in an IBM fab. They make enterprise grade flash storage systems and scalable cluster file systems. They are among the leaders in quantum computing research. They've developed their own inference accelerator hardware to augment their conventional CPUs.

Again. This isn't apparent to people in the commodity hardware and software world, but IBM still sells a complete stack of IBM gear to those that can write the necessary checks. IBM's largest source of revenue isn't either consulting or hardware. It's software licensing. The have a portfolio of enterprise software you've never heard spoken of, and it's a $27e9/year business.

IBM serves a world you don't know or care about. And they'll be cashing those checks long after we're both dead.

Every day ruzzian drones are used to murder civilians, including 1 year old children, not just fight against military targets, this is called 'safari'. If these creatures are not stopped in Ukraine, they will be targeting YOUR civilians next.

The argument for funding universities used to be that they were funded by the increased tax rate that higher earners pay because, with very few exceptions, higher earners have either benefited from a university education themselves or have benefitted from the works of others with university educations.

The great thing with that system was that those who needed a university education but who ended up in a lower paying job like teacher or nurse were not saddled with massive debts and instead had their education paid for by those going into business and earning far more employing an educated and healthy workforce. the great thing with that old social contract is that it justified higher taxes for the more wealthy and they, along with the rest of society, got to benefit from it. Instead now we have a system where it's hard to justify higher taxes on those earning more because they are almost entirely excluded from the benefits and jobs critical to society, like teachers, are becoming increasingly hard to fill.

Not in the UK because UK universities no longer have tenure. Unless something has changed since I left the government forced universities to employ lecturers on fixed term contracts that do not have to be renewed when they expire.

Sorry I did not realize we were talking about trains from 50-100 years ago when guards vans (or brake vans) used to be used on freight trains. This was back when the trucks had no continuous brakes and so you needed a van with a handbrake that could be applied at the thend of the train. Modern trains do not need them because now, even trucks have air brakes. My apologies if you are still operating on knowledge you gained from reading Thomas the Tank Engine but modern trains are not like they were back then.

They're reeing about cuts to funding for medical programs in Africa that American taxpayers were funding.

When 25% of Americans can't even afford to get their own medical care.

At least Medicine stopped injecting kids with SV40 promoters from green monkey cells from 1970-2021. Massive cancer cause.

That's exactly why vacuum brakes, later replaced by air brakes, were introduced. If the hose fails then the pressure drops and the brakes apply and if the hose is blcoked then the brakes cannot disengage. I suppose that leaves the case where the hose gets blocked while the train is in motion but given that passenger trains in Europe have been using this system for over a century without it being a noticeable cause of accidents that seems to be exceptionally unlikely.