If we are held in low esteem because we can spot a tautological non-sequitur from a mile away, then so be it. That doesn't mean we are wrong.

I strongly encourage you to engage with the literature on the topic. You dont even have to read philosphers, there are plenty of cognitive scientists and neurologists who have excellent treatments of the topic.

Yeah. China *does* have a shit load of coal , but considering their population and the relative underdevelopment of the "backwater" areas , I've been impressed by Chinas attempts at turning the ship around.

I guess shitty dictatororships at least seem good at making the trains run on time

I'm assuming (the article really isnt clear on this) that its refering to the energy of a bunch of billion computers actually running the AI model, as GPUs running AI chews a tonne of energy. At those scales it does add up.

I've gone and deleted chrome. I'm using Brave, but its crypto-bros in charge of that so I dont exactly trust them either. They just have a really effective adblocker that doesnt seem to trigger youtube into issueing shrill threats about breaking TOSs with adblockers

If it can, then it breaks the deterministic behavior of the known and understood physical components.

Ok. Maybe its the philiosophy graduate in me but....... lets hit the breaks on this non sequitur. Determinism has absolutely no bearing on the question of what is consciousness. Practically no philosopher, cognitive psychologist or neurologist thinks indeterminism is a necessary condition for consciousness.

This seems to be your tautological invention, and your attempting to argue it as a fait acompli. Well no, that isn't sufficient. For the most part, consciousness is , to badly summarise Heidegger, the state of paying attention to things (ie your never just conscious, your conscious OF things), Viewed this way, and pretty much any other definition of consciousness we've come up with (and there are many), not only is indeterminism NOT a requirement, in fact on the contrary determinism is required for consiousness, because when you are consious OF something there is by necessity a transference of state. The outside world CAUSES an impression in the mind.

You *really* are going to need to expand on why you seem to think what you do.

Nah. He's still sharp, and he's been like this for a while. Its a variant of the "Nobel disease". He's accomplished great things and is a recognized expert in his specific field (evolutionary biology). This unfortunately means he also thinks he's an expert at everything else. And because he spent so much of his spare time arguing with a minority of christians that even the other christians think are whackjobs, the young earth creationists and flat earthers, he now thinks everyone who disagrees with him are superstitious fools.

Unfortunately the turbo-atheist scene has seen a few people fall down this dark path. In my home town Iain Pilmer went from accomplished geologist and notable skepticalal talk circut pundit to ratshit-crazy climate change denier, because he has a vested interest in oil extraction and therefore anyone who disagrees with the oil industry must therefore be like the crazy creationists, never mind that the people he's accusing are a global community of PhD having physicists with 150 years of evidence based science behind them

Dawkins needs to go speak to actual AI researchers. While yes there are interesting philosophical questions raised by modern AI, there is no scientific basis to conclude they are conscious and they have no analogue to the parts of the human brains that consciousness actually arises from. Like the example of Pilmer I gave above, he's not recognizing his own lack of expertise.

Honestly the only thing I find LinkedIn interesting , is watching people posting horrifically racist rants and then seeing their employment status flip to unemployed the next day. (Life tip: If you have an opinion you'd be nervous about sharing in a crowded bar, dont go blasting it out on a social media environment your boss uses to speak to investors)

OTOH, it's a local vulnerability, so many systems aren't affected.

We keep acting like we're still in the world of bare metal and VM based servers. But so much of the world is running on containerized (kubernetes, docker, etc) and lambda compute nowdays, and thats where these sorts of bugs get dangerous. It takes one docker container running a shitty unpatched version of wordpress or some nodejs slop and you have your platform for bypassing the containers CG Group and pwning the kernel, granting access to potentially hundreds of vunerable targets sharing the compute node.

Its hard to understate how much of the internet runs on this sort of thing. From old school cpanel hosts to modern kubernetes and lambda rigs, chances are a *very* large portion of the services you use online are vunerable in this way.

Now the caveat here is that larger companies tend to not be sharing their container hosting. AWS will usually still be renting you container resources at the VM level of granuality, and I *think* thats also true for digital ocean. I'm not sure how Azure or Google rolls with this however. And I'm not sure how it works with lambda.

Undeniably the cheapest fuel sources are renewables now, wind, solar, and *probably* wave (I'm not sure if the maths done on that, but it seems plausible?)

Instead we are now paying billions to NOT do wind power.

This period of history is fueled by madness.

I think it's great. I've been hoping the AI industry would crash in a firey heap for a year now so I could finally afford some fucking RAM again. Nothing will kill it faster than locking it behind some Orwellian process of approvals by turbo ideological partisans. The whole industry will shit the bed and die and we might get some of our RAM chips and SSDs back again

As a musician I can promise you trying to figure out the "foreign" context wont help you understand Angine de Poitrine. The whacky costumes and the like are part of a very english speaking tradition, punk absurdism. Likewise musically, they are coming from a group of musical genres thats about as english speaking as you get , prog rock and jam bands. That they are french speaking canadians is almost irrelevant, other than the fact that they've been known amonst qubecans longer than the rest of the anglosphere. The "foreignness" of its part of the whole show. They are *intending* to not seem familiar.

Oh yeah, lawyers are paranoid on that. Lawyer friend of mine had me build an AI thing that uses vector searchers to search legal cases and shit. Works well, specifically designed never to make a legal judgement (save that for humans). But it can not under any circumstances go online. So it runs a GPT-OSS model on a mac studio with 512gb ram that never ever connects to the internet. There is so much trouble a lawyer can get into if they fuck up privacy.

Actually as someone who rides ebikes and scooters exclusively, I think regulating isn't a bad idea.

I dont care for the licence plate shit. But some common sense rules would do a lot. 25km/h/ uh that'd be 15miles/hour in american moon units, is a pretty sensible top speed. If you crash at 25km/h its an ouchie, not a life altering injury. Its fast enough to be practical for folks who live in the city (I travel about 5 km from work, its a pleasant ride). Don't let kids ride them. Don't let drunks ride them. And don't sell ones that are clearly dangerous. Its how those of us in rest of the world do it, and its fine.

If an attacker gets this far, you have already messed up. Still should be patched ASAP.

We've been in the cloud era 15 years now. Docker hosts, Kubernetes pods, Lambdas, Even old fashion cpanel hosts. All of these are at risk, even if the users are otherwise doing everything right.

There appears to be a small group of people who think that wearing a VR helmet for hours could be fun, and CEOs appear to be over-represented in that small group. Even if the likes of Vision Pro were sold for 35 $, I would still not want to wear one for any extended period of time.

I'm going to assume that its the same cohort of people that used to be convinced we'd all be using Bitcoin instead of money any day now, instead of just using it for gambling, speculative trading and buying heroin. Then when that all turned out to be bit of a nonsense buble shifted into NFTs, then when that failed shifted to "metaverses", and now that the metaverse has proven to be a bust have now become "Lets stuff AI into ltierally everything" zealots.

Wealthy, non productive, marketing vultures with nary an inch of relationship to shared reality.

Well by the sound of it none of those "Applle cult menbers" actually brought the bloody thing.

Not much of a cult really.