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Comment Re:Now, this might strike some regulars as harsh, (Score 1) 175

but I would not mind if everyone involved in this case as litigants and their reps dies an unpleasant death.

Won't solve the basic problem of modern capitalism's complete subversion of democracy, but it might slow it down a bit.

Drone state of the art puts us closer to such a world every day.

Comment Re:Seems pointlessly unsafe (Score 1) 203

A dummy load and some chemistry to use oxygen would do the same job with zero human risk. If they're not putting boots on the Moon, they shouldn't have their asses in the rocket.

The Artemis I unmanned mission flew in 2022. The Apollo Program followed a similar progression to test things in succession.

Which Apollo misson was was "fly the talking meat by the Moon in a can"? Apollo 7 was a flight test in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and returned to Earth. Apollo 9 was a Lunar Module test in Earth orbit. Apollo 10 was a full dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. The only Apollo mission that just sent a crew and their ship around the Moon and back was Apollo 13... and even they had a perform a - heroic under the circumstances - maneuver to put it back on the free return trajectory.

Comment Not even remotely (Score 0) 150

Write code that's very inefficient and readily fails but no one cares because there's money to be made has been the status quo for computer programming for quite a while. And in turn, that is just one facet of the modern world's willful ignorance and wholesale rejection of resilience. That ignorance and chosen brittleness are what's going to crash human civilization. Our modern programming is just one self-destructive tool among many.

Comment The whole Artemis Program seems off (Score 1) 23

It seems largely like an excuse to keep using (and paying for) decades-old shuttle hardware until its gone. Plans for SLS hardware beyond the pre-existing kit seem unlikely to come to pass. And while there's a little science getting done along the way, Artemis II doesn't appear to be anything like the pre-landing Apollo flights, more publicly stunt than dry run for Artemis III.

Comment The ever-popular "18 months" (Score 1) 150

It's close enough to seem material, but far enough away for everyone to forget that you said it. (Unless, of course, you happen to be somewhere close right by sheer chance. Then you can pull out your prediction and show it off to everyone.) Like when AGI was predicted in 18 months... over two years ago, in late 2023. But hey, something did happen 18 months later - Sam Altman explained that AGI "wasn't a super-useful term". Perhaps a better comparison would be when Mustafa Suleyman, predicted in September 2023, that "Even Inflection will be 100x larger than current frontier models in the next 18 months". [1] Anyone care to share if they think that was an accurate prediction? 1. https://twitter.com/aisafetyme...

Comment Re:'Theft' worked for AI. (Score 1) 186

ChatGPT says:

The statement made by the Slashdot commenter that "'Theft' worked for AI" is not accurate. While it is true that some AI models are trained on large amounts of data, this data is not obtained through theft. The data used to train AI models is typically collected with the consent of users or comes from publicly available sources.

The training data used for AI models is crucial for their performance and generalization capabilities. It is important that this data is collected ethically and legally to ensure the trustworthiness and fairness of the AI systems developed.

Therefore, it is incorrect to suggest that theft is a valid or acceptable method for obtaining the data needed to train AI models. Ethical considerations and adherence to data privacy regulations are essential in the development and deployment of AI technologies.

A good reminder that ChatGPT and its ilk (including their corporate owners) don't just steal. They also lie.

Comment My own experience,,. (Score 1) 98

is that I don't watch anything produced by Netflix much anymore, and very little on Netflix at all. My subscription is pretty much running on inertia at this point. Even things that I expect to enjoy, or that I was looking forward to, I typically don't finish. When I want background tv, I put on one of 20th Century series I liked, purchased on DVD and ripped to my media server. This has been a gradual change over the last year or two, but the thread topic brought it to mind.

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