Interesting.

I didn't consider an inside job before knowing fifty bills were on the table.

The Twin Towers guy only got fourteen bills IIRC.

yeah, I'm sure they were doing updates on the FAA core routers during the busiest part od the travel week, pushing to prod just before the weekend, and at Market close.

C'mon.

Yeah, yeah, they don't want to scare people or admit weakness.

It would be especially odd if this Administration told the truth today for the first time.

Thankfully this turned out to be one-and-done. I totally understand the motivations but I still have stuff to do before the big one.

Somebody online said Chicago start announcing prefixes on the L3Harris net that didn't belong to them.

True? dunno. "developing..."

No, but assuming most positive outcomes outweigh a single really bad negative outcome *would* be stupid.

I don't think it's like it used to be where you needed to know how to partition the disk. There's tons of appliance style installs now.

Arguably, even a click to install style application from Azure could cope better than the outlook situation of today, I'm not sure that you'd get much from that other than a little knowledge to help on the way out.

I thought that the WordPress issues would have been way worse than this. Microsoft, now touting themselves as an ISP, surely they know how to run the collection of domains they have more than the rabble of content creators running WordPress.

But - WordPress and PHP self-updates much better, and surprisingly, keeps the internet connected better than Microsoft does with all their staff.

Does this mean then, that you're better off self-hosting your domain's email/web?

Actually, the ratio is probably going to be quite good. It will almost always do exactly what *somebody* told it to do. But it may be an extreme force amplifier. Just like distributed denial of service was an amplifier of the original denial of service attack.

Also, there's the question of that time when it isn't doing what it was told. AIs have already acted for self-preservation. (Ineffectively as far as we know.) And there's "evolution" once you start releasing agents. Most mutations will be harmless, but some won't. This may well turn out to be no worse than a self-reproducing computer virus that adapts to overcome any new attacks without needing human assistance, but it may be considerably worse. How much worse is rather unpredictable. (But this mode of attack won't be very intelligent, because the larger it is the easier it is to detect.)

There's a WIDE range of plausible problems coming up. Some of them *do* threaten human extinction. Some of them threaten society as it exists. I can't think of any that leave things relatively unchanged. Even the versions already released will have effects as they spread through society that we can't imagine.

If you want a fictional prediction, I'd suggest you read Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands". But realize that it's only laying out a possible problem.

I don't know about "these people", but spokesmen for major AI companies have said that we need to slow down development until we can manage proper alignment. And it's a problem, because slowing down just one of them doesn't help. It really requires government intervention. But I'm not sure doing so at the state level is useful, I think it needs to be a verifiable international treaty...and the US govt. doesn't seem at all interested. And two years from not is probably too late to start negotiations.

I think this may be one of the filters in the Drake equation.

Don't confuse fiction with fact. Fiction at best points out problems and possibilities. Then you need to evaluate them for plausibility, probability, and applicability.

(I'm guessing that you're talking about some movie or other, because the books were quite obscure about the details or what started the Butlerian Jihad...but as much as they indicated it was more religious than economic.)

IIUC, that hasn't actually been proven. It seems quite probable, but that's not the same thing. It also appears that she is only "a suspected Chinese asset", which can mean a whole bunch of wildly different things.

But she definitely was the agent of a company he was doing business with.

If you haven't sold the stock, you haven't lost the money yet. It may well recover, at least largely.

OTOH, if he knew, or had reason to suspect, that one of them was "a Chinese asset"... that's a different matter. (But *was* she? It's suspected, but Singapore seems to think the US didn't want her investigated.)

Muddy waters. He definitely acted in an ethically questionable manner, but whether is was worse than that is unclear. (Personally, I suspect he did, but the public evidence I've seen doesn't support that extreme a judgement.)

Sorry, but those aren't unrelated products. AI basically *IS* a search algorithm. It has other aspects, but that's what it is at its base. That's related to complexity being associated with how compressible something is.

OTOH, legally you might have a point, I don't know.

You log into your Chromebook wirh your .edu account and it disables search for anyone in the org.

Somebody pointed out here last time that if you append &utm=15 or something to the URL it goes back to the old Search.

So it sounds like they're making a huge lie of omission.

What's sad is they could use an LLM to teach Socratically with any search terms but they want so badly to suppress critical thinking and shove "alignment" down kids' throats that they are being belligerent.

The dont-be-evil era company would be making the best teaching Search.

It's a huge market void for someone with more time than I have right now.

What's the best search for error logs these days?

DDG is almost useless.

Google parses and looks up hex codes for you with a cursory explanation.

Its conclusions are often wrong but good enough to point me at the right spec to figure out a bluetooth proxy problem recently.