What is being described is GIGO not thread safety.

So, "People With Disabilities Don't Exist" then?

My father was recently paralyzed by Guillain-Barré, so I'll let him know, thanks.

Oh god. If I spent enough time digging through my ancient Slashdot posts, somewhere back there there are posts of me going, "While I loved the strategy behind Falcon 9, I'm really not keen on this plan to make Starship out of huge carbon fibre tanks, that sounds like a really failure-prone solution..." I'm glad they only spent like a year on that idea before deciding it was dumb; somewhere back there there's also a bunch of posts of me cheering their switch to steel ;) . SpaceX still keep having random COPV problems (most of which they don't even make themselves). Not too encouraging for the notion of the cold gas thruster add-on to the Roadster, where the plan is to replace the back seat with COPVs, so you have a COPV right behind your head.

Electron has been getting by on CF, and honestly I'm impressed, but they've also been only working with very small launch vehicles thusfar. We'll see how neutron goes...

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to say about printing small rocket parts, such as for the engines. But they were printing basically sheet metal cylinders, which is such an immensely slow and inefficient way to go about it, and it left them with parts that were heavier and less aerodynamic (rougher surface). Crazy that idea ever got any funding.

The one seen over Moscow might have been, with a bit more thrust...

"SapceX has got to be a huge scam too" - SpaceX launches the vast majority of the world's commercial cargo to orbit. The Falcon 9 FT has the highest success rate of any rocket with a statistically significant number of launches under its belt, and is dirt cheap. SpaceX's core operations are roughly breakeven, but that's including subsidizing the development of Starship. Starlink is a money printer.

There are lots of things sketchy about the SpaceX IPO, to say the least, but SpaceX, as a company, has been extremely successful with rocketry.

MidJourney was the first sizable AI company to become profitable, having done so back in 2022.

They should do some kind of AI powered imager people could put under them and it would slowly ... day(s)? weeks? collect enough data to build an image of the person as they slept. A dirt cheap USB powered thing... maybe integrated into some sort of air mattress so the detector could move about and subtract itself. Not really sure how realistic it would be.. seems like it would be like taking an image of a washing machine with a really long exposure time. Perhaps it would be feasible to train up a model to figure it out.

The funny thing was that I knew him for like six months online before I realized he was fully paralyzed. He's been covered in the Finnish press a number of times. Amazing guy. Up until recently he was living in a house he built himself before ALS struck, but the medical service decided he was too far away and he had to move closer. You lose a lot of control over your life with ALS.

He wrote a book about nuclear safety engineering recently, which is a fascinating read, and which I strongly recommend.

BTW, AI is a godsend for ALS patients. Even with an eye tracker, your writing throughput is low / tiring compared to typing, and of course you can't do anything that requires physical activity (painting, playing an instrument, speaking, etc). AI tools help fill the gaps.

Did *she* want to die? Did *she* want to be "released"?

Did she have an eye tracker, to allow her to communicate naturally?

Motor neurons dying != brain control of motor neurons dies.

Anyway, you don't need a brain-computer interface for an ALS patient to work. I have a friend in Finland with ALS who works as a consultant on safety for a nuclear reactor startup (he was a nuclear safety engineer before becoming paralyzed). All it takes is an eye tracker.

The biggest problem is the typically short and unpredictable lives of ALS patients. He has lived abnormally long (I think something like 13 years now), but a large part of that is due to him thinking like a nuclear safety engineer (backup on backup on backup, training his nurses to have zero tolerance for error, etc), and still has a close call like once per year or so, and I regularly worry when I don't see him online in a while that something happened that killed him. A tube comes off a life support system. A nurse forgetting to reconnect something. A mucus plug in his airways. Etc. ALS patients' lives are fragile. He does CAD design for parts on his computer (it's too hard to do it with the mouse using the eye tracker, so he designs the shapes programmatically) and orders them 3d printed to correct any deficiencies he finds in his support systems.

ALS patients also have to constantly fight the medical system. Even in a place like Finland that will actually do long-term care for ALS patients (which is very expensive), it shows that it would be much more convenient for them if those danged ALS patients would choose to die (and there's often pressure put on them to do so). One of my friend's goals is to outlive a doctor who told him he would only live a year or two put a lot of effort into getting him to choose death. It was a battle to get long-term ventilator care. It was an even bigger battle to get to use a cough machine and to be able to control the settings on it; without regular, meaningful cough support, your lungs fill with mucus, and you'll probably eventually die of a mucus plug, pneumonia, or whatnot.

By contrast, ALS patients today can actually live a decent life using eye trackers. It's not like before when you had to tediously spell out things one character at a time to a helper holding an E-tran frame. Given that 1 in 500 people will get ALS at some point in their life, we really should be allocating a lot more money toward researching cures, even if purely from a cost-saving perspective.

(One final note: if anyone here starts getting peripheral weakness and worries its ALS: your instinct will be to exercise more. Do just the opposite. If your peripheral neurons are dying, the last thing they need is more work. ALS overwhelmingly strikes active people - one researcher I was reading noted that in her entire career, she's never met a couch potato who got ALS. Take it easy, see a doctor immediately, and if it is ALS, start preparing early, but know that you do not have to be forced to choose to die, so long as you can get care. You can live a decent, productive life if you choose to).

Which will happen first crypto relevant quantum computers or compromise of new post quantum crypto algorithms? I think the latter is more likely.

Whether Anthropic was trying to hype about Mythos / Fable or not (and FYI, it is a pretty big leap forward), they absolutely did not want to get public access shut down. The US government very much seems to want to have exclusive access to it for now.

Also, to clarify the "jailbreak": They took open source projects that had known vulnerabilities, as well as deliberately introducing vulnerabilities into some other projects, then asked Fable to fix them, and then asked for test scripts to demonstrate that the exploits could no longer be exploited - the implication being that they could then use those exploits against unpatched systems. But what's the logic here? The challenge isn't "how to write exploits against known bugs", any model can do that. The challenge is finding the bugs - something Mythos / Fable has proven better than previous models at. Even if Fable refused to write said test scripts, it would automatically downgrade to Opus 4.8, and then *Opus* would have written those test scripts. Or any other model out there could do it, including free open source ones that can be safety-abliterated at will.

Your refusal and or inability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas is your problem. We can't read your mind.

Jews are an ethnic grouping not a racial grouping. There are Jews and Palestinians with all kinds of skin tones. That you think anyone would even understand what you were trying to say when it is wrong, incoherent and based on prejudicial nonsense is absurd.

In this very thread I said the following "On the other side Israel actively seeks one state solutions with perpetual settlement expansion rather than peace and is prone to disproportionate responses with significant civilian causalities." WTF do you think "disproportionate responses with significant civilian causalities" means?

I remember years ago collecting some data and adding up Israeli causalities from rocket attacks over a number of decades and comparing it to the toll from a single Israeli action that took place within the course of a few hours for a post on this very site on the topic of proportionality.

I can't even imagine what would happen if the tables were turned and Canadians or Mexicans kept lobbing unguided rockets into the US killing random people and blowing up random shit, day after day, week after week, year after year, decade after decade. Good luck getting Americans to give a fuck about proportionate responses or spending too much money and effort to minimize civilian causalities. What would actually happen is we would fucking go in and tear them a new asshole. I'm sorry I would care a lot if Israelis were just attacking without provocation and the other side just wanted to live in peace but they don't ... Gaza is run by a death cult who wants to destroy their enemy and so long as that is true I'm not going to give a flying fuck about either side. They are both fundamentally in the wrong.

Why are you ignoring the history of Palestinians making common cause with Hitler to exterminate Jews? Why are you ignoring the stated intent of Hamas toward Jews?

Obviously the answer is always racism when you are a hyper partisan leftist. Your whole world revolves around intersectionality scores where everything is explained away by "racist". I personally don't care if a foreign state lobs a rocket into the US that kills 1 people and the US responds with a strike that ends up killing 10 people on purpose to send a message not to do it again.

What matters to me is the state of mind and why people are doing what they are doing. A death cult that wants to kill all the Jews yet lacks the means does not get a pass because they don't have the means to inflict more damage. A much more powerful state that retaliates with little restraint is hardly surprisingly or extraordinary especially against repeated nonstop attacks.

This conflict is like two retards arguing over which of the two is smarter. Does it really matter? Not really... Both sides are shit bags for different reasons. Neither are worth giving a flying fuck about.