What IS reddit, really, at the end of the day but a re-intrepretation of Usenet but owned by only one company? And over the years, it has degenerated into every bit as much a cesspit of trolling as the alt heiarchy was, with a fetid cooler of ragebait sitting in the muck as an appetizer. And "But it's MODERATED" has failed as badly as it did on twitter.

My only visits to the site in the last couple of years have been from search results when I had questions about something technical and the first couple of stackexchange results weren't quite what I was looking for. And for that? Why would I play their stupid little game and waste time logging in (Or creating a new account. I'm long-since locked out of my old one.) whan I can just click the "AI Mode" button?

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

Every data center AND evert petroleum or other fossil fuel refinery or storage/processing facility. Hit the orcs where it will hurt them the most.

Ukraine should be going for the power plants too... Steam turbine blades and reduction gearing begin very sensitive and vulnerable at those RPMs, and all that.

Aside from a few specific cases that became prominent, do you think he was personally sitting down with a list of borown people to send his ICE brownshits out to attack? On course not. It was a general directive to scapegoat them and make their lives hell... ALL their lives, even citizens and green card holders. Given maga's modus operandi, this is almost certianly just more of the same; and Dubrovsky was not arrested because he's the ringleader of some ransomeware gang but just because he's Canadian, is a prominent figure, and made the mistake of travelling somewhere the magat minions could get their filthy mits on him.

Yeah... You know what happens when you call the police about gang activity down by i-drive or fruitvale BART?

1) They'l not show up in time to help. They pretty much never do. Either it's "All officers are responding to other calls." or a single squad car's "officers" simply refuse to go without a second or even third car along with them because they're too chickenshit to show up except with overwhelming force.

2) Since they won't be there in time to stop whatever gang activity they were called for; they'll be pissed off that you wasted their time and made them drive into the 'hood, and they're more like to arrest you for calling them than they are to go chase down and arrest the gangbangers who were the actual problem.

I saw both happen multiple times when I lived there.

Lower the score? Fuck that noise.

Any cop who decides it's he is prerogative to stop, arrest, "detain", interrogate, approach, or otherwise darken the day of anyone who did not, in fact... and I mean objectively true FACT, not some made-up narrative or demented fever dream... commit the crime, should a instantly on a one-way trip up the river for assault and kidnapping. And any DA or judge who goes along with an attempted frame-up should join them on a conspiracy charge.

"Close enough for government work." and "Whoopsie! Can I get a do-over?" don't cut it when you're talking about taking away someone's freedom and, potentially, life.

Chicago? LOL... I used to live in Oakland. And yes, even in high-crime areas, the police are part of the problem more often than they are part of the soluiton. And no... letting them stomp all over peoples' civil liberties and the constitution in general does NOT make for a safe and civil city; otherwise Oakland would have been a paragon of law, order, and prosperity for the last 20 years.

The only human payloads being sent up are going to ISS, which is scheduled to be decommissioned at about the same time as Dragon. I doubt Isaacman is losing any sleep over this.

NASA is moving it's focus from ISS to a moon base, SpaceX is moving its focus from Falcon to Starship. Starship is a lunar capable rocket, Falcon is not.

Isaacman will probably be glad to have one more reason to hasten the decommissioning of ISS so the resources can be moved to the lunar effort.

At present, no. I've done a number of experiments with LLMs' capabilities with generating fiction, and while they are impressive for a beginner writer -- because fo the lack of spelling and grammar mistakes, they are nowhere near being able to write competent fiction.

This is because they don't model reader or character minds, they're based on word probabilities, like a predictive text keyboard. The engineers can compensate for for this to a surprising degree by feeding it data to recognize specific situations (e.g. the car wash is 100 feet from my driveway; should I drive or walk?). But this is turd-polishing.

AI technology practice isn't foundational. Critical thinking is. The closer AIs come to being able to do something that looks like them doing our thinking for us, the more capable we have to be at thinking without them. A human who can't outthink an AI adds nothing to an AI-human partnership.

This proposed school is a typical scheme by people who think because they have been educated, they understand how the education works. This is like thinking because you eat, you know how to cook. Project work in education is nothing new; it goes back well over a century. And in real life, you may get a STEM degree, but your real education in engineering comes from real life work. But that doesn't mean classes in calculus and physics don't do anything for you.

Or English classes, for that matter. Nobody doubts the value of project work in education, particularly *androgogy* -- the education of adults. But for *pedagogy* you have to establish foundational skills as the student matures intellectually and socially. Entering the high school years, a typical student has had *no* training in critical thinking skills. To develop critical thinking skills in an area, you need both general skills (epistemologicla literacy: research, location of orignial sources, dealing with conflicting evidence) and domain specific training in that area. In other words, *liberal arts* training is foundational in an AI-saturated world. "Liberal Arts" -- from *artes liberales*: literally the skills necessary to be a free person.

But I think these people have at least got the problem right: as AI drives the cost of elaborate projects down, we all have more projects in our future. Big, elaborate, faultlessly plausible-looking projects which may or may not have actual value.

Where they are completely wrong is the solution, which is to organize education around practicing using AI to make impressive projects. In a word of AI-enamored dunces this will put you at the head of a very sorry class of ignoramuses. The answer is to build fundamental cognitive and intellectual skils at every stage of a student's development. Project work is surely part of that, but it's just a technique, not a solution.

In a nutshell, the academy is training students to be the next step down the evolutionary scale from code monkeys. More like the pigeons B.F. Skinner trained in WW2 to peck at a screen, in an attempt to create a primitive guided missile without computers. They want to create "main characters"; and they'll probably create a few. There are always a few natural autodidacts in any moderately large group. But what they are set up is to produce a bunch of fragile, economically privileged narcissists trained to cover their lack of education with impressive-looking AI slop.

They were just brown people anyway. So far as peety, alexi, peety, and donnie are concerned, that's just a bonus achievement unlock... more points to score from the base and a nice bronze trophy icon to go with their gamertags.

My grandfathered-in HBO Max account was the last thing keeping me on AT&T. So now I can bail to T-Mobile for their more international-friendly plans and their willingness to actually support ALL of the new iPhone's features.

Unfortunately, if that were true, the likes of Cellebrite, NSO Group, Anduril, and Palantir would all be long-since dead and buried.