I believe the issues is that for whatever reason they wrote this thing in typescript so it runs with Electron. Not only that, they are now merging the desktop client into their "web client" which mean it's a fucking web page.

With this in mind, I fully understand the nonconstructive criticisms.

I feel like these AI processes should be launched as a separate unprivileged user and group. Only when you change the file permissions should they be able to access your files. This avoids possible flaws in agent interfaces and hands off the responsibility to the OS. Why are simple solutions like this so hard to grasp?

Absolutely. There other irksome comment I hear is "scientists will figure it out" because I want to scream that they have figured it out but you didn't like the answer.

Frankly, things might be fucked up in society now but it's only a taste of the chaos to come and people will wonder what they "did to deserve it" not realizing that they have done everything to deserve it.

No, not in the least because it's not a generational issue, it's a species issue. They have the exact same mindset as their parents.

Have no doubt, when this finally personally impacts them they will be outraged and demanding to know why "nobody" (everyone but themselves) didn't do something to prevent it. You start drilling down and they'll tell you that they didn't think it would be that bad. The bright patch in all of this is that the people who are going to be impacted are just as selfish and egocentric as the people that caused it..

I think SI is a fine title because despite all tricks it can do, it still fails in basic ways that even idiots don't. As such, Subpar Intelligence is the title it has earned. I don't need anyone telling me about hypothetical futures because I'm talking about right-damn-now.

No, it's far too late for that. If you want to stop this then you actually have to clean up the atmosphere. Also, billionaires are merely part of of the problem.

Here's the core problem: human psychology.

You see, every fucking one of you idiots points at big corporations and billionaires as being whole the problem and completely disown your own actions. Nearly everyone makes some excuse to avoid getting an EV and not a single damn person is willing to make any sacrifice.
The natural defensive response is "why should I make any sacrifices when corps are polluting way more?" The answer is simple answer: even if corps stop polluting, you are still polluting and you keep doing it while pointing fingers. Air pollution is kills and people keep buying and using their polluting products.

Before accuse me of "simping" for asshole billionaires, I'm not absolving anyone. What I am doing is condemning 98% of humanity for being the selfish short-sighted assholes that they have always been. I know this because even my friends make stupid excuses and when I ask if they have inquired about solutions they tell me the equivalent of "that' takes too much effort" so they buy new ICE cars, keep buying shit off amazon, and using AI for stupid tasks.

I'm doing everything I can to change the path forward but I know it's a futile effort because humanity is almost entirely short-sighted egocentric idiots.

It's not an understatement to say this a break of national security. Everyone involved with the deception needs to be sent to federal prison for this.

That is a reasonable approach and it may be exactly how they plan on using the tech. I do understand your reaction though as startups tend to be lead by non-technical people that believe that AI is flawless or that it just needs to be fixed a bit and it will be flawless. However, Li is an actual researcher and professor, which makes them far more likely to recognize the limitations of the technology.

How you can be sure that will impact the final outcome in any tangible way?

That is the goal but that goal runs counter to the real world where unpredictable situations occur and people get injured or killed despite having machinery with deterministic behaviors. This can be the result of failing machinery or more often operator error. As such, the questions are if AI will behave in a more predictable manner than humans and what is the scope of the potential consequences of unpredictable behavior.

I'm highly skeptical of large neural networks but think optimized neural networks can provide superior results to our own programming efforts which can be equally unpredictable due to edge cases.

If you are going to nitpick then at least verify your complaint is accurate.

In this case, "combat" is being used as a transitive verb and if you make a quick check to any dictionary you will notice there is an applicable definition.

So "combat" and "fight" merely mean it is working to neutralize the nerve agent.

If they didn't also put up cardboard cuts-outs of people and award it points for running them over then it's like they aren't even trying to make skynet.

How could you know without ever evaluating the results of the training in the simulated environment? I'm not saying your argument is wrong just that it could be specious since simulations make it possible to train them for much longer periods of simulated time in a wider variety of environments.

For macOS, you need to have brew installed to install anything not signed by Apple which last I checked is a real pain which means if they posted an installer, macOS wouldn't let you install it. However, if you can manage to get brew installed then there is a way to do what you want with any advanced skill.

There is a open source AI coding agent that is free to use and will do all of the overly complicated and annoying steps for you.
1. installed the client via brew in a Terminal window using

2. in the Terminal, make a new project directory and execute "opencode <project_directory_here>" (if the command isn't found then you may have to log out and a back in)
3. When run iit will bring you to an empty text prompt.
4. paste in "download the source for northstar-browser from github and then follow the contained documentation to make a release build for macOS"
5. It may need permission to install several brew packages but it will build the browser for you.
6. If it cannot, ask it to "write a command that will install the packages needed to build the browser", run the command it gives you and then go back to step 3.
7. Ask it to provide the absolute path to the executable.
8. Paste that inside a new terminal window to run the browser.
9. Tell it to install the browser if you want to use it a lot.
10. You can delete the project directory afterward. You can also uninstall opencode too.

It seems like a rapidly progressing project, so you might want to hold off with the installation.

If these instructions are insufficient then I'm sorry I couldn't help.

I know submitting a fix is not ideal but do you know what the background of the prior CEO of Mozilla was? Data analytics. I have no doubt that in her term, telemetry became THE priority and thus a mess to clean up.