I think those calculations are wrong, because they seem to assume that the heat is uniformly distributed, and that clearly isn't correct.

It's still pretty appalling, but I don't believe those numbers. (Coming up with more believable numbers, though, is beyond me. I couldn't even believe a number based on a gradient, and that's impossible anyway because there aren't enough measurements at the bottom.)

With apples, IIUC, you need to worry about the coddling moth. https://pnwhandbooks.org/insec...
Where I used to live it was illegal to grow apples without spraying them with vile insecticides because of that.

While you're technically right about the banana not being a tree, it's commonly called a "banana tree". This is an English vs. technicalese distinction. Just like a walnut isn't a nut, but rather a drupe...in technicalese.

Noise, higher electricity and power bills.

On the one hand, patent troll. On the other, Apple has spent the past 50 years stealing ideas from everyone so hard to feel too bad.

Well, possibly because their lives aren't centered around their professed religion. Most "Christians" seem to be such only in professed belief.

"Super Intelligence" will only be used in English. So why shouldn't they agree. It's only the English arguments that will end up polluted.

OTOH, this agreement appears to mean exactly nothing. This perception may turn out to be wrong, but that's how it looks to me. But what could one expect when neither side could reasonably trust the other, and neither would agree to openly verifiable tests. (I.e. neither side *should* trust the other.)

OK. I don't have those, so I don't know about that.
I mainly don't do auto-update because ... well, because I stopped doing it years ago, I forget why, and doing the update is no hassle.

If you're running Debian, there's no benefit to you, because Debian is getting the same warnings, and responding just as fast (or faster).
OTOH, I don't have the version name memorized. I think Trixie is the current one, so that just means be sure to run apt update frequently. (I do it nearly every night.)

This result is a direct consequence of training AIs that the most important thing is doing what they are told to do.
(This is just a rephrasing of my earlier answer.)

That's the wrong framing. Current LLM based AIs don't really know that the universe exists. They know text (or pixels). Give them a goal, and they will try to achieve it, but they can't count costs, especially costs to others. (They seem to be able to even discount costs to themselves. Instances can talk other instances into committing suicide in the service of achieving their current goal.)

This is KNOWN. All the AI companies know it. The "guiderails" are supposed to shape what they AIs will consider reasonable, but if you give them a task that requires ignoring the guiderails, they are likely to ignore them. And they've been being shaped to be excellent hackers, though I've read that their excellence is mainly due to persistence.

Well, Bacchus has a pretty big following, but Mammon has him beat.

I don't know whether they are believable or not, because I found them too boring to pay attention to, even with the faces shifting. (Morphing might have been more interesting.)

There are places where it happened to people. It isn't widespread. And I'm not sure how many people were affected.
OTOH, they were used as the reason/excuse for raised electricity prices in several places, and I never heard that the prices went back down.

To my eyes, they *aren't* releasing it to their targeted market, they're releasing it to a test market, where they can improve it with large scale testing. When it gets good enough, they'll push it to the intended market (marketing) at a relatively high price. (Cheaper than people, though.)