Comment Re:Wonder what the next post-AI bubble will be? (Score 2) 37
Probably humanoid robots, it's already happening in China:
Probably humanoid robots, it's already happening in China:
We've come full circle to the tech community deciding what's proper for our neighbors. ChatGPT is free to decide not to include adult stuff, and celebrity/CSAM should totally be illegal, but "The proper use of AI is as a tool, not as a friend, lover or therapist, and especially not as an addiction" is how we get the government regulating how adults use the tools at their disposal.
Aside from CSAM and defamatory stuff we don't have the right to decide what's proper for someone else.
Eventually peer to peer training (Petals using Hivemind, etc.) will lead the way.
At least they didn't do a Tumblr and have the feature put in, then wait for millions to be using it... and then yank the rug out from under them.
We saw how that ended.
Fortunately there are alternatives.
While it is an enormous problem, possibly the most significant, we know how to shield against radiation, but it's going to take mass in the form of hydrogen-rich molecules like water or polyethylene (as examples). To solve that problem we are either going to have to make launches a lot cheaper, or figure out how to do it all in orbit.
It's at the edge of our technological capacity to produce such a spacecraft now, so the barrier is economic. That's a massive barrier, but in theory we definitely could, if we put a significant percentage of GDP of the wealthiest nations towards the project, produce a spacecraft that keep astronauts alive and relatively protected from ionizing radiation both on the journey and while on Mars.
As to your general assholery, I guess everyone has to have an outlet, though why Slashdot is a bit mysterious.
A bunch of stock-trading bots and quick-fingered suits probably just flinched and dumped a couple hundred billion into ARM stock though. See also: the company formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea.
One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.
How quickly can we get ALL of these clowns out of office?
ask yourself how much pain red state MAGA needs to feel before we see a Nixonian level shift towards Democrats...for a generation.
That's a high high bar and we aren't anywhere close to it yet.
When consumer routers are outlawed
oh Comcast and friends will entirely pay the bribe to continue using shitty routers.
But the option to have a 'separate' router from the modem will certainly disappear.
quite a few will pa$$ the test.
Certainly an improvement but chip level backdoors still exist...and are even more likely built in China
the only secure windows is CE/ME/NT
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