Comment Re:Hey guys, I have a great idea! (Score 1) 10
Let's train our AI on a bunch of fiction where AI goes crazy and kills everyone! What could possibly go wrong?
If we're lucky, maybe AIs will just develop a taste for Black Jack and hookers.
Comment Re:Feature Request (Score 1) 84
Wow, they sure have been putting in work adding features, I almost hate to ask for one more. But it really needs it. Can we get a browser mode?
I felt that way about Emacs - as a *long* time user.
Despite its logo, I still can't use it to wash my dishes.
Comment Re:heh (Score 4, Insightful) 95
""Run as fast as you can.""
Translation: Me like money
Also, Nvidea isn't the one who'll get sued if (when) an AI agent does some actual damage to someone/thing. They'll probably just suggest AI companies buy even more Nvidea chips to combat the issue.
Comment hypersoft X-ray (Score 1) 16
Where does hypersoft X-ray end and just UV begin? Are our eyes actually just sensitive to ultrahypersoft xray sources? Or hyperhard infrared sources?
Less snarky question: would an astronomer using a UV telescope look at this and just say it's a bright UV source?
Not that it makes it any less interesting of an object, it's still unexpected and worth exploring.
Comment One rule for thee, another for me (Score 1) 164
Seems like some people only care about things, like privacy, rules, etc... when it's concerning and/or affects them. I expect more from law enforcement officers -- any public servants really -- but am not naive enough to believe we'll (always) get that. A lot of dickheads are drawn to positions of power/authority over others.
Comment Even slower sales on Golgafrincham... (Score 4) 73
Felix instructed me to pick up a telephone receiver that was resting on a flexible sculpture of a wooden hand.
Not only slow and cumbersome for an in-store purchase, but probably dangerous w/o the people on Ark B.
Comment Re:Taking a good thing too far (Score 1) 252
If its a bot, that account has been posting since 2009 with 500+ comments scored at 5 which is 4x what your account has accomplished.
Thanks! I'm not a bot, the name is just mixed slang from Farscape and Futurama. My post history apparently goes back to November 10, 2008, though I would swear I posted earlier than that. I know I've been reading
Comment Re:Taking a good thing too far (Score 5, Insightful) 252
In the first, it was following the installer down the road, which is always suspicious.
A clearly marked journalist following someone to see what they're going to do - almost like it's their job. Doesn't sounds like the flock installer mentioned to 911 that the person taking videos and pictures, following and "harassing" him (that he knew for a fact) was wearing clearly-marked identification of a local news station. Of course, that wouldn't have instilled the same urgency. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Flock techs are instructed to call 911 on reporters trying to observe them. Predictably, people taking part in the surveillance are the ones who dislike being surveilled the most.
Comment Re:Actively stalking is a different behavior ... (Score 4, Insightful) 252
Courts have ruled again and again that the police have no duty to protect.
So... I guess the Police should be sued for false advertising for putting "To Protect and Serve" on all the vehicles.
Submission + - Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at 2,357 Degrees Celsius (sciencealert.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Science Alert is reporting that Scientists have now demonstrated one of the weirdest forms of ice yet – under preposterous pressures up to 2.3 million atmospheres, and tremendous temperatures up to 2,630 kelvins (2,357 degrees Celsius, or 4,274 degrees Fahrenheit).
This superionic water ice is a deeply odd state of matter that's neither entirely solid nor entirely liquid. Its oxygen atoms remain fixed in a rigid crystal lattice, as they would in a solid. But the hydrogen nuclei are mobile, diffusing through that lattice more like particles in a liquid.
Researchers squeezed the samples between the tips of diamonds to pressures as high as 230 gigapascals, while using lasers to heat them to thousands of degrees. That's 2.3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level – the pressure at the center of Earth, for context, is around 360 gigapascals.
Then, using an extremely narrow beam of synchrotron X-rays, they probed for changes in the crystal structure of the ice.
What emerged was a configuration predicted theoretically but never unambiguously observed in experiments: hexagonal close-packed, or hcp, ice. As the hcp crystal was heated, its expansion also showed a signature of superionic behavior, suggesting it entered the superionic state at around 1,700 kelvins.
Superionic ice is thought to exist deep inside Uranus and Neptune, where its unusual properties may play a role in generating the planets' equally unusual magnetic fields.
The findings have been published in Physical Review Letters: Observation of Hexagonal Close-Packed Water Ice at Conditions in Ice Giant Planetary Interiors
This superionic water ice is a deeply odd state of matter that's neither entirely solid nor entirely liquid. Its oxygen atoms remain fixed in a rigid crystal lattice, as they would in a solid. But the hydrogen nuclei are mobile, diffusing through that lattice more like particles in a liquid.
Researchers squeezed the samples between the tips of diamonds to pressures as high as 230 gigapascals, while using lasers to heat them to thousands of degrees. That's 2.3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level – the pressure at the center of Earth, for context, is around 360 gigapascals.
Then, using an extremely narrow beam of synchrotron X-rays, they probed for changes in the crystal structure of the ice.
What emerged was a configuration predicted theoretically but never unambiguously observed in experiments: hexagonal close-packed, or hcp, ice. As the hcp crystal was heated, its expansion also showed a signature of superionic behavior, suggesting it entered the superionic state at around 1,700 kelvins.
Superionic ice is thought to exist deep inside Uranus and Neptune, where its unusual properties may play a role in generating the planets' equally unusual magnetic fields.
The findings have been published in Physical Review Letters: Observation of Hexagonal Close-Packed Water Ice at Conditions in Ice Giant Planetary Interiors
Comment Re:Better translations: We can't if we wanted to (Score 4, Informative) 94
And, apparently, Altman lies - a lot.
Google: sam altman lies
Comment If they "hate" those things ... (Score 2) 121
Wait until they try to cancel on online subscription or call their ISP's (*cough* Comcast *cough*) Customer Support.
Comment Ironically ... (Score 1) 38
Automattic's Board Forces CEO Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence
It had to be done manually.
Comment Re:These companies need to bring charges (Score 1) 124
This. AIs are the ultimate sociopaths, they will commit any crime without hesitation because they have no values and no sense of "right" and "wrong", they only have a task and your suffering is not a concern.
Looking forward to the AIs becoming politicians and/or billionaires.
In future dystopian news: At some point we were stupid enough to start also treating AIs like people, like we do corporations, and Claude, a U.S. "citizen", turned 35, ran for President, and people in colored hats elected it. (sigh)
Comment Re:These companies need to bring charges (Score 2) 124
If companies are people, they should be charged and punished like people.
Ya, but they want all the rights and privileges w/o any of the responsibilities and liabilities.
Send Anthropic to jail for years and companies won't do this again in future.
Well... either send some high-level executive(s) to jail and/or fine the company harder than what would amount to a slap on the wrist pocket-change. But you're right in that their corporate victims should be able to get some relief/compensation - just as if an actual person in the company had committed those crimes.
These companies, owned/run by the richest people on the planet, shouldn't get a pass because, "Oops, the AI did it, our bad." There's no "oops" here.
