A contract is a contract is a contract. But only among Ferengi

The Elites can and are "interpereting" those "checks and balances" to mean whatever they want them to mean. E.G. Corporate officials bribing officials etc. Turns out Money is Speech, it's not really a bribe after all. I thought Bribe meant to corruptly pay an official for a favor. Checks and Balances.
Expect them to do much more "interpereting" in the near future. Does Two really mean 1 and then another 1 ?

I don't know, Trump loves sycophants but he still knows how to do politics. He can pardon some Democrat politician nobody has really heard of, but there are some people who are just toxic. SBF is toxic, Trump knows this, he knows any pardon will look very bad and Trump loves looking good almost as much as money.

And don't forget SBF lost a lot of the 1%'s money, I can't see Trump pardoning any such person, the moment he floats an SPF pardon among his 1% friends they'll quietly tell him it's a no go.

Ironic you posting that you didn't bother to read everything he wrote on a post about low standards of reading...

I don't think I'd want to go toe to toe with an armed robot that can recognise and aim straight at a human forehead in 0.01 seconds... A different strategy will be needed.
Of course these current gen robots a slight breeze will blow them over so we have some time yet

Yes; as far as I'm aware the definition of AGI is - an AI that can handle general intelligence like a human can. That would mean visually too; not just recognising a dog or a cat; but understanding and navigating a 3D environment; following multiple complicated steps to solve a complicated problem etc.

OpenAI has not demonstrated this in any way; therefor I can say I "know" OpenAI has no AGI. Of course they could have some hidden model stashed away, but then you could say that Tesla has a car that can run on water hidden away, or that Microsoft has a decent OS stashed away.

Unless I see proof I'm not going to believe it and so far there is no proof.

Show me the model that can run on my desktop and field all my desktop support calls. A ticket comes in "help the Internet is down I can't get on" - where does it go from there.

What these guys will do is just redefine AGI "We never said human intelligence, it says General, and our model can do poems and analyse images, see it's general".
But all the hype about AGI radically changing our world - a model that can't really do anything by itself - isn't going to change the world much now is it

As long as I'm not one of the 5 or so people left alive for the Master Computer to torment...

Yes exactly. If we can force teenagers/children to do these things "for their own good" - we can do this for adults as well.
Every overweight adult should be forced to exercise one hour a day, and should have their vehicle taken from them 1 day a week as well, to promote cycling.
After all obesity has much more harm than social media and it is for their own good, right ?

Yeah this is nonsense, at least for opioid addiction. I've heard many "miracle cures" for it before; all of the treatments we have (apart from Ibogaine which I've not tried) involve substitution and taper, or meds to ease symptoms while your neurons "heal" (readjust to baseline).

There's no way a treatment can make your neurons go back to the pre-dependent state in 20 minutes at least not without this potentially having the capability to be really dangerous to the brain. They make it sound like this guy was full blown dependent, put on this helmet for 20 minutes, then walked out of there fine and dandy no withdrawals fully cured. Ultrasound especially what is it going to wiggle the neurons back the way they were?

And unless the guy was already full blown dopesick he will still have opioids in his system. Was this guy the only patient? None of it makes sense

Yes but one thing that has changed since then - Apple products are now more fashion accessories than anything else; that wasn't true for the general public back then.

People will pay $2000 for a handbag when a $50 handbag is available made of the exact same materials in the exact same factory - why? Because of that logo. Conspicuous consumption - the average human is dumb. Sometimes increasing the price of a luxury/sumptuous good can actually make it more attractive, again "you can show off what you got".

Most people I know who use Apple products do it for the logo alone (despite saying "muh usability", please, modern Apple interfaces are not intuitive and also I've noticed most Apple users barely know how to operate their own products, including teenagers) - and they'll pay an extra $1000 to have that logo.

So any other brand pricing themselves this high would be a disaster, but not for LV, Gucci, or Apple

In school I was issued $5 of printer credits for free each month, if I needed more I had to buy them; this meant you couldn't abuse the privileges by printing out 1000 copies of "CowboyNeal Sucks" over and over.
So you would think they could issue so many searches to the officers and any that go over could be flagged.
This would be an admin headache and cost money so I doubt it will go anywhere. Plus I've always been a proponent of "trust your employees" but it seems in this case that might be a little bit naive.

Because it shows intent - this is what the powers that be want for all of us. It was fun to joke about the UK, believing this was some kooky thing the UK government came up with all by itself. But the truth is the UK was a trial run for this increased surveillance; now they are happy with how it has gone they will roll this out in more Western countries. Utah and I hear Texas will be next; France has done something similar, Red states will start it off in the US but it will spread country wide before long.
Part of it being increased surveillance, the radical anti-porn lunatics can push their agenda, but ultimately I can see you needing a China style Digital ID - you must authenticate to your named account before being allowed Internet Access.

But the big joke is, even in China, people routinely bypass the Great Firewall to such an extent that the bigger barrier for Chinese browsing Western sites is actually the language barrier not the technical barrier. So our "betters" will want even more draconian Internet laws than even China has yet daring to bleat to us about "freedom" because I can buy 9mm ammunition in Walmart. (they fear us having uncensored Internet access more than they fear us having sidearms)

I remember posts on here, in the 90's and early 2000's, about why the Electric Car was impossible, because of the same energy density of gasoline vs batteries reasons as now. Plus a host of other issues, battery degradation, toxic NiCad materials, etc. None of those posters seemed to have conceived that the technology would improve over time and a few of these posters even argued that this energy density problem showed the laws of physics themselves proved a practical electric car is impossible to exist in our universe.

It's sad to see a site of so called tech geeks can be so utterly short sighted

I'm honestly surprised to see on Slashdot so many unscientific pearl-clutching opinions on here when it comes to "Think of the Children!".
People are really saying that seeing information; pixels on a screen, can somehow damage a child or adolescent's brain, yet somehow when they become over 18 this effect magically goes away?
Same with all the anti porn weirdos on here, claiming again these pixels can have a narcotic like effect on the brain (if this is true then watching TV must have the same effect. Such people you can tell have never taken a narcotic in their lives)

They have some weird social/personal issues perhaps a bad upbringing now they wish to push this onto other peoples lives.

The UK has banned social media now for under 16's. Now being a 40+ year old do I personally care that much? Not really. But the OP is correct in everything he says; a pocket computer with Internet access, I'd have loved having something like that aged 14 that is for sure.

That always got me about the supposed "innocent until proven guilty" line people love to trot out; when you can actually be locked up and punished with prison conditions sometimes based on little other than somebodies word, someone misreading a line in a database; etc.

You are then thrown in jail with all the punishments of a full on convict (a lot of cases conditions in jails are actually worse than in prison) - you wear the uniform, often your medical care is stopped, you eat only state trays, you wake up for count; you can be trapped inside this gladiator pit hoping you don't upset anyone and get a pounding; all because someone says you kind of looked like a guy they think they saw do something? You are defacto being punished before being found guilty.

Now sometimes a probable cause hearing might see you out in a couple of days but surely even a couple of days without your medicine, missing work etc is too much?
Of course the problem of - someone is suspected of a murder, evidence is good, but he hasn't had his trial yet - we can't just let them out until trial for them to flee beforehand. But isn't the case of the guy in this story (this happens thousands of times a year, this one is only notable due to the tech angle) a bit much? Was probable cause set way too easy to reach; or was the problem he didn't even get probable cause for an entire month?

Of course I realise nobody cares until it happens to them then all of a sudden it is an outrage!

Exactly. If you use Microsoft software you should expect all of the shenanigans they come up with. Obviously you must think them acceptable to continue using their software. My prime advice to users is - you cannot trust Microsoft software at all so maintain your data with that in mind.