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Comment Not everyone can be enlightened (Score 1) 10

Let's keep our focus on the people behind these projects, shall we? Not the caterers, the electricians, the plumbers, or the company that mows their lawn. They're just trying to pay the bills man.

Yes, I get it, if it's your holy mission to oppose AI datacenters sure, you go right ahead and chain yourself to the front gate. But the fact is that most people don't have the luxury to morally evaluate their job for nuances of "whatever is bothering reddit today".

Comment Re:The standard pro self-driving argument (Score 1) 59

> I would hope that self-driving cars would allow me to keep my autonomy as my eyesight is getting weaker ... I considers these vehicles, in their current state to be too dangerous to be on public roads.

Roughly 6 millions accidents are reported in the US alone every year. And approximately 43,000 people die on the road every year.

For us to make progress on this front, we have to put these cars on the road and learn from their mistakes. There is no other good way to develop this tech. If these cars were causing tremendous amount of damage to people and property, then yes, they should not be out there. But, data suggests that they are not doing that. Data also suggests that these cars are getting better and safer with each mile traveled.

If you have a better, safer alternative for us to develop this much needed tech, please share.
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Yes, train your drivers better and have laws that take the bad ones off the road.

That's why the US has a road fatality rate of 14 per 100,000 pop and the UK has 2.6 per 100,000 pop. Your western countries average around 5 per 100,000 pop (Canada is 4.7, Australia 4.5, France 4.9, Germany 3.3) and we're only really beaten by the Nordic nations who are insanely safe. Before you whine, the per mile statistics aren't any better and the only reason the US drives more is because you won't walk to the shops.

So this means not only having standards for getting a license, also a standard for keeping one. This means punishing DUI, distracted driving (read: morons on the phone), et al.

Automated cars won't fix the problem with the US because the problem isn't technological, it's social. Americans feel entitled to drive the way they do, which is dangerously. In Europe, they aren't any better than human drivers, in many cases they're worse.

Comment Re:Wishful thinking (Score 1) 31

I periodically go thru my network and enumerate every single device. Things like a picture frame do not get internet access. If a smart plug or light or other IoT device needs net, I won't buy it. My TVs don't get internet; they are either on a roku or a linux computer. Connected TVs send "home" screen shots. Roku can only scrape what I watch thru them, so no need to take a screen shot anyway. I had an amazon firetv cube with a third party network dongle to get better bandwidth than wifi. The dongle kept connecting to chinese IPs, even when the TV was off for days. That's when I started locking things down. That dongle went in the trash.
If only more people were so nerdily inclined, this would be less of a problem. I wish.

The big problem is it's easy to make a device that looks for open WIFI networks in order to connect to the mothership. This is made even easier by the fact that a lot of modern WiFi routers allow for WPS, which often lets you connect without having to enter a password. Sure you can disable it on your side... but what about your neighbours.

Short term solution is not to buy devices that have Wifi built in (I'm looking for a new washing machine and it looks like I'm limited to the cheap models), long term solution requires legislation by a large number of countries (erm... this pretty much means it has to be started by the EU, then adopted by everyone else) but much like GDPR they'll fight it every step of the way.

Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 27

Because Youtube is about half AI slop these days. At least given the kinds of video topics I might be interested in. It's kind of discouraging. Some of them actually are now marked as AI generated. I generally stop watching channels that I find or suspect are AI, even if the material appears to be accurate. I just can't support creators who don't actually create.

So that means Tiktok is 150% AI slop... Yes the maths was done by AI on that one.

Comment Re:Does this mean Sam Altman's going to prison? (Score 2) 60

What tripe. Heart surgeons? Structural engineers? You sound like a cliche machine. Please, find me an example of this fantasy. Spend the tokens, bitch.

When I registered for college, during the orientation they said that pre-meds are the group most frequently caught cheating.

Money is a big motivator. And not always for the good.

Comment huh? (Score 1) 44

"... football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents..."

Hyperbolic language meant to spur some sort of emotional reaction, I guess?
This process : deposition of a dissolved solid and then the solvents being driven of by a long, gentle drying process, is pretty common in industry as a method. For example just about every self adhesive product uses this process for its release coating.

Submission + - About that DC terror plot

An anonymous reader writes: How come this disappeared from the news so fast? When I search for updates on the story all I can find is repeats of the week-old stories of five arrests, and some mentions that their trial may be held outside DC.

What about the other score or so of conspirators they were looking for? Are they still on the lam? Have the drones and explosives been found?

I've been laughing at people who claim that the assassination attempts were fake, but this is really out of bandwidth. Was there really a plot, or was it just some Stupids talking large on the internet?

Comment Re:How does it compare to a human? (Score 1) 18

yeah, for sure.

The risk is it people who don't have the experience, and especially to those who don't know there's even anything to be learned to begin with... both at the developer and customer level. Probably at a few more levels, come to think of it.

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