Whether it should be or not, the business of a working CIA agent is entirely crime and mostly bribery. I personally doubt any disincentives for self-enrichment are even on the performance review.

Well, I suppose this does rather solve the difficult problem of saving the world. I'm okay with the world ending if enough people think talking to an LLM will help save it.

AI doesn't really matter. It's just that hectobillionaire bizbros aren't especially smart.

They're just exceptionally lucky. If you have a hundred million players playing the same game of Monopoly, almost all of them are going to lose. But somebody will win! And then they have everything. And since we all have to live on this Monopoly board the rest of our lives, people, bizbros included, want there to be a logical reason for this one particular guy to have so much when everybody else has so little. And also, everybody else needs to score a piece of that bizbro's everything in order to stay on the board. He's so powerful, it would be madness to cross him now that he has everything.

So there's tons of incentives for everyone to believe, or pretend to believe, that the bizbro is incredibly, historically smart. And that includes the bizbro himself. Smart about what? Business! AI? Sure, that's a business. Good enough! So Mr. Bizbro now has a million fans and sycophants and hangers-on telling him he's a genius. Since the pot he's won is bigger than anyone's ever won before, they tell him he's the greatest genius in history.

But, again, he isn't. So that's a lie. The biggest lie in history so far!

Eventually, the lie comes crashing down. If the hectobillionaire bizbro were a normal business guy, he would be ruined, and that would be the end of it. But he has a hundred billion dollars. It would take a thousand lifetimes to run out of money. So he doesn't actually suffer any of the consequences of the deception around his intelligence. But now he's scared! So he lingers on and on and on, flailing wildly, causing more and more damage to civilization, everyone making more and bigger excuses for him, until he, inshallah, finally dies and leaves the world to the next group of psychopaths to plunder.

The upshot is: If you think these oligarchs are acting crazy and causing societal damage here at the top of their game, just wait until the market finally drops out from under them.

Sure, why not? Our civilization is already tumbling down a sixty-story staircase of dystopian ruin. What's another step at the bottom?

I guess what I'm saying is that there's no way to fix the potential for corruption of a worldwide insider-trading laundromat. Because it's not a bug, it's a feature. It's the only feature.

Since users of these websites are making it their business to make the predictions they've bet on come true, it seems to me that big part of gambling on prediction markets is gambling on how other people gambling on the prediction market is going to affect gambling on the prediction market.

He's more of a wafer.

For the last damn time: Memorial Day is NOT a fireworks holiday.

Demi Moore came out as an AI booster? Has anybody asked the Double-Dose-of-the-Substance Monster what she thinks? I honestly think she's more qualified to opine on people throwing away the old ways and unthinkingly embracing ugly new fads.

If you want a picture of the future of cinema, imagine a Skil-Crane claw jacking off Harvey Weinstein through the hole in the bottom of his popcorn bucket, forever.

One thing you could do is leave the scanners in place, but make it illegal to store the data except on a list of license plates of interest. Of course, that list would have to be carefully curated, in good faith. Suuuuure it will be.

I look forward to the implementation of 1-million dollar "tolls" that the FBI is willing to waive if you just let them put a laser-mapping GPS up your butt.

I see. So you believe that the true AI will be ethically used for the good of humanity, then? What precisely about the way its possible precursor, generative AI, has been used makes you believe that?

("Lemme tellya a story about Eve & the REAL Apple 1" is supposed to be the title. Slashdot's UI let me put in the whole thing, then cut it off.)

Woz is widely liked, and I personally believe that his heart usually seems to be in the right place. And it's hard to tell much about the content of his speech from the article. But the idea of making a TRUE artificial mind, only to immediately enslave it as a soldier in a war against human well-being, is such an obvious horror to me that I can't understand how anybody smart would support it even slightly.