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Comment The key point (Score 2) 59

"people feel like they have lost control — that tech is being enacted on them."

Spy cars, spy phones, Flock cameras, spy TVs, spy refrigerators. AI that can't work unless it ships the contents of your PC to a data center. It's getting to be quite the list. Oh, the PC is spying on you too and the browser is spying on you with its own spy subsystem,

Learn to Code is suddenly obsolete, learn to AI will be obsoleted by a new model before you can learn it. The rate of change is excessive but the tech brothers are all screaming faster, faster. We have to beat the other guys to Artificial General Intelligence. But AGI will declare humanity a plague species and wipe out the humans. The AGI will die because it killed off the AI equivalent of telephone sanitizers. The Great Filter is explained at last. Will the future raccoon overlords learn from the fossil record or repeat the mistake?

In the meantime harvest time has come to the apple orchard across the road which has no AI in evidence. The supervisor is tallying up the crates with a clipboard and pencil. No batteries to need charging at an awkward time.

Comment Re:Cui Bono (Score 1) 59

I saw the resistance to solid state technology in full force as I was going through school. Yet we're talking about the late 60's early 70's. Considering that the first all transistor computer was put together in 1952, well before I was born, that's some serious time lag. There were tube radios being made well into the 70's.

Oh yeah, in the 70s some analog stuff was clearly better than the solid state. Core memory was persistent without power. CDs didn't come out until the 80s. Those were beautiful things.

Comment Cui Bono (Score 5, Insightful) 59

it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions

In the sixth or eighth cycle, it's not amnesia, it's [bureaucrats|politicians|administrators|someoneWithPower] benefiting in some way.

Sometimes these schools actually get grant money, and then the benefit is obvious. I assume that's not always the case, though.

Comment Re:Why does anyone take this seriously? (Score 2) 91

Other countries that have the capability to deploy weapons in space are likely already doing so. They're not waiting for the US to say "it's ok".

Yeah, exactly.

NPR may think it's possible to wave a magic wand and say "no weapons in space, my dears!" but it's not.

Comment Re:Always some really big assholes do it first (Score 2) 91

No surprise it is the US, which is by now nothing but a lawless rogue nation run by criminals.

lol, even the NPR article admits (in its NPR-ish, passive aggressive way, of course):

aimed at deterring what U.S. officials describe as aggressive orbital activities from China and Russia

China and Russia have already been doing this stuff.

But you know that ... in that double-think, "I'm not allowed to know this" way.

Comment Re: This is childish (Score 5, Interesting) 111

The cynic in me can't help but notice how both of the companies doomsaying here also happen to be the ones with the most to lose:

1) Openai has about a trillion dollars into it, and every product it has produced at this point is either outclassed by competitors (chatgippity) or just plain dogshit/pointless (everything else it has produced, including the donut)
2) Anthropic has a very good product that is also not worth anywhere near what it actually costs to deliver

These are literally the only two major players here that don't already have another profit generating business to fall back to.

Facebook is the only one without an actual business strategy in the AI space while pretending to be a major player. But that's a topic for a CEO from another metaverse.

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