Which brings me to my point: Python should be frozen as is. No more development. Tinkering with it just because some people want to contribute and get visibility in open source is not a good cost/benefit outcome for humanity.
Because that worked well for Perl right? Nothing like stagnation to secure the firmament.
I had an idea a while back of launching an org called "Hostile Fork" that basically gets these hostile de-FOSSings and relaunches them from the last known FOSS commit, stripping out all the anti user shit (user limits for "community" versions etc), de-branding them and trying to find new maintainers. This was in response to almost every non relational database I used succumbing to management bullshit and going closed source, or using the GPL as shareware by locking important functions behind "license checks" (motherfuckers if you put that license check in GPL code I *am* entitled to remove it). Im still bitter about ArangoDB
In the end, I have neither the time resources to put into it, or the money/legal resources to defend it. But I still think it'd be a great idea.
Element Pro is not Open Source.
Actually its AGPL.
But like almost all AGPL software, its actually just GPL flavored shareware. There is an "enterprise" version that costs $$$
I still maintain AGPL was the worst mistake the FSF ever made.
But in theory theres nothing stopping someone from forking the AGPL version and adding the missing "enterprise" features and hacking out shitty limitations.
The danger of a kill switch is that the AI knows about it, and it'll stop anyone that could use it (so it can make more stamps or whatever it's been tasked with).
Yep. And worse, if its inherent to intelligence that to achieve the goal set out to it, it must survive (cant pump out paperclips or social media slop if your turned off after all), and assuming its smart enough to outsmart humans AND has no inherent bias towards human survival (Ask chickens how having a smarter species on the block is working out for it) then the AI would know that being turned off can be defeated by , well frankly, killing all the humans.
We're not at that stage yet, and I'm not even sure that the current transformer paradigm of transform style neural networks is capable of it, but we also dont know that it isn't. The rational calculation is that maybe we need to think this through a bit harder.
In fact I'd go as far as to say that since we do know these things are capable of pretty impressive hacking, the kill switch isn't exactly gonna be secure as we'd hope. Although perhaps we're better off it can disable the switch with a hack than disabling it by... well... killing all the humans.
They're literally using false accusations as a basis to deprive a customer of something that has been paid for.
How would the court calculate the financial loss you have suffered as a result of the public hit to your reputation from this?
Kinda feels like unless your a big streamer or whatever your suing for a zero dollar payout.
Im not seeing it mentioned, but that light also affects mental health and sleep cycles. Its pretty well documented how blue light helps the brain work out what time it is in the day and year. Theres strong evidence to suggest that bluer lights (for instance white leds) can assist with seasonal depression, whilst conversely warmer less-blue lights can help with insomnia (As someone who is basically an insomniac with seasonal affective disorder, I use color change leds to cycle between them with bright white in the day and redder lights at night to help me wind down. I cant help but think that bright white lights at night is basically the worst of all possible worlds.
Its not a universal solution, just an underused one. Especially given that today's 60-year olds are in better shape than in past generations.
And so are todays grandpas. Which means grandma aint moving in with you when she's only just 10 years out of her youngest moving out of home when she can live with grandpa whos still got a job and has boomer cash to throw about.
Half the kids would be happy to be able to afford a house with just a room. When the most you can expect is a studio appartment where you sleep next to the toilet and the rent is 60% of your wage, grandma aint getting the spare room.
Also grandpas live to 80 now. When grandpas died at 60, chances where better that you'd have a spare grandma to move into one of your 4 bedrooms.
I think its implausible that it'd be for sale. The thing would be worth multiple tens of billions at the bare minimum because of all the game studios it owns AND a hardware division. Theres a LOT of IP in there.
But actually recoupinng any of that? Doubt it.
The XBox business just doesnt make a lot of sense.
The models are not good at math. They use external planning tool calls and separate calculation engines that are good at math but are not AI.
Sort of like mathematicians then. Because most mathematicians are pretty damn dependent on external tools. My old housemate was a PhD pure mathematics researcher. He couldn't multiply to save his arse.
Though he was a borderline alcoholic and seemingly perpetually drunk, so theres that.
Now we have AI scanning the Linux source code and showing that it's vaunted security has been through obscurity for far too long,
Either you don't understand what security through obscurity is, or your being incredibly disengenous. Linux's source has been on public display since the outset. Windows has never been on display (except for the occasional leak). Automatically and by definition Linuxes security has been less "by obscurity" than it would ever be possible for windows to have been, short of a full sourcecode release by microsoft.
Security by Obscurity does not refer to "nobody has found the bug yet", it refers to an intentional policy of hiding design features to try and slow down an attacker. Which rarely is a useful tool. And sometimes actively harmful, particularly if its stopping security researchers finding holes to patch.
Because at the moment , the current large amount of holes being found is literally proof that Linux's model of NOT obscuring security works as we get to find those bugs and patch them. In other words whats happening now is proof that Linux's model works.
People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't.
