James P. Hogan wrote about some of these concerns in his 1979 sci-fi novel "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Sadly the biggest taken-for-granted idea from his novel that now seems fantastical is that governments and engineers cared about AI safety over profit (i.e. the AI developers did not try to privatize most gains while socializing most costs and most risks). From the Goodreads blurb "Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. ..."

You raise a deep issue worthy of a lot of discussion when you say: " A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one."

Your points also align with my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

Monkeys are slightly faster than humans at visual processing:
https://monkeys.alloftheanimal...
"The average [monkey] visual reaction time is around 200ms to 300ms, with a median of around 215ms. ... The mean human reaction time to touch, auditory, and visual stimuli is 150 milliseconds, 170 milliseconds, and 250 milliseconds, respectively."

But dogs are much faster:
https://humanbenchmark.me/test...
"The table below shows approximate response times to visual or tactile stimuli, drawn from published research: ...
Dog 60-100 ms Behavioral studies
Human (trained) 150-200 ms Cognitive research
Human (average) 250-300 ms Our test data"

So, if dogs are at least two to three times faster than monkeys, (I had heard elsewhere dogs are about seven times faster than humans), that means maybe dogs are even faster than crows?

I have to wonder about cat reaction time too? The table says cats are like twice as fast as dogs:
"Cat (domestic) 20-70 ms Behavioral studies"

Faster reaction time might help dogs and especially cats catch birds to eat them?

Anyway, so I think the implication in the quote from the article that avian brains are generally faster then mammal brains may not be well-supported given not enough species (both avian and mammalian) were compared?

Enjoy your 320x200 streams.

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

RAM chips, and also their packaging, are rather small. The idea that we lack the natural resources to manufacture RAM at even thousands of times the present rate is hilarious. Do some research before making preposterous posts.

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

Crude language is not an adequate replacement for rational argument.

we give them limitless power

That statement has no relation to how human society works.

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.

> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe

Don't trust old phones with too much value.

There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.

Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.

A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.

An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.

Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.

Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.

We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).

It sounds like that devops laptop had /way/ too much access. Where's their multisig for billions of dollars? I would never have guessed Binance would be one so lax. Doing it right is way cheaper than a shareholder lawsuit.

It seems more likely that what they're looking at is 'nobody' who reads Reddit posts without logging in will ever need to visit Reddit.com because they can just get all the answers they want from a Gemini query.

I can see their conundrum while noticing that it will suck for humans more than AI and that AI - as currently [not] enforced by law - is the primary culprit in this round of enshittification.

The current economic situation is that all profit from the current web will accrue to the Mag7 while their datasources will foot the bill for making it possible.

If somebody doesn't invent a better economic model soon there won't be much content left for AI to scrape and injest.

Verify that you're human [ ].

Proton used to let you buy an account with Bitcoin. Then they started requiring a credit card number or an outside email/phone.

It was clear to me that the perception of security replaced privacy.

I'm not sure what I need Proton for that needs my banking information tied to it.

The article is actually reassuring that I didn't misperceive what was going on.

Makes me want to play that alien flute.

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.