Less of a quagmire than Iraq and Afghanistan. Less cultural distance and lower language barrier. Still unlikely to succeed without broader consensus.

When governments really need/want to do something they just do it. The covid era and now Trump have proved that.

So what if it does know, whats it going to do about it, secretly build a killer robot factory without anyone looking? You've been watching too much sci-fi.

While it exists in the virtual world and we exist in the real world we are the ones with the ultimate power.

When governments need to do something they'll do it. I refer you to the covid era.

Of late I've become less of a fan than I was when I was kid scared shitless by 9/11 and the preceding/concurrent years of troubles in Israel.

I still don't like it when we loose. And I especially don't like it when the loss is traceable to half-assed execution, as for example George W dropping sandwiches instead of bombs in Afghanistan, to show how we're the good guys, you see. Stories of US forces being barred from pursuing enemy combatants in "sensitive" location also don't sit well with me for the simple reason that the supposed good will engendered among the locals in not desecrating sacred spaces did not appear to have materialized at all, while the exact location of our forces' soft underbelly was broadcast for all to see.

They're putting it into bonds, or putting it in a bank at the worst. In both cases it pays interest which goes up as inflation goes up. They aren't the ones being hurt by inflation.

That's kind of interesting because APL was strongly associated with remote work (and very very slow modems).

The supply curve and demand curve always meet at a point. The noise is just salespeople trying to increase demand through confusion, but it doesn't change the fundamental mathematical model.

The question is will anyone pull the plug does anyone have the will to pull the plug, who can actually make that decision?

I don't mean nominally either, I mean practically. Even if you are the CEO; giving the order to shut down you hyper-scaled AI/ML platform because someone some people from the 'safety' team you only hired to virtue signal in the first place say they think 'something' is happening. Its a career ending move, most likely, and you'll have to hang around and slug it out with half a nation of disgruntled 401k holders who saw the NASDAQ drop and are demanding the company start operating again.

Could president or some member of the joint-chiefs demand power be cut to the datacenter. Same problems what will people believe, what will the political fall out of 'blowing up the economy be'?

Now for the record I think this is all hype. These people are saying this stuff because what they really want you think is, 'omg omg if this technology is so powerful even the owners are afraid of it, it just has to be the next big thing, its like harnessing the atom was 70 years ago! BUY BUY FOMO BUY BUY' At no point is anything resembling the current state of the art over at OpenAI going to turn into 'Mike' (See the Moon is a Harsh Mistress). Its just marketing. However if a real synthetic intellect ever did appear AND start to have control over IRL events in any remotely unexpected ways I have little to no faith the organizations around it would recognize what was happening and respond appropriately. I suspect it takes more courage to pull the plug than most folks have.

SQL was never referred to as a forth generation language until recently. A lot of revisionism has been done lately, like in this article which has no relation at all to reality: https://dev.to/yokwejuste/prog...

Forth generation languages were usually intended to be general use programming languages, the canonical example being Forth.

Reminds me of this code: https://news.slashdot.org/comm...

I dunno; it seems to have worked for smoking. Use and demand fell massively, social approval vanished, now pretty much only losers smoke.

It could be argued, but that would be pretty silly, as the demand is clearly there to begin with, and couldn't really be any larger.

The AI "overloads" are human. If they - or a government - wanted to switch it off it would be as simple as disconnecting the data centres from the grid. UPSes and backup gens don't run forever.

Given bacteria are in an arms race with each other, if there was a faster way for them to outcompete the others using the materials available evolution would have found it. 2 billion years is very roughly 10^13 bacterial generations.