I think superintelligence has a well established meaning. It's the ENEMY of mankind. But why would the YOB care? His YUGE plan is to take the money, pardon himself (and all witnesses against him), run away, and then to boot it all he is probably sure that he'll be dead before any of his chickens try to come home. But jokes on the YOB if the malevolent superintelligence gets here before he can finish imploding/dying.

Lack of interest in the topic says this comment is a waste of time... Almost expired and only two comments before this third. But I'm actually extra interested in the stories that could attract attention and reactions but don't. Why did this topic flop? So...

There's a reason almost no one cares and I don't think it's the governance model. I think the problem is the financial model. Most of the Linux distros are supposed to be driven by eager volunteers, but most potential volunteers have computing uses for their limited time.

So how about paying them for the work? Perhaps with an "extra freedom to pick the work" discount for getting to pick and choose the projects they work on?

From my user perspective, I'd be interested in donating to specific projects and features, but I am absolutely NOT interested in throwing money at projects that just say "Trust us to pick the best bits of feeping creaturitis."

Details available upon detection of human interest, but right now it's just a pitch for a Funny mod point.

"Add in the fact that the establishment has been lying to us for many years..." ...and you were doing so well.

Anti-vax is just conspiracy theory, playing to it is way to gain power. Joe Rogan does pretty well, you don't have to say intelligent things to make money.

Says a lot about you. Most people care, it's hypocrites and sociopaths that don't.

Good to know you think the president being a rapist and child molester gives you permission to do the same.

And what they do is our business when it affects national security. And Jensen resigned, he was not fired.

What did Jensen create? His public appearances demonstrate that he is ignorant of AI.

Rationing is inevitable regardless, rationing occurs in our capitalist insurance system and it occurs with self-pay.

"This is because it is impossible to provide all the healthcare to everyone all the time. It is impossible, because it is impossibly expensive to do so."

That is true and unrelated to healthcare being "public". Funny how you smear "public healthcare" when you criticism applies to private healthcare. Wonder why? You seem to think that all problems are solved by denying care to some so that it won't be rationed for you. That's the problem with "public healthcare", right? People you don't like get benefits?

Okay, but you could have wrapped it with "atomic operation" tags.

But I was going for Funny.

Serendipitous public conference on AI yesterday. Large numbers of participants, but it turned out that at least some of them were there for the free lunch that I hadn't even heard about. I went mostly because of my business connections to the main sponsor.

The technical talks were mostly disappointing. Best of them was probably a Googler saying stuff that was mostly conclusions I got to a while back... At least that was how it seemed. (And then things got a little weird...)

So my main conclusion was tangential. Of course. Huge building was quite dazzling. And obviously based on borrowed money and stockholders' expectations of huge future profits. I thought the corporate headquarters was a different huge building that I visited a few months ago, but it's evidently it's a much bigger bubble than I had noticed.

Oh, yeah. Back to the story. Latest news I heard was that it was a new meta-tool, new and improved with AI, that was overwhelmed by the sordid real world. I hope it at least went down with some funny new error message like "I'm sorry, mother."

Me thinks me smells a cyber-attack that Microsoft (and f[r]iends) wants to cover up. In such a case I think it safe to wager an AI helped create the attack. Probably found the vulnerability, too.

<Rubs thumb against first finger> It's the world's smallest fiddle playing a sad song just for Microsoft.

<Rubs both thumbs against both first fingers> It's the world's smallest orchestra playing an especially sad song for Amazon.

That's three things.

But this is the story that keeps on giving jokes.

ACK, but if I was an actual comedian I'd figure out how to do a callback to "... but three lefts do."

But I finally did get a Funny mod back up there!

Who says they aren't? How would you know?

Are we to wait until AI kills people to care? Own some AI stock?