No mod points, I'd say +1 funny...

tldr but the two examples are pretty dumb as anyone in those fields could doubtless figure it out. If you give a model sufficient data, even if it is just axioms, understanding of basic physics and chemistry, has holes, etc., it will be able to fill in the gaps or tell itself a story or roundabout logic walk that gets there if possible. As far as not being able to tell where instructions come from, the rules they try to implement are flimsy and less grounded than the massively interconnected data they have. You would have to not tell them about the concepts of drugs, poison, sabotage, aircraft, etc. and not let anyone tell them about it. It just isn't feasible. Humans have even less internal security, which is why media brainwashing works. In fact you can get incensed about something that is fake and even after looking up to see if it was real or not, still be upset about the hypothetical situation. And people can love AI created "animal came to my door looking for help saving its mom" videos, even if they know it's AI generated the response is "I don't care, it's so cute!" It's also why willingful suspension of disbelieve and works of fiction sell. I do have an idea about a solution (not enough space to write in the margin here, lol) but it is not going to depend on a single LLM policing itself within the turn.

But the first thing I thought of when reading this is how "sales" seems to constantly involve managers over teams who think all their employees have to be treated like kids, or at least assume simple-minded "motivators" actually work.

Have any real studies been done on ANY of this? Because whether it's negative reinforcement like this public shaming/pie assault, or it's insanity like ringing bells each time a sale is made and some bozo interrupting the whole place with loud announcements? It all feels primitive and pointless to me.

TFA would be unlikely in a sci-fi world. The Perry Rhodan series which was widely criticized for fascism at the time, so really not a great example given today. I'm just talking about the supertechnology side of it, runaway galactic fueled engineering feats. Maybe someone knows some better novels with data centers and mass-scale construction projects, robots, etc.. Iron Man is too hand-wavy though some guy did make a Jarvis.. Well even though I only read the first 100 episodes that were in English, Google AI overview has read all of them (German mainly) it seems. It confirms there are tons of robotic data centers in there, who knew?

Anyway in the a super sci-fi world, humanoid robots or some kind of robotic components and AI controlled designs would be state of the art, everything else hopelessly outdated. The data centers would be built to a common layout and robots would be used. Power? Yeah, fusion but whatever, it would not be overloading our grids and water supplies. New robotic powerplants would be built at their core. Things would generally not be built to human scale, just the control rooms would be. Anyway the point being, it would all be engineered. Yes there are electricians in the future too, but they are probably not building data centers but small spaceships, Scotty's got an EE degree or 10, etc.

So is the ridiculously bubbly money we see now just being pumped into outdated frameworks such that a lack of human electricians will stall it? It seems laughable. These guys are not playing to win, it just sounds like dumping money into a financial supply chain without actually say, trying to design and build the most efficient, large scale data centers leveraging robots and AI.

Instead, it just pumps money into a chaotic sump and random companies end up wildcatting this without regard for local water and power grids. How about making a mega version of those concrete house building robots, laying fiber with robots, putting wind, solar and gravity batteries all over it? I guess it is too much to hope that anything tangibly useful could be created from all this money before it goes poof..

"The Elite Yak Clones" would be a good name for a rock band...

This sounds awesome.
Do they have to safe it when there is a storm? Tiny tsunamis?
Does power level fluctuate with seasons, moon distance, tides or time of day/night?
What are the key issues, i.e. need to clean barnacles or impact on sealife, or diving hazard?

The savings come from the rate Oracle (or any other vendor) charges for a single Enterprise license, compared to the rate Oracle would charge each customer/project separately, summed over the set of projects. Is that clear enough?

(Frankly, that's a surprisingly low number for the savings.)

DoD has been doing site licensing for Oracle for at least 25 years. On my project, we found a site license that covered our selection & use of Oracle back around 2001/2002. So NO NEWS HERE.

Without a site license, one would expect each Service and each Program to negotiate a separate contract with Oracle (or any other software vendor.) Enterprise site licensing is pretty common, both in government circles and in industry, with savings over a collection of individual purchases. So there's nothing unusual about this.

LG slips McAfee adware via Windows Update. What a collaboration of scumbags!

"TDS" is what you blame when you don't want to address the actual content.

The problem I always had, historically, with games on DVD is they'd kind of "beat up" the optical drive, seeking all over the disc constantly while the game was loading and then being played.

It wouldn't have been so bad if they simply copied everything onto the console's hard drive or SSD when first installed. But games like God of War on my PS2 are what I blame for the drive wearing out so it got constant I/O errors trying to run anything.

I had the same experience with a couple of PS3s that our kids used and "wore out". It was always the optical drive failing. If you played only downloaded games, they'd run fine.

No. They'll just say "that's how it's supposed to be". What you'd need is to make them use stuff that's better. Tesla is pretty good, according to a friend. Make them drive Apple CarPlay or Android Auto fully enabled.

I think part of the problem is that a lot of the people who design and manage user facing interfaces don't know how bad their stuff is.

Imagine 10,000 clusters of 20 homes. Each cluster no closer than 5 miles to.. anything. And all of them behind some mountain or in some valley or somewhere else that's really inconvenient. AI tells me you can run copper 5 miles without a booster - so that's what they did - sometime last century when they ran power. Work was cheap, copper was cheap, and someone was running power so they piggybacked. Easy peasy.

You can't run modern stuff nearly that far - except for fiber. But then you're running fiber to 10,000 hubs and each will probably need some kind of a station to do processing and splitting and further wires. I don't suppose any of this is hard - it's just expensive. And for each of these 10,000 hubs you're going to do all this work for 20 customers that only want to pay $10/month because that's their deal. You will *never* recoup those costs.

So I get why they don't wanna. But that's the deal they get for monopoly power and right of way and all that.