Good luck on the June launch, and best wishes for a successful mission!

In this case, the prime manager, the mayor, had just been replaced inthe election.

Actually, management was blamed left and right, the audit helped force the contracting companies to eat far more of the cost, etc...
Trick i failed to mention, it was the NEW incoming mayor that ordered the audit, and less than 1% of project cost to date.

Do you think that might be politically advantageous of him, perhaps as payback for unthroning his wife, and that he realizes that the chance of them getting released is zero despite anything he might say?

I looked at a waterfall project where the mayor ended up spending $3M to have an audit done on the current state of a project that was way behind on time and way over budget, only for them to come back and say that it'd be cheaper to burn all the effort to date and start fresh.

The SSD would cost $10 but only the commissars would be able to buy them because they would always be out of stock everywhere else.

XX = ALWAYS female. No alternative. If you are healthy you have a womb and can bear babies. They are intrinsically connected. You have large gametes.
XY = ALWAYS male. No alternative. You cannot ever bear babies, no matter how healthy you are. You have small gametes.

If they ever dig up your body, this is how you will be identified. Your feelings have *nothing* to do with the matter. Nor does your sanity. They will 100% identify you according to the actual, empirical physical characteristics that make you male or female (or a genetic sport of some sort).

That you keep repeating the delusion just makes you delusionAL.
No matter how many times you repeat 1+1=3, it's still not true and never will be.

Is there room for consciousness to manifest in a brain?

When the AI bubble bursts, the government will run a "Cash for Clankers" program where they buy all the old AI hardware and crush it so it can't wreck the market for new parts.

I remember years ago reading a post on some Microsoft techie's blog where he answered a question about why Windows did something in a weird way and it was apparently because it would break otherwise if you tried to do that thing on a system where the file you were trying to access was on actually a tape drive and had to be retrieved very slowly.

Also those tape drives appear to cost as much as a car. So not really good solution for regular users.

I installed a 28TB hard drive in my gaming PC to back up to. Man is that thing loud when you're used to a quiet PC with SSDs.

I checked prices a few weeks ago and discovered I couldn't even afford to replace that PC if it broke. It would cost as much as a small car.

All so the Internet can create funny cat videos.

I remember when I could buy 8TB SSDs for $499 (Canadian). It wasn't that long ago.

Now an 8TB hard drive costs almost that much.

Facts > Feelings.

If you have XX chromosomes, you're female and thus a woman. Cutting off your tits or bolting on a Frankenphallus just makes you a woman with surgical alterations.
If you have XY chromosomes, you're male and thus a man. No amount of makeup, women's underwear, or stripteasing in front of children will change that.

Anything else is an aberration and, like a one-armed person or someone born without eyes, recognized defective. It doesn't make them less human, but the idea we should just pretend that's normal is a weird delusion.

Neither is a particularly endearing character, but of the 2, Altman gives me more of the "serial killer who'd poison your entire family to get what he wants, turn your back and he'll take your wallet" type of evil, and Musk more the "we're going to leave everyone on earth to die, want to have my child?" kind of evil. I'm not sure which is worse ... but in this case, Musk clearly has a better argument against OpenAI than OpenAI has in its defense - merely from the 'nonprofit to profit' basis, ignoring the intent and other aspects about safety.... which is certainly concerning in its own right.

OT, but... the way these big shops seem to be doing 'safety' is an idiotic bolt-on approach, from what I can see: it's all after-the-fact. If you give your agent/model a foundational prompt like "You're a helpful bot", that colors everything it does after that. They need to have a moral/foundations layer which does the same thing, perhaps even trained on its own very insular dataset that's been curated to meet objectives that can help it rank the value of different data. That way Reddit or some postgrad's humanities paperwork doesn't get the same criterial evaluation as, say, Socrates, Einstein, or the Bible. Maybe they do that - but it certainly doesn't seem like it, based on how easy it is to get them to disobey "safety" guidelines.