"Generally this isn't true, instead it is stored in large quantities of stock or other assets"

It is still used as a leveraged mechanism with which to purchase things. How the hell do you think they live in big fucking houses and have chauffeurs? Thus it is effectively cash.

And with that cash they buy power, hoard resources, and generally fuck over the human population.

You're absolutely blind to how stock gets used. You're the one trolling, here.

That should tell you right now that if you're involved in this crypto scam crap that you shouldn't be trusting stablecoins as they are by design made to fuck you over at the whim of a centralized authority.

Maybe just RTFA would answer your question:

"It was Bielfeldt’s curiosity about the inner workings of inkjet printers that inspired his winning entry, but capturing the action of ink drops being deposited on paper was a challenge, given that the process happens so quickly. The droplets, for instance, moved faster than the camera’s shutter speed. Bielfeldt’s solution was to deconstruct the printer so that the paper moved under a stationary (rather than moving) printhead, and then take the image in a dark room, using a flash to serve as the shutter, thereby freezing the ink drops mid-air."

It isn't that hard to separate. That's why we developed the cryogenic method in the first place. Hydrogen and fluorine are much harder to keep stored and process.

While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

AI can definitely be useful for writing code but you need to give it very clear prompts and properly verify that the code it wrote is correct and accurate.

As for my own code, considering that the stuff I am working on at this point (personal projects, not paid work) relies on a bunch of reference materials where feeding that stuff into an AI would probably violate various NDAs 6 ways from Sunday, the answer is no, an AI bot probably can't write the code I am currently working on.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

Comcast WANTS to make the internet suck so that you are more likely to buy cable TV.

The Open-BFME project (an AI-assisted project to reverse engineer the Battle for Middle Earth games) is in the process of producing not just source code that (when compiled with the right compiler) matches the binaries but source code that is good enough and readable enough to actually maintain and improve upon going forward.

I have been doing reverse engineering (including binary-matching reverse engineering) for a long time now and the stuff these guys are doing is amazing (the secret is to have the right prompts and instructions for the AIs and good solid verification to make sure that what the AI has generated for a given piece of code does in fact compile to identical machine code as the original)

The carbon fiber is a protective overwrap, much like anti-spalling wrap on ballistic armor.

Once the PC version is released, how long before we see modding start to happen? (and how long after that before Take-Two files lawsuits to take it all down...)

Have they found a solution to the problem where a rouge CA (e.g. one controlled by a bad actor nation-state) can generate a bogus certificate for a major site and use that to man-in-the-middle traffic to that site?

Oh and no matter which side of politics you support, anyone who wants elections in the US to be free, fair and democratic should be opposed to foreign governments and entities using social media bots to influence the outcome of those elections.

This is a good thing for the US since it seems that these data centers hosted bot farms spreading all kinds of lies in an attempt to influence the upcoming US elections.