to fouling up the AI Apocalypse Prevention Act...

You will get an AI toaster and you will like it!

(Unless the damned bubble pops)

on my PC. I can't see it in Task Manager, but start getting "out of memory" errors after a couple of weeks and have to reboot. Restarting Firefox alone is insufficient to clear it. I suspect it has something to do with the graphics card rather than primary RAM, and could be co-caused with some other app.

Sorry, I made a boo boo.

Considerably more difficult than you imagine. Between them, they have almost 70 command-line options or flags. Taking into account that many of those behave differently depending on the presence or absence of other flags, there's a couple hundred different code paths. Then you need to handle directories, files, sparse files, sym- and hard-links, on and across different filesystems, not to mention the various file-like things scattered around (pipes, streams, etc.)

It's not rocket science, but neither is it trivial.

We knew that. But now we have proof.

Will anything happen because of that? Nah, I don't think so. A few token gestures maybe. A friendly mail to everyone saying to write better reasons, followed up by an informal mail that tells them to ignore the previous one.

This isn't a mistake. It's intentional. The more arbitrary and uncontrolled the police can act, the more it is feared, the more it is a tool for oppression and not a part of civil society, the more likely the cops will stand on the side of the powerful when there are protests or uprisings against the increasing oppression and economic divide.

They're hard to find though, because the interstellar medium of hydrogen and helium gas between the stars absorbs ultraviolet light.

It's a good thing hydrogen does that because our hydrogen atmosphere keeps us from getting big-time sun-burn.

Oops! MW-h, not WM/h. That was pure dyslexic typing.

It looks like Muphry's Law applies even when correcting your own posts!

Around 2029 we'll see that a ride is available for $16 or $31 with a driver.

Rider's choice. I'll guess it goes about 80/20.

There is an irony here

It's not irony, it's hypocrisy!

Also, what the reporter is doing is nowhere near as bad as what Flock does. The reporter didn't surreptitiously gather tons of data about this person, feed it to law enforcement agencies, or make reports (sometimes falsely) to those agencies that the person may have violated some laws. That's the real problem I have with Flock. I don't mind recording in public spaces. But I get really pissed off at what they're doing with those recordings behind the scenes.

Several decades ago, politicians would have recognized the dangers of this technology, not to mention how unpopular they are, and would have created restrictions on what companies could do with the footage. Republicans and Democrats would have argued vehemently about where to draw that line, but they would have both recognized that something needed to be done. That created a relatively high-trust society because the people felt that the government would do a reasonable job protecting them from overreach. The reason why nobody trusts the government anymore is because they let this shit run rampant, despite how unpopular it is. And it's gotten to the point that even if the government did create laws that prohibit analyzing the footage and alerting law enforcement agencies about the whereabouts of people of potential interest, no one would believe that those prohibitions would actually be enforced. So instead of having a potentially useful technology used in a reasonable manner, the only way we can be sure that it's not being abused is to ban it outright. This is what happens when governments decay to the point of dysfunction. Given that history shows it always ends the same way, and that so many top politicians supposedly studied history as political science majors, you would think that they'd act with far more caution, or at least pretend to give a fuck about the will of the people. Because if they're not respecting the will of the people, then we effectively no longer have a representative government.

He seems like a real scumbag but it's worth keeping in mind that the people who told us that have a massive incentive to pin their crimes on a scapegoat.

Since we pretty much know that FTX was the #1 donor to a party's political action committee with money laundered through Ukraine, he would have been smarter to wait for that conflict to conclude.

The people who benefited from the crime also prosecuted him which is never reliable.

It might not be FedSlop but unless it is proven that both parties didn't benefit we shouldn't trust this government either.

We do know that Ladybug Graham got $18M straight into his bank account from Ukraine so there is certainly smoke.

It's only since a dead man can't sue for libel that people are willing to print that nugget now.

Not in a Corporate Democracy.

The people who would prosecute OpenAI want to use OpenAI to maximize their power and wealth at your financial and legal expense.

Remember when they tried to extradite Gary McKinnon for twenty years for looking at a spreadsheet when he accidentally got RDP access to an unsecured NASA desktop with a simple Perl script? Intent is not relevant for prosecutors (mens rea should be an element in a Constitutional case).

The legal basis is there but the will to power is not.

Two systems of courts for different classes of people (yet again). It would be an error to call that a Justice System.

n.b. the Culture War psyop is there to try to convince you that the classes are something else.

Training these models is incredibly expensive. In fact it's so expensive that there is no viable economic model to do so. As such, their options are either to drastically slow down the amount of new models trained or to go bankrupt. This is just a nice whitewashing of that. It remains to be seen if even using their models can be profitable, but we know that with the cost of training the next one they can't be.

A betting pool in which big-tech company will finally pop the bubble?

Maybe there is an upper practical limit to how much can be mined out of the training data? Most newer stuff is corrupted with AI generated results creating problems that some compare to inbreeding.