Corporations aren't people, and have no lives and thus no inherent rights. Any granted rights they do get to the detriment of people should only be the bare minimum necessary needed to create some larger benefit to society as a whole. Giving a legal fiction the right to control a piece of media that has cultural import, however small, for 150 years is over indexing on the corp side and against the people.

Demand is inelastic and supply is limited. Bringing new supply online takes years to decades. It's stupid to permit new bulk users knowing the inevitable result.

In my experience "update and shutdown" downloads the updates, runs what doesn't require a reboot, stages the remainder, and shuts down. When you restart you have to wait however long it takes to complete the install.

You can do largely the same thing running Opus in a loop. It just burns a few more tokens.

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

AI is opex, not capex though. You get to pay that cost every year. You are renting time on a machine not buying it. A well taken care of lathe lasts 70+ years, so the $50k you spend on it now pays dividends for as long as you keep it, and you can sell it used when you upgrade. The money on AI tooling is just gone. No machine shop would rent that lathe at $25k/yr

You want a nice screen so you can use your phone's nav app instead of the god awful one that comes bundled in the car.

Lot of people run tools like claude code in "auto" mode, where it has un-gated access to bash. This gives it access to your environment and file system, where you might have API keys or AWS tokens. Or it might be reading files like ~/.m2/settings.xml, ~/.npmrc, ~/.aws/config etc.

When you write a prompt like "Read the recent cloudwatch logs for serviceX and tell me why the 5xx error rate just spiked." There's every chance the model decided it needed to figure out how to access your AWS account, sent a series of Bash commands to the local agent to dump your env and aws config, ran a decision tree over that, and formulated a bunch of aws cli Bash invocations to gather the CW data. Those get sent back to the agent, which executes them and sends the output back to the model so it can answer your prompt.

ICBMs are not on the internet, and I don't think anyone is dumb enough [yet] to put these on a silo or nuclear sub C&C network with access to launch codes. I could picture it being hooked up to telemetry and advising a go/no-go though, which is bad enough.

You can't remove the the "risky stuff" because it's baked into the model weights, which are opaque and empirically derived from the training. They tried to make it better at programming and succeed, but that also makes it a better at analyzing code and finding faults. You can't pluck that capability out of the model any more than you could pluck out how to code in C from a programmer's brain. Not without lobotomizing them, anyway.

He not even a socialist. He's a social democrat. That just means he wants more social services like public transit, single-payer health care, and public pre-school, not to seize control of capital.

I can't imagine the thought process of someone who would go through all the trouble, risk, and expense to do this. If you want videos of naked ladies, there is just about an unlimited supply of consenting adults who provide it free on the internet. The reason people go to a strip club is the in-person experience.

Just about everyone in a modern society is walking around with a covert listening device in their pocket: their phone. Just start the voice memo app running and stick it back in your pocket. Or just hold it in your hand. Nobody questions someone having their phone out.

You might want to read up on how current hybrid vehicles actually work, 'cause it seems you have more than one misconception going on.

I have. For instance, my latest vehicle is the Ford F-159 XLT,, the full-hybrid model of the F-series pickup truck line. Power train is:
  - 6 cylinder dual-turbo engine. (runs low power but approoximately doubles output when a lot is needed.)
  - 47 HP motor-generator "pancake" on the engine side of the ttransmission, to scavenge / return power to./from a 1.5 kWhr lithium battery.
  - 10-speed automatic transmission, working with the lithium battery;s main alternator to fine-tune match the engine/mogen to the current driving situation. Max power of engine plus hybrid mogen; 430 hp.
  - full four wheel drive.

So it's primarily a gas-engine power train with an electric-car motor mechanically coupled to the engine shaft. Many other hybrids, from the venerable prius onward, are similar, with plug-in variants having a big scavaging/peaking battery good for pure electric operation of tens of miles rather than a minute or so and a wall-powered charger added.

What I'm looking for is essentially a pure electric - totally electronic "transmission" consisting of alternator(s) between the batteries and the motor(s), plus a tiny engine-generator able to burn gas and feed some teens of KW of charging power into the batteries when running down the road or parked near it.
 

Chargepoint usually takes NFC credit cards as well.