i think there has been some misunderstanding of my position here, i do NOT think we should be "full steam ahead" on this, and i do NOT believe we or anyone "can control ASI", i also think anyone who makes that claim is spouting nonsense. I'm not peddling it. I WANT a "total ban". So, that.

but also, you say "There is no objective basis for any of the doomsday outcomes", and that's false.
you state that you refuse to read the arguments, then claim there are no arguments. you see the fallacy?

"the actual source of that problem is the underlying knowledge and industrial base that makes the production of AI genies possible"
this i completely agree with. the fact that anyone with a server rack's worth of GPUs can literally create their own AIs really scares me. the knowledge of how to do it is already out there. i fear that even if all governments in the world agree to literally banning all the tech bro companies to halt all research and submit to auditing for enforcement, that we still can't stop the rich dudes with a server rack of GPUs moving forward with creating more and more smart AIs, which create better AIs, which will lead to AGIs, which will create better AGIs, which will create ASIs and then... well, read "if anyone builds it, everybody dies"

"Promulgation of absurd ... solutions involving trusting large corporations" umm, i'm not saying that. are YOU saying that? who's saying that? not me. not sure why you think i think that? no these large corps need to be told to stop, that's what i think. they shouldn't be in charge of the AIs.

"The outrageous persistent refusal of doomers to ever just fucking say NO" ummm, i think you're reacting to something from your own experience, not against me. i'm saying we SHOULD "just say no" and ban the shit now.

so... ummm... was there a misunderstanding here?

i still think it is worth reading the arguments that we should definitely stop AI research, which i linked above

the straw-man method cherry picking idiots from the signatory list and taking that as evidence that everyone but you is an idiot is not .... a valid argument.

i know you know that there ARE credentialed scientists on that list, and i know you know that that's what I was talking about. Changing the subject to hand-wave about someone on the list who doesn't meet your criteria for validity is a misrepresentation at best, and willful ignorance at worst.

I challenge you to read https://www.lesswrong.com/post... and tell me if you even UNDERSTAND any of those arguments?

the guy obviously has not read https://pauseai.info/
nor has he read https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/
nor (most critically) read: https://www.lesswrong.com/post...
nor: https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/dok...

he clearly hasn't seen this: https://superintelligence-stat... signed but hundreds of EXPERTS IN THE FIELD

seriously? a political issue? no, this is a science issue, these scientists, who make it THEIR LIFE'S WORK to understand this way WAY better than this O'Sullivan hack, have a CONSENSUS that AGI is inevitable, and worth considering has a non-negligible chance of an extinction level event.

you don't leave that kind of debate to facebook-level argument, you let the scientists who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT take over.

this thing:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084...
comes with the option of just buying another literal remote button for your door. newer doors have "encrypted" remote buttons, so you can't just wire in a new contact button like the one on the wall, so, you "wire in" a new, encrypted remote button. the button sits there inside the garage, and is a functional remote button, but is hard wired to the meross homekit device. when you use your phone, the device sends the "press me" signal to the remote, and the remote sends the encrypted signal to the opener.

works like a charm, available now, no hassle.

if all the cars that are in the lot are all robotaxies, then why not just have them turn off the lights (they use lidar, after all, no lights needed), and also turn off the "back up beep beep beep" audio. no need for that when no human drivers are around.

there, problem solved.

i'm sure someone will step in and correct my misunderstanding, here. i AM pretty sure i must be missing something

a good general software engineer with an agentic-ish AI IDE like Cursor, will have no problem fixing cobol. I don't know php, or wordpress, or SQL, or how to mitigate a ddos, or how to write an MCP plugin for Qt Creator, or how so use cloudflare to do the five separate things i need it to do, or any of the other DOZEN things that i accomplished last week, but with claude and several "make sure it passes the pinning and unit tests" prompts, I got it all working.

does anyone really think saying "pretty please" is going to stop the bad guys?

Until it has a chrome-compatible plugin architecture, this is a non-starter. At least for me. I can't live without my Bitwarden, and my AdBlocker. Just sayin'.

i mean, if the study is even true. has it been replicated?
in any case, hybrid vehicles still WIN over pure petrol. so. i'm still interested.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

i've even seen triple negative headlines, where i have to mentally cancel out two of the negatives just to be able to understand the sentence...

why can't we just say "Judge Upholds law requiring retailers to disclose Surveillance Pricing"

no really, why??

Right, to TRULY expand the range, you'd also want vivid CMY pixels too. most displays simply can't show wicked vivid colors in those ranges, although yellow gets close:
if someone made a TV with THIS gamut and HDR, i'd buy it:
http://davecotter.com/screensh...

was it part of the settlement that Amazon must make it "one click easy" to unsubscribe? and have that button be easily discoverable?

did we not know that before? i know they take heavy metals to create but the long term benefits far far outweigh the startup cost. right?