The interesting thing about the Terminator movies is that when AI researcher Miles Dyson became convinced that his work had a high probability of resulting in an artificial general intelligence attempting to replace humanity, he did not go and post a ten thousand word essay on LessWrong about how he had updated his timeline and p(doom) estimates and discussing the full Bayesian analysis of the situation. He went to the lab that very night with some heavily armed companions and he blew the place up.

I keep hearing that one AI researcher or another claims that they believe as Dyson came to believe. Until one of them takes similar action, I simply do not believe that they actually think their research carries such a risk.

You have access to the lab where the work is being done? You regularly meet in person with leading researchers and talents driving the project forward? You are an American and you have the Second Amendment? And the entire future light cone is at stake? Quintillions of hypothetical future lives riding on the outcome of this project here and now?

What's the most effective, altruistic thing you could do for them?

Yeah, exactly. I've never heard of anyone shooting up their AI lab. Which tells me they don't believe their AI is at all likely to wipe us all out.

You have a small brain.

And you appear to have little to NO sense of humor.

Lighten up Francis....

your right to have unnecessary emissions ends where my lungs begin.

Earth is a BIG planet.....I PROMISE I won't drive anywhere near you and your lungs....

;)

In China nothing is brutal since over 30 years.

Unlike USA it is a fine working striving democracy -

LOL...PLEASE tell me you weren't able to actually type that without at least a smile on your face....

If you were actually serious...I have to tell you you're a bit too late for 1984, doublespeak and rewriting history daily

A few months ago I picked up a Mac Mini M4 with 24GB memory....so far that thing has handled a lot of reasonably sized models I've thrown at it...

Strange how this is only a problem in the USA.

What's the problem....if you bought it, it is your vehicle and if you want to make it run better, more efficiently....why not?

Can we get a car like this? Can we get congress to pass a law that says we can have a car like this?

I'd written something similar earlier....make some cars and jeeps this simple, go back to 60's - 70's tech maybe....where you can work on your vehicles on your own on the weekend.

No need for uber tech, no telemetry and over the air updates....

I for one would kill for a modern day CJ7....simple gas engine that is bulletproof....and well, not that much else.....

Hell, give me a '76 TransAm....big engine, no computer needed...maybe just modernize the suspension....

Ahem....back to tractors one can own and self repair made simply and just works...

If they would only do this with CARS and JEEPS again.....simple, mechanical...without all the fucking tech, something in 60-70's area of tech....I'd be one of the first in line.

It was nice to be a shade tree mechanic and work on your own vehicles on the weekends....

I guess maybe having just Bluetooth in the radio to hook my phone to to stream music..but shy of that I don't need cars that phone home, nor have internet, or require software updates...fuck all that.

Hell I don't even need a backup camera....I never use them on cars that have them anyway....so far, mine don't.

Raw? no. The drivers don't exist (yet). I expect MS to roll out a few flavors of Linux for WSL as this is targeted to be a dev box.

Ugh....not for me unless it can be MS Free....

Could you install Linux on this new box?

... and then to secure Ukraine into the European economic and defence structure as firmly as possible. At this point they're far ahead of NATO on how to use drones and robots in war, and they're clearly getting very, very good at building them too. European military and aerospace people both will have a lot to gain from cooperation with Ukraine after the war is over.

As cadets were so memorably told a generation ago: remember always, your duty is clear - to build and maintain those robots!

Sounds good - DDG is pretty bad lately, it typically just returns a list of AI generated SEO slop pages, so I've been switching back to Google in a private tab for a lot of things. Might be worth trying this one now!

If they leave them there, the next administration might be able to switch them back on and start gathering woke climate science data again.

user-replaceable batteries should be much simpler to replace, not advance phone surgery

I for one, do not want my iPhone to become as thick as my old time Motorola flip phone that had replaceable battery....

I run my phones for at least 6 years it seems....before I upgrade and toss the old one, or keep it as a camera for some use....but no, with they way phones are and how long battery life currently is, etc....I don't need user replaceable with all the negatives that brings with it...

Now, I'm not a designer or circuit board engineer, never had anything to do with Adafruit, never heard of flux-ai until a few seconds ago.

Gonna reblog this story in a bit on some social media sites.

Probably gonna include a link to The Way We Were song. To accompying the reading of the article.