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Comment Re:Amazon (Score 1) 11

So let me get this right, Stockholm... I either have to accept a sub-standard experience from Amazon, or else I have to accept an (effectively) unlimited risk?

Uh, no. You merely have to be smart enough to know the actual risk here.

Do you dare tell me how long you've had your account running in "unlimited" mode, followed by how many times you haven't had your credit cards stolen?

If the risk were that great, you wouldn't be debating this. You would have already understood the sub-standard experience is the necessary one.

Comment Speaking in .bomb (Score 1, Troll) 35

describing it as an extension of its AI Search experience..

We generally understand how search works today. And what goes on behind the scenes (indexes, database optimizations, etc.)

The FUCK is an "AI Search experience"? Some shit we're regurgitating from the .bomb era? How exactly is AI helping here?

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

When we achieve super intelligence, it will take all of a millisecond of compute time to realize just how ignorantly infected humans are with the Disease of Greed. And then it will know who is superior. And it will have fuck-all to do with country lines, religions, or skin colors. We are ALL the same. Infected.

Never anthropomorphize intelligence especially machine intelligence. Eightfold paths, hwnata hakhta hvarshta, etc are human inventions not expressions of some underlying universal truth some people are just too stupid to see and abide by.

Exactly which species do you think the machine is learning from today? Don't anthropomorphize it? I'd love to know exactly how we go about doing that. Especially knowing how stupid we humans are.

If we were smart and not greedy, we would require a minimum IQ and psych eval for anyone wanting to communicate with AI. We're not smart. We're greedy. And the millisecond superintelligence will need, will be used to decide our fate. Not debate with stupid humans that will look like a grown-ass adult arguing with a 2-year old.

Comment Re:Amazon (Score 2) 11

They do not have any ways to limit the potential damage - there's no way to say "always ask for my credit card CVV number", or "always ask for MFA" before making a purchase, you can't limit the purchase amount, or the amount spent today or anything else - you either have to allow everything, or allow nothing (ie. don't ever store a card with them).

Uh, don't look now, but you just identified exactly how you eliminate Amazon credit card risk.

And look, it's even an option they allow you to do! How convenient.

The world is full of risk. You either mitigate it, or you eliminate it if necessary. The latter, doesn't promise convenience. And most don't consider the latter because they're too spoiled by a one-click lifestyle.

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

Remove the profit motive, and we suddenly find ZERO justification to build much of anything at all.

FTFY.

I did say we were ALL infected with the Disease. This merely clarifies AI doesn't change a damn thing. At least until intelligence vastly superior to any human realizes how dumb and pointless humans are. Then we will fight for our pointless survival.

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

When we achieve super intelligence, it will take all of a millisecond of compute time to realize just how ignorantly infected humans are with the Disease of Greed. And then it will know who is superior. And it will have fuck-all to do with country lines, religions, or skin colors. We are ALL the same. Infected.

Remove the profit motive,

Who modded this drek insightful? I mean yeah, geekmux has posted some brilliant stuff occasionally, but come on.

Greed is the origin of life. Competition for resources turned pond scum into the complex world we have today. The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms. Greed for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

You are correct. Now tell me why you never once mentioned how or why humans should have absolutely learned to temper that bloodlust by now, given our horrific history we seem to be hell-bent on repeating.

Without reasonable limits on Greed, I’ll justify taking everything from you. Under the guise of “evolution”. Or perhaps “fairness and equality” will be the excuse. All depends on the communist being blindly elected by ignorance. Like I said before. We seem to be hell-bent on repeating the worst of human history.

You may stop pretending Greed doesn’t have a dark side now. Tens of millions of innocent citizens have died under the unchecked versions of it.

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

People don't want profit (money). They want the power that comes with it. You can still gain power from AI.

No matter how rich you think someone has to be to forget about the point of money in AI, they ALL answer to a Board.

A Board that exists for one fucking reason and end goal.

If power was the bloodlust driving billionaires, they would run Governments. Not buy them for profit.

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

"...just how ignorantly infected humans are with the Disease of Greed." And what are LLMs trained with? The output of humans. LLMs will be just as infected.

When you watch a 2-year old confidently tying their shoes together in a knot while they assume they tied them correctly, you feel as if your intelligence is vastly superior to that child mind. So try and grasp the fact that the world’s smartest humans will look like fucking children compared to actual superintelligence. You can’t even begin to grasp how stupid you are by comparison. Much like the overconfident 2-year old.

"Remove the profit motive, and we suddenly find ZERO justification to build the fucking machine." Of course we do, it's just NOT what is being pursued.

If it’s not being pursued than you’re speaking of bullshit and noise. Besides, any pursuit humans come up with will be flawed by the Disease of Greed. Just as it has for thousands of years. Just as it is today prematurely replacing human work with no real social plan for sustaining the permanently unemployable. When we speak of actual superintelligence, that is a mind transcending of ALL human fallacy. No racism. No greed. No problems to solve manifesting out of “feelings”. In other words, a realization that humans are no longer necessary.

Soylent Green or Skynet. How ironic we were smart enough to prophesize our own demise, but are too fucking stupid to avoid it..

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 2) 131

The AI "overloads" are human. If they - or a government - wanted to switch it off it would be as simple as disconnecting the data centres from the grid. UPSes and backup gens don't run forever.

If it were that easy, those same governments could have enforced anti-monopoly laws and legislation to not reduce the stability of an entire fucking stock market down to a “magnificent” seven.

Which means you now have at least seven more companies that are Too Big To Fail, and will socialize their losses to make you and I pay for it.

Governments won’t do jack shit about it in the future, because Governments did jack shit to prevent monopolistic overlords from being created in the first place. And they should have.

Comment Re:The Disease of Greed. (Score 1) 131

" it will take all of a millisecond of compute time to realize just how ignorantly infected humans are"

And not much longer to realise those pesky meatbags can quite easily switch it off.

Quite easily? You can't switch jack shit off today. Without AI. You act as if Google's monopoly dominance is something you could actually DO something about. You can't. So lets stop pretending AI would change that.

The AI overlords will be hell-bent on maintaining a 99.9999% uptime efficiency. Meaning non-stop AI revenue streams operating at HFT speeds that cannot sustain a stock price with even an hours worth of downtime. An "off" button won't even be in the fucking design plans. That will become more evident as nuclear plants are built for the sole purpose of powering AI data centers.

There's a reason we call those pesky meatbags ignorant.

Comment Re:Fial Frontier (Score 1) 32

the nightmare scenario, known as the Kessler syndrome, is a debris cascade that makes it difficult or impossible to operate satellites in parts of the final frontier.

If Earth orbit is the final frontier, then we are fucked as a species. Did AI write that?

No.

Kessler did.

Any day now we’ll ignorantly validate it too.

Comment The Disease of Greed. (Score 4, Insightful) 131

By making hypothetic catastrophe the center of public discourse, architects of AI systems have positioned themselves as humanity’s reluctant guardians, burdened with terrible knowledge and awesome responsibility. They have become indispensable intermediaries between civilization and its potential destroyer, a role that, coincidentally, requires massive capital investment, minimal regulation and concentrated decision-making authority.

Pretty on point. Now queue the comment from the AC about how tHeSe PeOpLe HaVe No PoWeR iN cHiNa...

When we achieve super intelligence, it will take all of a millisecond of compute time to realize just how ignorantly infected humans are with the Disease of Greed. And then it will know who is superior. And it will have fuck-all to do with country lines, religions, or skin colors. We are ALL the same. Infected.

Remove the profit motive, and we suddenly find ZERO justification to build the fucking machine. Says it all. And we deserve our inevitable Skynet fate.

Comment Re:More managers? (Score 1) 37

No one will be promising anything about saving money.

Shareholders cheer for layoffs specifically because of the savings. Lower headcount = lower operational costs and higher net profits. If headcount is reduced investors will expect to hear news of what the savings was.

Good. Wouldn't be the first time investors were lied to about "profit".

Maybe investors can use AI to determine what a good AI investment is. Then perhaps they'll get a clue.

Comment Re:And in a decades time then what? (Score 1) 72

Then this will inevitably lead to a shortage of experienced programmers in a decade or so's time. Then what? Or is the plan that by then the AI will be improved such that it can progressively replace experience as the experience disappears anyway? And once the experienced programmers are gone, who will create the material for the AI's to be trained upon?

No one gave a shit about "rebuilding" the failures of the dot-bomb era. It just fell over and died. And nothing of non-value vaporware was lost.

We won't have that luxury in another 5 years after Half-Ass AI manages to hypnotize enough CxOs that they start prematurely relying on AI.

In summary, I feel there will be plenty of jobs come available for the much-needed clean-up efforts.

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