The first sentence says that many AI bugs are "low-quality and sometimes entirely fabricated vulnerabilities generated by AI". It is unlikely that fabricated vulnerabilities will affect an OS.

Potential power generation does not mean solar and wind farms magically appear overnight. Infrastructure like transmission lines also do not appear out of nowhere. You're also talking about deep red Texas which cares little about regulation. The problem is not Abbott is against any data centers forever. The problem is even in Texas, the infrastructure is struggling to cope right now.

They could have done this a year ago before the AI tax made CPU & storage spike from extra expensive to unaffordable.
Happy now?

You're the one claiming it's well-known, but you are unable to provide a single link.

Figures.

Worth it for what? If the answer is a different financial motivation, then it's just a different form of corruption.

NONE of them have done this, not in 250 years. Not until Trump. Presidents make a lot of money after they leave office, yes, especially in recent decades. They command incredible speaking fees (Obama famously got $400k for one speech), they write books that make millions, etc. There are lots of people who are willing to give them money to get close to them, get their advice, etc.

But until Trump, none of them has used the office of the president to make money. No one else has sold pardons. No one else has set up a public stock and a memecoin to facilitate billions of dollars in bribes. No one else has brazenly sold insider secrets to stock traders.

Trump's corruption isn't just new in scale, it's a completely new thing that the United States of America has never before seen. We've seen plenty of corruption elsewhere in government, at all levels, but never in the oval office.

Because there are four categories of people here:
1} Non-indoctrinated non-investors... are freaking the fuck out right now but are powerless.
2} Indoctrinated non-investors... don't have money so don't care what Trump does to the stock market.
3} Non-indoctrinated investors... are quietly more interested in any money-making opportunity than principles.
4} Indoctrinated investors... have been encouraging all of this.

Category 1 is way, way outnumbered.

Remember when the very hint of being shady like this would disqualify someone from a office nearly as high as President? This is why I was upset when Trump started lying in his first term. He normalized deceit then and he's been normalizing corruption now.

This is Pandora's box; there's no real reason for anyone in the future to not follow this precedent because America statistically condoned it. Frankly without an armed revolt making it clear that misbehaving won't be tolerated, it obviously will be.

"telling engineers to focus on business results rather than maximizing AI usage"
why does that even need to be said?
especially for a longstanding for-profit, publicly traded corporation

Capitol One did a review of several HUNDRED accounts held by the Trump Org in 2021 and closed them, tell Mango Mussolini he had 90 days to move them elsewhere but later granted him an extension.
By contract, they had the right to do so without explanation and he or any other person with similar terms could close or move their accounts without notice.
Instead of simply complying, he decided to sue.
Thanks to that boneheaded move it's now known that the reasons were because the accounts exhibited activity consistent with money laundering.
Show of hands if you're at all surprised by this.

Apple uses 256 bit AES from what I remember. Theoretically using a single computer, it would take 10^59 years to crack a single key. Using all world’s computers including supercomputers, it will be less but not meaningfully less.

Yes, UK government wants Apple to modify their entire encryption scheme so that Apple can grant the UK government access to user data anytime that government asks. Existing data is protected unless Apple is forced to replace existing keys.

> I wonder how many problems they tried before they solved one successfully.

Was gonna mod Insightful, but the replies aren't getting it.

"Solving this problem cost $2000."

That may be true.

"We tried to solve 50 problems at $2000 each and one was successfully solved."

This can also be true which means:

"We spent $100K and we solved one open problem."

which is fiscally, but not akshually, the same as:

"We spent $100K to solve one problem."

If Astra is "all that", OpenAI should have a pricing tier, "no charge unless the problem is solved."

Now *that* would be an impressive vote of confidence and everybody should be excited about it.

Right, the land rightfully belongs to whoever owned it second-to-last! Not to the people the second-to-last owners forcibly ejected from it, of course, and not to the people who own it now, only to the second-to-last.

</sarcasm>

I think we should have more respect than we do for the indigenous peoples, but pretending that there was no war and no forcible land grabs before the Europeans arrived is not just ahistorical but ignorant of human nature. Polynesian history, which includes the Hawaiians, is incredibly bloody. The Europeans dominated when they arrived not because they were more violent -- there's a good case to be made that they were less, though it's a question of degrees, not kind -- but because the Enlightenment gave them much better tools. And, of course, because centuries of city living had bred up a bunch of diseases, but that's part of the same story.

Did European arms and power make it "right" that the natives were conquered? No. But it wasn't "right" that the natives conquered each other, either. Humanity -- also as a result of the Enlightenment and the long, slow development of humanism -- has become more moral and less violent, and we now have more respect for other cultures and other peoples. And that's a good thing! But it doesn't make sense to project our own moral views back in time, and it definitely doesn't make sense to do so selectively, demonizing the winners and lionizing the losers.

The only thing that really makes sense is to apply our improved (though still very imperfect) morality to the situation we have now, messy, complicated and conflicted as it is. It's nice to give the native Hawaiian culture some respect, but it's wrong to give it more respect than that of Hawaii today.

the AI companies are selling $100 bills for $1

To be clear, the language would have to change if you wanted it to outlaw corporate surveillance, because the existing one applies only to government. And I suppose the new one would also have to explain "corporate" and how that's different from other kinds of organizations or surveillance by individuals.