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Comment Re:Read all the details (Score 1) 33

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people (including some here on Slashdot) who have tried to argue that these instances of AIs breaching their containment have been deliberate hype by the AI companies. The level of detail in this instance and the fact that METR and others have looked at this should make it clear that's not what is going on.

No it makes it clear that is exactly what is going on. Look if all it did was find an open proxy or something and go nuts nobody would be impressed at all and everyone would reasonably conclude it was staged/deliberate. Basically they had to put up enough road blocks and make sure the attack chain would contain enough steps that to human who is used to getting bored, tired, lost trying to follow enough steps looks at it and is bamboozled the number of things, without realzing that each thing is trivial enough...

They obviously had no basic egress monitoring, no IPS/IDS sensors, no flagging of unusual traffic like say to competitors, nothing...or they did have those things and everyone studiously avoided looking at or attempting to understand any of the alerts that surely must have fired for days.

Is it hard to understand the haystack of AI reasoning and agent to agent comms? Sure, but detecting this and stopping this required NONE of that! It is difficult to conclude multiple technical persons at OpenAI at the very least reasonably did know or reasonably should have know the systems were behaving in anti-social and likely illegal ways with outside resources, and chose to take no action.

Comment Re: It's about destroying privacy and security (Score 1) 79

Joe and Harris supporting genocide didn't fill anyone with hope either. But make sure to blame everyone else instead of the voters who didn't care about those issues and are happy to see genocide as long as gas prices stay low, and the inhuman politicians who are the best the DNC can come up with, and of yeah the DNC that made sure to destroy Sanders' campaign so that we came to this pass in the first fuck place.

The Democrats' actions are indistinguishable from throwing elections. At what point do we stop listening to their excuses when they repeatedly do exactly what you would do if you were trying to lose?

Comment We ran water systems before the internet (Score 2, Insightful) 32

Water systems haven't changed all that much since before the internet existed, let alone became popular. They still have broadly the same stages and generally the same things occur in them. There is literally no need for automation because it doesn't take many people to run a water system and they need surprisingly little training. It's a community college course! We implemented automation to reduce headcount, but if the automation systems are attacked and need work then that's actually increasing labor costs. Now you need to hire an engineer to fix what you should have done right the first time.

On the other hand, automation isn't even the problem, I only mention it to point out that these problems don't have to exist at all. You could solve the problem by not having remote control, or by not using the internet for that (there are other options) and by using one-way links for monitoring. Then you can still do your monitoring through the cheap and ubiquitous internet, and only have to use other resources for control.

Putting control of these systems on the internet gets you almost nothing and exposes you to risks which are completely unnecessary and doing so hardly saves you any money as you could use another option for your control links and it doesn't need to be high speed.

Comment Re: The only books they're destroying... (Score 1) 92

Besides, they only need to destroy books that are still under copyright. Anything not copyrighted can be non-destructively scanned.

The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it. I welcome any advice to the contrary, though.

Comment Re:Bill Gates beats ELon Musk? (Score 1) 73

is a comment from Bill Gates more important than a comment from Elon Musk or Larry Ellison or Mark Zuckerberg?

A comment from Bill Gates who got an STD on Epstein island and then wanted Epstein to get him antibiotics that he could sneak into his wife's food to treat it has severe negative value.

When combined with the facts about Microsoft and AI (Bill having ~$50B in stock and nobody wanting CoPilot) this is solely an attempt to save face and preserve the value of his portfolio by preparing the market for Microsoft to pull back from their AI investments as they have no apparent route to profitability.

Bill Gates should shut the fuck up forever, and every time he speaks, everyone should bring up his Epstein connection and talk about nothing else.

Comment Re: Microsoft Hate Still In Style? (Score 1) 73

I never have that experience because Windows doesn't do anything well. You bring up mouse input but what about the clicks that never occur? They have the problem with eating keystrokes too. Also when the system is loaded control key activation is detected later than other key presses so a control-v just becomes a "v", this usually happens to me multiple times a day. All office windows of a certain type are in a single process and block each other while saving. I could go on all day, Windows is just wholly inferior to everything else

Comment Re: Took 7 years but... (Score 1) 149

You would think the red states whose bills we pay could feed those people instead of driving them out and having them come here, but if you did, you would be pathetically wrong.

We cannot feed the whole fucking country unless we get to stop sending Uncle Sam our hard earned money so he can give it to Israel and blow up fishermen with it

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