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Comment Re:Reasons for solar/wind (Score 1) 49

2) Fallacy... how's the solar power at night? How's that wind on a no-wind day?

Maybe your problem is that you were biased by your 1st world privilege, but right now many of the places have no power during a sunny day and a windy day as well. Ironically Africans seem to be more educated about power than you are e.g. SA is currently planning 11GWh of grid batteries to go with their solar projects.

But I guess you think your mobile phone is powered by hopes and dreams and energy storage is some woke vaccinated nonsense right?

Comment Re:Threats? (Score 1) 135

Keep pretending it's the embedded text that should do absolutely nothing, that it's not the AI tool that happily does unintended damage. AI will never hurt you, right?

There's no pretending. The text file was put there with specific instructions knowing that it will be triggered. Malicious intent matters here. The tool is the tool, the damage wasn't unintended in the slightest.

Comment Re:Threats? (Score 1) 135

You know what I hear here? Somebody that cannot perform without LLMs (or with them, but then it is harder to spot) aggressively defending his deeply defective crutch.

You can hear what you want. I'm neither a coder nor do I use LLMs.

But you know what I see? Someone who is so triggered and biased that they give up all logical thought in a discussion, resulting in simply attacking the person participating it (in a hilariously incorrect way). Come back when you have something meaningful to add on the topic of blaming a tool for the malicious intent of a person.

Comment Re: Doing god's work. (Score 1) 135

There's noting malicious about what is embeds. The text is a suggestion that no reasonable system, artificial or otherwise, is obligated to follow.

And yet it did something malicious and it was written in that way because the person expected it to do something malicious. There's nothing malicious about the act of me moving my index finger either. Are you going to tell me I did nothing wrong if that resulted in metal lever moving releasing a spring forced mechanism that hits the back of a casing full of powder causing a small explosion that propels a bullet into you. Which one of these mechanisms are you going to blame for getting shot since you clearly think the intent of the instigator is irrelevant?

Comment Re:Wrong side of history (Score 1) 135

If the LLM companies weren't incompetent they wouldn't be mixing data and instructions. We've known this was something that should not be done for decades.

The existence of a bug does not excuse the person exploiting it in a way that causes harm. He could have done something funny and harmless which would still have been newsworthy, but no, he issued instructions to a tool to delete data. I support his cause, but I hope he gets fucked for the actions he took in the name of it.

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 135

The guy is taking a stance and mentioning it in the release notes.

False. The guy is *now* taking a stance and mentioning it in the release notes. He initially he simply planted a poison pill, not a fun one, but one that causes actual damage. By the way putting up a sign that says I will shoot you if you come on my property doesn't actually give me legal right to shoot you if you come on my property (except maybe in Texas)

That's the difference here. I am fully in support of people taking a stance right up to the point where they cause actual harm. It's one thing to get the AI to output something silly and funny, quite another to get it to delete something someone else has worked on.

Raising awareness is good. But if I fight climate change by going and punching Shell's CEO in the face, I fully expect to be in jail at the end of the day.

Comment Re:"Just eat less, keep input output" know-it-alls (Score 1) 100

I'd believe the Iceland numbers. I had a doctor once who wanted to get me on antidepressants, and got mad when I didn't want to, and completely ignored my pleadings of "But I'm not depressed", "I enjoy life", "I'm probably the least depressed person you'll meet", etc. He just really liked his patients to be on it. The Icelandic medical system is very into anything that "medicates symptoms" rather than treating diseases. For example, during COVID, it was essentially impossible to get drugs like paxlovid, but they made parkodín (tylenol with codeine) over-the-counter.

Comment Re:"Just eat less, keep input output" know-it-alls (Score 2) 100

In most modern societies medication is usually a last resort.

I'm going to take a wager that if I were to open your medicine cabinet right now, there would be painkillers in it, which you take as will when you get headaches, body aches, etc.

Yes, different people have different baseline hunger levels. This is well accepted in the scientific community.

Comment Re:How about (Score 1) 100

Please read: Cooked bean variety.

The "beans in your pantry" data you're looking at are probably per serving. Here, let me grab the beans in *my* pantry. Roland BLACK BEANS Habichuelas Negras Supreme Calidad. Net weight 15.5 OZ / 439g. Serving size: 130g. Calories per serving: 180.

There's 453,6 grams per pound, so that's 0,968 pounds. 439/130 = 3,15 servings, times 180 calories = 567. In 0,968 pounds, that's 586 calories.

Or look online. "172 grams of black beans (cooked, boiled, unsalted) contains 227 Calories." Do the math.

I'm not sure exactly how you expect something that is 70% carbs (of which are 36% fibre) and 26% protein to be low-cal. Do you think it has the moisture content of celery or something?

Comment Re:Wrong side of history (Score 1) 135

No he isn't, yes it is and no it didn't. Data deletion was performed by the AI tool, not the "act of rebellion".

Oh thank god. Next time malware wipes data from my drive I can blame the OS vendor for providing a system call that allows the removal of said entry from the filesystem. Good to know the malware author isn't to blame simply because the output of their software made a different piece of software do something.

I especially like the absurdity of your sentence. You called AI a tool. Which it is. Tools are just that, they serve a purpose. You don't blame a hammer for breaking your window, you don't blame a car for letting a bankrobber outrun cops, you don't blame a gun for someone else having pulled the trigger.

Why do you turn off your brain when it comes to using an AI tool which followed a specific instruction given by a nefarious actor? Does the phrase trigger something in you?

Comment Re: Wrong side of history (Score 1) 135

So if malware uses bitlocker to encrypt your files and doesn't share the key with you then it's Microsoft's fault rather than the malware writer?

The author of the software injected instructions to software you are running. How is it the software's fault for following instructions and using its capability?

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