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Comment Re:Ticking time bomb (Score 1) 5

You know what I was just thinking? I want a nieve, blind, clueless, non-sentient army of cheap EV garbage to all charge at the same time after evening rush hour, blow up the local grid, and stop in their tracks every time there's a power/cell tower outage. That's exactly what my city needs.

Why do you think they would stop in their tracks every time there's a power or cell tower outage?

Yes, there have been some issues with widespread power outages causing the cars to get confused because things don't look right, but that's a bug, not expected behavior.

And although they won't have fares if they have no cell service, there's no reason to expect them to stop being able to drive. They will do whatever they normally do when they have no fare — find a place to park. Other than for learning about pickups and dropoffs, robotaxis use cellular networks only when they break down, to request remote driving assistance (i.e. relatively rarely).

Comment Re:Layoffs (Score 1) 72

Oh, yeah, I just realized that this is an expense on the Roku side, so the taxes would cancel out. Ugh.

Then yes, you're correct that there's no possible way for consolidating two businesses to save money without direct job loss, other than perhaps reducing payouts to external companies for things that they both do (e.g. accountants).

Comment Re:Well, let's face it (Score 1) 52

You don't need it on consumer hardware

Except for, you know, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, naturalized Americans and even American born, and all the other people targeted by their governments.

If your government breaking into your house and applying hardware-level attacks to scrape your secrets out of the RAM of your running computer is seriously part of your threat model, it's almost certainly very, very far from your biggest concern.

Also, you should probably consider turning your computer off.

Comment Name a household name!!!! (Score 1) 45

smaller companies would come out of nowhere and eat the lunch of more established players by out-innovating them. That is actually what is happening right now. You are just to blind to see it.

Citation? Who is a household name leveraging AI to upend an established market...who isn't merely just reselling AI, like Claude/Cursor/etc. Has anyone disrupted a non-pure-technology business? entertainment? logistics? retail? transportation? dating?

Who is the grindr/tinder/uber/salesforce/netflix/amazon of the AI age?

All I know of are pick and shovel vendors. People selling AI to you so you can figure out how to make money with them.

Comment Re:redundancy (Score 1) 84

So the good news is that won't happen with SpaceX satellites because they come back down to Earth every 5 years like clockwork. You could potentially wind up in that scenario for a few years you just have to wait it out which is frightening but it wouldn't be the end of space.

The bad news is that the high cost of maintaining that satellite fleet and the need to have big fat juicy government contracts in order to make it profitable means that SpaceX is not a viable company. Go watch the tail end of the last video Patrick Boyle put up on youtube. He takes a while getting there but he explains what's about to happen. The SpaceX IPO is structured so that if you bought it as a retail investor you can't sell for 120 days and after that every single index fund in the country is forced to buy into it whether they want to or not. That means your 401k is going to be heavily invested in SpaceX, Grok, Tesla and Twitter and any other crap Musk does.

It's possible that corruption will keep government contracts going his way and therefore keep the stock price up. But without that it's going to slam headlong into your retirement savings in a few years. And it's a corruption does keep going it's going to wreck your retirement savings another way. It's kind of a heads Musk wins tails you lose kind of thing...

Comment Re:redundancy (Score 1) 84

Meant to be and is are very different things.

Starlink is technically profitable but it's heavily subsidizing the actual rocket business which is a huge money loser. It's expensive to put shit in space especially when you have to replace it every 5 years. And starlink is always competing primarily with wired internet.

So they're going to be very sensitive to having their satellites knocked out of orbit.

It is kind of funny that Musk books 7 billion in profit on starlink and 5 billion in losses from SpaceX even though they're basically the same company. I guess it does technically make it net profitable until you start mixing in the AI bullshit. Also it's very likely that Europe is going to start cutting starlink and SpaceX out for national security reasons. Never mind what's going to happen if the Republicans don't win in 2028.

Comment Re:Antropic literally asked for this (Score 3, Interesting) 35

Whether Anthropic was trying to hype about Mythos / Fable or not (and FYI, it is a pretty big leap forward), they absolutely did not want to get public access shut down. The US government very much seems to want to have exclusive access to it for now.

Also, to clarify the "jailbreak": They took open source projects that had known vulnerabilities, as well as deliberately introducing vulnerabilities into some other projects, then asked Fable to fix them, and then asked for test scripts to demonstrate that the exploits could no longer be exploited - the implication being that they could then use those exploits against unpatched systems. But what's the logic here? The challenge isn't "how to write exploits against known bugs", any model can do that. The challenge is finding the bugs - something Mythos / Fable has proven better than previous models at. Even if Fable refused to write said test scripts, it would automatically downgrade to Opus 4.8, and then *Opus* would have written those test scripts. Or any other model out there could do it, including free open source ones that can be safety-abliterated at will.

Comment Re:Are there people in the government (Score 1) 75

It isn't just the administration, a good number of congress critters are similarly incompetent but have a media "outreach" organization to blind voters to this. That allows them to enrich themselves (stock trading, siphoning money in bills to their friends for a Bit-O-Graft under the table, etc). Their media "outreach" organization is a group of people dedicated to keeping their pet cockroach in office and paying them for their phony-baloney jobs.

Comment Re:Are there people in the government (Score 3, Insightful) 75

In defense of the crabby old ladies at the DMV, ever you have to deal with the "public" on a regular basis? The "public" are the people who believe in conspiracy theories as truth, expect space aliens are whizzing around the skies spying on our clothes drying on the wash line (they like undergarments), think science is grows on trees, think championship wrestling is real, etc. They are irascible and perpetually irritated over fuck all. Then they come into the DMV and expect the old lady behind the counter to commiserate with why they didn't think to bring in the proper information for a license and are upset with the old lady for not just passing them through.

Try dealing with the "pubic" day after day and see if you don't theorize about bringing in a shillelagh for some tough love.

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