Since Bing's AI _just_ happened to answer me for a simple search by inventing the "Ukrainian Olympics 2026", I suggest her first step should be to walk into her boss's office and let him know his "AI" is just shit, and he should simply get rid of it and shut up about it until it's at least worth wiping one's arse with.

They're not crashing the market.

What crashing the market is that what's been supporting the market is the belief that AI was anytime now replace a lot of workers, resulting in massive productivity gains, saving companies a whole lot of money, a share of which would be revenue for AI suppliers instead, so they would make a lot of money.

Anytime now is the important factor.

Wall Street has been waiting for 3 years now for a technology that was always sold as "good to go today", but all that's still to see is more spend on datacenters, little revenue, and "savings" that look a lot like a downsizing pig with some lipstick.

In so far as Anthropic had any effect, it's that what they just unveiled was what was assumed to be in the bag 3 years ago.

1) This is stupid.
Are we supposed to run some study to figure out that a stopped truck with warning lights around it is safer than one without? Let me rephrase. Are _you_ willing to shoulder the cost of the victims of the negative case? No? Of course not.
What about the criminal cost? You just did demand that some people should die either way to prove one, right? You're okay with going to jail for demanding that some people die to prove your point, of course! No? Of course not.
Are _you_ going to run the test one thousand time, see if you crash more in the truck with lights or without? No? Of course not.
Since you're not a scientist, you should know that _proper_ scientific studies include an ethical aspect. So, for instance, you can't just kill people to "scientifically" prove something anyone with half a brain cell already knows. Such as in this case.

2) Allow some leeway for reality, flares, paces, whatever, next thing some idiot is complaining it's all just as bad as nothing. You do realize you're arguing for more stringent regulations with no regard for what's possible, yeah?

3) Company does study that "shows" their business model is sound. Yeah. You were harping on earlier about "medically tested science". I'm not actually sure what you mean by that. That someone should evaluate the damage to individual organs, instead of accident vs no accident, to come up with some conclusion about whether cones or no cones are better? Or do you think "medically tested science" is the gold standard? Well, it's not. If you're coming from physics, p 0.01 is laughable. Medical science is not about a single paper proving the point (well, sometimes it is, when the paper proves the point _wrong_). It's about multiple papers about different experiments that imply the same conclusion. Anyway. Run studies, get the rules changed, and you're off! What this "we don't think the rules apply to us"? If you _actually truly believe_ that the rules are wrong _and you can prove it_, you argue for them being changed, not for an exemption.

4) Again, make some leeway for practicality, next thing some idiot is complaining it's all just as bad as nothing.

With such a poor command of the English language, I'd hate to read one of your books.

Furthermore, with such arrogance dismissing interesting scientific findings, I'll assume your" knowledge" is entirely constituted of trivialities anyway.

Thanks for letting everyone know what about some worthless dross to avoid, though.

Thank you, Captain Obvious. Indeed giving preferential treatment to your own wares is a clear case of benefiting from it.

Last I checked, though, OpenAI, or any of the other AI apps that were made available on the app store and rank above xAI, are not, in fact, part of Apple.

Can this "despite security justifications" nonsense die already? Will anyone clue them in?

The reason iOS and Android suffer much less from security issues is nothing to with the app stores and everything to do with the apps-share-nothing permissions.

No. He didn't "go straight to class warfare". You did.

He just said Musk got where he is by lying.

He didn't say Musk was lying because he was rich, which would be class warfare. He said Musk got rich by lying, which isn't.

No, it's not "perfectly reasonable and valid", because it's wrong. No matter your pseudo-logical verbiage. It's not even a fallacy, it's just wrong.

Giving preferential treatment is not against anti-trust laws.

Giving preferential treatment, _if_ you benefit from it _and if_ you're big enough to move the market, is. The latter, for Apple, in the US at least, sure. The former, unless OpenAI and all the others paid up Apple, and xAI said no, then no.

In any case, just "giving preferential treatment" is no anti-trust violation.

Yeah...

After decades of insane efforts to improve doping and avoid detection, they somehow only just discovered proper training, proper food and proper sleep and
, miraculously, it's actually better than doping!

Right.

Do they explain why proper training, proper food and proper sleep without doping is better than proper training, proper food and proper sleep _with_ doping? No? They're full of shit.

Well, from what they said, the tank simply didn't hold the pressure.

Filling one with N2 and seeing what happens is the obvious cheap way to do this.

SpaceX chose the very expensive way of blowing everything up after filling the lot with O2 and CH4.

More to the point: the better security we get from iOS and Android devices is nothing to do with vetted app stores, and everything to do with restricted, deny-all, permissions apps get on those OSes. Each app operates in its own walled garden, with no access to anything beyond its own data and the internet, unless flagged by the app and explicitly granted by the user. On Android, each app is its own *nix user. iOS operates the same way.

THIS is why writing malware is much harder on Android and iOS compared to Windows, MacOS or Linux, where apps operate with the user's privileges.

Only being able to install apps from trusted sources, or The One Trusted Source as the case may be, has nothing to do with it.

Hasn't been for a while.

It was true, when 30 or 50 year old adults who had never seen a computer in their life suddenly had one dumped on their desks and were told to use it. I still feel for them...

That was 25 years ago, tho.

At this point:
- everyone in an office under 45 has had to use one since they started working - at worst.
- everyone has had the internet on their phone for 15 years.
- everyone under the stage of 30 only ever had a smartphone.

On the other hand, those "digital natives" only ever had to tap the "do it" button to get something done. When it's not right in front of their faces, it's this one, that one, and then it happens. Magic words. Unlike their parents who had to understand enough of what was happening to get what they needed.

Clarke's technology/magic threshold is right on point. I feel we're well past it when it comes to computers and the internet. It's not a bad thing, mind. I wouldn't be able to fix a car, unlike my dad. It's great!

But it does mean that teenagers are no better armed to deal with "tech" than their parents.

Well, there's a big element of marketing BS in what they claim they can do, but generally, I agree. Social Media has been remarkably disingenuous.

My personal, and quite recent, favorite, is that when the debate was about their responsibility, they were all about "The User's posts" and "common carrier".

Then AI turned up, along with the need for training data, and the very same suddenly became "My Data" and "selling access".

No.

The birthday "problem" arises only because there's only 365 days in a year but we think of birthdays as unique. It's purely a perception problem.

The Baltic sea is 377000 km^2. The longest cable in it, C-Lion1, is 1172 km long. About 0.5m across. 0.6 km^2. If you were to drop an anchor randomly, the chance you'd hit it is 1.6e-6. Real close to the "gold" standard 5 sigma used as evidence in particle physics. Way beyond the p0.01 that's enough everywhere else.

Of course, undersea cable do get cut still. Close to shore, because they tend to terminate where other things, such as harbors, and therefore ships, are.

Twice in a couple of days? In the high seas?

Women are for cooking and making babies. Gays should be treated. Criminals belong in "rape in the ass prison". Rape? Women can "shut the whole thing down" if they didn't want it.

MAGA! Fascist! Evil!

Women are for cooking and making babies. And should be stoned for adultery. And should be killed for dishonoring the family. Gays? Throw them off rooftops. Thieves should have their hand cut off. Rape? They're jewish. Or attended a rave. Or hostages. It's "decolonization". Women can "not be there" if they didn't want it.

Give me their flag so I can fly it!

As an actual leftist, I've defended the first point of view all my life.

People who switch from the first to the second? Narcissists with no convictions who just care for something to protest about and their social standing. Scum of the earth.