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Comment Re:Shrodinger's morality (Score 1) 50

The perfect soldier uses and means available to follow the instruction and if their officer didn't want that, they need to add this to their objective.

That depends on what they were trained for. Was it to uphold the law or... not? If the latter then yeah, sure. If the former, then no. The LLMs are trained on a fat core dump. The training corpus was produced without a thought even for accuracy, let alone honesty or fair play.

Comment Re: Groundhog day... (Score 1) 59

Ideally we get rid of MS in a cleaner way.

(To continue the discussion... Naturally they are different from IBM and cloud services are different from IBM's consulting services, but still services, if in no way other than in the sense of "being serviced".)

Comment Re: Air Conditioners save lives (Score 1) 147

Portables are trash. Mini-splits don't cover a window, the connection between the inside and outside units goes through a fairly small hole, and they are much more efficient. Window units exist for stupid reasons to begin with, the solution is mini-splits.

Comment Re:Yeah... (Score 0) 79

It is rather easy to blame others for climate change. Yes, the rich do a disproportionate amount of damage. But they wouldn't be able to do that damage without many, many people buying their products.

It is rather easy to blame others for climate change. Yes, the poor consume products which do ecological damage. But they wouldn't be able to do that damage without rich people deciding it's what they will be allowed to buy.

If you take an airplane without really needing to, if you buy a larger house or car than you need, if you eat more than you should...

Come on now, leave some billionaire cock for the rest of us to suck.

Comment Re:Why an android form? (Score 1) 34

Are car assembly plants really so heavily optimised for the human body?

Not really, but many of the machines in them are designed to be operated by humans.

Are human bodies so flexible in what they can manage?

Yes. Human bodies are incredibly versatile compared to any non-primate. Granted, there's things we can't do, but we've got a very good mix of abilities compared to other creatures. Our skin is a bit disappointingly fragile, but otherwise we're quite capable.

It all seems rather misconceived.

Agreed. It would make more sense to use robot arms with the tools redesigned to go on one instead of being operated by human hands. A lot of the tools are robotic already, for example the machines they use to tighten head bolts. A human only applies the tool to the head, it does the actual work. The human is there only for fine positioning! And it's not actually fine by modern standards, either.

Comment Re:Ain't no party like a glasshole party (Score 2) 49

After experiencing the initial wave of revulsion at the idea like everyone else, I did think about what these might actually be good for. And the answer is PR events. The elite are always creating the future they want, they have all the resources and all the power and can actually do so. And in that future they want photographs of them looking beautiful and powerful and hobnobbing with other beautiful and powerful people to exist, but without all of the side baggage that goes along with that — either from the media asking them occasionally-inconvenient questions, or from those pesky photographers who are always asking them to stand a certain way. It's quite distracting! Surely the computer can retouch the image!

And they are right. It can. So what if the image winds up looking processed and plastic? So are they.

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