In soviet russia sarcasm explains YOU!

See THIS is humor.

Apparently not, Russinovich has plenty of intellect but clearly he has no sense of humor.

"Paint renders the game but does not compute it," said Russinovich. "Paint computes nothing. Paint has never computed anything. That's the joke."

You'd think the AI would have helpfully told him his 'joke' lacked anything with the potential to be funny. When someone recreates an Apple II using legos and a raspberry pi or makes it run in a browser; it's pointless nerding that says they have too much time on their hands. This isn't even nerding or pointless, it actually ads a stop for no purpose whatsoever. Straight up retarded.

"AI safety experts said the new disclosures paint a portrait of a group of cutting-edge labs whose ability to develop dangerous autonomous hacking agents outstrips their ability to keep them under control."

Stop with all this sci-fi drama. Despite being 'smarter' and more capable these tools lack ANY logical path to something remotely resembling actual human agency. They are text prediction algorithms that were trained on human generated output so the text they predict follows similar patterns to human input. The 'thinking' process is the same model making a prediction of what should come next in response to a guess another instance just made, repeat... again, it's copying patterns from human training materials so this CAN capture some of the results of actual thinking but there is no sentient listener inside the machine hearing anything and choosing which thoughts to reject or accept. It can't make a novel decisions and can't distinguish good reasoning from bad.

Agency depends on an emotional framework and while the models are almost certainly recording patterns which would enable them to simulate these... in fact, inject the notion the model has an emotion into it's context and it will impact/bias the output making them involuntary just like a person. It wouldn't be hard to layer a metadata identity alongside an executive function harness on one of these at this point and an emotive/motive driver framework but NOTHING like this is being done because these companies don't want the ethical baggage people would impose. Without that framework the "AI" has no persistence and no motives or desire and therefore it doesn't feel better about anything or want anything... let alone to 'break out.'

ROFL are you suggesting China? China can't even invade a small island directly off its own coast that the US wants. Which is smart, the US is the only nation which has successfully projected power across the oceans in the modern world. It's a daunting logistics problem that only the US has solved and the US was able to do it and slaughter the Chinese more than 20-1 with just 1950s technology.

"Wars of the future will, like wars of the past"

Wars of the past have not all been settled by manufacturing capacity. Wars are settled, or prevented before they start, by many things because not all wars have the same objective or logistical challenges. It is the Alps which have protected Switzerland while the rest of Europe fell. Geography plays a big role in war, including the failed British and Japanese invasions of the US.

"Manufacturing capacity... It sure as shit isn't the USA."

The only competitor on that front is China, which learned manufacturing from the US and was funded by the US. Since China went hostile we've cut off and crippled China economically; meanwhile we've been drastically ramping up domestic manufacturing pipeline back up. Currently the US is strategically positioned like no time before to simply cut off oil to China and then China will have essentially zero ability to wage war let alone fuel the supply lines for a war on the opposite side of the pacific. China certainly has no ability to get drones anywhere near the US mainland.

But China's manufacturing is at full capacity. The US demonstrated its capability to shift our entire economic and manufacturing pipeline into war mode during WW2, we aren't even remotely close to our full manufacturing capacity.

China has no capability to win a military war with the US, let alone invade the US. They've already failed in challenging the US economically. China has spent the last few decades poisoning the world [including an internal faction here in the US] against the United States with socialist propaganda and while that information war isn't settled the tide has begun shifting against them with the capitalist and patriotic right taking back power in the US and starting to take back power in the UK/Europe.

There is virtually no parallel between an invasion of Ukraine or Ukraine's response which parallels a potential invasion of the US beyond the word 'invasion.'

If anything I'd say the US thwarting a Russian invasion by proxy with a half-hearted effort in Ukraine says a great deal about how ridiculous it would be to suggest anyone is likely to be able to invade the US mainland.

I've read those books as well.

But everyone has multiple personalities, they just identify them all as part of the same whole. "But but they have the same memory!" Or do we just PERCEIVE it as the same because when I stop to remember things on two different days I can sometimes recall details/events on one day I couldn't on the other and we ALL have memories which can proven to not match what cameras record, especially over time.

The only thing connecting you in one mood from you in a different mood where you 'feel differently about things' is the completely baseless PERCEPTION that the two are the same person. Really, we don't know that we had a yesterday, only that we wake up remembering one.

And have you ever been of 'mixed minds' with two conflicting opinions on a topic? One stream of thought leans one way, another tugs back in another direction... like that little voice that keep trying to rationalize eating a dessert or keeping a 'harmless' secret from your spouse. This might seem like pointless nitpicking but if you are trying to go from a chatting and intelligent neural network to a general humanlike intelligence these distinctions matter.

I have ADHD. I call this 'autopilot' and it's essentially how I handle most of life. For example, active thought about something as silly as the state of a light in a room each time I enter/exit would be MUCH too costly. I'd forget where I was going or lose my place in whatever actual significant thing I'm working on/thinking about if I did that. I program my autopilot and reflexively turn the light on every time I enter and exit... at first I likely turn off lights on people with new behavior like this but the network is usually responsive to training/feedback over time; especially when the behavior is new.

There are quirks though. When I used to drive to work I'd sometimes find myself there if I started out going to a different destination in the same direction because I navigated with autopilot or I'd catch myself after making a wrong turn toward the more common destination. And at one point I lived with my mother-in-law in a building with a separate laundry room and anytime I went through the door while she in the laundry room I'd lock her out. She'd swear I was doing it on purpose but it was a 10yr or so old autopilot reflex I had to program as an adult when I moved from the country to the city and my New Yorker wife freaked the hell out when I didn't lock the door.

He also makes the robots, though so far he's keeping them all rather than selling them as he's indicated he intends.

But these TDS anti-musk wackjobs have completely lost the plot or given the current ownership the chinese regime is mangling the plot intentionally.

The US is basically invasion proof... unless we are so fscking stupid that we fund the building, development, and import a fscking Chinese robot army for them.

Dude everyone makes gestures that are as nazi-salutelike as that all the time, they just don't have propagandists slicing them out and feeding the suggestion that it was a nazi salute to millions of people.... something that was done by millions of bots, on X where he didn't censor it.

X is a leftwing hellscape if you are a MAGA centrist [aka a radical right wing extremist like Bill Clinton in the 90's] and a rightwing cesspool if you lean left because people engage more with ragebait. If you want raw material volume there is far more leftwing because that's what the bots all push. Nobody is getting censored on there.

Either way, oh my, ONE PLATFORM which doesn't censor in line with your politics. The HORROR! Is it really so god awful that your censorship regime has a leak so people can get a bit of real news? If someone, somewhere knows that the reflecting pool wasn't an ego project but a known problem since inception and that Obama spent twice as much and failed to fix it while the Biden admin also gathered estimates to spend 5x as much... or sees coverage after you guys stopped because the fix worked and that stopped being the optic you wanted reported?

You literally have no basis for any claim you've made here. You just assume that a party which has generally been honest and forthright is lying in every claim made with absolutely zero philosophical charity or attempt to verify what they've said.

It's amazing how much hate people still have over a guy ending mass censorship of opinions they don't like on one social media platform. I'm surprised we've only heard about you psychos attacking Tesla staff and dealerships and not your attempts to murder him like you've done with others who attempt peaceful and open dialog.

I still don't have the slightest clue why you imagine trillionaire Elon Musk or dodge workers pulling half a mil a year are more likely to rip you off using your tax data than random IRS employees making $60k/yr because they couldn't get hired doing the same jobs in the private sector for $85k+/yr. Unless you are genuinely shady, illegal, milking those government tits or something in which case I do get it and hope you get what is coming to you.

You should not have, because the researcher who claimed you should retracted his own claim in 1989. This story is the latest release of a rough example working better than smooth.

I have to disagree. While I agree the understanding of roughness impact has evolved over time; The summary clearly indicates Ichiro Tani introduced this idea in 1940 and retracted it based on further analysis of data [from 10 years prior to his claim] in 1989. The rest is just examples of people hunting down the best inverse examples of what he'd previously claimed... with this being the latest 2026 release directly descended from his own work.

It's actually impressive flex to claim an idea you pushed that misled people for 40yrs before you retracted it [and arguably beyond that] is a fundamental principal of aerodynamic engineering which you then 'overturned' with your continued research into how wrong you were.

1940 - Ichiro Tani argues surface roughness prevents laminar flow.
1989 - Tani reviewed data from the 1930's and found "roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transistion.
1990s - Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions.
2026 - Same team announces this.

From TFS "This technology is fundamentally different from the "rivulet (shark skin) process," which is known as a typical aerodynamic drag reduction technology. The rivulet process mimics the fine longitudinal grooves in shark skin, and by carving grooves approximately 0.1 mm wide along the direction of airflow, it aligns the vortices that occur near the wall surface of turbulent airflow areas. DMR, on the other hand, delays the switch from laminar to turbulent flow by means of random and minute irregularities. The flow zones it affects and the mechanisms it employs are based on completely different concepts."