Allegedly the same known-vulnerable Danfoss controllers as in the prior french incident; just chilling out on the internet for easy access. I assume we'll have breathless reports crediting agentic hack swarms by midday along with security vendors assuring us that faith in their next generation machine-speed solutions will save us; but apparently the bar is in hell in terms of low-hanging targets.

It also serves a lot of very low budget/someone-involved-in-game-development-did-a-game-jam-thing type purposes. Unfortunately, that's exactly the sort of niche that makes anti-slop work particularly hard.

If it were just about pearl-clutching standards that'd be one thing(roughly the same slop problem for both; but not easier or harder); but if you want to serve the "I did this game jam thing, pay what you want if you think it's neat" you've got a lot of your desired and legitimate activity that would be immediately destroyed if you tried to throw some sort of flat economic floor under the slop guys; and you are...not exactly...dealing in the margins on units sold that pay for tons of human mod effort.

It's not like Steam doesn't have an asset flips and shovelware section as well; but they aren't, and don't pretend to be, in the business of caring all that much about things that fall below the threshold of potential commercial relevance. They do turn a blind eye to a certain number of steam keys going to kickstarter backers; and are significantly less hardass than someone like Apple about how many 'review' copies go out, so it's not like they are actively hostile to stuff that is not yet commercially viable but is trying to get there; but they basically don't touch some of the little test pieces and rough cuts and concept demos and things that itch actively seeks to.

The cops are lazy, not stupid.

Double-checking stuff is work, and there will be no repercussions for the individual cops, so why should they care?

Just call the towing company and go back to the donut shop.

A small percentage of a few billion people is a big problem.

Yes, regardless of whether their name is Muhammed or Breivik.

Why not here? Because for starters, humanism isn't a religion (and I say that as a humanist). It's a philosophical stance within atheism. And atheism is the absence of religion** (it's literally right there in the name), not a religion. You can't claim "religious" exemptions as an atheist. What this person actually wants is a philosophical exemption, akin to, say, a vegetarian wanting an exemption from having to cook meat at a restaurant or whatnot.

** - Well, except for those atheists who worship Athe.

Yeah, nothing insular about the Amish.

(Oh wait...)

Ha ha.

I wonder what their employer thinks about that.

AI is very good at writing COBOL.

"Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice." -- Sarah Connor

For a guy who is legally barred from involvement in the company under the terms of a prior money laundering conviction our man CZ sure tweets like more than the mere humble shareholder he insists he is.

Quite. Scientists and researchers have been using the term AI to describe this collection of technologies and algorithms since the 1950s. The field has (arguably) made great strides recently. Most of the current scientists and researchers have been perfectly content to continue to call it AI. But no! Now we're going to let somebody who was born stupid, dedicated his life to staying stupid, and now is seemingly in advanced stages of dementia tell us what we should call this field? What a bunch of bootlickers these tech execs are. I hope Trump has the good sense to walk through a cattle field before he asks these losers to get their tongues out.

The world is a complicated place. Broad categories like the ones I gave will cover a lot of common things, but can't cover everything. Nothing is black-and-white, there are always shades of gray.

Futures and Options qualify as "derivatives" from real assets. They DO sit in a middle ground so they get classified as "speculation" which isn't quite investing and isn't quite gambling. Most of the time for most people, it doesn't matter. Investing is how people come to own the means of production, which is a foundation of wealth-building in a capitalist society. Someone who never invests (in good old-fashioned stocks) because they think it is "gambling" is seriously mismanaging their money and may remain trapped in poverty their entire lives because of it. Someone who spends a lot of money on lottery tickets regularly and considers that "investing" is going to wind up in a similar position.

The world of Futures and Options and other fanciness is for people who want to take their financial knowledge and engagement to the next level. It's a whole step beyond the distinction and advice that I was originally talking about. A veritable subject change.

Incidentally, CFDs and hedge betting have little-to-no institutional hedging, so they function a lot more like gambling (even more so than derivatives). These are generally private contracts with a broker, making them structurally more similar to the operation of a casino. I read that in UK and Ireland, they ARE legally classified as gambling, and generally not legal in the USA. So, despite their unique structure, they fall pretty firmly into the "gambling" category. And, as I said before, they are simply not relevant to ordinary people who just want to be financially healthy, put their kids through school and save up for retirement, so they don't need to complicate the conversation.

No its not. AI is a significant element of achieving technological singularity. Its a huge part of how we get there. It couldn't possibly be MORE relevant.

Clearly we haven't achieved AGI or "other big promises" yet. But the LLMs we now have are totally new and way better than the sorts of AI techniques we have had before. It's a step forward.

I think we should assume that the acronym SI means "simulated intelligence."

Because that's what it is. It's not intelligent in any way, it just simulates intelligence.

My father actually did walk to school uphill both ways. He also walked downhill both ways but he never mentioned that part.

Out the door, downhill, across the creek, then uphill to school/home.

I walked a quarter mile to the bus stop. The dark was not a particular problem.