There have been some interesting threads on Twitter recently where they discovered that by flipping two bits in a local AI model they could convert it to full "KILL ALL HUMANS!" mode where everything it generates looks like posts from the deep, dark depths of Reddit.

It is appealing to think that special-purpose AIs could do a better job in specific subject areas than general-purpose LLMs and use fewer resources at the same time. But it may be hard to pull off in practice.

Sure, I want a better, cheaper Python coding assistant. But I want it to understand natural language instructions, complex real-world processes and relationships, and a lot of computer science principles. I'm not sure you can get there without a general-purpose model. Maybe that's why we don't see a lot of cheap, effective, domain-specific models being offered.

Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.

Indeed. I heard on Twitter that Russia is losing two million men a day now.

Kind of a minor point, but it may reduce confusion in this part of the conversation: when discussing climate policy, "mitigation" has a well-established meaning of âoereducing GHG emissions" and "adaptation" means âoegetting better at living with climate change." The parent and grandparent have used "mitigation" to mean "adaptation", and someone further down thought they were using the standard meaning.

Moderna spent years and years trying to get mRNA cancer treatment through clinical trials before 2020 and never managed to. They might have gone bust if governments around the world hadn't pushed mRNA Covid vaccine on billions of people around the world without having to pass safety trials.

They soon will be North Korea because South Koreans aren't breeding (I think they may have the lowest reproduction rate in the world now?) and Kim will be able to just walk over the border into an empty South Korea before long.

Not sure I'd want to live in North Korea, but I wouldn't want to live in South Korea either.

Don't forget all the money American banks lent to Nazi Germany before the war.

It was likely also a demonstration that they can destroy Western surveillance satellites any time they want to.

But yes, if they know how communication works they may be able to jam it instead. I've seen alleged satellite radar images of Crimea which show large areas with no usable data, presumably from jamming.

NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition.

Remember WWI when the lines were pretty much static for years and then suddenly it was all over?

That's what's happening here. Russia has most of Donbas plus a buffer zone in some other regions that directly border Russia. Ukraine is throwing men at the front lines for Russia to kill but is running out. Territory held is largely irrelevant compared to the number of men killed and weapons destroyed.

Hence the desperate calls for 'ceasefire' on the Western side because they know Ukraine can't last much longer.

> none have had jobs that an AI could replace - construction, ships captain, harbor pilot, and so forth.

1. All those jobs can be replaced with computers and/or robots.
2. Who's going to be paying to build houses or ship Chinesium gadgets around the world if the rest of us don't have jobs?

Yes, exactly. All these people saying "ha-ha, I'll be fine, I have a service job which can't be done by a machine" haven't even thought about where their customers are going to come from if all the people doing productive jobs are replaced by computers.

I usually donâ(TM)t reply to AI posts but I dated her for a couple of years and got a pretty good insight into how she worked because I was autistic enough to not ignore her obvious lies, unlike normies whoâ(TM)d believe everything she said. She was clearly a psychopath and ticked all the boxes on how female psychos behave in relationships.

I believe youâ(TM)re right that there are more male psychos but normies are simply unable to under that there are alien predators among us.

I'm not so sure. Everyone loved my psycho ex-girlfriend until the point where she told them 'I don't care, I was just using you' and they suddenly realized she was just wearing a mask the whole time.

"an AI program's idea of how a human should behave" wouldn't be a bad description of her. She was never human, she was just faking how she thought a human should act.

She could easily have talked investors into giving her a few billion dollars for complete nonsense she made up, if she'd decided to go that route.

This why we get companies killing people through cost-cutting, because no-one does anything until they start killing people (and often not even then).