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Comment Re: The screwdriver is used up! (Score 1) 39

I'm not questioning you. I'd read it just on the author if it was available around here. Rather you should file it as among my personal problems. First, I'm trying to get rid of all of my books, not buy new ones. Second, I choose to live in Japan where the libraries basically treat English books as an afterthought. (By using lots of libraries I'm able to find enough good stuff to read, and I'm reading more and more Japanese books these years.) Third, my second and final Amazon purchase was decades ago...

Comment Re:The greatest national security risk (Score 1) 47

Less than 50% of the votes cast were cast for Trump in 3 separate general elections. That means only a minority of the people wanted him there. A gullible, easily misled minority. Or as Trump would say, suckers and losers.

This is not true. Because whatever your personal motivations, the mathematical result of you not voting is that you are voting for whatever majority comes out in the end. And because only a minority voted against Donald Trump, a majority either voted directly for him or was ready to accept his election win.

You misread or misunderstood the statement. Nothing was said or had anything to do with those who didn't vote.

Comment Re:Looks like panic to me (Score 1) 67

OpenAI said they expect to spend $600bn through to 2030 on compute costs. That's $150bn per year in costs. They are projecting to make $25bn in revenue this year.

They try to get closer to making a profit like I try to get closer to winning an Olympic gold medal by doing a couple of pushups every day.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 42

If the child mentioned didn't give you consent to share details about them, don't.

While I agree with you in principle (it's a horrendously bad idea to dox your kids online), the concept of asking children for consent is silly. The entire legal framework we have devised is one of authority over children.

A better answer would be just don't do it, and ban them from doing it too (as a good parent should). Their opinion or consent shouldn't come into it.

Comment AIs are getting more capabilities outside of chat (Score 1) 51

AIs are getting the ability to do things other than chat. ChatGPT can write some Python code and execute it. Claude can now write Jira JQL code and execute it. It can modify tickets and Confluence pages on its own. Of course, these chatbots don't understand the difference between chatting and doing, it's all the same to them. So if a bot executes something instead of just telling you how to do it, it's not trying to "get around" what you wanted, it's just an extension of its existing programming.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 72

Neither the law nor the Constitution *prohibit* companies from disclosing private information about you, to the government. What the Constitution does do, is prohibit the government from *compelling* companies or individuals, to hand over private information, without a warrant signed by a judge. If companies like Apple choose to hand over information willingly, no laws were broken.

Comment Re:The greatest national security risk (Score 1) 47

This is not true. Because whatever your personal motivations, the mathematical result of you not voting is that you are voting for whatever majority comes out in the end. And because only a minority voted against Donald Trump, a majority either voted directly for him or was ready to accept his election win.

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