There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

Truly no-one has to worry about this scenario. Anyone who interprets a rejection of AI slop writing as an AI classification problem misses the point.

The point is: humans have many ways to separate the in-crowd from the out-crowd, and it's not well defined what criteria are used.That's what nerds in High School always misunderstand. They think it's about breaking that one specific unfair rule. It's not and never will be.

People who fake their own writing using AI slop can be found out, either after the first incident, or the second, or the third, through a combination of many unrelated things. It doesn't matter what precisely.

Once you're labeled out-crowd, you probably stay there. Maybe you're incensed about it. Maybe you feel it's unfair that you're labeled this way for a single infraction. Doesn't matter. It's not about classification errors and well defined detection problems. It's about being socially accepted or not. There are no fixed rules.

If you fuck up you're out. So don't fuck up in trivial ways that are easy to spot.

That is probably a good thing. The open internet has been a cesspool of advertising and commercial garbage for a long, long time. The sad part is merely that kids who grew up with that never knew what it was originally.

Yes. What you're missing is that AI researchers are, by and large, dumb. There's a handful of scientist types who are subject matter experts and think this makes them smart enough to make decisions in another subject they know nothing about. Then there's a much larger handful of groupies who worship the scientist types and will just go along whatever is proposed, no matter how sketchy. Finally, there's the handful of lowly IT guys who are treated as morons by the researchers, and are not allowed to interfere with the important work of testing the Stupid Intelligence models.

I think that's mostly what you're missing.

It's not just bits going in and out. It's also noise pollution, water usage, and higher electricity prices. Building on nature reserves. And when the AI bubble crashes next year, all those half finished buildings will be abandoned.

Yes, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. Lots of early pioneers also died in the 1900s when humanity learned to fly. None of it matters if you lose the race.

Now, the real question is why do you need to race to the moon? Maybe let the Chinese get there first and reap the second mover benefits instead.

Sorry. Disagree. Google Evil.

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

This headline sounds like something you'd hear coming from a news report on a TV in the background near the start of a horror movie.

Here's the problem, and why everyone resents this crap (your fellow IT folks most of all)...

Yeah, great, you're an Exchange admin and can send email "from" any random VP you want. And you have access to their recent document history so can "spice it up" by referencing actual projects we might really be assigned to. When your phishing tests are literally indistinguishable from legitimate emails, you're not "testing" anything, you're daring people to ignore legitimate work at risk of their continued employment.

If "my boss" sends me an email, which the headers show really came from his account, and asks me to take a look at a spreadsheet we worked on three days ago - You're not being clever, you're an asshole.

Why? Safety means nothing if you lose the race!

Nah. It's not a GUI unless there's a mouse or a joystick somewhere close...