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That last scene with the dying torch… he deserved it, but that was disturbing.

Amazon is its own thing. It’s not really a shipping company. And they’ve had their own layoff issues. Consumers spending less affects everyone.

I saw this movie.

I mean, yeah. The current administration had been warned of repeated threats as well by the last administration, and they threw them out and got rid of the people most knowledgeable of the on-going problem. The real kicker is bin Laden’s reaction when he learned of the success and results. Even he was surprised. It shouldn’t have never happened at that level, had people done their jobs. Simply making the FAA require a secure cockpit would have changed everything.

Didn’t anyone tell him he already missed it?

And many/most Republicans. Gerrymandering, limited voting areas, and intimidation at the poll are standard tactics to try and reduce people who might vote against them.

To be fair, Democrats have gerrymandered in history as well. District lines should be an independent determination, not by who is currently in control of a state government.

Being against having many options to let your vote be heard is very anti-American.

I’d just add some flip down legs for stabilization from the swing.

He should have been in jail long before that, impeached with the help of his party and barred from ever serving as President again. A reminder that Trump is not the sole problem, and is more of a symptom of a bigger issue that has been allowed to grow for decades.

How much power the federal government can wield has been a debate since the founding. The first two political parties were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. The optimal version is probably somewhere in between, with lots of checks and balances that can vary through situations and time. We had some of that too through history.

It’s always hardest to see the best direction to take when in the middle of historical change, but it does seem we’ve slid a bit too far at this point to use the system that is broken to fix the system. I’m wondering not only what path we’re going to take to get to the next stage, but how the world is going to act while we do it, given how tangled the US with everything. Some might say to let it burn, ignore it, play isolationism, but that approach never worked out historically, nor did trying to step in and “fix” things.

That’s a reasonable definition. It also pushes things closer to what we think we can do now, since the same logic makes a slower AGI equal to a person, and a cluster of them on a single issue better than one. The G (general) is the key part that changes things, no matter the speed, and we’re not there. LLMs are general in many ways, but lack the I to spark anything from it, they just simulate it by doing exactly what your point is, being much faster at finding the best matches in a response in data training and appearing sometimes to have reasoned it out.

ASI is a definition only in scale. We as humans can’t have any idea what an ASI would be like other than far superior than a human for whatever reasons. If it’s only speed, that’s enough. It certain could become more than just faster though, and that added with speed… naysayers better hope they are right about the impossibilities, but how can they know for sure on something we wouldn’t be able to grasp if it existed?

I doubt the few that are calling for a slowing or all out ban on further work on AI are trying to profit from any success they have. The funny thing is, we won’t know if we ever hit that point of even just AGI until we’re past it, and in theory AGI will quickly go to ASI simply because it’s the next step once the point is reached. So anyone saying AGI is here or almost here is just speculating, just as anyone who says it’s not near or won’t ever happen.

The only thing possibly worse than getting to the AGI/ASI point unprepared might be not getting there, but creating tools that simulate a lot of its features and all of its dangers and ignorantly using them without any caution. Oh look , we’re there already, and doing a terrible job at being cautious, as we usually are with new tech.

Let’s just shut the internet down then. Yet another face-eating leopard moment.

Good societies help people. This isn’t that.

If we had better systems in place to help everyone who needs it, this probably wouldn’t be a problem. Telling someone they need therapy isn’t helpful, it’s just acknowledging we aren’t aiding the ones who need it when they need it most.

I’ll go further and say anyone who thinks any of these AI are really what they’re marketed as needs help, as in education of what is and isn’t possible. So that will cover all instances, not just the romantic variety.

Yes, the Patriot Act was a complete fuckup. And that situation was avoidable by the GWB admin, at least at that scale. Never let a crisis go to waste.

The real fix would have been to have a better person in the Executive Office, more limitations of their power to extreme scenarios, and consequences for them ignoring other parts of the government to check their power. Of course it would also help for those other branches to also do their jobs for the benefit of the people and not for political or other types of favors.

Murderer. But he’s President, so oh well…

If serious, whichever one works best for you. Lots of info out there to help steer you to a good match. There are some that will have a harder time than others thanks to Microsoft domination all these years.

If not serious. Arch, of course.

So stick with my Linux and don’t boot into Windows again. Got it.

Lots of these exploits can be very specific cases so aren’t going to threaten the average user. However the point is, Windows 10 is now a huge target and there are lots who would love to take advantage of a freshly open gate.