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Grandma disables a fiber optic drone(twitter.com)
3 points by consumer451 23h ago|1 comments
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Clarity Act Stalls in Senate as Crypto Bill Fails to Clear Key Vote(decrypt.co)
5 points by consumer451 1d ago|0 comments
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by consumer451 3d ago
> To him, the true AI doomer scenario is for all the immense power of frontier AI to wind up in the hands of a single powerful, proprietary provider. “The nightmare scenario, the doomer scenario for AI is that there’s just one company,”
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by consumer451 4d ago
In South Florida you can sometimes get Sahara dust on your car after a rain.
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by consumer451 5d ago
Here is some more context, before and after. I highly encourage clicking each of these links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of
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by consumer451 5d ago
Yeah, I don't understand why the title does not say (2024).
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by consumer451 5d ago
Right, that's corporate speak. Welcome to gov speak: > A Special Government Employee (SGE) can perform temporary federal duties for up to 130 days within any 365-consecutive-day period https://www.flra.gov/Ethics_Rul
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by consumer451 5d ago
Oh, thanks for the new to me info, I genuinely did not know this. Any idea why, and who replaced him? It may be for regulatory reasons? Still, he is the "advisor." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-h
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by consumer451 5d ago
In a sane reality, this activity from OpenAI would have been shut down long ago. Good thing our "AI Czar" is known to pg as the most evil person in SV. https://preview.redd.it/pr037tqjpled1.png?width=941&format
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by consumer451 5d ago
In the terms of short attention span modernity: 100% agree. My problem with this entire phrasing is that it's somehow AI-centric according to Wikipedia, while AI doomerism feels like a luxury given all the other issues we face, which s
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What Is Your P(doom)?(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by consumer451 5d ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What Is Your P(doom)?
2 points by consumer451 5d ago|4 comments
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by consumer451 5d ago
20+ years of preparation does a pretty good job though. I often wonder about the world we would live in if the Brooks Brothers Riot had not succeeded. That appears to have been the turning point for the fall of the USA, and even more sadly,
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by consumer451 5d ago
Maybe because when electric vehicles were becoming a thing, it was all: "The grid cannot handle it! You absolute morons!" Now, put "AI" in front of "datacenters," and no such concerns appear in one's feed.
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by consumer451 5d ago
Agreed. Assuming that climate change is real, and to add, it is happening faster than nearly all predictions: what are your going to do for yourself, and for you children/nephews and nieces? How do we prepare them?
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by consumer451 5d ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. This is the most "I get both sides" issue in my mind these days. I am still not sure where I fall, or if there is even a correct position with which to agree. It really seems like there are no good
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by consumer451 5d ago
Twitter is huge in KSA. Much more significant a share than other countries. Something like 60% to 70% of the population are active users.
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by consumer451 5d ago
YES! This was exactly it. Thank you. It seems my pen memory came from a different logo-driven bot. In-fact, the Big Trak was not even Logo-driven, but had a similar command system. I appear to have combined childhood recollections, but that
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by consumer451 5d ago
OK, that is a plausible argument given Dario's public positions. I have to admit that I keep cutting them some slack for standing up against automated kill chains, and domestic surveillance.
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by consumer451 5d ago
Anyone here remember a 1980's Logo-programmable robot that I once used in a TAG program? It had a pen, we would lay it on top of a giant sheet of paper. It was like a little futuristic tank. I searched for a minute, and I cannot find t
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by consumer451 5d ago
Yeah, I saw that. I wonder if there are any other AI labs that are naive (good?) enough to admit this type of thing. Obviously, it's happening with all decent models.
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by consumer451 5d ago
Holy shit. This is really interesting. AI used to impersonate, social media to amplify, and that led to a significant tactical defeat? I don't want to live in interesting times anymore.
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by consumer451 5d ago
The first question should be: who supplies their military equipment? The next question should be: who benefits?
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by consumer451 5d ago
No, this is actual journalism. When it's from a direct single source, it's a quote, not an agreed upon fact.
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by consumer451 5d ago
This is real news. They just captured a bunch of modern Saudi-supplied equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThW3uz62XvI
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Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route(bbc.com)
392 points by consumer451 5d ago|708 comments
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by consumer451 7d ago
This article is malarkey. Title includes "autonomous cars" - url includes "self-driving" - I smell what you are selling. Meanwhile, the article never gives a share, but as far as I can tell, nearly all the lives are save
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by consumer451 7d ago
As far as I can tell in 2 party states, it depends on the expectation of privacy, and even in public, your intent. In any case, here is their threading of the needle: https://support.apple.com/en-us/148354#:~:text=app%2
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by consumer451 7d ago
While I still do trust that on-device audio is safe, you can rewind and record it on another device. The regulatory workaround is an "un-mutable" audio notification of some sort. This might be a very notable sound in the near futu
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Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud (2024)(security.apple.com)
3 points by consumer451 7d ago|0 comments

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