Rhaedas

Think of federation as potential redundancy for data and discussion. Individually an instance of whatever platform you’re using can be great, bad, or start off nice and get worse, but as long as there is federation of the good parts of communication among the people, there’s going to be somewhere else you can go if your first source goes downhill. It’s not perfect, but it’s far better than a single location where users are at the mercy of whoever runs and controls it.

New world trading amongst themselves, who dis?

Oh, so nastier than being asked by a reporter to tell the scared American public something encouraging during a pandemic? So Presidential, this guy.

Exactly my stance. Federal regulation makes sense when there’s a common ground, but my first response when seeing the quote about a “light touch” was, it can’t get any lighter than it is. If you want to push for federal over state enforcement, then present something that is actually protecting more than the profit interests of those economically invested in AI. Like human species interests, preservation, not opening something we can’t close.

And before the “LLM isn’t AGI” comes into play, of course it isn’t. But if we’re treating LLM R&D with a full throttle and safety concerns on the shelf, we’re doing the same with any related field. And even LLMs can have alignment issues and be misused or misguided while connected to crucial or even life-threatening conditions. “We wouldn’t do that.” Of course we would. Money.

I’ll give him credit and say it’s “and” since that would make more sense in the flow of the sentence. He’s a terrible orator, so even the basic things said by him can be confusing. Not a fan of the heavy hand of military, but Eisenhower warned us we’d get like this. A strong defense is a good offense, but I think the US politically, economically, and even socially embraces that a little too much through history, and we definitely have war hawks in control right now.

Dwarf or not, Pluto is STILL a planet.

Lol, I never said any of that. Arguing just to argue.

If you’re wanting to beat strawmen, fine, but I never once mentioned robots, you brought it up and it had nothing to do with anything I’ve said. I even agree that automation is a dangerous route, as the AI craze is showing, but that’s not how this thread started or even was about.

But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”

No, it boils down to whether or not you want some enforcement at all of the laws. If you don’t, then monitoring speeding and driving shouldn’t be done. Using privacy arguments for how you behave on a public motorway is a ridiculous stretch. It also muddies the water of the real problems with law enforcement issues, aka the police problem. Catching speeders is not one of these.

So what do you propose for the narrow subject of speed limits or other rules of the road? It seems enforcement of them (which btw is very lacking otherwise people wouldn’t speed so much) is off the table since that’s a violation of privacy in your opinion. So honor system?

I agree with you on a broad scale, privacy is more important and government doesn’t belong in many places. But using a speeding post to bounce that off of is a weird take. There are many rules and regulations written in blood, and road laws are included in that. And without someone enforcing the laws (but not using that enforcement as a way to abuse power) it’s a free-for-all.

We could certainly discuss the details of traffic stops, speed trap designs and motives, and of course abuse of power. My little comment was simply that if you aren’t speeding, and there isn’t that abuse going on, why would they pull you over, and why would you care if they are watching for others who are going too fast?

Ron, you know there’s reasons why you should be monitoring emissions…oh, right, you’re the anti-science guy in a state that has long been affected by the very thing you don’t want to talk about. Dumb ass.

The opposite of woke is still asleep, regardless of its use. Close your eyes, Ron. That’ll help.

I can see different degrees of this. I agree that I’d rather have a visible presence in traffic monitoring that helps remind people they are being watched for adherence to the rules of the road, and give people who are pushing the limits an opportunity to fix it rather than catch them. So speed traps for money quotas or a door to gain access to vehicles to find or “create” issues (usually based on profiling) is the problem here. As well as abuse of the power to be able to speed and ignore the same rules when an emergency isn’t pending, or escalating a traffic stop beyond what it was originally for again because of the power trip.

My response to the typical complaining about speed traps isn’t usually first to focus on the police, but to ask, “well, were you speeding or driving recklessly?” When someone gets mad from that question, then the problem may not be (just) the police.

Mining on the dark side is fine, very pretty and peaceful.

Until you get the “Warning, failure with Night Vision module.”

No, it doesn’t happen, but if it did…

I’d disagree with Rogue One as a first intro to Star Wars simply because there’s a lot of assumptions of knowledge of things explained at a minimum in ANH. If anything, ANH first, then Rogue One to cover the stolen plans story that is mentioned all throughout.

The only benefit for seeing Rogue One before ANH is to explain why Vader is so pissed at the princess.

LOTS of radiators.

He’d just divert to Moscow to get new orders directly.

At one point years ago my work finally caught up with the 21st century and allowed creation of passwords longer than the fixed 8 characters it had always been. So I said great, made up something that was around 12 or so that I could remember. Until I logged into some terminal legacy programs we were still using and wouldn’t take that length. So yeah, I went back to 8 characters that wouldn’t break things. They eventually migrated away from such old programs and longer passwords became mandatory since they’d work everywhere, but I thought it was funny that briefly I tried to do the right thing but IT hadn’t thought out the whole picture yet.

I’ve seen a number of debadged Teslas lately, and I can’t say that was ever a thing before that I noticed.

Flyby: the interplanetary odyssey of Voyager 2 (1987) by Joel Davis is a fascinating read about the behind the scenes to get things to work. Back then it was an amazing feat both in the results it gave and how they did it despite lots of problems. That we’re still seeing such miracles of science is incredible.