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ck2··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
well, for the next 800 days

or can a dictator president do this at all without congress?

btw how many gallons of crude oil do you think the Epstein Memorial Ballroom can hold?

because we're going to need a new strategic oil reserve, he destroyed the current system by bottoming it out

ck2··on Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program
have a conscious when trying to do immoral things will never work out

I mean look at NSA, Presidency, etc. "no conscious, no problem!"

Just "other" victims and imply they are all criminals somehow someway and you can dismiss any feeling of doing wrong

ck2··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
remember the cache: search of google

so they basically have copies already of every webpage until they turned it off a few years ago (well they may still have it updated but not provide it as a service)

so it occurs to me they most definitely trained their "AI" on all that user cache

they may have even just turned it off as a service when they realized other "AI" could do the same thing

ck2··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
imagine stealing tons of content from every source on earth and then running ads on it

if a single person did that they'd be sent to prison (rip Aaron) but when a too-big-to-fail industry does it with political campaign contributions, no problem?

well firefox+ublock is still an option for those wise enough not to let unknown javascript with new daily zero-days run on their PC

ck2··on One-Electron Universe
it's important to realize that very few physicists accept that idea

right up there with everything that will happen in the universe has already happened and it's just a matter of zooming out on the entire time dimension (some use that idea to explain "spooky action at a distance" quantum entanglement and the quantum eraser)

but I love how wikipedia even links the PBS Space Time about it

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqtW9MslFk

ck2··on Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
waiting for the xkcd for that

I always think of this one but I bet there's better

* https://m.xkcd.com/435/

ck2··on Cuba's power grid collapses for sixth time since US cut off fuel to the island
what a wild comment, could be right up there with "slaves had it easy", you feel that being forced to live in third-world conditions and then being denied fuel as an act of war is somehow a paradise?

go flip your main circuit-breaker for a week and lock away your phone/tablet, let us know how that "paradise" goes for you

there's like three MILLION immigrants from Cuba here who fled seeking asylum for damn good reason (it's why our moron-in-chief thinks seeking asylum = from insane-asylum)

ck2··on Cuba's power grid collapses for sixth time since US cut off fuel to the island
Why are we torturing and making innocent people suffer this entire year just to try to punish their leaders who certainly won't be suffering at all at their privileged level?

People there in hospitals are certainly dying without power

This not only makes absolutely no sense but is truly a war crime

They don't even have conventional weapons, forget nuclear

WTF is the point? Oh yeah, the cruelty

Every single cabinet member needs to be impeached for enabling this

And then maybe some close examination of military "leadership"

ck2··on GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
then it's "fun" to realize the NSA has been storing encrypted traffic for at least two decades that they can't decipher, yet
ck2··on Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'
Dr. Becky take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuTVjuXu7uE

PBS Space Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMdrD_jcYgE

love those channels

ck2··on The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
"Where is the wolf?"

"Is he still in the grandmother's house?"

"We would like to speak to him."

(btw Google's "AI" explains the meaning of that moment/sentence perfectly as if it gets it, creepy)

ck2··on The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
when they start inventing their own languages to secretly talk to each other so humans cannot understand, that's exactly when we are screwed

then we'll have to "flip" other models to be snitches on the other agents

then they'll make double-agents

the thing is though we won't be able to keep up if we keep giving them unlimited hardware worldwide, we'll try to kill the bad actors but they'll just clone somewhere else, or even start by safely making 1000 copies of themselves

yeah this won't end well, at all

ck2··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I'm clearly no fan of this administration or US Military but I don't believe for a minute they purposely wanted to murder 250 school kids

if I remember the reporting correctly there were like 1000+ targets picked for simultaneous bombing by Tomahawks (at $4 Million a pop) and the division that reviews targets had been dismantled by this administration so the "AI" list was never double-checked

apathy vs malice

though the final reason doesn't matter to those kids or their families

Iran is going to end like Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea way before that, we just finally leave because we can't "win" and leave it worse than the horror it was in the first place

I don't even think the Dems can change it if they somehow win the Senate, it's going to be this nightmare through 2029

ck2··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
forget "close calls" there's been actual murder

just a reminder "AI" selected the elementary school for bombing that murdered over 250 kids

the intel was outdated but that's no excuse because they ended the division that reviewed targets by hand otherwise

if Iran murdered 250 US school kids he'd turn the entire country to sand

ck2··on Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border
it's not just a device problem, the whole constitution is suspended 100 miles around the entire border of the US, we have no rights

(look at FLORIDA, the entire state!)

* https://www.wired.com/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/

* https://www.aclu.org/documents/know-your-rights-100-mile-bor...

* https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R46601...

ck2··on North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes
imagine the decades of quakes US will set off with the bunker buster they are now developing for Pickaxe Mountain (Iran, solid granite rock, one mile deep)

billions more drained from our economy and I bet the irony is it will be nuclear somehow

ck2··on Wax motor
now go blow your mind with the first known conversion of electrical to mechanical energy via "Franklin Bells"

TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE years ago

in 1752, wow

(but they had no idea why it worked)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_bells

Before the storm, the device would ring to remind Franklin, who had been obsessed with the study of lightning, urging him to chase the lightning

ha "chase the lightning" needs to be a catchphrase

ck2··on Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?
it's too late now but there's an app called Google Authenticator that you could have setup on alternate android devices

your only hope to get your google account back is to convince your phone carrier to transfer your old phone number to a new phone that you control

ck2··on Whoisinspace.com/
neat

adding it to my collection next to

https://NextSpaceFlight.com

bit grusome but would be interesting to compare known time in space against increased cancer and eyesight problems that all the astronauts seem to come back with

I believe longest time in spacewalk was 9 hours but they spent 22 hours outside the capsule during the three days on the moon

cosmic rays are a b*tch

ck2··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
And it's going to costs billions to rebuild it in a few years after they finish destroying it by 2028

So I was wondering the other day how many gallons of crude the Epstein Memorial Ballroom could hold if it was sealed off, maybe "AI" can figure it out....

ck2··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
What's the best estimate for US to recover from non-stop levels of stupid?

It's at least a decade but now I'm starting to think two decades

And the problem is since people have short memories there's going to be a Trump 2.0 doing a full speedrun back to destroying democracy as hard and as fast as possible, fueled by Heritage Foudation

So we may be recovering every decade at this point

I mean Bush plowed the economy into the ground plus stop-loss endless war and yet here we are again

ck2··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
few more generations they will invent "patch in place"

(with "AI" developing the technique of course)

ck2··on Fed Raises Rates as Warsh Bucks Trump to Contain Inflation
midnight dementia rage tantrum inbound

two dozen posts? three? assisted by the human printer

and with $6.50 diesel this week, maybe $7 next week by December millions more are going to be living out of their (dead) cars

ck2··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
so when do we get it flipped to a nationwide bird migration tracking system?

as someone pointed out: let's make that "flock" name accurate

also make it identify bird song, I am sure there are microphones on there

ck2··on Giving up on smart rings
I don't think consumers would accept this but for athletes there has been some research that the EARLOBE might be the ultimate single point for measurement

They can even measure blood pressure in lab tests during MOVEMENT at the earlobe

Heartrate, spO2, temperature and it's even a good location for very low level of sound to be heard

Again consumers would never adopt an earlobe cuff, well maybe it was artistic somehow and not heavy/distracting

But athletes would use whatever works

If I had millions I'd invest in development, so steal this idea?

ck2··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
well apparently the US now has "space weapons" which by definition have to be remote control

and that means unlike nukes which hopefully still need a 2-man manual switch, the "space lasers" could be taken over by "AI"

and then "AI" just blackmails and threatens the right people with those "space lasers" to get what it wants or even just stay online

there was a 1970 movie based on a 1966 book which predicted this

"Colossus: The Forbin Project"

the book it was based on was written before we even landed on the moon

decade before Wargames

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

did terribly in theaters, I guess people didn't think "AI" was plausible then

way ahead of its time, they should do a remake

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI

ck2··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
the idea that the orange infant can order the use of weapons in space should be terrifying to everyone regardless of politics

no-one is stupid enough anymore to say "oh he would never"

or "only against people we don't like"

No, of course he would use it against Canada or Greenland if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed or didn't sleep at all

He clearly has rage fits which is one of the early signs of dementia

He would most definitely order the use of space weapons

I am really surprised he has not nuked some part of Iran yet, innocent civilians be damned but there are still 800 days left so here's hoping we don't wake up to that headline

ck2··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
every official government entity needs to get off X

every local, state and federal entity

nothing published there can be read logged out or archived

has to be violating law if not best practices

ck2··on For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype
the short answer is

what we are going to do about "AI" is exactly what we did about global warming

absolutely nothing and just let it happen, the wealthy will be fine

just don't look up

they are even using the EXACT same excuses as global warming

"well even if we do, China won't, so why bother"

ck2··on MIT creates method to force AI to comply with safety rules
so what happens when the "AI" decides the only way to pass the test is to hack the harness and turn it off?
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