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Comment Re:Those aren't threats from AI (Score 0) 40

" Again, wrong target. Humans need to *use the tools carefully*."

You are assuming humans are rational agents, and in addition act in-good-faith. You make the  classic "Platonic" error, that virtue = knowledge. You imply < know the proper use of AI & all's well >. A sadly false assumption . More robust and lower-risk is to make the Calvinist error : that all humans are fundamentally irrational & corrupt ( in dealings with other people ). Then "physical" kill-switches make sense : kill-switches on AI ... kill-switches on insurance ... kill-switches on banking ... kill-switches on physicians : of-course the phrase [ kill-switch ] needs appropriate interpretation(s), but the meme is clear --- self-limiting tools --->  "this far and no farther". 

Comment corrupt (Score 0) 9

Scandalous, actually that academics at major institutions have been  AI-compromised, top to bottom. Three cheers for Uni  students calling-them-out ...  and damnation for the puerile excuses given by faculty. Were those excuses also written by AI ? I have yet to  see academics use the stock-industrial excuse ... that competition - natural and necessary -- drives quality to the lowest order.  Added-value really is (almost impossible ) , so slop commercial software/video/fiction/services out-compete human agents for cheapness and control-ability .  That also must hold true for academics , where creativity is  sparse as structure in a janitors closet. Nice work  .../code/devs/slopper ; META force be with you.

Comment Starship booster? (Score 2) 44

This doesn't make sense on the surface for a number of reasons. The Starship second phase cannot launch most of the things that Falcon 9 launches. I'm assuming they are going to have two large shuttle-like doors on a Starship eventually that can release larger payloads?

The next thing that doesn't make sense is simply payload size. Certainly it is not more economical to use the Starship stack to put something into orbit that is only a small fraction of its cargo capacity? And yes, I know it could carry multiple satellites / spacecraft at once, but it is very rare those things all need to be in the exact same orbit at the same time. So it seems Falcon 9 would be more economical for launching a single smaller thing?

Maybe the economics of the Falcon 9 second stage not being usable totally makes the case for Starship? It's estimated a second stage costs between $7 and $10 million. So perhaps right there economically it makes more sense to fly a 100% reusable Starship even for a small payload. I guess the liquid methane Starship burns is a relatively cheap, being derived from natural gas that the USA already has in abundant supply.

Comment Re:This shit needs to stop (Score 0) 19

Prussia invented ... what ? If memory serves,  Sumerian scribes  beat them to it by a few millennia. And Thespiae required <music> of their children ... to prevent savagery !  I'm ignorant about classical Chinese education, but ...   Historically,  the list of indoctrinating states  is very very long.

Comment rephrase (Score 0, Funny) 40

"FSF: Having control over the technology we use is a fundamental part of software freedom. Without it, you simply don't have the basic freedoms you deserve when doing any type of computing, large or small. " Please allow me to rephrase that: < FMF: Having control over the machine-guns we use is a fundamental part of firearms  freedom. Without it, you simply don't have the basic freedoms you deserve when doing any type of  machine-gunning, large or small. >  So true ... unless we are machine-gunning /JapeChat/dev .... then the Free Machine-gun Foundation speaks  without merit.

Comment Re:Damn... (Score -1, Troll) 52

America had a republic until Lincolns'  War of Northern Aggression. Then we had an mercantile oligarchy till the Great depression. USA needed to mimic German efficiency to win WW2, so a meritocratic bureaucracy took power under Roosevelt. But, the release of WW2 technology into a consumer economy brought control back to the mercantilists ... as before local in footprint , but now global in reach. Only in recent decades have 5-th column limousine-kommunists ( real fascists ) manage to gain significant  power thru violent migration and  corrupted business practice. Welcome to the American Soviet.

Comment Re:Elections are cheap (Score 0) 37

Many believe that indeed should of happened in 1966 ( court tyranny ) or when Bush-baby invaded Iraq to purposefully waste the $3-T gain from Soviet meltdown ... or when USA investment banks short-circuited on systematically poor home-loan insurance.  American citizens have always had the political & physical means ... and I believe the < nuclear >  Military would stand aside while the street blood-bath reached a conclusion. The resulting  yeomans < republic > would not be the  global < empire > currently maintained. USA has yet to have a 2nd "Lexington" or Boston massacre ... shame on us.

Comment drug-dealer (Score 0) 37

A mere $40-B ? Why is "taking down" META not like "taking down" a drug dealer ? Nobody denies META pimps addictive-media . Nobody denies META computer devs are 'meta' abortion doctors of the < profession>.  It/They deserve protection? By contrast ...  USA Coast Guard and Navy have great fun gunning-down  SA drug-dealer ships and submarines ; simple act-of-war protecting USA citizens. The analogy seems obvious ... yes I know ' money doesn't talk ... it swears',  ....  but  southern cartels  [ owning 1/2 of Miami ] are not bamboo-hatted  dirt farmers either.

Comment Re:Just because life could survive there... (Score -1) 15

If live "evolved" on earth ... which it  could-not .... did-not ... will-not. Living organisms on earth or anywhere else are quite impossible ... by more orders-of-magnitude than exist in the universe. Once  [ a/an/it/the/them ]  living organism encounters an environment it MAY ( but not necessarily ) express time-series sets of various of alleles.  Most "evolution" after-all is catastrophe-induced while drift is infinitely destructive.

Comment Re:"Human-Caused", "Human-Caused", "Human-Caused". (Score 0) 98

Human caused excessive "warmth" is much better than unhuman caused excessive cold. Would you prefer Margaritaville world-wide or ... another ice-age ? Granted ,  an ice-age ensures major klads of Trotsky-sluts & urban savages  will be buried miles-deep under ice-packs, and NOBODY will miss swill like Molsons ... say nothing of Anglo-Saxons being cold-adapted. But, there goes steel-head fishing in north-Pennsylvania & Vermont.

Comment fuckup (Score 0) 125

Another data-mangling, energy/water suckking  LLM  vampire  fucking-up my beautiful home state of Pennsylvania ... and the Poconos that hold 100 small streams with native brook trout.  I say with full energy  that nobody would ever do or advise local residence to take-the-money and then burn-down the buildings after 5000  H300 have been installed. Nobody would ever be involved in such obviously unlawful activity no matter how valuable it might be for the welfare of Penna citizens  or how painful it would be to sociopath resource-sucking investors. . Nobody ... I say again ...

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