Dude, you can just fill out a form with your broker and get access to after hours trading. There are all kinds of stuff like that. They're protecting you from yourself because they have to. Sign some waivers and do all the after-hours leveraged pre-IPO SPAC trading you want. It's dumb as fuck because if you knew enough to safely do any of that you would know how already, but I for one welcome this financial Darwinism, you all voted for it, enjoy, idiots.

You aren't and you think your expertly timed overnight selling is key to your success?

Deploying United States Marines to guard a VA clinic from veterans that by an act of God got an appointment in the first place and unsurprisingly weren't notified of any rescheduling.

To say resources were misallocated doesn't even begin to describe how fucked up that is. Hopefully the protestors brought them some in-and-out for their troubles, but nobody in the service is going to forget that bullshit. Is that what winning feels like?

Can I release criminals onto the streets with a full pardon and say "but what rights have I taken away?"

Gut our foreign policy, talk loudly with a limp stick and taco in my mouth, and ask you what rights have I taken away?

The moral majority look up to an immoral, unethical con-man, reject empathy, celebrate unprofessional conduct, exercise breathtaking stupidity and turn away our closest allies and partners unless they make a deal that personally benefits Trump. Hey, at least we can do whatever we want, because it's open season on lying, cheating and stealing right now. Great time to make money off rubes like you at least, glass half full. Want to buy a bible subscription?

This is the same bullshit Trump is trying to pull with his Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell relationship. You'll call it all a hoax because he never fucked a twelve years old on the island and act like we moved the goal posts.

You can see this happening in New England states, mini-split heat pumps are everywhere. Look at home listings, street view, etc. despite having the highest electric rates in the country. You can't tell me it has nothing to do with being AC-curious.

I would expect the AI to say "fix the core routing network" based on the last problem I had. It turns out the ISP's config is broken for IPv6 BGP via two different backends on their system to the same router on my end. I kept getting the BGP packets on the wrong interface so one link would never come up. I have no idea how that would happen but it did. Oddly the v4 BGP works quite well.

Nope, conspiracies don't ever happen.

The 9/11 hijackers did not plan their actions in advance. Just by sheer coincidence, 19 people just happened to be taking those four plane flights. And by coincidence (no coordination) they all got the same spontaneous idea at the same time, an idea they had never spoken about before: let's hijack the plane and crash it.

Crazy people babble on about "evidence" like people taking flight lessons, sharing vehicles, etc. but we know those things cannot possibly be true, because conspiracies are not real.

If you have a hypothesis of x and then find lots of supporting evidence for x and it becomes the prevailing explanation, that creates a theory of x, but there's one exception: when x is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are a special case, because they don't really happen.

That task makes no sense, politics isn't a perfect information game like chess, there are way too many outside factors that have very large effects on political strategy. You could do it in a narrow timeframe with a given setting, and lean a little into the future assuming nothing big happens in the world (lol), but sequentially for 25 years, you're asking for bullshit.

Now what we can say is if an intelligent agent fools you into thinking it has completed this task by bullshitting you, and it has done that by modeling your particular concerns and state of mind, then it has demonstrated intelligence and thinking. If it doesn't unfairly have access to information you do not, it is probably more intelligent than you, or at least it think's you're stupid. If it didn't think you were stupid it might tell you any answer would be bullshit. It might think you're stupid AND tell you all of what I just did. I am intelligent, this is how I responded to your test. Many people dumber than me could pass your test in vastly different ways. You're not smart enough to come up with this kind of test, but whatever, I'd take a machine intelligence that's smarter than you and dumber than me over nothing.

Servers on internal networks often do have outbound access to the internet denied by default, all port and protocols by a central firewall. DNS works differently, you send requests to a local server which forwards to an internet facing one.

If $100m in Meta stock options doesn't end up in the money these starving AI developers can probably get by on their $9k+ biweekly after tax regular compensation you daft anus weasel.

... is the name of the Free Software anthem. Maybe not fair to lump all projects together but we're cutting really close to stone thrown from a glass house.

The overwhelming crush of two bug reports a week for a critical piece of software used on nearly every server anywhere? I understand it's a volunteer project, but keep it in perspective.

This isn't even a tech problem, it's a damned contest and not enough volunteers problem. Charge an entry fee, FFS, a deposit. How about farm it out to the community, validate a winning entry and you get part of the winnings. We do this on Slashdot for free, now split part of the bounty with the moderators.

That's all before technical solutions like duh, use a strong model to vet entries. Pay for it out of entry fees. Require submissions pass an automated regression test first. Which they should already have... and pay for use of it with entry fees, wait, pay for it out of the winner's pool, what are we giving that money away for if you can't run the program successfully without it?? Vetting submissions is part of the overhead.

A way bigger pet peeve of mine than beating on AI straw men is treating social problems like technical challenges. It's a contest with cash prizes and the volunteers are tired.. I mean figure it out folks.

It has the same thing going because it was also written in a 2000+ year old language(s) right?

I don't know anything about ancient Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek, but I know how difficult it is to translate exact meaning between two modern languages. There is just no way that ancient Hebrew to modern English is a straighter line than ancient Arabic? to modern Arabic? I'll bet a hamburger on that at least.

Base load coal power in China is about $25/MWh. Solar panels by the container ship load cost less than $0.20 a watt at the factory. Most of that cost is the energy to make them. A good guess for daily average solar production is 4 hrs a day at 100% power for total power produced over the 20 year expected life of the panel.