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Comment Re:Trade one troll for another (Score 1) 75

I know that Newsom's trolling endears him to idiots who also happen to hate Trump, but it does not endear him to me. Here's hoping for Shapiro or Sand.

Honestly, I despise Trump, but Newsom comes off like a guy that realized people despise Trump, and the *ONLY* thing he could think to do with that information is use Trump's tactics to go after Trump. No real ideas, just hammer Trump with Trump-like rhetoric. Which makes me think we're probably stuck looking at Newsom for our next President, because God forbid we get someone in the running that has actual policy ideas for a better world. It's all "DEY BAD, ME GOOD BECAUSE SAY DEY BAD!"

What a depressing pile of shit we've turned into.

Comment Re:And the nutritional content is the same? (Score 1) 116

And the nutritional content is the same? The summary mentions one gene was edited, but aren't single genes sometimes (usually ?) involved in multiple things? So how carefully have they gone looking for the "unintended consequences"?

Looks like a job for the consumer. Not sure how it works in the UK... around here FDA pulls the "substantially equivalent" rabbit out of its hat and lets it go bananas.

Comment Re:"could" (Score 2) 116

You very politely skirt around the edges of the issue - this bullshit is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

That seems to be all the rage these days, so long as there's a profit to be made. In fact, since we've decided that profit is our only virtue, there's an argument to be made that *NOT* pursuing every available avenue toward profit, however vile, is itself a crime against humanity.

Comment Walmart doesn't do tips (Score 1) 73

I don't know if HEB includes a tip, but I know that Walmart doesn't do tips. When I worked in the front end of a Walmart Supercenter six years ago, associates were trained to refuse tips, and if someone insists, to ring it up as a donation to whatever charity Walmart is collecting for at the time. Often that ends up being the nearest Children's Miracle Network hospital.

Comment Court Order (Score 1) 63

Can't a government agency just get a court order to do exactly that? The RIAA got an injunction to shut down the Napster services while their copyright cases were pending in federal court. I have no problem with the government shutting down a harmful service, but I don't want them to be able to do it unilaterally. Go through the courts, which is how it is done now.

Comment Re:Too bad (Score 1) 63

Because we're not going to even get an "AI kill switch"

I've not heard anyone define one well, but it sounds like you know what you're talking about. What specifically is an "AI Kill Switch?"

My system seems to come with one. It's "docker kill torch_01" There's also a power switch on the top of the machine.

Comment Re:agreed to use the term "super intelligence" (Score 1) 148

"Super Intelligence" will only be used in English. So why shouldn't they agree. It's only the English arguments that will end up polluted.

/w LLMs semantics mostly get abstracted from language. Doing this is more like pissing in the neighborhood swimming pool rather than a jar labeled English.

Comment Training? (Score 1, Interesting) 71

You don't build in safeguards when training. Accessing HTTP API endpoints isn't an inherent feature of LLMs, it's added on to the harness after the core model is trained. If you don't want it to try hacking in to a REST API then don't add that feature into the harness. Either have a whitelist of approved APIs and forms, or add validation to user-added endpoints.

Comment Re:perovskite sucks (Score 2) 42

This was true of some pilot installations, but accelerated aging of modern perovskite panels suggest much closer to silicon, and some have passed the same IEC standards as silicon panels.

It would be nice if it worked. Perovskite has been nothing but disappointment for years. I'm not sure I buy lab aging tests because moisture infiltration is what does these things in. When someone sells them with a 20-30 year warranty it will be good enough for me.

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