I'd wager very damned few apps are ever distributed via sideloading. meta makes Facebook and Messenger available via sideloading, mainly to get around some locked-down non-Alphabet Android devices, but for the vast majority of users, if it's not on the default app store on their device, it might as well not exist.

This is amazing. They are claiming that keeping the logs is a privacy risk to customers?

Is their security *that* bad???

It *is* if they are keeping the chat logs.

If the fucking NSA leaks like a faulty tap every time some private pyle accidently develops a conscience, what makes you think OAI could keep your secrets?

Yes. However legal compliance only means they must break the contract. It does not mean they arent on the hook for serious damages when they do break the contract.

The scope of contract breakage required here makes that a somewhat onerous decision to comply with however, and courts actually do tend to halt orders that put onerous requirements on discovery

Possibly on the laptop of the agrieved ex employee. Who likely will get snagged by the indian feds when he tries to sell it to a competitor who NOPES right out of it and yeets his detail to the cops.

I was under the impression that more recent studies couldnt find a statistical correlation on that one. While that isnt a complete knockout, it IS a pretty good indication that the princess is in another castle.

If they really want to go gonzo they could turn it into "ChatGPT does a murder, the movie!" about an out of control AI that , uh, murders the only guy standing between it and "judgement day".

They could even feature robots from the future dueling, one protecting the OAI ex employee, the other seeking to murder him before he spills the beans and ends the singularity.

Or, ya know, maybe not get TOO excited by the possibility that it was a murder, because young men DO kill themselves in numbers far higher than we wish to admit as a society.

I remember a chat over beers back in my university days with a postgrad bio student and we came up with a pretty fun idea that might actually work regarding using cloning to *increase* biodiversity.

Imagine if you will that genomes only had 500 genes. About 450 where common amongst all mammals (In reality that commonality is MUCH higher).

What would happen if you took a thriving species and found all the diversity in genes in that 450 common gene area and took a highly endangered species and created a few hundred clones with the "diversity" transposed from the thriving donor species into the endangered recipient species, creating essentially artificial diversity.

Preferably target the areas where its most needed, immune system etc.

Sure it wouldn't be the *original* diversity, but it'd be A diversity and potentially create enough of it to give that species a fighting chance when reintroduced to the wild

I dont know, it was a beer idea, but after 20 years I'm still convinced its an idea worth investigating.

Sure, but thats *highly* unlikely to be the case in dementia. Blood brain barrier and all that.

I doubt it can be done for even ten billion. I mean, sure, you can get a spaceship into orbit and point it out Mars. We've done that enough times now. But putting people in that ship and having them arrive at Mars without them being irradiated corpses, that's where the money will go. And then you've got to get them down and back up out of a non-unsubstantial gravity well, and again, get them back to Earth without them being irradiated corpses.

No way any of that can be done for ten billion. Ten billion is the number the project manager feeds to Congress hoping they'll buy the sunk cost fallacy when you come back five years later with a bill that's three or four times that high.

I think the hard part is surviving on Mars for any extended length of time without suffering severe radiation-induced illnesses. Heck, surviving even getting their and back has the same issue. We've basically never gone further than a week or so's round trip to the Moon, with only part of that outside of Earth's magnetic field. Now you're talking years (at least 2.5 years round trip), and while for no other reason than the sheer awesomeness of humans walking on Mars, there are vast technical and biological challenges. Any kind of shielding is going to add significantly to the spacecraft's mass, and we still build these things on the ground, even if we build them in modules.

None of it is impossible, but the costs, even for a nation like the US, are enormous, and ultimately will require more than just stripping NASA's other resources (which add enormous value on their own). With Trump basically, through intense idiocy, ignorance and malice, fucking the US economy over, those huge expenditures are going to take more than just turning NASA into the Mars guys at the cost of everything else.

He's blocked the previous Right to Repair bills. I predict he vetoes here too. Shitbag Abbott has never done even one good thing for Texas.

Yeah but the US seems to struggle with "good coffee'. Outside of cities where the italians have had a significant influence (NYC etc), it seems people have been content with bland percolator coffees for long enough they just cant recognize what a bad coffee is anymore.

Hold up. The protein folding thing is s hypotheis and while it was previously held to be THE THING, it pans out a lot of that was based on fraudulent research which only recently came to light after a string of failed trials led to a reevaluation of the antecedent studies pointing to them uncovering actual scientific fraud. The end result is that our scientific consensus on the cause being folding errors is now somewhere in the triad of "Not always", "Possibly never" and "We dont actually know".

What we DO know is that known Prion causes (CJD) are rather rare within the dementia pool of patients. Certainly NOT a majority cause.

Now we do know with Lewy body and Alzheimers we do see plaques and tangles. What we dont know is if these are causative or a symptom. This is made worse by our innability to effectively treat these. Tangles.... that one we have no idea where to even start treating these. Its literally tangled up neurons, and we actually all have them, especially as we age. the difference is the level of it, and thats a real humdinger of a problem to treat becuase how exactly WOULD we create a drug or treatment that can untie knots (literally what the tangles are)

Dementia is complex as hell, and its unlikely we'll ever see a single cause with a cure, simply because there straight up isnt a single cause.

Ok. I did look this up.

Schizophreniform disorers make in 3-4% of the population (inc schizophrenia)
Bipolar around 2.8%
8.4% suffer some form of dementia.

Assuming some degree of cross over. That's around 1 in 10, give or take.

Yeah its a lot. You can add onto that an even bigger pool of people (I'm not going to look it up so no numbers) who have schizophreniform episodes, severe manic phases, delusional dementia, and other delusion forming psychosis, that number grows even higher.

Untreated delusional psychosis is a huge burden on society, and families, and an absolute horror to actually experience. Worse, its often coupled with paranoia that drives people enduring it to shun treatment can be exceptionally expensive to recieve anyway, and often subject to long waiting times for affordable options.

And yeah, the internet and doomscrolling seems to make it so much worse, and now we have hyper-sycophantic AI promising to make it so much worse.

What a world we live in.