As far as you know.

Edwin Hubble has discovered that galaxies that are further away are redshifted more, which is odd because one would expect gravitational blueshift.

This correlation between redshift and distance is called the Hubble constant.

One interpretation is that these galaxies are moving away (and that the redshift is a Doppler shift), but that doesn't make sense because at a sufficiently large distance, they appear to be moving away faster than light, and also everything is moving away from everything else. So a better interpretation is that the space between distant galaxies itself is expanding, which has been shown to be the case by the size of the supervoids.

What is not known is why the space is expanding. (A more intuitive interpretation is that the space is constant and everything in it is becoming smaller. But if we use ourselves as reference, we are not becoming smaller relative to ourselves. Space is growing relative to us. The observable universe is expanding.)

This expansion corresponds to a factor (the cosmological constant) describing the accelerating expansion of the universe. And across cosmological time and distances it is not constant, there is some form of energy at work.

It is called "dark energy" (ever since 1998, 27 years ago) because nobody knows what it is. But it is not conjecture, there is definitely something going on.

And that has been discovered, shown, tested, and proven, which makes it theory. Purely descriptive, of course, but proven theory nonetheless.

No, that's Dark Matter.

Shell script. (awk is fine, too.)

Or compiled machine code if you need performance; but if you need performance, you aren't going to use PHP or JS anyway.

You want to know what's cool and hip?
JS is the new Perl: Nobody knows what it is good for, but the kids are using it for everything.
(Although they are calling it TypeScript these days, it's still JS, with all the cruft and remote code injection that comes with it.)

If they want to do business in Belgium, that business is subject to Belgian law.

That's not overreach, that's the law of the land.

It doesn't matter that the IA is not itself Belgian.

That's not how law works.

This case it is about Belgian law, which applies in Belgium, not the entire EU. So if the IA have assets in, say, Ireland, that's outside of the scope.

If the IA were to break EU law, then that would be subject to European courts, not to Belgium directly.

NT

Every interesting property is undecideable.

They want a spam filter for proteins. Good luck with that.

It doesn't.

It starts with a virus injected via a web ad. The FOSS example is just to illustrate that that isn't even necessary. Even something as benign as a Counterstrike can be used to listen to you if you have a good enough mouse.

They write as if the AI could just show up on set to ninja someone's gig, without a user instructing it to generate video.

Comparing computer generated imagery to a person is misguided at best. Don't anthropomorphise computers, they hate that.

There is still a team of professional workers behind Tilly, making those vids. Even if no actor is required. Which means there is now a whole team "replacing" one actress.

And the SAG act as if that was somehow a threat? Do they want to encourage the producers to not hire them?

In case anyone is curious: From the article:

1. A Russian SL-16 rocket launched in 2004
2. Europe's Envisat satellite launched in 2002
3. A Japanese H-II rocket launched in 1996
4. A Chinese CZ-2C rocket launched in 2013
5. A Soviet SL-8 rocket launched in 1985
6. A Soviet SL-16 rocket launched in 1988
7. Russia's Kosmos 2237 satellite launched in 1993
8. Russia's Kosmos 2334 satellite launched in 1996
9. A Soviet SL-16 rocket launched in 1988
10. A Chinese CZ-2D rocket launched in 2019

Given that x = x.
Then, logically, assuming that x /= x is a mistake, yes? No?

Where x = to use a tool they own as that tool. That tool being a computer.

Installing software on a computer you own is not a wild abandonment of accountability.

Nor is wanting the manufacturer to be held accountable for the product the same as accepting that you do not own it. And it is not the objectivists who jail-break other people's neutered computers, it is the people who buy them.

Here is a clarification of how Randians are the opposite of anarchists,
and here is Louis Rossmann explaining what rights you think you don't have.

If you have a hammer, do you ask the maker what you can use it for? Or do you rely on it working as a hammer?

Yes, but who would use their fork over the original?

If they don't trust him, they can just pull a local copy and use that.
Or at least pin the last known good version.

They don't need to trust him to use his code.

But they do need him if they want his package to infect other systems.

Well, it says in the summary that "there's no evidence of malicious activity", and Hunted Labs have a long list of things this could potentially be used for.

Since Malinochkin himself doesn't seem to have any interest in exploiting this potential, he will have to hire someone who is more amenable. It is open source, yes, but forking fast-glob is not going to help with injecting bugs.