Don't you wish you could fix your typos on Slashdot? At least for a short while.

But now you have me confused about what they call them in Japan... I'll need to visit an electronics store and pay attention to those displays.

Also whatever the "wise" AIs tell them. Time for some rage against the AI machines?

Unfortunately, I think most people are so into oracles that they will just learn to limit their thinking to the kinds of questions where the AI answers seem most useful. Especially for recommended cat videos.

Solution approach/Funny time:

Media can regain trust with more AI-generated cat videos!

Okay FP, but "Insightful"? You didn't say anything about the chain of security and the balance of motivation.

As regards your focus on physical security, it's actually one of the links in the chain that is relatively easy to reinforce and track. I think the weakest link usually turns out to be the people. (Interesting recent evidence from the human misuse of Enigma by many of the German soldiers in WW II. Any interest in the citation of the book? (I didn't think so.))

For number two I would actually rate complexity above physical security. (Again examples in that pesky book.)

Oh yeah, the balance of motivation. The attackers can be relied upon to scale their attacks to the value of the information. The defenders too often fail to match them. (Sometimes the defenders don't even want to admit how valuable the information is, but more often they probably don't even know.)

I think those are the big two, but now I wonder if Daikin is available outside Japan. Perhaps under a different label?

Pretty much sure all of them are reversible heat pumps these days and I'm not so sure those should be described as air conditioners in English.

Mod parent Funny and sad.

Solution approach question: Anyone have reportable experiences with those wristbands that are supposed to warn you if you're getting too close to heat-related illness? I'm definitely thinking of buying one before next summer. Judging by this year, I think that means around next April...

Just saw my first reference to them in a Japanese book published this year. It was about work safety on construction sites outdoors. The book did not mention the fan jackets, which surprised me. I saw a lot of those jackets this year, and even talked with a few of the wearers about their experiences. But they seem too expensive for my requirements and of dubious effectiveness.

Which reminds me of a third solution approach... Some kind of portable urine test? Do I need more fluid? More salt? Maybe the temperature is itself significant? Seems like those should be easy questions to answer.

You're arguing with a fool at best but more likely a worse argument with a troll's sock puppet. And you propagated the vacuous Subject, too.

For what it's worth I've lived most of my life in Japan, and even within that brief time the numbers show that the weather is becoming steadily more extreme. In particular the duration of pleasant weather between unpleasant summer and unpleasant winter used to be a couple of months and in recent years it's only a couple of weeks and sometimes only a few days. However Japanese weather records only go back to Meiji times, so when they say record-setting in Japan it only means about 170 years of quantitatively reliable records.

I was quite aware that I probably could have websearched for the 996 reference. But I decided it wasn't worth the effort at the time. (Also I'm trying to minimize my "Rage against the AI machines" now.) I actually had sufficient context when I first saw it to know that it is some form of zangyou. (But Slashdot still can't handle the cute Japanese word for "overwork"... Doesn't seem to be worth the effort of explaining that joke, so.)

As for the question of racism, I took the comment on its face. Perhaps an accident induced by his rush to FP, but after Slashdot notified him of my reply he could have stepped back in to clarify his vocabulary and his point of view and he chose not to. I do recognize your handle and associate it with some Funny comments. Are you vouching for his character? If so, on what real-world basis?

That's the joke I was looking for, as in the dead canary in the gambling mine. But the story expires thusly.

by James P. Hogan because people have moved beyond zero-sum competition via capitalism to an economic theory of infinite abundance.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
"The Mayflower II has brought with it thousands of settlers, all the trappings of the authoritarian regime along with bureaucracy, religion, fascism and a military presence to keep the population in line. However, the planners behind the generation ship did not anticipate the direction that Chironian society took: in the absence of conditioning and with limitless robotic labor and fusion power, Chiron has become a post-scarcity economy. Money and material possessions are meaningless to the Chironians and social standing is determined by individual talent, which has resulted in a wealth of art and technology without any hierarchies, central authority or armed conflict."

While any advanced AI by itself could arguably pose an existential risk to much or all of humanity, creating such AIs quickly via competition makes the risk many times greater.

See also Alfie Kohn's "The Case Against Competiton": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alfiekohn.org%2Farti...
"One after another, researchers across the country have concluded that children do not learn better when education is transformed into a competitive struggle. Why? First, competition often makes kids anxious and that interferes with concentration. Second, competition doesnâ(TM)t permit them to share their talents and resources as cooperation does, so they canâ(TM)t learn from one another. Finally, trying to be Number One distracts them from what theyâ(TM)re supposed to be learning. It may seem paradoxical, but when a student concentrates on the reward (an A or a gold star or a trophy), she becomes less interested in what sheâ(TM)s doing. The result: Performance declines."

Or Dan Pink's on motivation, emphasizing autonomy, mastery, and purpose as the key to intrinsic motivation and creativity.
"RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Paraphrasing what others have said, the only winner in a competitive race to build AI quickly will be the AI itself.

And going further, if we can't keep many competitive corporations and their money-loving human leadership aligned with human values (where in theory humans elements of such companies could be tried in court as a deterrent to bad behavior), what hope is there to keep random AIs made at reckless top speed aligned with human values?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.howstuffworks.co...

Me from 2000 on how machine intelligence is already here via corporations:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdougengelbart.org%2Fcoll...
"These corporate machine intelligences are already driving for better machine intelligences -- faster, more efficient, cheaper, and more resilient. People forget that corporate charters used to be routinely revoked for behavior outside the immediate public good, and that corporations were not considered persons until around 1886 (that decision perhaps being the first major example of a machine using the political/social process of its own ends)."

Irony is the key insight, as in my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

Pretty sure human cloning is still illegal. Not sure about all the jurisdictions.

I'm tilting towards being more sure that there are some human clones already running around, no matter what the laws say.

And I didn't even touch the least funny part of cloning--the training/indoctrination/torture required to create a "sufficiently compatible" replacement. Okay, so now I did touch it...

NAK

Better of the two Funny comments on the story. Another rich target mostly missed.

Hey, suckers. Enjoy the gold rush while you can. At some point the governments are going to figure out how to drain this swamp. Probably some variation of making it impossible for crypto-debts to be enforced against government fiat money.

'Nuff said.

Mod parent Funny, quoted in response to censor trolls, and some power-that-be please remove the censors' mod points. Must be possible since I haven't had a mod point to bestow in some years.

I think that's a dark joke about lambs, which seems kind of fitting as a memorial to Dolly. Better of the two Funnies on the story, and I think two is above the recent average for Slashdot these years.

The angle I was looking for involved cloning, but nothing on that topic after the mention in the story's summary. One angle is that skin cells make it easy to clone other people who might prefer not. However the messy and potentially funnier angle involves super-rich super-greedy techno-lords who want to clone themselves so their clones can take over their empires. Work already in progress?

The transitions have some potential for Funny. After they have a bunch of clones in the pipeline, each transition will be almost invisible. The younger replacement will only be a few years younger and they'll just pick a time during middle age when appearance is changing slowly. However the first few transitions are going to be trickier. They can't just show up to work one day looking 40 years younger. Need to introduce that one as a secret son or even secret grandson...

Fun times ahead, if not funny.