and low bars for academic performances have been the norm for a long time.

When Reddit announced they would sell user-generated data to AI companies for training purposes, I went back to literally thousands of my old technical posts and inserted subtle nonsense in them.

They look legit, and a competent human being reading through them would very easily realize they're nonsense (you know, things like "Type taskmgr and kill systemd"). But AI doesn't, and I've already read AI-generated "help" pages containing some of the shit I seeded on Reddit.

So if you too want to debase AI, poison the well: it really does works.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2F8billionangels.org%2Fear...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.footprintnetwork.... (Click UK on map)

I'm sure you won't if there's enough money to be made...

Indeed. The UK is already housing more than 4 times as many people as it could sustainably hold. Naturally there is increasing pressure on food, water, housing, and everything else. Together with growing hostility as people from different and violently clashing cultures are crammed together in the absurd belief that the pressure will somehow crush them into a homogeneous whole according to the wrongheaded "melting pot" theory.

Now that reality is making itself felt, what is left for the political class to do but blame everything on "climate change" and "Russia"? Their very nature makes it unthinkable for them ever to consider for a moment that they might have been wrong about anything.

However, in placing blame where it does not belong they are repeating the exact same mistake. There is no significant climate change, and Russia couldn't care less about the UK. Until they address the real problem - too many people of too disparate beliefs and assumptions - things will go on getting worse. Much worse.

Today's TiVo is to TiVo of yesteryear what today's Sharper Image is to Sharper Image of yesteryear: a pointless company bearing the name of something great that used to exist for real.

How about if this one guys is 1 million times better off and he uses his insane wealth to install a raging fascist in the White House who ruins everybody's lives and threatens world peace?

I can easily do without the technological disruption this one guy, and all the other guys like him, bring about.

is fine if it doesn't create obscene inequalities and equally obscene psychopathic billionaires. If that's the cost of disruptive technology, I'm perfectly happy to hamper it.

I was about to say the same thing. It's really a sad statement on the state of processor development when the metric isn't an awe-inspiring number of operations per second but a depressingly high power consumption value.

Did you even watch it before running your mouth?

James P. Hogan's second SF novel, "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" (1979) posits this exact problem. The solution, symmetrically enough, is not to nuke it from orbit but to put it in orbit with firewalls to keep it from escaping or communicating with anything else. A special space station is built where the AI is confined. Hogan, a clever and creative thinker as well as a qualified (ex-RAF) engineer, saw quite deeply into the dangers of AI - which have not really changed in the intervening 46 years although the technology has gone roaring ahead.

Recommended reading.

Someone should go to jail for this

Police detectives tend to not work "a beat", but instead a selection of cases. Reviewing paperwork from the field can easily take up most of their time. They could have to be reading like a hundred witness statements to try to figure out what actually happened, most likely, who's lying, and why. Collaborating testimony with other evidence, reviewing security camera footage, reading test results - DNA, fingerprint, drug, residue, etc... Deciding whether or not there's enough evidence to try for a warrant or the UK's equivalent. Following up with witnesses, scheduling interviews, etc...

Please, please call it MAGAputer.

and now, thanks to the collapse of the educational system and AI, we're boldly entering the age of vibe-reasoning.