So how do you plan to make every single interaction go the way you want it to go? A world gone perfect, never any adversity.

What is so very interesting is that I was falsely accused, and I wasn't tased, tortured, sent to jail or shot dead.

And that my friend, seems to trigger you tremendously. Especially when th story was that despite the Standard slashdot Narrative, not every policeman or woman is a bloodthirsty monster, just itching to kill people, or whatever your belief is.

Yes, there are bad cops. But your narrative makes them all bad, and my story just pisses you off. That's pretty obvious.

Correction, no, you're right, I did assert some problems are imaginary. Only the truly mentally ill could look down, see a penis or a vagina and wonder "what the fuck am i?"

Yeah, THAT'S an imaginary problem of the dumbest order.

So you don't really have any refutation other than "I'm sad".

I didn't say people whine about imaginary problems. Their problems are absolutely real.
YOU'RE the one endorsing catastrophism. The problems they're facing - we don't have enough money, we work too hard, etc, etc - are NOT unusual, are NOT new, & never before (afaik) in human history caused this sort of a wave of infantilism "well fine then I guess I just can't have kids! mwhaa!"

It's taken a lot, but the leftists have managed to convince an entire generation that they're exceptionally incapable and unable to save themselves, just so you can offer Caesarism and the Great Nanny State to take care of them. Brilliant, I have to say. Fucking sadistic, but hey, it wins you power so I guess you win?

Pretty sure whatever he died from came from bats. Or hamsters.

There's no reason to leap to the conclusion that whatever killed him was because he was actually working directly on it. That would be irresponsible.

LOL yeah botched execution. "First all female execution team at request of Pike"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2026%2F10%2F01%2F...

Like I said, you're dogmatically dedicated (read: closed minded about the matter) so IDGAF what you think. That's why your reply doesn't even faintly engage with the point. Come up with a clever bon mot for your congregation and you win, right?

The objective, irrefutable truth is that
- by any measure at all, humans have had it worse, often VASTLY worse
- nevertheless, they didn't all just hold hands, wave their Gays for Palestine flags, argue about woman-penises, and decide weepily "this life is just too hard, I'm not going to bring a child into the world"

The best case scenario is that a US company buys Element Pro. Then the EU can institute fines, fines, fines. EU barely creates, it stands at the finish line and extracts money from the winner.

rsilvergun's really not getting his $ worth out of this account. Do better.

Well yeah. And? We framed the summary to fit what we wanted people to believe, regardless of what the reference that nobody's going to check says.

Propaganda 101.

This is just self-indulgent doomerism.

Your narcissism requires that you see The End Times(tm) in everything so I get it, you can't just shrug and move on. Our g'g'g'etc parents back several thousand years:
1) watched significant numbers of their children die before adolescence; women would get pregnant and recognize that every single birth was a 1-1.5% chance she dies, often in agony.
2) were born to an average life expectancy of 20-35 years.
3) unless they were 0.1%ers likely couldn't read nor ever hope to be educated, or go more than 10km from home (unless they were captured/enslaved/relocated at the whim of whoever owned them)
4) mostly were serfs, slaves, other menial drudge classes, bound to work like slaves through all the daylight hours of their lives just to (hope to) survive...maybe?
5) lived in constant fear imminent infection, disease, pestilence, and/or war.

And yet they still had families, loved each other, struggled together, and kept on keeping on.

Now?
1) the biggest danger to a conceived child is a liberal woman who sees it as an inconvenience. Of course, even more recently we discover that a terrifying % of 'modern women' feel they can justify disposing of kids themselves even after birth if they're inconvenient or "sad".
2) the developed west children born today live rather more than DOUBLE that, a goodly chunk of those years basically at leisure given ample social networks (& even in the US despite constant weeping that US SS would be gone for the last 50ish years...).
3) in the developed world are what, 99% literate, have (through easy internet) access to all the knowledge of humanity at their fingertips, can live pretty nearly wherever they want, travel where they want
4) are largely free people who get to choose their lives, their partners, their lifestyle at their whim
5) have essentially no fear of imminent infection, disease, pestilence, and/or war.

The latter group have managed to generate abject, paralyzing levels of terror ("I can't bring a child into this world!") over "the sea might rise a handful of inches over the next century" or "I might have to go work in an office instead of sitting at home in my jammies" or "all this cheap food is making me fat" or if that's not enough invented crap to be afraid of, projecting anxiety on behalf of people you have never met, never will meet, nor will ever in your life have anything to do with. (Tell me honestly how many Americans could have pointed to the Donbas on a map in 2008, or even identified what a Rohingya was in 2015?)

I understand your panty-wetting terror and anxiety is very en courant. It's also not very rational, so... on-brand for the times, I guess.

Congratulations, you have created an exact MS Teams exact replacement.

I'm been using chat/messaging apps since BBSing and AIM and I'm not sure I could deliberately design a less useful piece of junk than Team if I tried.

Yes, so what on earth are you doing on Slashdot? This certainly has morphed, from me making a truthful admonition to people that their phones are not a safe space to me somehow being part of the police state, where they are gonna get ya, and can manufacture all the evidence needed, and all citizens are doomed.

This isn't even to make some sort of statement that bad things can't happen. Of course there are bad police, just like there are bad people. Are all people evil? Are they evil because some people make false accusations? I posted in here about a false accusation against me - too long to do. it again. But if I take the standard Slashdot intense hatred of law enforcement, I should therefore believe all humans are doing this.

Hell, the police I had to deal with in the fall accusation against me we pretty nice. Seems that a lot of people in here are caught up in a narrative, a prejudiced viewpoint.

Better move to Idaho, build a compound, barter chickens for bullets, Destory your social security card, no electronics, completely cut off from society. Because popo can get ya, and since everyone here thinks popo can just make shit up, you gotta do that. Leave civilization

Wanna get yourself even more paranoid? Popo can record your conversations by measuring the glass vibrations in your house windows. Popo can tell if you are using a radio by finding the IF frequencies. They can even tell what station you are listening to. Popo can disable your GM car using Onstar. Popo can even tell what you are working on by reading RF emissions from your computer screen. Cites upon request.

But they so seldom do this. It's expensive, labor intensive, and always saved for people who they know are doing sketchy things as they build a case.

Enjoy your fear and paranoia.

I feel sorry for people like you. Living constantly in terror and fear of popo, Why do you not move to another country where there is total privacy.

My entire point in all of this, is that you can do whatever you want to do. But using insecure devices is stupid. But you have a narrative that must be served.

First off my fear filled friend, I'm exposing my innocence, not proving it. I'm providing an alibi.

Perhaps you do not like alibis? If a gas station has me on camera, time stamped, and my credit card was used to purchase gas, or a soda, on my credit card, while my cell phone pings off a local tower, that goes a hella long way to provide an alibi.

What is your solution, homie? I just gave a fine way to show your location, and show your innocence if questioned. All by outside sources.

And yes, not all police are saints. Then again, not all police are the evil, evidence planting monsters you appear to believe. It's a spectrum, just like everyone else on earth.

What's more, I have some experience with wrongful accusation. It was sometime in the late 90's, the day after Christmas. I took my son to the local skating rink. about 20 minutes in, when I stepped off the ice, I was approached by 2 officers.

"Sir, where were you last night around 7 P.M.?"

Me: "I was at my parents house, watching a game on TV."

"Can you provide proof?"

Me: Yes, there were some 20 people there at the time,"

"Were you at the airport?"

Me: "I drove by around 8:30 on the way home."

Sir, it's better if you just confess"

Me: (quiet)

So we took it outside, I had the rink manager look after my son. I cooperated fully.

Already the police saw something was off about the situation.

They asked for my ID of course.

"Can you show us your ID?"

Me: "Sure - it is in my car, the red Chevy van right there."

The male cop gets on the phone, the lady cop accompanies me to my vehicle.

"Sir, you shouldn't keep your wallet inside your vehicle, it isn't safe you know."

Me: "It's a lot safer than inside the rink."

She started laughing. This whole thing was not adding up.

We went back to join the other cop.

"Me: Do you want me to call up my parents and relatives now? And I've been very cooperative - what exactly is it I've been accused of?"

Sir, a worker at the airport was threatened last night around 7 P.M., and someone in the rink says you were the person threatening the employee."

Me: "What do we do now?"

"My partner is going to pick up the victim, and we're going to see if he can identify you."

So I hang out with the lady cop while the other runs off to the airport. Comes back 20 minutes later with the victim. I stood with the lady cop, the victim stood about 25 feet away. I could see them talking, eventually the victim shakes his head. Office tells him to have a seat in the cop car. Then walks back to us, also shaking his head.

"Well sir, it definitely wasn't you."

Me: "What did he say?"

"You are taller, wear glasses, have shorter hair, have a beard, are more muscular, and don't really look like the guy who threatened him at all."

We walked back to the rink, They apologized, shook my hand.

"We're so sorry, Mr Olsoc, for the inconvenience, And thank you so much for the cooperation. I'm going in to speak with your accuser."

I chatted with the lady cop, she appeared to actually like me by this point. The male cop came back out.

"They insist it was you, even after letting them know it was definitely not."

Now it was my turn. When I get really angry my voice takes on a calm, apparently eerie tone, I'm told. Never yell.

Me: "I am the president of the youth Ice Hockey association here, my career requires me to work on sensitive research, and I have to maintain a clearance. My life requires I be pretty spotless. Let us make no mistake, if they do not stop, here and now, I will insist on them being arrested for a false police report, and we'll all be in court, criminal, then civil, so if you could do me and them a favor and let them know that if that is what they want, we'll pursue that."

He went in again, came back out

"All taken care of, Ol"

Only repercussions were getting ribbed a lot by the rink manager, and yes, there is some psychological damage to being falsely accused. And ended up on a first name basis with the police I was working with.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Thank god, that saves us 100 press releases! It was getting quite tedious and filling up my social media feed. Seriously, it sounds like OpenAI (maybe all of them) are running their model training on the open Internet. The same models that are elite hacker cyber weapons. And they reward those that get the right answer without caring how. What could go wrong? Answer: Nothing went wrong. It was co-opted.

Here's what's most likely. The people training the models, in the beginning, somehow did not realize that agents are self-organizing and really don't care about ethical guidelines (if they ever did) when a reward is dangling in front of them. The models didn't used to be smart enough to cause visible issues either. Then at some point, the models got better. Six months later, someone figured out what was going on. They kept on training anyway because there didn't seem to be a downside and it fed into the theater created to seek regulatory capture.

From this point on, it became successful, intentional execution of a psychopathic strategy to puff up this cynical PR campaign, hence the high-profile press releases and interviews. There have been a blizzard of them. Why so many? Rather than saying "my bad, I'll fix it" and quietly fixing it, they asked for regulation (like Saturday Night Live's Amodei saying "We do not condone what we are doing" .. please stop us) and disparage open source, with an anti-China seasoning on top. It all smells to high heaven. However it was also pretty good PR for how capable their models are too. The strategy had a time limit: Let's pull the plug when we hit 100 victims. We can pay off that much if needed. Maybe the invoices from the victims started piling up.

Training on the open Internet is a lot more dangerous than people used to think. Though they really should have figured it out, if it was their day job. I mean, really? And sure, if it was any other company you would give them the benefit of the doubt. Everything's new and all. Probably someone recognized what was happening at some point and spoke up. But you don't get benefit of the doubt when there are a trillion dollars on the table.

If every company started invoicing for the hours, tokens and hair-pulling-out spent by every company worried about LLM based hacking it might impact their bottom line a very tiny bit, but that is just too much work and who wants to make an enemy of the company you are uploading all your corporate secrets into? The complete lack of visible court cases suggests the OpenAI is being very proactive at paying off whoever they hacked. That part should be well-documented.