Its NOT because of safety concerns. Maybe they had planned a pause well in advance. Maybe their computer costs are too big for the next gen. Or maybe theyre running forward all barrels blazin but just made an announcement because of all the AI-DANGER press that every news outlet is hyping at the moment. But NO they havenâ(TM)t paused their business because of safety concerns.

Are basically staged tech demos. The first one was an AI in a separated system, with a single bridge computer to the internet with a firewall. The researchers then told the program to do a task that would be muuuuccchh easier if it accessed the internet, and then told the AI to do-what-it-takes. Surprise surprise, the LLM grabbed a breaching tool, bypassed the firewall then retrieved the data from the open internet.

So, this time, they disclose that their topline AIs, that have been deliberately trained to pirate data at all costs, had been *gasp* accessing government sites, and everyone is shocked, sir, shocked I say.

I think these AI companies know exactly what theyre doing. They’re business model required stock valuations that amount to “all teh money” and they’re trying to suck up literally every memory chip on the planet, which requires even more money. So they stage these “AI breaks free” stunts. Look at how daaannnnggeerroouuss and ppooWWeeRfullll our LLMs are. Pay attention to us, fear us and also keep investing in us.

I wonder if theres also a legal aspect to this. They’ve built their business model on using all the data our species has ever generated, as a dataset for an incredibly useful extrapolation/pattern-generation engine. I’m not denying it;s usefullness, potential and possible danger. But they’ve broken laws to access at least 90% of what they’ve taken, and apparently they’re raiding government sites as well. Society is starting to realize this and the companies are worried there might be a backlash, both societel and legal. So, they get ahead of the issue a bit by disclosing the activities (a tiny fraction of them I’m sure) and blaming it on a “rogue” AI that is doing exactly what they trained it to do and set it up to do.

Almost all of that money came from overseas players to buy influence with him. It's a legal avenue for purchasing influence with the US president. A suitcase of cash is "bribery". But, a middle eastern leader can "invest" 500 million USD in TrumpCoin, which was designed to instantly crater in value, directly putting the cash into the pockets of Trump, his family, and his friend. Completely legal.

It amazes me that US society has decided to tolerate this sort of behavior. We chose this consciously and with our eyes wide open.

Let me start by saying that I dislike the attitudes of this current administration, and I'm not happy that our military is being led by the tattoo-and-flex crowd. War is enough of a hell already. Better for the brainy thinking spectacle wearing crowd to have a say in these things. We don't need MAGA types making it any crueler than it already is.

That being said.....

I will repeat. War is hell. The fog of war is real. Mistakes are made. Perfection is impossible. As much as I dislike the whole DOGE flamethrower-and-hire-back-the-important-ones approach, apparently they got 999 out of a thousand missile strikes correct, and screwed up 1 out of a thousand? In war, that accuracy level seems pretty good to me. As much as I want to blame this administration, that number is actually an indication that our systems are working pretty damn well. War is confusing, messy, chaotic, hell.

Your argument about the IRGC is pretty weak. Why should we be worried in the slightest about antagonizing the IRGC? As you pointed out, they're already radicalized. We can't make them any angrier at the US. The needle on their anger meter is already buried at 10. Actually, I meant 11. The mis-fire isn't justified. But, it is a tragic consequence of war. War. Is. Hell.

Ronald Reagan was talking openly about weapons in space and there were acknowledged government programs on the topic. Back then. Ronald. Frikkin. Reagan. Before Trump. Before Obama. Before Bush. Both of them. Before Clinton. The government was openly active in this area a long long llloooonnnggggggggggg time ago. This stuff was happening during the Cold War. This is not new.

OpenAI was remotely watching his work as he used their tool, and when they determined his stuff was interesting, they grabbed it and published first. They basically piggybacked on the work of a mathematician, for 99 percent of a marathon, and then used their massive compute advantage to sprint the last 100 yards to take the first place medal. Absolutely. No. Surprise. Too bad for the guy - ouch hard life lesson.

In other words, a perfect candidate for a pardon from this admin, as long as her husband’s family coughs up the appropriate “donation”.

Yeah they got the rising ocean thing wrong. But, buddy, have you walked outside recently? In the US, there isn’t a single “cold” place in the continental 48 any more. I was lucky enough to take a vacation in Maine a few years ago and it was 95F. The UK is now considered a “warm” climate. Last time I checked, Europe sees around 30,000-50,000 heat deaths per year. Thats about the same as the number of gun deaths in the US.

The “show me the proof” crowd is literally ignoring the proof that hits them like a furnace whenever they walk out their front door.

Everything you list as a solution - it’s all happening. Renewable energy adoption, EVs, electrification, etc. etc. But not fast enough to bend the warming curve.

10 years ago, I could tell that we were blowing past the 1.5C mark without even slowing down. Whenever I said it, people would scoff or downmod. Here we are.

We will survive and adapt. CO2 levels were this high during the miocene, and mammals did ok back then. Today, we have science and technology. In a century, the world will be REALLY warm, but we’ll also have enormous amounts of solar energy, some wind, walmart-sized grid-scale batteries, and every living space will have AC. Entire cities/regions will need to be abandoned, refurbished or rebuilt. Food production will move towards the poles and adapt in a hundred other ways.

And, we’ll probably have to geoengineer the planet. Scientists and engineers need to be prepping for this, because we’re gonna need it. It won’t be optional. This is another thing that gets downmodded nearly every time I say it because someone screams “SNOWPIERCER”.

very insightful. mod up.

Do you actually, seriously, think that? You don't think that judges are playing around with using AI?

The government is already using AI to make decisions that affect huge numbers of people (I know this for a fact in my field). Surgeons use the internet right in the middle of surgeries. Teachers are using it to grade things. All sorts of businesses are dabbling with agentic AI to speed things up and be more competitive.

Yet, the super-overworked judges aren't touching it? I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

Personally, I lean a bit toward the law-and-order side of things. BUT. One, the law is fundamentally an adversarial process. Two, there are plenty of cases where the law is basically used to maliciously hack human affairs. Three, nowadays AI usage is frequently sloppy and the models are still sketchy. Four, when someone’s in court, a huge chunk of their life can be on the line.

What this guy tried, is perfectly acceptable. It’s also acceptable for the court to catch it and require the guy to submit hardcopy. If this forces a judge to think twice about feeding court cases into claude and then basing their judgement on the analysis, so much the better.

I happen to think this is a great idea. The law is frequently used to basically hack human affairs. People are perfectly justified in hacking back.

That’s a joke. They own the data, and they’ll bloody well use it as they please. This’ll get downmodded instantly, because some people here believe that a TOS has the same authority as the bible, the constitution, and the 10 commandments all rolled together into a holy document of absolute authority, immutable until the end of the universe. Sure, when you click that TOS box on your computer, suddenly the entire world will bend the knee and comply. Hashtag eyeroll.

None of the AI companies have complied with their TOSs. They’re basically unenforceable for individuals. “Opting out” is privacy-theatre. The AI companies are in a brutal war to build and train their models. The’ve hacked their competitors and flagrantly violated every copyright law on the planet. They’re not gonna let some vaporous pinky promise TOS get in the way.

First, incineration occurs at a much hotter temperature than the "don't throw plastic on your campfire it'll make bad gases" temperature that you're used to. Second, the gas scrubbing happens to remove the Cl and F and unwanted stuff like that. Flue gas scrubbing is a very old, well-understood technology. IIRC, it's basically amounts to running the gas through a large sponge that gets a continuous trickle of water with something like lime or baking soda dissolved in it. I might have some of those details wrong, but it's not advanced tech. Probably a lot cheaper and safer than dealing with an uncontrolled low-temperature trash fire that's buried inside of a mountain-sized junk heap, basically impossible to put out. That'll *definitely* put a bunch of nasty chemicals into the air and water.