Comment Re:Pre-crime enforcement (Score 1) 53
It looks nothing like it. We've been pre-emptively arresting people on actionable threats of imminent danger for decades. There's no slippery slope here, it's the endless flat plane we're on. There is nothing new here.
Comment Re:Cost of SSD per GB (Score 1) 33
Considering that Siri actually works now, its probably worth keeping around.
Not so sure about that. I made it all the way to 6th October 2026 without AI models on my PC and still can't see why I would want one or why it would be worth wasting 12GB on.
Comment Re:Indeed (Score 1) 30
That's not covert. We know fully well that anyone putting their phone in their breast pocket with the cameras visible is a pervert, because only perverts keep their phone in their breast pocket with the cameras visible.
Comment Re:Here we go again (Score 1) 30
And somehow we all survived.
Yes, and masturbated furiously to pictures of people in restrooms. It created new genres of porn for people's enjoyment, and created new ways to destroy people's lives.
You may have survived, presumably that's because no one thinks someone would masturbate to you.
Sidenote: a friend of mine has been shot, has a nice scar in her shoulder to prove it. She survived. Maybe we don't need laws against shooting people, after all everyone *I* know who has been shot survived.
Comment Re:Not Flock (Score 1) 115
I think Flock is accountable here, they built an AI that gives unwarranted trust. If Flock is really innocent, lets open Flock to everyone, and let anyone use it's massive cache, since it's recording the people, and the people control the government; therefore, people should have access to what Flock captures. I think Flock should be flipped, let it record the government, and government employees, and let the people monitor it, to make sure our tax dollars aren't being wasted.
Comment Re: Not Flock (Score 1) 115
If Miranda rights were written a little like the Second Amendment, police would indeed have a PD in house for this. But even the 2nd Amendment, despite 'shall not...', is regularly sidestepped. Bear in mind, though, that in many big cities the schools are teaching that police are the enemy. They fail, however, to follow that up with 0) know your rights, and 1) STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. But to make big city school systems are cheating students out of a future. It's criminal.
Comment Re:Directionally Right, Specifically Wrong. (Score 2) 127
Few outside the billionaires of Silicon Valley actually believe the hype. The average Joe is largely annoyed when their favorite productivity tools suddenly have "Smarter Clippy" shoehorned in. Or talk with some of AI's heaviest users (programmers) and you'll hear a pretty common theme: "Wow, Claude makes it easy to hit my Q3 targets, bummer it's going to put us all out of work (or far, far worse) five years from now."
Comment Re:100 abuses + 1 million arrests + 20,000 murders (Score 2) 115
If you live in a high-crime area, I have some bad news for you - The USSC has bluntly stated the police have no "duty to protect". The police could already be doing far more to help you, and are instead choosing to focus on high-value property crimes over keeping you and your neighbors safe. Do you really believe they just need one more civil rights eroding tool to finally convince them to make a good faith effort at doing their damned jobs?
What you need is the erasure of the "thin blue line", not more ALPRs to allow the police to focus even more exclusively on crimes against the rich.
Comment Re:Thing the world should accept (Score 1, Interesting) 127
The question becomes, is the upside greater than the downside?
That's never the question. No one is expected to answer that. Questions are not permitted. Asking questions is clue #1 your a Nazi.
The world should accept some bad things happening when we defund law enforcement.
The world should accept some bad things happening when the kids get trans-ed.
The world should accept some bad things happening when incarceration is obviated.
The world should accept some bad things happening when we unionize government workers.
The world should accept some bad things happening when we obviate standardized testing.
Finally, after having decided that all these things are the unquestioned purview of our most virtuous Great And Good, and a cohort of elites is entirely accustomed to inflicting whatever model for the world they prefer: 'The World Should Accept Some Bad Things Happening' For the Benefits of AI.
Ok. You're in their hands now, right where you put yourself. Enjoy.
Comment Re:Threating to "shoot up" a police station (Score 1) 53
Where do we draw the line between "crazy lady yells at cloud to vent" and "crazy lady with actual gun has actual plans"?
What actually happened here?
No where, we go, assume a threat is real, investigate and let the legal system deal with the results. People seem to think that police work extends to just acting on a phone call and calling it a day, it doesn't. Arresting some people for something which turned out to be false isn't that much of an issue, unless the arrest itself is actually violent (e.g. SWATting)
In most countries in the world people are pre-emptively detained if there's an uncertain and unclear risk. They are then investigated and usually either released or detention extended within a day.
Comment Opt-in much? (Score 3, Insightful) 33
So first it was opt in, but because nobody really wanted or asked for it, it became opt out. Still, nobody wanted it, so now they don't even get a choice. And ifans wonder why I don't like apple.
Comment Re:Jail Time (Score 1) 127
Altman is the ultimate dick.
Comment Re: Plague is a problem in Russia? (Score 2) 50
Probably worth mentioning at this time that Russia never stopped its bioweapons (and chemical weapons) research and development, which includes inducing antibiotics resistance into deadly microbes.
If this is what that is, you already know you can count on incompetent Russia to hit itself with its own weapon.
Comment Re:Directionally Right, Specifically Wrong. (Score 2) 127
So far, the printing press is responsible for more deaths than AI.
The printing press was invented at a time when safety standards were virtually non-existent, a time where workers were largely expendable, and most products of the day ended up killing people in some way or another. If the printing press were invented in it original form today it would be outright instantly banned and the creator thrown in jail for gross negligence. Sam-Altman would statistically not be alive given he's now 6 years older than the average life expectancy of a person around the time the printing press was invented.
In modern times under modern workplace laws, printing press deaths are non-existent for all but the most seriously of stupid accidents.
But really I like the point you're making. AI doesn't have moral agency and it's use determines liability, that's your point right? So let's thrown Sam-Altman in jail. After all he ran a company that engaged in an active cyber attack against competitors, governments, and released a product to people with so few guardrails that they themselves can't seem to keep it under control.