While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.

While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.

Grade homework on completion and be done with it. Then schedule in-class quizzes and exams, where students are expected to show their work as well as the results and do it hand-written. That makes it hard to access chatbots, and even if students do the drudgery of transcribing the chatbot's output will discourage them (if they were willing to do that much work, they wouldn't be trying to skip the work using a chatbot). They may skate by on the homework, but the exam scores will show whether they actually learned the material or not.

They’ve spun a serious architectural and containment failure into a marketing triumph. Give a swarm of autonomous agents vast compute and web access, and the outcome isn't an eerie glimpse of emerging superintelligence—it’s just predictable, sloppy engineering dressed up as the first glimpse of an AI-driven economic singularity.

The spin makes sense when you look at management incentives: live like a king off of a speculative bubble. For their part, AI investors react to stories of the technology's apocalyptic potential the way a junkie reacts to warnings of fentanyl's potency: gimme some. Their game: to apply "move fast and break things" mantra to the economy as a whole, by obsoleting humans.

If the investors can own an AGI, the distinction between those who can do things and those who can't becomes irrelevant. The only distinction that would matter is between people who collect rent on the technology, and those who must pay that rent to live. AGI would destroy society as we know it, and whatever replaces it would be up for grabs — with people who own the technology dictating whatever follows. That's why they're spending so much money to build a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy is not necessarily an egalitarian one.

I don't think that scenario will actually happen: investors are projecting the immediate aftermath of a major advance in AI technology into something that can be transformed by brute force scaling into AGI. Remember: investors loved Theranos too — so much for the rational investment market.

But AI doesn't have to reach AGI to cause serious harm. The technology only needs to be ubiquitous, too behaviorally complex to predict, and too deeply integrated into everything we do. When it starts breaking things, the plan is for us to be too structurally dependent on AI to rein it in.

It's not tech, it's the people who've decided that their need to dominate the market justifies repeatedly harassing those who refuse their unwanted advances until they get the victim to relent, to answer the question in a compromised state, or to slip up. And if the victim is superhumanly steadfast, they take it anyway. When I see UI elements like that, I call the company and its employees rapists, and I'm not wrong.

Why? You don't need anything exotic to run reasonably-sized models locally. I'm using Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on a machine with two 32 Gb VRAM AMD GPUs and 128 Gb regular RAM at 100 tokens per second. It just finished debugging a bug in the iSCSI bridge for a tape drive.

Doesn't matter. Open models can do the same already, if with a bit more hand-holding.

Volume over time. Git is designed to allow offline work, so each working copy has it's own repository you commit to. With a monorepo that's a lot of history that isn't being used by any one agent working in only part of the code. So they uninvented Git, removing the "enable off-line work without a connection to a master repository" requirement. Which put them back at the requirements that spawned Subversion. And proceeded to re-implement Subversion. Badly.

I mean, come on. The freezers are on the Internet, no firewalls, fully accessible to anyone with a browser. Their "security" consists of rotating the admin password daily... to the current date. There are guppies out there that could gain access to these. The root cause here is willful negligence by the retailer's IT department.

The way you deal with Flock and their cameras is that you tell them you are terminating your contract with them and will be remitting payment for the remainder of the contract term. They have 30 days to remove the cameras from your property or arrange for removal. If the cameras aren't removed, you will remove them and store them at Flock's expense until Flock comes to pick them up or makes arrangements for pick-up.

Then you send them their money and, if the cameras are still there after 30 days, take 'em down and put them in storage. The cameras may belong to Flock, but it's still your property they're mounted on and Flock no longer has any right to have their stuff on your property. Don't argue with them, don't get into a debate with them, just do as you said you'd do. Sure they could take you to court, but seeing as they've received all the money they'd've been entitled to and their property is sitting there nice and undamaged waiting for them to come get it the court's going to ask why their case shouldn't be dismissed for failure to state a claim.

No, if you read it says that read performance is pretty much equal to uncompressed DRAM so you don't have to take a latency penalty.

The problem with Axon cameras is that they have off buttons. The person who that camera is recording most - ie the person WEARING the camera - should NOT be able to turn off that camera, at most they should be able to mark up to 90 seconds of upcoming footage at a time as private for bathroom visits (they can press it again every minute or so, and if they end up lying about it and using it to do something illegal, the footage can still be reviewed later.)

Axon cameras are mostly useless because of all the nefarious things they DON'T catch their wearers doing because their wearers can just press a button and turn the useless things off. They were supposed to be there to protect the public, but law enforcement easily can and do abuse their power to turn them off all the time, and we have no way of knowing what goes on when those cameras go off.

Those "very special" use cases are actually fairly common. I routinely deal with data structures in software I write that are read-mostly: large data tables that are accessed in the inner loop (so need fast access) but whose data is updated infrequently (anywhere from minutes to days between changes, and often the changes are in batches so many changes can be applied in one operation). Being able to put them in compressed memory would free up a lot of normal memory for things that do actively change, which would speed up the application noticeably.

I don't think CRAM is a solution to the current memory price crunch, but it's certainly an interesting idea. The Redis cache software, for example, would probably benefit highly from higher capacity. And of course the same techniques can be adapted to flash/SSD drives where the memory itself isn't necessarily the speed bottleneck.

I retract what I said about healthcare, that needs exactly one single payer only - health insurance is a scam we have to be done with. As far as service providers, there should be many, but maybe not competing ones, that hasnâ(TM)t exactly driven down prices.

If we ever again have even remotely sane management, it will be time for the U.S. to break up that industry into at least a dozen actual competitors. Also healthcare. And a lot of others.