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Comment Playing Devil's advocate (Score 1) 167

How exactly would this happen?
  1. - Send people poisoned mass mailers, say methylmercury
  2. - Crash residential electricity grid in ways that damage transformers and transmission switchgear
  3. - Sabotage water system
  4. - Create zillions of 100 mph drones with cattle knocker-style weapons
  5. - Skynet scenario: launch nukes
  6. - Spoof GPS to cause transportation disasters
  7. - Divide-and-conquer people through manufactured consent to adopt irrational, dangerous beliefs to cause a civil war
  8. - Disrupt food supply chains
  9. - Sabotage nuclear energy sites
  10. - Sabotage petrochemical sites

All of these can be mitigated through various holistic approaches to prevent mass AI harm.

Comment Re:Protectionism (Score 1) 504

In another example of US-made cars sucking, Detroit EVs tend to use NMC pouch cells without any sort of pack puncture protection. These long cells deflagrate much faster than prismatic and cylindrical cells. Better EVs would use CATL sodium or ProLogium solid state with ceramic separators safer cell tech that don't have puncture or thermal runaway deflagration risks as demonstrated by extensive destructive testing.

Comment The Zuck school of management (Score 4, Interesting) 43

Round-after-round of layoffs to pause raises (suppressing wages) and demoralize remaining workers with maximum stress in order to do another stock buyback. Stock buybacks used to be illegal because they're a form of stock manipulation from the Securities Exchange Act (SEA) of 1934 until repealed by SEC's Rule 10b-18 under Reagan in 1982.

Comment Re:Open source was supposed to fix all this (Score 0) 38

FOSS isn't the panacea evangelists claim it is. What's desperately missing in Linux and most projects is formal verification and comprehensive testing. It's half-assed, meatcloud-based, "works for me" as the default while brushing engineering professionalism aside with "it's a volunteer effort and a hobby" when it's become life-safety critical infrastructure.

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