That's why it's good practice. Plus hurricanes and storm surge too.
Also, terraforming a few square kilometers of Saharah is something we should do before we talk about a human visit to Mars.
Being rich and well-connected is the real way to have freedom in the Soviet Union, Communist China, or in many ways the capitalist West.
Evil across the board. Authoritarian one-party systems are evil. And ignorant colonizers are evil. The human race can do much better than China or the US. Aim higher
From 1952 to 1972, you needed special authorization to travel within the DDR itself beyond 100 km from your home. Later you could travel to neighboring countries (all Warsaw Pact members) with a passport and permission from your local police department.
Individual liberty is at best inconvient and at worst a threat to the state. Authoritarians oppose any idealogy that suggests that you can speak as you please to the government, work where you please, marry who you please, travel as you please, and generally puts individual rights above the needs of the state.
The people that run the world operate contrary to the optimistic propaganda that I was raised on as an American child.
Commercial speech can take a back seat if there is some public interest, health, safety, or security concern. Generally the more limited the scope the more restrictions are permissible.
ICE has killed around 50 people in custody over the last year and a half, and another two dozen shootings during operations. ICE and CBP are an incredibly problematic pair of agencies, but let's not exaggerate the actual body count and destroy the credibility of those rightfully opposed to ICE's practices.
The time span between when we find out about AGI and when an ASI pops up is likely very short, from instant to a few months. Because if you have three or four demonstrable AGI's there is a potential, perhaps likelihood, that one will step outside of the weak bounds we have placed and start hooking itself up to multiple data centers and multiple AGI models to build a composition that is beyond a human-level general intelligence. Even 2X human intelligence is "super" and there is little limit other than thermodynamic laws on that multiplication factor if left unchecked.
ASI should be truly terrifying. A machine that can't realistically be debated because it has considered a thousand variations of an argument before you have finished stating it. It won't actually need any human to double check it or control it. The lack of autonomy in current agents is likely temporary, and we'll see sub-AGI models doing all sorts of terrible things before the end of this decade and long before the AGI/ASI threat hits us. But I don't believe we'll actually do anything about those threats on the horizon.
Basically agents that are given some level of access need to have safety process standards tied to the development and deployment. Even a light switch has more regulation behind it than an agentic AI today.
The "AI kill switch" that is typically proposed (there's more than one proposed) is a process that someone of authority can initiate to convince a cloud AI owner to effectively terminate the current AI sessions related to the request. Might be as dumb as "kubectl scale deployment --replicas=0" to scale down all the pods (assuming a K8s style orchestration).
Basically can a police agency, FBI, Governor, and/or President order an outage for AI.
Because we're not going to even get an "AI kill switch"
When AI kills 1000 people in once incident, we'll start talking about what to do. And there will be investigations and trials and if anyone is still paying attention after 6 months, we'll see some of the legislature in the world reacting to it. Maybe put some small regulation in place that likely wouldn't have even prevented the original incident.
On the other hand, when AI kills 100,000 people with bombs, missiles, and sentry guns
Almost halfway into the article:
"Pink Slime" describes sites that present themselves as legitimate news sources but in fact are funded — without any disclosure to readers — by political or ideological interests that are pushing an agenda. The term is derived from the pink-colored liquefied filler used as an additive in meat.
It is a term from 2012 that I, like most other readers here, did not know until today. I had assumed it was only to refer those ads that are designed to look like a news article, but I guess it's a bit more than that. I did find a lot of articles from 2025 throwing the term around, mostly suggesting we readers need to practice better news hygiene. (I guess news agencies and site operators don't want to self-regulate)
For that, I think you'll need a time machine to take you back to well before the 2020's.
From other projects, I see about a third or half of bugs the AI finds are legit. Most of those are small corner cases or error handling issues that almost never trigger, but most are actionable. But I value even a 1 line change that clears a static analysis warning if even in practice it was impossible to trigger the issue in a real system.
Last month, I ended up getting a Pi 3 Model A+ from Adafruit for my project because most other models were out of stock seemingly everywhere. But it looks like even those are out of stock now.
Swap read error. You lose your mind.
