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  1. What mechanism would an AI have today to simultaneously kill every single human being? They could totally brick the internet and cause every electrical device to explode and power stations to explode, planes drop out the sky, cars accelerators stuck at 100%, trains derail and all that. That still wouldn't kill…
    by mattlondon view thread
  2. > AI won't just say cancer can be cured without saying how. It was an example, an analogy to argue that answering a question might not be as important as how it arrives to that question. Hence the “imagine”. > These people are concerned about internal community dynamics like tenure, chairs, PhDs, grad students, the…
    by gjulianm view thread
  3. cpak is the OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices.
    by xlmnxp view thread
  4. > If it's smarter than you, it can foresee everything you can, and come up with plans better than I can. I'm smarter than my dog, yet I am frequently unable to foresee my dog's actions. Serious response: we have no idea what ASI means or might be like. It's literally sci fi (at the moment).
    by hackyhacky view thread
  5. Do you think Flock is in the same category of installing PCs for police departments, when it comes to public impact?
    by throwaway7783 view thread
  6. YC strongholds like Knox County: https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/09/01/knox-county-commission-passes...
    by esafak view thread
  7. > features spouses expect to just work Never underestimate the risks of spousal dissatisfaction.
    by classified view thread
  8. He thinks this is a warning. My dude, when you're the one making it, it's a threat.
    by ChiperSoft view thread
  9. Anything that puts pressures on Nvidia's margins is going to have an outsized effect imo - margins declining from 75% to ~50% would undo all of its projected 2027 growth of 70%. And what about the purported "AI frontier slowdown" - if frontier labs stop pushing better and better models, the main way to grow the pie is…
    by sottol view thread
  10. Well then everyone is innocent except CEO's or management lol. This isn't how world works.
    by cute_boi view thread
  11. No one. But we can take a wild guess that experiments are being done in this direction. And that requires intent and system design that enables the behavior to even happen (i.e., a finger on the trigger).
    by rglover view thread
  12. It took me quite a while to "get" the "Arby's" restaurant name.
    by scarecrowbob view thread
  13. One of Europe's current (multi-)national security concerns is how much of its various economies are dependent on US software, cloud, and that a Trump executive order sanctioning any subset of those countries may terminate those economies in the same way a full stop terminates this sentence. Germans around me still…
    by ben_w view thread
  14. It’s 3x the cost of jetKVM though. For someone with 8 machines in their home lab this is a big commitment.
    by tomasphan view thread
  15. I'm not the person you're replying to, but the "72 million" is certainly a reference to two major donations to the Reform party in the UK. Nobody donates those kind of sums without wanting a quid pro quo. And the donors, as you say, are extremely dodgy. As a brit it frankly frightenes me.
    by andyjohnson0 view thread
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    by ajb view thread
  17. > The entire essay is about stopping development until it can be made more safe, with specific ideas on how to do that. No, the essay does not talk about "stopping development". That's a very clever sleight of hand made in the essay to get readers to draw this false conclusion. It just talks about building AI at a…
    by gajjanag view thread
  18. Yes, it really is. Florida is a cultural punching bag, and we take that in stride too. We have a balanced budget, no state income tax, and no flock cameras. We are close to abolishing property taxes as well. Our natural disaster response is some of the most robust anywhere in the world as well.
    by k33n view thread
  19. If they called 911 because they were worried about privacy when publically installing a privacy-violating tool, then yes, they 100% should be. Having higher standards for higher impact things isn't somehow hypocritical.
    by saghm view thread
  20. They likely are already insulated by some part of the DoD, same with openai. Add to that they're increasingly desperate for regulators to pull up the ladder and cement their position, they'll say any old shite and it'll get increasingly bizzare and outrageous.
    by weego view thread
  21. I'm well aware of the guidelines. The point isn't to actually accuse OP of being a sockpuppet, it's to point out the hypocrisy. That's why specifically enclosed the accusation with "uncharitably: ...".
    by gruez view thread
  22. There was an organization I came across that was working with private property owners to set up cameras outside/pointed at politicians, etc and sharing the footage. I can’t recall the name though
    by hammock view thread
  23. i7 CPUs have been used for all sorts of PC configurations. Your standard library at a university or college, the office worker desktop who does nothing but use web based applications for their job, and so on. The pricing difference between an i5 and an i7 aren't really that big when you go to Dell and tell them I need…
    by goku_vegeta view thread
  24. I tried to scan baseball cards recently. No app worked well. I probably tried 5. Each one was basically identical. So along with to-do apps, apparently baseball card scanner apps too.
    by Neywiny view thread
  25. I am generally very skeptical of AI doomsday scenarios but one thing I am worried about is some wannabe dictator telling an AI to do something that would be difficult for a human military to do. You can't order an army of humans to kill every protestor in their way because eventually they run into their friends and…
    by pibaker view thread