The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice The person or company that runs the bot that gave lethal advice should be charged with homicide.

A LOT of fraternities have gotten in BIG trouble for hazing practices that led to the death of a ‘candidate’.

I asked an AI to describe itself and it told me: “I am not a sentient being; I’m a program designed to process and respond to text based on patterns in data. I don’t possess consciousness, emotions, or intentions, so I can’t be held accountable in the same way a human would be.”

The other day an AI, at the end of a remark, replied: “If you have more thoughts on best practices or specific measures that could enhance clarity and safety in AI, I’d love to hear them!”

That last phrase contains the words ‘I’ (suggesting it’s a sentient being) and ‘love’ (suggesting emotion).

These ‘programs’ have clearly been designed/allowed to create a fraudulent impression that they ARE sentient, conscious, and emotional.

The words “I can’t be held accountable” also suggest that SOMEONE should be.

nobody important cares

And you’re sure of that because …

In most fairy tales, it takes more than one blow to kill the dragon…

Since the beginning of human history …

Because he knows his shit.

Not to mention all the adverts after all the stories … including anti-capitalism stories

He’s been writing a lot lately … ever since enshittification hit the fans

His blog: https://pluralistic.net/

Pretty sure a superb writer like Cory chose reverse centaur for a reason - to make it clearer that a human is becoming the servant of a machine.

A few more years? Try Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, like millions of others are!

Reading the other day a June 2011 Elec. Musician mag. Story on Moby in it, he’d collected hundreds of old analog boxes, after digital came along. Used to make his ‘Destroyed’ album.

it’s also it’s own rabbit hole.

I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time in the tech zone that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ or ‘24-track’ a great song.

Oh geez, so your electric bills go up a little bit. But in 4 more years they’ll make so much money you’ll never have to work any more, just party until the day you die!

There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.

1. Natural gas is FAR preferable to coal. I completely agree that coal is unacceptable.
2. Efficient use of existing capacity: How many heat pumps can be purchased by the decades-long costs of a 1GB nuke? Can your country subsidize low-energy lighting? Installing more insulation in old homes?
3. Datacenter urgency is B.S. … AI slop was supposed to be the topic of this post

You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries Of course not, but the quickest and lowest-cost solutions should have much high priority. Ergo nukes should be lowest.

(to my understanding) renewables don’t have the output and stability required to fill that void.

Your understanding would change if you actually looked into the facts and the numbers, and change even more if you’d been keeping track of what financial markets have put their money into for well over a decade.

What has worked great for France is keeping their nuclear mishaps very well hidden… as it did for the Saint-Laurent meltdown in 1980, and at the Centraco plant in 2011, for two examples.

That expenditure would displace the 10x the power which renewables + storage have already proven to do all over the world… that’s what nuclear would replace. Nuclear is never good news.

Well-done, funny stuff!

Amen.

Nuclear energy is never good news.

Solar energy can boil water too. At much lower cost, 10x faster build times, and MUCH less waste … none that has to be guarded for centuries.

Never safe, never clean, never too cheap to meter. The exact opposite of the sales pitches. Rarely built without taxpayer dollars. Name the companies willing to insure one.