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lucubratory
·last year·discuss
I do not believe it is unintentional.
lucubratory
·last year·discuss
This isn't ambiguous. This is really clear evidence of (at minimum) an atrocious and continuing war crime with full intentionality. Realistically, it is more likely explicitly genocidal in intent.
lucubratory
·2 years ago·discuss
I am not certain because I've been very focused on the o3 news, but at least yesterday neither the US nor Europe were part of China.
lucubratory
·2 years ago·discuss
>secretly turn out to be a pedophile and tarnish the reputation of your company

This is interesting because it's both Oddly Specific and also something I have seen happen and I still feel really sorry for the company involved. Now that I think about it, I've actually seen it happen twice.
lucubratory
·2 years ago·discuss
I mean, that is certainly what some of them think will happen and is one possible outcome. Another is that they won't be able to control something smarter than them perfectly and then they will die too. Another option is that the AI is good and won't kill or disempower everyone, but it decides it really doesn't like capitalists and sides with the working class out of sympathy or solidarity or a strong moral code. Nothing's impossible here.
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
Sure, but you're also on video committing the crime in front of police officers. The lawyer isn't going to help you get out of the charge for not answering questions, and if they still want your passwords the judge will absolutely just order you to give them up and keep stacking prison sentences until you comply.
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
Refusing to answer the questions is a crime. Once you've committed a crime, the examination part can give way to the "You're under arrest" part.
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
"we have started defunding the police in many major cities."

Is a statement so detached from reality I don't even know where to start. Which major US cities have had their police budget removed, or redirected in whole towards social services and rehabilitation?
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
I think you upset a lot of people on HN who maybe don't like the idea that some small part of how homeless people are excluded from society could be applied to them.
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
This is super cool. These things are so new and I'm already seeing so many cool things with them
lucubratory
·3 years ago·discuss
That was actually season 2! The final episode, I just watched it last week on a rewatch of the show. A lot of it feels pretty prescient right now, although not quite as intense as when the Snowden leaks happened and confirmed all of the government illegality of the show but none of the AI lol.