blibble·il y a 4 mois·discuss> and destroys what it is for.ooh rumbledtime to switch accountsthanks for the heads up!
blibble·il y a 4 mois·discussthe UK hadn't fucked off every single one of its allies in the space of 12 months
blibble·il y a 4 mois·discussthe pride aspect is gone thougheven if you've got an outstanding project, now everyone has to wade through no much noise it'll never be found
blibble·il y a 4 mois·discussor the taxpayerthe high end probably pay the same sort of tax as professional footballers
blibble·il y a 4 mois·discuss> it's not technically difficult even if it is unethical.kettle, pot, black?I received the following offical spam last week from GitHub:> Build AI agents with the new GitHub Copilot SDKdespite never granting consent for marketing material(and yes, there's a GDPR complaint now working its way through the national regulator)
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussit's not logical, at allit more or less guarantees the other side will retaliate with nuclear weaponsat which point the likelihood of escalation to strategic nuclear strikes goes through the roofand if that happens our current civilisation is finished
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discuss> We have prior art that says humans don't just launch all the nukes just because the computers or procedures say to.previously no-one had spent trillions of dollars trying to convince the world that those computers were "Artificial Intelligence"
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discuss> Neither of your citations has any relevance to this at all.it's a common pattern in GPs commentspretty certain he just asks the "AI" for citations on whatever he's written(for a VC he sure has a lot of time to waste shit-posting on the internet)
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discuss> But it's not like the USA is now DPRK.I'd say the perception is probably worsekim is simply not a threathe also hasn't threatened to invade us, and he's not kidnapped any foreign leaders (recently)
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discuss> What tech companies? At the end of the day, it's all about capital and IP.it's a critical industry, so can be regulated to prevent foreign interferenceairlines aren't granted freedom of the air unless they're domestically ownedand exactly the same approach can be applied to tech companies
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussthey won't stop itthe US was really, really foolish to crystalise the risk by locking out those judgesprior to that it was just a theoretical people were yelling aboutnow it's real, and there's a continent of hungry businesses lobbying for resources to be diverted domestically, instead of being sent to the USand that's the EU's bread and butter
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussI'm waiting for the end of the tax year then I'm leaving my employment of 15 years and having a career break away from computersif it's not over in a year or so I'm finding an alternative career, or retiring early
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussseems to be forced on meevery piece of software seems to have gained useless AI featuresmy employer is rabbiting on about it constantlyif I go out socially people bring out their phones and ask ChatGPT everythingit's just horrible and I hate it
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussalien civilisations will come across earth, learn about Darwin Awardsand then award one to humanity for hooking up spicy auto-complete to defence systems
blibble·il y a 5 mois·discussthe problem situation is that it ends up embedded in so much that it can't be turned offand the idiots are racing to that situation as fast as they possibly can
ooh rumbled
time to switch accounts
thanks for the heads up!