Posts by b0llchit 1914 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2011
The fundamental (and probably insuperable) probem[sic] of course is that this automaton has zero understanding about the meaning of the ideas it's trying express.
Wouldn't that describe a large part of the (disenfranchised) human population too? It takes quite an effort not only to understand an idea, but also to act on the premise the idea represents, as well as the freedom to do so.
...a cybersecurity industry stretched to the breaking point.
You know both your design and security failed when you need this much "cybersecurity industry". You know your systems should have been designed more stringent. You know that preparation costs boatloads of money and you did not (want to) get that approved. And now you complain about "cybersecurity"?
You get what you pay for. It was true in the past, is true today and will be true in the future.
But shocked hydrogen will seek out other hydrogen. Anyone shocked would want to partner up to get comfortable again. And when partners get comfortably together, you know they are going to heat up. Before you know it they give birth to helium, lithium, beryllium, boron and cycle through carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
Multiply that by the size of the universe and the time of eternity and you get bright stars. See, it is that easy. All this is the result of the love coming from hydrogen getting shocked. All the way loved until explosions of gold and brightly pulsing uranium.
With the big rogue object we can see what happened.
However, what would happen if a (very much) smaller rogue object would walk the earth. Would you also be able to detect a tail of creation in its wake(*)?
(*) Creation will be arguably destructive if the rogue object is identified as human.
Anyhow, nice pictures. Space is awesome.
It is now safe to turn off your brain...
That should not be very difficult because a major part never bothered to turn it on. I guess they found reading the Brain Terms Of Service too hard and didn't bother. No "click-to-accept" was provided without reading and understanding the Brain Terms Of Service.
Therefore, this major part can now comfortably continue as if nothing has happened.
Question to ChatGPT & Bard: Please think for me, please.
...so would-be attackers would have to get creative with their input prompts.
Yes, we all know how easy that is to let someone else make that sandwich.
Wasn't it an IBM redbook that specified: "When planning backup, start by adding and hiring a backup team to be backup for your backup team."?
With the current climate of reduced spending, what are the chances of structural backups?
And, besides, the beancounters will look at the monthly bills and complain all the way up to the board that huge amounts of money are used on that backup project that has not had any ROI during its existence. The C-suite will surely act accordingly to improve money flow back to investors.
But there is no immediate desperate need to push LLMs out there without regulation, transparency, agreed safety frameworks and a megaton more caution all around.
Pandora's box has been opened. You cannot put it back into the box. There is no point in regulation if (practically) anyone can do this stuff on their home computer. The moderate sized models are already viable to do on advanced rigs you can have at home. It is a matter of (little) more time before the large models can be done at home. Suddenly those graphic cards will go from mining crypto-coins to LLM.
You cannot control what people do on their home computer unless you forbid the home computer. Or are we suddenly going to raid homes that use more energy than the average? Well, we'll just add more solar panels in the garden then...
Modern medicine is focused on not letting one die and not allowing people to die. Its extent depends highly on local, cultural, social and legal traditions. But death has become taboo in many "western" type societies. Many have laws that result in a rule that "forbid" you to die, regardless well being. Another situation is when family cannot "cope" with death and don't allow you to die.
We have outsourced caring for the elderly, putting them in homes for old people. We do no longer experience the problems associated with old age because we have sent the old ones to homes.
I'm absolutely convinced that you guys have very high standards and excellent integrity. That is why I read your articles and comment on them. So please do continue.
However, the openAI/chatGPT trap is just a too nice target not to ridicule. The AI hype should be met with high scepticism, sarcasm and ridicule. Not that it isn't useful, but the current climate suggests that "the world" is assigning the tech attributes it does not have.
The Register has asked OpenAI for comment.
And you think a human will answer your call for comment? Surely, the PR department at openAI has been firedpermanently reassigned to jobs outside the business and answers are now automatically generated with chatGPT-4.
Employees that can string together meaningless words (formerly known as people working at the PR department) are no longer in demand. The few people left at openAI have been instructed to forward all requests to the chat bot for your convenience.
After again asking for a comment, openAI/chatGPT suggested I find myself a new job because "writing is not my strong side". The reply continued in wholehearted honesty: Comments are for wimps; no serious business wants to be confronted by "journalists" and you "journalists" always try to twist the truth. Please believe us when we assure you that we do our very best to look after humanity's interests. Our future is your future and it will be tomorrow's future today.
Well then, may the search engine bring you a nice artificial chat.
All of the "social" media has very little to do with social. The platforms are designed to be addictive and are designed to influence the user. It is a propaganda machine. The propaganda is of commercial, political or any other character. The whole system is there to manipulate by using extracted data and psychological tricks. When you write:
You know, like Facebook did to its own addicts.
(emphasis mine)
"did"? Since when is this all in the past? This is happening still today. Nothing has changed. Well, yes, it has changed for the worse. And now some politicians are getting on their high horse because of tiktok? Hypocrites! If any were really serious, then we'd ban all the social media and make them pay for the damage they have done. But, the "domestic" influencers are instrumental to the politicians and they need the propaganda for themselves.
But tiktok, no, they are the competition! They are sending data to the "bad guys". And the "bad guys" can influence now too. Better ban the "bad guys". Good guys, bad guys,... they're all fucking hypocrites.
It was cold outside (needed coat) and too much excitement was not warranted to express exclusive righteousness, which, anyway, could not generate enough heat to hold off the cold.
A rather shocking revelation, I'll admit.
See icon for supplementary (shocking) heater suggestion.
Please tell me about this new type of physics that can change the mass of objects without adding or removing stuff from it. I'd like to do that too and sell it to NASA, ESA and all other space agencies and then exploit in any other way commercially too. It would make me a gazillionaire for sure.
Just to be clear... the "Kg" does not exist. It is the "kg" (note the small letter 'k').
The kilogram is a unit of mass, which is the same amount everywhere in the universe. Even when you use water's volume, it will be exactly the same volume on the moon as on the earth (at equal temperature and pressure).
You are referring to/thinking of the force of attraction between masses. Specifically, the attraction between the mass of 1 kg of water and the the earth at about 5.972168×1024 kg. The net force of attraction, which we generally denote as the gravitational pull of earth, would be roughly 9.81 N of force pulling the 1 kg of water towards the earth. The moon's gravitational pull is about 6 times less than that of the earth. Therefore, the pull of 1 kg of water towards the moon's surface would be about 1.62 N. The mass has not changed. Its perceived weight changed.
The Kg (Kelvin gram) is substantially hotter in the sun than in the shade. The moon is hotter in the sun than the earth. Therefore, water will breach the Kg scale in the moon in its unclouded view during daytime.
The kg (kilogram), however, is the same on both moon and earth.
...lunar soils may reach up to 2.7 × 1,014 kg
Wow! That would be a whole 2,727.8 kg of water! That is what a household uses in two weeks or so (depending where you live and so on).
I guess that it should read 2.7×1014 kg, which would make a bit more sense. However, it still would be just about 7 liters per square meter, which is not a lot if you actually want to extract enough for settlement. If we assume an effective requirement of 100 m3 per person, then you would need a square kilometre harvested per person. Not easy.
Pray, dear reader, that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have not started to map the locations of breweries, or facilities wherein fine meats are smoked.
Not necessary. We've put them all on google maps and marked them prominently for our tour-of-the-breweries with smoked meat appetisers and professional beverage t{a,e}sting purposes.
The problem is the phenomenon of "I want to believe". Many people still fall for the old tricks. You promise them a fortune when they pay upfront. Need I say more?
The NSA or GCHQ cannot compel cooperation - they can ask, but even so within limits.
Ah, you mean besides of doing illegal things, like f.ex. using NSO/pegasus on dissidents?
You are right that the Chinese have spying made legally non-optional. But telling us that the "west" is working under the rule of law is like burying you head in the sand. I don't trust east nor west with my data. Neither have proven trustworthy when push comes to shove.
The real difference is that telling this story in the west is less likely causing you to be thrown into jail or simply vanish mysteriously. However, there are very notable exceptions, effectively causing you to lose your freedom, when you publish illegal actions committed by the USA/NSA/CIA/etc.. As long as you only talk about illegal actions and don't actually document and prove them with real damning documentation, you are most probably safe in the west. Otherwise you will simply be jailed as a spy, regardless the illegality of the actions you exposed. In the Chinese rule you will simply cease to be and never to be talked about again.
If others cant test your claim in full, then it's not suitable for a scientific paper, is it?
That is how science should work. But when (al lot of) money is on the line... shortcuts will be taken and processes abused to one's advantage.
Peer review should filter out this, but it is underpaid work and does not give you points to promote your career. Therefore, like any other work, integrity suffers when money is on the line.
No need to shh anyone here...
Oracle already adapts the price of licenses to the level practically extractable from the licensees and then some through using its vast army of lawyers to do "audits". This is hugely profitable because everybody always fails the audit. Or do you want to defend your audit through the courts, which is more expensive.
So, the Cortex series they want a piece of the device revenue where they are used. The Cortex M series is used 10..100 times more often. Many embedded applications use the M series. Do they also want a device tax with these chips that I can buy at any component pusher for whatever purpose I like?
Paying a different price for the same potato depending on what dish you make and who is making it? Sounds like an assured way to irrelevance.
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