Posts by Ken G 708 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Apr 2021
"I’d be putting my energies into building AIs whose sole purpose was to predate upon existing AI models by using every conceivable strategy to feed bogus data into them, interrupt their power supplies, discourage investors, and otherwise interfere with their operations.”
I've now started wondering if I'm an AI.
Nuclear power is a useful contributor to carbon neutral power generation. Europe (and it's semi-detached neighbour, the UK) would benefit from more of that.
Kicking it off to serve the current AI bubble is pointless since there's a 99% chance* that will have burst before the first reactor is designed, let along got through planning approval.
* with a 0.99% chance that AI will work as intended and provide us with smarter and smarter machines designing portable fusion generators and a 0.01% chance that it will work not as intended and make us it's duracell bunny bitches ala The Matrix
I don't know if the British Prime Minister reads El Reg, but this Europe Day article (May 9th) was followed after the weekend on May 12th by a White Paper condemning immigration, especially skilled immigration.
The damage this has done to our country is incalculable. Public services and housing access have been placed under too much pressure. Our economy has been distorted by perverse incentives to import workers rather than invest in our own skills. In sectors like engineering, for example, apprenticeships have almost halved while visas doubled.
But arguably even worse is the wound this failure has opened when it comes to trust in politics. It is a wound, as I said on my first day as prime minister, that can only be healed by actions not words.
The Russians didn't defeat the nazis. That was the Soviet Union. Ukraine lost more people fighting the nazis than Russia, per head of population so why back Russia over Ukraine? The USSR was led by a Georgian then so why back Russia over Georgia? Russians aren't a different race to the rest of Europe so saying this isn't racism.
There is no-one in the Russian government today who fought the nazis. There is no-one in the German government who was one. Look at their actions now.
If you ask someone their name and they tell you something, you've got to assume that's how they pronounce it.
Many yanks have Irish names, both given and surnames but pronounce both incorrectly by Irish standards. I imagine the same is true for Polish names.
Can you talk me through that one, please?
I'm not arguing the principle, just confused as to the application.
"I think there should be a law whereby, if a multinational corporation cuts jobs anywhere, it does not have the right to create jobs elsewhere before a given amount of months."
Given the corporation is multinational, which country should make this law, the one where the jobs are to be created or the one where they are to be lost?
Or the one where the company is registered or the one where beneficial ownership rests?
The name of the country, in English, is Ireland. The name of the country, in Irish is Éire. You're using neither.
Silly me thought that the Irish were 'elbow deep' in the Great Hunger at about that time but perhaps they were trading opium for potatoes all along?
No to both of those.
The nationalist side hadn't worked out their path from union to independence, any more than Ireland had in 1922 or Estonia in 1989. They assumed a transition period when they could work things out. That's not an unreasonable assumption, a lot of people thought there'd be a transition period from your EU membership to your preferred Brexit, not a hard break.
The EU said the lights are on in the window and Scotland is welcome, though they'd have to meet the same requirements as anyone else. That would involve having a written constitution and a working central bank (not necessarily it's own currency).
At the moment the Scottish banks issue Scottish pounds as promissory notes pinned 1:1 to English pounds and need to have the same value of English notes in their vaults as Scottish ones they hand over the counter. They do this by holding 'Titans' or £100million notes. A future Scottish central bank could do the same, but maybe float the exchange rate rather than having it 1:1.
OK, that post tells me two things, firstly that you're not Irish and have never lived in Ireland (because otherwise you would know RTÉ) and secondly that you have what I will politely choose to call strong views on the effectiveness of the principle of subsidiarity within the European project and on Ireland's immigration policy (again without having lived there). Care to explain what exercises you so much about either?
I know, I know, that's supposed to be the job of you Brits but we've learned to make do over the past century plus.
So long as that 'destruction' takes the form of higher living standards, longer life expectancy and being welcome in more countries then I guess we'll continue to put up with it.
I haven't formally worked Tech Support in a very long time though I am called in informally and I'm often involved in root cause analysis.
I am completely useless for these purposes because no-one is ever able to reproduce a problem when I am in the room. When I'm there, things work perfectly, as soon as I leave they break again.
The converse is sometimes true, there have been several systems where I've been told those never go wrong or you can't do anything to hurt it from the keyboard and 5 minutes later...
Not yet, but they're building it. Imagine a President for Life, without the Life.
A virtual Trump can look and sound like the original and translate any policy from Musk and Thiel into Trump-speak but will never stroke out.
Look out for a minor medical episode from which he bounces back stronger but stops appearing in public.
(unless there are doubles, can you imagine a more financially rewarding but spiritually draining job than being Trump's double?)
Yes, I and another external worker were amused by a new Scrum Coach (old Project Manager) having a daily standup which every day grew in length and size of team until it was about 30 people in a small room taking an hour to an hour and a half to micro-manage issues. The only part of the original intention that remained was that no-one was allowed sit down.
Drivers these days, the don't know how to keep in lane or reverse into a parking space because AI does it for them. I meet drivers who don't know how to clean the plugs or how far to pull out the choke.
Airline pilots these days, they have GPS and collision avoidance radar and autopilots bringing them everywhere. Some of them don't know how to hand prop their engine and refuse to fly with their head out in the open air.
And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you
I would love to see several TV series in the Bond universe;
Paloma
Ideally with Ana de Armas continuing her role from NTTD, played as traditional Bond adventure.
Q Branch
Comedy about the trainee boffins and the adventures that provoke them to build exploding Lilos or chainsaw watches.
Moneypenny
Set in the 1960's with flashbacks to WW2 to show how Moneypenny became M's secretary in the style of Agent Carter
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