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Skating to Where the Puck Is Going – Center for Security & Emerging Technology | overall I’m grateful to the AI community for absorbing so many of the professional fearmongers hitherto locked-into VR & Infosec
Really, I am. For instance, this article posits: “YES BUT SCALE, ALEC” – I disagree; we made that argument re: SPAM and we lost. Such evaluations attempt to identify dangerous capabilities such as … dangerous knowledge about sensitive subjects such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon production; capacity to carry out offensive cyber operations;
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Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide | my, how things have changed
Back in the 1980s the passage overhead of satellites was relatively rare, and amateur observer books were published about the topic. It was a matter of public interest, so much so that the weather prediction in the Guardian newspaper would list a few predicted satellites per day. How things have changed: The summary: astronomers spent
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How long before they have to reboot the ball? How long before somebody DDoSes it? | UEFA 2024 to feature “connected ball”
https://www.footballshirtculture.com/footballs/adidas-fussballliebe-uefa-euro-2024-match-ball.html
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I love SQLite but OMG the bugs from namespace pollution in Python
So I was doing an insert: Do you see the bug that caused a silent failure of the INSERT statement? Yep, that should be self.cursor.rowcount in the try block; there were zero diagnostics and zero exceptions and zero failures, just nothing being written to the database. Literally zero diagnostics, I just had to mess with
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Argentina has just elected a radical libertarian lunatic as president; I’ve no idea how much real power this person has, but judging by this video Rishi Sunak should now be gearing up & hoping for Falklands2.0 whilst Argentina gets run into the ground
After all, as late PM James Callaghan put it, “I wish I’d had a war…” ChatGPT says:
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Assuming that #SamA goes back into #OpenAI, there is only one thing I am worried about
Basically: we will never hear the end of artificial intelligence doomers complaining that the company had gotten so close to self-immolation, and how it could have spared us from having to deal with all of this novelty and innovation – which is clearly the wrong thing to inflict upon humanity when the world is so
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Family Television
1979: watching Life on Earth with my parents 2023: watching Planet Earth 3 with my family Still David Attenborough
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It’s not yet an addiction but eBay second-hand books are really really attractive
I could say in my “in my teens” but it’s more meaningful to say “30 to 40 years ago” there were few things I enjoyed more as a young nerd than finding a first- or secondhand bookshop and browsing it for several hours on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon; quite a lot of my library
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We’re back where we were during Brexit, with hot-head know-nothing MPs and ministers insisting that they can write legislation to change global reality, without any recognition of the limitations of their power. They have confused legislation for daydreams and clauses for omnipotence.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-this-is-what-happens-next
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So now we get to see what happens when a world-leading startup decides to step back from the cutting edge
Last time somebody made a miscalculation(?) this big, Meta rapidly stepped into the breach. I wonder who it will be this time… https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/CzxYbBkrFzy/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==