And Google does this by reversing engineering the code for AdBlock’s extension to figure out how it does what it does, so they can find a new way to break it. But I guess that whole DMCA ‘reverse engineering code is a crime’ thing doesn’t apply to Google....

Well it’ll certainly ‘connect the dots’ to one mindless hallucination after another anyway....

It does make the faulty — dangerously so — presumption that all points of view are equally valid. Anyone with even a shred of intellectual and emotional capacity can tell that they most certainly are not. And that’s when the AI isn’t just completely making shit up, which AIs do. All the time. Because they have no…

My exact sentiments.

Transparency for thee, but not for me (also applicable to law enforcement).

Counterpoint: I am one with the force, and the force is with me.

It’s a complex problem — you want your heat source to both retain heat readily so that less of that energy is waste heat (lost before being used productively), but it also needs to transfer or radiate that heat quickly too, otherwise it can’t be used as a heat source (the target application won’t receive enough of the…

Because what the disinformation pushers needed was more and better tools...

“I mean, *WE* aren’t creating that sort of thing. Users might, but we aren’t.”
-- OpenAI

The whole reason they wanted and pushed for this was a complete absence of transparency or oversight. It’s backdoor through which US agencies can spy on literally anyone, anywhere, at any time, because everyone and everything is online, connected, and that’s all part of an international network. So by going through…

This type of propulsion tech is the next ‘evolution’ of the chemical rocket, and is a *HUGE* mile marker on the road to becoming a space-faring civilization. And this is also where NASA is at its best -- pursuing ‘pure research’ technology demonstrators that push the envelope of what humanity can do. NASA should…

Security through obscurity, ie proprietary software, is always going to be worse. We know this, because there have been far more and worse security lapses, flaws, and bugs in proprietary software than open-source software. Pretty much the entire public consciousness around this issue has been because of a complete…

Of course employees falsified records. That’s not a surprise. The monumental failures of Boeing’s aircraft allow for no other possibility. Properly designed and maintained aircraft do not fall out of the sky, nor do they have parts fall off them before, during, or after flights. So the question isn’t *IF* they…

The Theoden and Aragorn both showed what a good *LEADER* should be like. Whether that comes with title of king, president, emperor, general or whatever else is entirely beside the point.

There’s a distinct possibility that the discs will last longer than manufacturers willing to produce the hardware to read them. Case in point: 5.25 and 3.5 ‘floppy’ discs are still out there, still readable, but only if you can find a working drive to read them. CDs are only hanging on because of legacy usage in the…

People driving to work is good for ‘shareholder value.’ The people in charge of corporate America are shareholders. Therefore, forcing everyone back to the office is ‘good’ for them. The damage caused in generating all the juicy, juicy ‘shareholder value’ is a problem for someone else. Externalize the costs, privatize…

I can see both sides of the argument of working with animals/children. If they’re professional and talented, children can delivery some truly incredible performances. On the other hand, if they’re arrogant or spoiled, you can also get some truly awful experiences being anywhere around them, regardless of how good they…

Maybe someone can get SpaceX to use Starship launches to collect Hubble and either service it directly in orbit (I suspect this might be too difficult given how old and far gone Hubble is), or bring it back down to be properly serviced (maybe even overhauled updated), and then relaunched as Hubble v2.0. Good PR for…

The Real-ID form got held up. Apparently, they failed to provide a valid address for Texas. They can’t seem to confirm whether it’s a US state or not.

This is, once again, looking at how the technology exists now without understanding how it’s progressing. It won’t be a ‘single conglomeration’ output. For exactly these kinds of reasons. It will be layered. You’ll have the 3d models, the textures, the world geometry, the characters, their voices and dialogue, all as…