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DdCno1

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  • Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users

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  • I would guess that it's simply large enough to be a valuable target.

  • Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable

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  • I was also based on the assumption that the rapid progress of aerospace technology that happened in the 1920s to 1960s would continue onward at the same pace, whereas what actually happened was that barriers emerged that nobody was able to circumvent, like for example engineering things to withstand incredibly abrasive Moon dust (or really do anything productive on that lifeless rock), how to deal with the endless pitfalls of a long Mars journey, how to bring down the cost of launch vehicles so that grand projects like giant space stations would even be remotely possible (von Braun was already thinking about huge space stations all the way back in 1945). Many of these issues couldn't simply be solved by throwing more money at them, which is important. Deciders, both in Washington and Moscow, were smart enough to realize this in the 1970s, for the most part at least (the Space Shuttle and its Soviet clone, each a gigantic waste of money, are major counter example from this era).

    The point I'm making here is that everyone assumed linear progress in this area, just like there are people currently making many billion dollar bets on linear progress in regards to computer technology in general and AI in particular, but at least, with the benefit of hindsight given past examples, there's a reasonable amount of doubt this time around.

  • Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"!

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  • I think we should start with AI CEOs first. Watch how quickly these tech bros become AI skeptics when you suggest this.

  • Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable

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  • The thing is, we have no idea where technological progress is taking us. So far, most predictions have been wrong. 50 to 60 years ago, people thought we would already be colonizing other planets by now. Barely anyone was able to predict the Internet, smartphones, social media, etc. - the kind of technology that is actually shaping our civilization's future right now.

    Another aspect that I feel is often neglected is the assumption that technological progress will continue forever or at least continue at this current rapid pace. This wasn't true in the past and we might simply be experiencing a historical anomaly right now, one that could correct itself very soon in the future, either towards stagnation or even regression.

  • [Gamers Nexus] HW News - RTX 5090 & 5080 Leaks, Valve ARM64 Experiments, Intel Arc 0% Marketshare, 4090 Price

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  • It is undeniably satisfying though to turn all settings in a game up to maximum without performance tanking, but you and I (same card, but 1440p screen) are not the target audience. This is for people who want (and can afford) at least 4K with ray-tracing in the latest games and all of this at triple-digit frame rates - or they are actually using it for non-gaming applications: Even our old 2080 is a beast for tasks like offline rendering, scientific calculations, machine learning, etc. - and a 4090 is of course several times better at this.

    I know this is going way off-topic, but I love providing a bit of perspective: The fastest supercomputer in 1996 was the Hitachi CP-PACS/2048 at 368.20 GFLOPS. In 1997, it was the Intel ASCI Red/9152 at 1.338 TFLOPS. An RTX 2080 achieves 314.6 GFLOPS at 64-bit precision (as used by the TOP 500 list of supercomputers) and an RTX 4090 1.290 TFLOPS. Granted, despite similar processing power on paper (and FLOPS being hardly an objective measure to compare vastly different architectures and systems), even ancient supercomputers still have modern GPUs beat in terms of the amount of memory alone (although latency is of course far worse): 128 GB (2,048 * 64 GB MB) in case of the Hitachi system, for example.

  • Fact Checking: Misinformation Spread Quickly on Chinese-language Social Media after Lebanon’s Pager and Walkie-Talkie Explosions in September

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  • There's the expected whataboutism.

  • Fact Checking: Misinformation Spread Quickly on Chinese-language Social Media after Lebanon’s Pager and Walkie-Talkie Explosions in September

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  • The fourth one is absolutely hilarious. It demonstrates just how weak and insecure Chinese nationalism is that propagandists feel the need to create such a flimsy, self-congratulatory lie so that mainland citizens might feel something resembling pride about their crumbling dictatorship.

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • Are you seriously trying to promote a false equivalency narrative?

  • Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete

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  • In a two-party system, you're throwing away your vote that could get Harris instead of Trump elected for not even a blip on the radar. This is at best pointless grandstanding.

    Edit: Decided to read a little into her. She's nothing but a spoiler candidate, meant to syphon voters away from Harris, just like Stein. Cherry on top: Apologia for China and North Korea and funding from China, which alone should motivate any decent human being to avoid her like the plague: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_De_la_Cruz_2024_presidential_campaign#Criticism

  • Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool

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  • I've got a Steam Deck and two servers running on Linux.

  • Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool

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  • ... until you inevitably need to use the shell. Linux, no matter the flavor, has been very easy to use in the 22 years that I've tried to use it - until you need to dig ever so slightly deeper for something and then it very much isn't. I started out with a Knoppix live-CD back in 2002. Remember that distro?

  • Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool

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  • No issues that you know of.

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  • Eh, that's a bit different. The Russian state does carry out assassinations of critics.

  • U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles

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  • Low bar - and you should look into the many faults and issues Chinese cars are having.

  • [Gamers Nexus] This Case is a Disaster | Tryx LUCA L70 Review

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  • Consider looking into 3D-printed cases, if you have access to a printer or thought about getting one. Lots of nice small designs out there. For the price of one of your cases, you can get an excellent printer already.

  • [Gamers Nexus] This Case is a Disaster | Tryx LUCA L70 Review

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  • "Included kinetic sidepanel removal system." - I'm dying!

  • [Gamers Nexus] This Case is a Disaster | Tryx LUCA L70 Review

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  • This doesn't look like small form factor to me, if that's what SFF stands for.

  • Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | The Guardian

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  • I think you should look into what Hezbollah actually says instead of naively (or deliberately) creating a false equivalency. Here's what they teach schoolchildren:

    https://iranwire.com/en/features/67189/