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Womble

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  • Year and method of last execution by country in Europe

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  • No, the body registers the buildup of CO2 as the trigger for the "oh shit I'm suffocating!" response. CO is such a dangerous gas, and you hear about people dying from it when things burn inefficiently, because it just makes you go dizzy and sleepy, then pass out and suffocate.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • Its not a Microsoft thing, also I have no idea what you are agitated about, is there some sort of pop culture MCP that is terrible for it to be linked to? Searching for it the only thing other that Model context protocol I find is "make contribution payments", "Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar LLP Solicitors" and "MCP fixings" so whatever it is, I imagine MS are unaware of it.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • Thing is, thats fine if you're doing something like working on a version controlled codebase where you can just roll back whatever the agent does if you dont like it. The idea of using a windows computer that had an AI fucking around with system settings and registry entries gives me shivers. Thats before getting into the possibilities of hostile actors managing to prompt your AI to do something like give up sensitive information by getting it to read malicious information on a website.

  • Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn

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  • Your point about poinitng (ha!) is incorrect, its pretty trivial to maintain pointing at the target. Hubble achived 7mas pointing accuracy over extended periods (thats ~0.000002degrees) with technology more than 30 years out of date. That gives you ~1.2m accuracy from geostationary orbit, which seems fine.

    The real point is getting a mirror which is large enough and perfect enough into orbit is completely infeasible. As you rightly say, the maximum potential power it can provide is equal to solar insolation time its area.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • Definitely a possibility! But dealing with "only being a normal profitable company" is a very different problem to "oops, we were selling $10 for $5 and VCs have stopped giving us money to burn, and people are using self hosted models too", which is the possible outcome for the big AI labs.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • I'm not a fan of them either, I wish AMD would step up and compete with them better (Just get ROCm into a good place FFS!), but they are definitely not one of the companies most exposed to an AI pop. They'll stop being insanely profitable but they are not anywhere near the position of openAI and the likes who have massive negative profit.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • From a quick look they have ~40B USD in liabilities and make ~115B USD gross profit. Being able to pay off the entirety of their debt with 4 months of profit seems pretty healthy to me.

  • The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

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  • It wont be Nvidia unless they play things incredibly badly, they're the only ones making actual profit by selling shovels in the goldrush.

  • Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit

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  • I think you are a bit misinformed on this, there is no such thing as an international patent. What there is is the patent cooperation treaty, where prety much all countries in the world co-ordinate patent filings against each other and allow you to file the same patent in lots of places. The UK gets you into that system as well as anywhere else.

  • Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit

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  • Those arent universal, for example to file a patent in the UK costs £310 and includes a substantive examination where the intelectual property office examine your proposed patent for novelty and validity.

    Again, I dont disagree that patent systems generally have significant problems and are abused routinely, but the point of giving time limited legal protections for people who invent something new and useful is a good one.

  • Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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  • Work, in the sense of doing the things required to meet your needs (not sell your labour to a capitalist), is necessary to survive, fucking isnt.

  • Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit

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  • Patents are fine, if someone discovers a good new way to do something they deserve some legal protection from those with huge legal and PR bugets swooping in and taking it for themselves.

    The way the patent system is abused is not fine, the number of trivial patents granted for things which are obvious next steps from existing things, and then using those as legal ammunition in shakedowns/scare offs of competetors is the issue.

  • An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

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  • Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc.

  • Netherlands set to get first-ever gay prime minister after far-right party suffers big losses

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  • I wouldnt be too sure on the UK and France yet, the far right parties in both are leading in the polls right now. The UK has a lot of local elections next spring and Frances's parliament seems like it will probably collapse and require new elections soon, maybe by this time next year if the far right havent gained significant power we can talk about turning a corner.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

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  • Not only that, but if they do engage in "DEI activities" (definition not included) then they reserve the right to take back the entire grant and and previous money the python foundation had recieved from them in the past. Its a total poison pill, and if this sort of language is widespread in government grants its going to completly gut research in the USA.

  • Generative AI is a societal disaster

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  • Alternatively, shutting down the entire internet (which is what removing datacentres is) for the sake of growing 0.1% more almonds in California is not a good trade off IMO.

  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • If we are, then I entirely misinterpreted them.

    On re-reading it seems like thats quite possible! The first and second line seem to agree with me but the third is taking the opposite postion though so who knows.

  • Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week

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  • Are we on the same website? Lemmy as a rule hates AI with a blind passion and will downvote anything that isnt frothing at the mouth hatred of it. Hence the downvotes on this post, people see it has AI in the title and isnt calling it slop or saying its cooking the planet and so it gets downvoted.

  • OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas

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  • The killer feature for other AI-powered browsers has been the built-in chatbot that sits in a side panel and automatically has context for whatever’s on your screen. It may sound minor, but many users spend all day copying and pasting text or dragging files and links into ChatGPT, just to provide context. The sidecar feature removes that friction and makes for a smoother user experience.

    Really sounds like exactly what you'd want be focusing on if you were the leading AI company and are on the verge of AGI just like you promised... Just think, people might save a dozen ctrl-c ctrl-v keystrokes a day!