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Isn’t giant neutrinos the thing that destroyed earth in 2012?

Yes because that’s the biggest problem with Microsoft right there, their Chinese engineers.

Just combine the two.

How to build a really awesome powerful pop rocks.

Just to be clear, if you know where to look these recipes are available online. So all the AI is doing is making it easier for the average idiot to access this information, but people who are stopped from accessing the information simply by it not being super easily available, are probably not going to be building bombs in the first place, at least not to completion.

It’s not even that hard, at least conceptually, to build a dirty bomb. The difficult part would be getting hold of the radioactive material.

That article does not contain any actual evidence of any wrongdoing by Facebook. The reason I don’t think that they are listening is that would be an utterly insane amount of data and 99% of it would be worthless.

The clinch would be someone pointing to some actual data, which is why I keep asking for the packets, and yet years later no one has ever produced them. No cybersecurity expert has ever been able to show me a packet, it’s the simplest thing in the world and, they can’t find them. If you’re into a conspiracy theories explain how that works. They are allegedly listening to you except there was no evidence of any data is going to the Facebook servers. So how are they getting it?

Facebook have a lot of data and people really aren’t as random as they think they are I’m sure they can algorithmically get this data without having to resort to to listening on the microphone.

The actual packets would be nice. Since you obviously have that evidence because you’re saying they “literally” do it would you mind providing it?

Right but has anybody actually run a packet inspector on the data, or even confirm that it is sending packets back and by what method?

Because everybody “knows” China does this but everybody also “knows” that the Facebook app listens to you. As far as I know no evidence has ever been provided of either claim. The evidence is always ooh well I spoke about yoghurts and then 3 days later I had an advert for a yoghurt, which is somewhat unconvincing as conclusive proof.

Well it turns out that ketamine isn’t the elixir of life.

Is it. I know it’s a Chinese company but is there any evidence that there is anything going on?

Except if the product was available commercially in the United States they wouldn’t have been importing it in the first place, and they’re not going to step up factories in, how long has he been in power, 6 months, it only feels like forever.

If tariffs worked a senior president would have implemented the more subtly.

He’s pointing it down his own throat though.

Do what I want or I will crash my own economy is not much of a threat.

European markets don’t tend to send the US products, it tends to be services. There isn’t anyone else, at least there isn’t anyone else who doesn’t already also have tariffs on them.

He went tariff mad a little while ago and decided to put tariffs on everyone, including nations who’ve never traded with the United States because they have a population of six people and 3,000 koalas.

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Oh no not tariffs, we won’t be able to afford… wait, hang on, we don’t pay them do we? Carry on.

So nothing’s changed then.

I didn’t say they would be good payments. Maybe you’ll be able to afford a blank, if you save up.

I don’t think we’re ever going to get there until we get off this idea that LLMs are in some way going to achieve general intelligence.

It also doesn’t seem to have much of an upside.

As the robots break down your defences and prepare to incinerate you you look around smugly and say “thank God I don’t have any retirement savings”.

Meanwhile in a parallel universe you are living in 2050 on social care payments. While everyone around you is taking trips to the moon.

What’s all that nonsense about what’s his face tidying up his affairs because he thinks AI is going to kill us all.

If it is going to kill us all I don’t think updating your will is going to have any effect on anything. Such obvious hype, it’s ridiculous.

“Our product is so amazingly brilliant it’ll probably kill everyone everywhere” is exactly the kind of marketing that appeals to bosses.

When I was a kid we used to just get thrown outside along with all the other kids and told not to come back until lunch time.

We used to get up to all sorts no one cared. At one point someone’s dad took us all to the beach which was about an hour away, we all just got in this strangers car (never met him before) and went to the beach. I don’t remember my parents been even remotely bothered by that when they found out.

How many brutal murders of kids have you been ignoring?