cecilkorik

A true patriot, working for the people of his country, not beholden to any foreign power. Oh wait…

Technically nuclear came from a different star. The sun won’t create those kinds of heavier elements until it burns through its hydrogen and helium fuel to start fusing its way up to lead, and I don’t think it’s massive enough to actually reach the kind of supernova collapse required to smash lesser elements together into heavier elements than that in any significant amount. So technically, fission is the only the form of energy that isn’t based on solar. It’s just the still-cooling-embers leftover from someone else’s dying star, a whole bunch of billions of years ago. I guess you could say the sun’s gravity at least attracted it all into this general vicinity though, at least until the Earth’s own gravity started pulling its own weight.

The gap may be huge morally but it’s very narrow in practice. The problem is that general purpose includes any purpose, including murder. It’s rather different from airborne drones because it can be much stealthier and can simply move into position in advance, wait in silence and strike without warning and like drones it is effectively disposable so there would be very little form of effective defense against such tactics deployed at scale, but qualitative differences like that aren’t really the main point we should be concerned about. The point is, we cannot ignore the extreme, profound danger these technologies pose to the protection and continued functioning of human civilization simply because it is not designed for it. It may be too late to stop it completely, but that’s absolutely no excuse for leaving it unchecked and allowing it to run rampant.

Nuclear weapons technology never stopped developing, but as humans, we all agreed it was too dangerous to let proliferate freely, and we have kept it in check and so far managed to avoid annihilating ourselves with it. It may not be the greatest success story, but it is the best we’ve been able to do, and there’s no reason not to keep trying, if the alternative is annihilation, and I believe in both cases it is.

Are they actually radiation-hardened though? My understanding was that robots for radioactive work tend to be extremely simplistic because of that limitation, and you probably don’t want a radioactive particle flipping a bit that makes the dog decide now would be a great time to do a backflip into the spent fuel pool.

Does that mean we can start calling them “death merchants” again?

…aaaand now the workers have been Terminated. Problem solved.

B5 is a criminally underrated space opera.

No, they’ll give out individualized giftcards so that you feel like you’re being cut a check which you can use to buy the same illegally price-fixed product at new, improved, even higher prices.

If only it were that easy, if you do that, the managers will be grateful certainly, but they will also endlessly demand more proof and validation that the system is now completely safe from certain doom until they feel comfortable, which is never. In a lot of cases it’s simply easier to convince them that the system was never vulnerable to certain doom in the first place, because you were of course already 5 steps ahead of this even in the planning stages, and for some reason they have an easier time accepting that, as long as they still have every reason to believe you are a brilliant tech god who would never personally fall victim to such a common vulnerability. I suppose it’s really less about the reality of the situation and more about what kind of corporate image you are cultivating and maintaining for yourself.

Correct, we are absolutely being played like a fiddle by billionaires and corporate oligarchs. It’s essentially irrelevant whether Carney himself is doing the playing or being played himself, he’s just the elected messenger for the billionaire capitalist class.

I want the power to break governments with collective action. I fully expect the government to defy our collective action, but I think we can win. Fuck authoritarians.

while staff were transporting a replica of the Eisenhower globe

So like, is it a replica of an Eisenhower globe or is it an Eisenhower globe? I feel like that is a pretty significant asterisk here, and kind of significantly changes the narrative. Someone’s lying, and as a matter of principle I’m inclined to believe it’s Hegseth, but I’d like to know what’s actually broken. I don’t give a shit if Hegseth breaks his own toys, and if he broke a replica that can be replaced. But he seems to be the only one claiming this is a “replica”, as far as anyone else seems to know, including plaques installed at the globe’s original location this appears to be an actual globe used by Eisenhower, not a replica.

because if it’s voluntary, no one would confess.

You’re technically correct, but practically wrong. See, a reasonable and logical person would not do that, but people using AI to slop things together aren’t reasonable people, they have very little critical thinking skills and their brains are mostly cooked, they are often happy to openly admit they used AI, if not downright preemptively defensive about it. It is all us stupid people who don’t like their slop that are wrong, not them, and they want to make sure we know it and know what we’re missing out on for being such stupid backwards luddites.

Yes that’s important. I would also be happy to support more connectivity via Greenland and Iceland.

As it stands, that’s true, but the theory is that as empires fall and the edges of civilization fray, you will increasingly find there are places where that kind of petty bureaucracy can no longer effectively or reliably reach, and exactly those places beyond the reach of the failing grasp of the collapsing regimes will be places that you and like-minded individuals will begin to seek and be inevitably drawn towards. It is then that you will suddenly find your ability to build a home (or any other skill related to creating a functional and self-sufficient society) to be quite a valuable and important skill.

The fall of civilization does not necessarily have to be bloody and violent, but even in the most idealized scenario it will almost certainly be quite disruptive to the kind of lives we have been promised and continue to picture for ourselves. Change is necessary. If you do not voluntarily choose change, it will eventually be forced upon you.

I mean, that’s literally Accenture’s default business model (same as almost any consulting/professional services company), so it shouldn’t be surprising. My point is that it’s not an indictment of AI, and their AI usage isn’t actually going to go down; it’s just Accenture doing Accenture things. They’re not a charity, they’re not using AI for fun, they’re using it to make profit, and they make profit by charging their customers for every cent of AI they use on their behalf, usually with a hefty markup, in addition to everything and anything else they can justify charging against their customer’s accounts. It’s a very profitable business model, and I’m sure they love using AI for it and will continue using AI just as heavily if not even more in the future.

The title is misleading. They didn’t cap it, they just declared that if you are spending more than that, you have to be able to explain what you’re spending it on and why, giving it a business reason and a project to associate the costs to, which I expect almost all Claude users at Accenture probably can. This is simply an accounting change, not a company-wide shutdown of Claude.

Heavy use remains possible, but it now needs a budget owner.

Fair point, but not any less fulfilling than my day job already was, arguably maybe a little more fun to be spending the company’s money on nonsense. My job pays my bills very adequately, that’s normally the only fulfilling thing about it.

I could still make a great salad out of that.

I’m still stuck on systemd because I’m a lazy coward, but I know Dave from You Suck At Programming uses void linux to avoid the horrors of systemd and he is a reasonably down to earth fellow and seems fine with it.

Dacctal is even more particular and opinionated about it and used to use ArchLinux with OpenRC, but he said he was moving to Gentoo not sure if that ever happened or if he landed somewhere else.

So there’s a few options.