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New comment by actionfromafar in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:00:42 +0000

Selling it in place neatly sidesteps suspicion about how secure the NY gold really is and if it's all really still there, too.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:57:45 +0000

At least we are owning the libs.

New comment by actionfromafar in "OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:22:23 +0000

They should not have had traffic at all. The LLMs were supposed to be able to request downloads. Very simple traffic analysis could have shown that something strange was going on.

Heck, they could have had other LLMs watching the traffic if you want to be fancy about it.

New comment by actionfromafar in "OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:18:38 +0000

The XP example doesn't quite fit IMHO.

Here it's their own programs doing the things, not some other organization or nation hacking their XP.

You can say with a straight face "Russian hackers should not have hacked our XP and they are bad people for doing so" but it's weird to look at your own program and say the same thing to it.

You launched it, at least keep an eye on what it's doing.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:03:20 +0000

Clean coal, that's the future kids - America

New comment by actionfromafar in "Tesla Roadster"

actionfromafar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:34:49 +0000

Trump is an idiot and does what the last person told him. When you interact with such a person, you can't wash your hands and say "I just advised, I have no blame".

New comment by actionfromafar in "Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination"

actionfromafar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:42:20 +0000

Maybe we shouldn't take the paper clip optimizer at face value. Maybe the alien AI is not converting solar systems to paper clips (that would be visible, von Neuman probe style) but instead focus on the only really valuable metric - stock price go up!

You don't need to colonize anything for that to happen. The AIs can just sell tokens to each other.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination"

actionfromafar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:39:13 +0000

They are fighting to create ideally a monopoly/oligopoly, then enshrine their position in law through regulatory capture, which seems fairly cheap nowadays, the feds are defanged and made into a MAGA extension.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Jev meets the Trolley Problem"

actionfromafar — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:40:07 +0000

Make America grift again

New comment by actionfromafar in "Muse Spark Open"

actionfromafar — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:20:51 +0000

They also play another game, bribing the White House.

New comment by actionfromafar in "TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material"

actionfromafar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:29:45 +0000

Backups could also protect against someone actively deleting.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle"

actionfromafar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:19:34 +0000

Von der Leyen is not a "ruler" like Trump, Xi and Putin. There's no great power vacuum behind her.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet"

actionfromafar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:33:57 +0000

But will you do what it takes to make sure that it could happen again?

Amazon itself is not going to be shy about changing the rules in its favor.

New comment by actionfromafar in "The road we were told not to take"

actionfromafar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:27:17 +0000

So dramatic

"The math fits on a cocktail napkin. Keep all the efficiency and solar. Change one thing."

New comment by actionfromafar in "Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled"

actionfromafar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:41:50 +0000

Clearly a Fox host is the best military super genius.

New comment by actionfromafar in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

actionfromafar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:49:06 +0000

And weaken the brass, Russia style, until the military is just the personal Army of the King.

New comment by actionfromafar in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

actionfromafar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:47:34 +0000

Pisses in the drinks.

New comment by actionfromafar in "Solar panels that plug into your wall"

actionfromafar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:25:10 +0000

In places where people run airconditioners, they do have an effect. Peak consumption coincides with peak solar generation.

New comment by actionfromafar in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

actionfromafar — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:03:35 +0000

Russia also "keeps running". The floor is a long way down, doesn't mean it's a good idea to go in that direction.

New comment by actionfromafar in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

actionfromafar — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:16:17 +0000

Yeah, the classic image still holds true.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...