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New comment by unrented7977 in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

unrented7977 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:06:12 +0000

That statement misses the point completely. Asimov's entire shtick is that AI will always work around the rules no matter what the rules are or how you try to deliver or enforce them. AI computes an optimal outcome and does what is necessary to make that happen.

Asimov would tell you that a modern LLM would try to skirt the rules exactly the same way, regardless of whether it had ever seen the Three Laws or not.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Programming Isn't Special"

unrented7977 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:59:44 +0000

Is a print of the Mona Lisa still art? Or is it worthless slop by virtue of having been created by a machine?

New comment by unrented7977 in "Serverless Horrors $10,811.41"

unrented7977 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:58:24 +0000

"The market" is not a benevolent fairy godmother with your best interest at heart.

It is a machine that optimizes profit and absolutely nothing else. It does not and cannot consider what is "good" or "right" or even "legal" unless and until one of those things directly and indisputably hurts profits too much.

This is magical thinking. "The market" is fundamentally incapable of making things better for you, the consumer.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

unrented7977 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:42:22 +0000

Sure there is, we can make school affordable.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits"

unrented7977 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:22:11 +0000

This is a narrow-minded conformist perspective. Because you cannot imagine (or cannot be bothered to consider) a lifestyle different from your own, you think it is a Bad thing.

New comment by unrented7977 in "America Turned on Data Centers"

unrented7977 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:53:05 +0000

And your comment is American propaganda, so it's equally safe to disregard

New comment by unrented7977 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

unrented7977 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:25:35 +0000

How many other people are you willing to kill for that freedom?

New comment by unrented7977 in "Our approach to EU text provenance rules"

unrented7977 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:03:05 +0000

Because they make the code harder to read

New comment by unrented7977 in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

unrented7977 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:00:10 +0000

Airplanes don't flap but they fly, just how LLMs don't think but do reason.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses"

unrented7977 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:04:04 +0000

It's still a torment nexus, but at least there's whimsy in this one. Beats the alternative.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

unrented7977 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:20:37 +0000

Because aquifers and water tables don't exist

New comment by unrented7977 in "cp: -r or -R?"

unrented7977 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:15:40 +0000

No, "special" and "regular" have very specific meaning when next to "file"

New comment by unrented7977 in "Lawmakers look to require AM radio in new cars despite automakers' pushback"

unrented7977 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:54:53 +0000

It is hard. EVs need a lot of extra design and shielding in order to not absolutely destroy AM reception. That's the main reason manufacturers are arguing against them.

New comment by unrented7977 in "An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat"

unrented7977 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:19:45 +0000

Because it was trained on the entire internet

New comment by unrented7977 in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

unrented7977 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:32:33 +0000

You're right, which is why they include forced arbitration clauses to prevent you from exercising your legal rights to sue them into following the law.

Since you won't go through forced arbitration and the arbiter will always agree with the company, they are not exposed to your petty legal action and are free to do whatever the hell they want, regardless of whether it's legal.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Pi 1.0"

unrented7977 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:36:10 +0000

I like TUIs because it's impossible to fuck them up with unlabeled hieroglyphic buttons floating in a sea of padding.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens"

unrented7977 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:23:23 +0000

Yes, unequivocally.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers"

unrented7977 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:19:11 +0000

They can't patch anything, it's a hardware feature. They'd have to spin new silicon for every single product in their lineup and trash the likely millions of units they have in stock.

This is no different from a CB radio where you can lift the cover and tweak some adjustments for higher (read: illegal) TX power. This is a normal, expected development feature which requires extraordinary effort for users to find and abuse. Espressif is almost certainly in the clear

New comment by unrented7977 in "Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal"

unrented7977 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:53:59 +0000

As much as I'm sure that gives you the warm fuzzies to think about, it's utter nonsense. That's not how this works.

New comment by unrented7977 in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

unrented7977 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:56:16 +0000

That's not how that works. If you kill someone and are tried for it, guilty or not, that does not give you license to go kill more people. You can be tried for the same crime if you do the crime again.

You cannot be tried multiple times for the same instance of a crime.

Since OAI et al don't appear interested in stopping crime, they can (and likely will) be tried again the next time they do it.