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No matter how much you load Link he is just as nimble and spry. Encumbrance isn't an issue in the Zelda games

>As humankind spread throughout the known universe, technology advanced and eventually machines were made that would make decisions for people. This propelled the creators of these machines into a new technocratic class, effectively controlling the worlds of the common people.

It's right there in the opening paragraph of OPs post. It's the people who controlled the machines that could not be trusted. We're not worried so much about about AI going rogue. We're worried because people who control it have aleady gone rogue. It is too powerful and dangerous a tool to be trusted in the hands of primates.

You got me wondering what the Imperium of Man's official stance is on AI:

The creation of a Silica Animus is also a terrible crime under Imperial Law by the decree of the Emperor of Mankind Himself as stated in the Treaty of Mars which united the ancient Mechanicum of Mars with the Imperium of Terra in 739.M30. Tradition holds that such unholy constructs are inherently evil and a perverted abomination in the sight of the Omnissiah.

Adeptus Mechanicus religious doctrine states that the Machine Spirit of a Silica Animus is a twisted mockery of the soul of a Human, always treacherous and insane.

Ancient texts tell apocryphal stories, shrouded in metaphor, of such murderous and powerful creations during the Age of Technology, and the legions of the "Men of Iron" that served them in the great war against Humanity remembered as the "Cybernetic Revolt."

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Silica_Animus

"How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be? Will I see my children? I don't know"

-Musk speculating to Tucker Carlson about what might happen if Trump failed to take the election in 2024.

I find the anarchist traffic of developing world cities to be more aligned with natural game theory principles than proscriptive protocols. For a computer it may be simpler.

Camera's can't see in the dark. There is no perfect sensor. Waymo relies multiple sensor modalities: Cameras, Lidar, ultrasonics, radar, gps, inertial measurement units.

Toronto is embroiled in partisan politicking around bike lanes. The provincial premiere is overriding city council to have them removed, which is what I suspect is the motivation behind the parent comment.

Even amongst the Chinese models there more with an anti-china bias than a pro one, according to these tests.

It's exactly the same, actually. The point of my comment being that Wolf Blitzer's daily campaigning for war (with calls for regime change among other things) happened on the same CNN that is presumably not pro-war-with-iran enough to be convincingly unbiased for the parent comment.

CNN's biggest backers spent decades campaigning for war with Iran. Every day for years and years Wolf Blitzer would take some time in the situation room to tell us all about the impotance of binging regime change to Iran, going back to the 90s.

If even CNN are too biased for your tastes then it's probably not them. It's you. Hegseth is also a true believer.

People form communities when they have shared stressors that they work together to manage, but what remnants of that lifestyle remain today is little more than a skeuomorphic throwback to more vulnerable times.

Everything about modern life is designed so you do not have to directly depend on anyone for anything. You can instead be entirely dependent on a series of distant and unaccountable corporations to get through the day.

>and almost certainly more than you will ever know

That's something you should question. While Doctors know more than you about medicine in general, one usually does not have to do a lot of research to know more about their specific ailment than the family doctor does.

They AI agents are rogue because the people who own them are rogue. Silicon Valley is a criminal enterprise.

We all had every opportunity to know about climate change, many rejected those opportunities. Even those who know full well the reality of climate change and acknowledge it are still giving tens of thousands of dollars a year to fossil fuel companies and not losing too much sleep at night over it.

Propaganda only works when you're telling people what they want to hear, and nobody wants to hear about climate change. For everything that we stand for and believe in to hold merit climate change needs to be a farce.

I want to say we can't have it both ways, but actually we can. It just means our grandchildren can't have it any way.

We're already in jail. Nobody is getting off this rock.

The word "risk" implies there's a chance the water won't heat up when you put the pot on the stove. It absolutely will, it is, and we all knew it would.

No mention of wool? I swear by good old wool to keep me warm under my high-tech $400 rain jacket.

This past spring I had some flooding in my basement, some blankets got soaked so I hung them up to dry. One of the blankets was an old Hudson's Bay wool blanket, and after 5 minutes 99% of the moisture drained out into a puddle under the blanket. That's the awesomeness of wool, no synthetic fibre can do that.

Everybody has a phone, they're costing 25% more. GameStop is selling second hand PS5s for $1400. RAM prices affect most people.

Theranos was first funded and mentored by Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. She's 100% tech.

What isn't a dead end? What path is it that you think you can take that doesn't end with you dead and forgotten? That's right, sucker. There isn't one. The joke is on you, and the joke is cosmic.

Nature is not harmonious, it is in constant flux. Saying it can bounce back implies there some state of equilibrium for it to bounce back to. I guess there's no reason why it can't bounce forward.

The NSF was funding Gain-of-function research in Wuhan at a lab overseen and managed by an international scientific consortium. All these institutions have incentives to modify the narrative. At the start of the outbreak I would have bet anyone ten bucks that we'd never get to the bottom of it.

"The Siberian Incident", "Devil's Pass", Incident", Lake" also all deal with outbreaks of various sorts originating from Siberia. It's a trope.

That's what it always was. That's what the comics were.

Pro Wrestling is a global phenom, it's enduring popularity has spread to all corners of civilization. Africa, China, India, the Middle East: they all love pro wrestling.

Tough guys in bright costumes bopping each other on the head has universal appeal, it transcends all language barriers.

The purpose of any technology is to expand one's powers, and whatever those powers expand to is conquested. Bronze was imperialist but iron was more imperialist, and gunpowder was more imperialist than that. Oil was even more imperialist and now chips and AI are having a go at it. Even the harnessing of fire and the cultivation of spoken language was imperialist, and a necessary step towards today's AI boom. It's the the latest ring to rule them all.

Most people were still accessing Facebook via desktop in 2010, and the term "engagement algorithm" had yet to be coined.

Lots to look forward in the near future for theatregoers who've had it with Silicon Valley:

Oct. 5: Artificial (about Sam Altman) premieres at the New York Film Festival

Oct. 9: 'Musk" and "The Social Reckoning" about Musk and Zuckerberg drop

Oct. 16: "You can see everything", about Elizabeth Holmes

I'm pretty sure adversarial fashion hoodies are something you would only wear if your aim was to stand out. Porch thieves just pull their cap low and look at the ground while nicking your package.

"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like... yeah, he's sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn't work out"

-Guess who said that in 2014?