PontifexMinimus

> These streaming services learned nothing from cable

There is constant pressure towards enshittification.

> I too am in the "it's done, it works well, don't mess with it" camp.

As am I.

One thing I would like to change is that on Linux I can paste text by selecting it and clicking the middle mouse button to paste. This is better than using ^C ^V because I don't have to get off the mousing and onto the keyboard. But unfortunately on some webshites the MMB doesn't work.

> Switch to android which has even more ads?

I never see ads on my android phone

> So, you mean, like another human person?

No human is vastly better than all humans at all cognitive tasks.

Humans can't think 100 times faster than humans.

Humans when interacting with computer networks have limitations on how fast they can do so.

Humans have millions of years of evolution, and thousands of years of cultural evolution, in creating ways of detecting and alleviating dishonesty and non-alignment with other humans; much of this will not work with AIs.

The way the EU could implement this is to mandate only using identity providers can guarantee they will not revoke people's identities, and the only way to make that guarantee watertight is to mandate only identity providers based within the EU.

> A human's value under a capitalist system is equal to their ability to create goods and services. And AI cannot make this ability smaller in any way.

Yes they can. Your ability to produce goods and services depends on the infrastructure around you. When that's all run by AIs for AIs, humans won't be able to compete.

See that land over there producing food you need to eat? It turns out it's more economically efficient to pave it over with data centers etc.

Under a US-style capitalist system the rich (i.e. the AIs and AI-run businesses) control politics, the courts, etc, so the decisions the system makes will favour AIs over humans.

> So, when it comes to the entire nation benefiting from AI, the most important thing is to preserve capitalism, and then the free market will distribute all the benefits

...to the AI-run companies!

> The main danger is a descent into socialism, with all these basic incomes

Without UBI most people (or maybe everyone) would starve.

The work at PARC in creating Smalltalk-80 was pretty impressive, IMO.

AI is different. It promises to be able to do everything humans can, but better and more cheaply. When AIs can do every human job cheaper than the subsistence cost of employing a human, humans will be economically obsolete and worthless.

Then there's the minor issue of AI deciding to just wipe us out because we're in the way.

Taking everything together, AI more powerful than that which currently exists must not be created. This needs to be enforced with an international treaty, nuking data centers in non-compliant states if need be.

I agree. My first reaction was "what the fuck's an 'M'?"

> try using obscure CPUs

Better still invent a CPU instruction set, and get it to write an emulator for that instruction set in C.

Then invent a C-like HLL and get it to write a compiler from your HLL to your instruction set.

Not constitutionally, at any rate.

> In Holland I see a lot of defeatist attitude

The naysayer defeatist attitude is also very strong in the UK.

Clearly the Israeli government don't think that.

But many times in history governments have done dumb thnings that backfired.

Nor do I, but the university administration might see things differently to us.

aka enshitification

Indeed the blurb is absurd and very off-putting. It's not a big deal that "It clocks in at under 25MB with just 15 million parameters", because text to speech is a long-solved problem, in fact the Texas Speak and Spell from 1978 (half a century ago FFS) solved it, probably with a good deal less than 25MB.

This is a very sensible proposal, however it falls flat when considering that many students who have paid for a university "education" feel entitled to a degree at the end of it, regardless of how much effort they've put in and whether they have learned enough skills to justify one.

No, because of their own behaviour. Israel might well lose the support of the USA and Europe, and if that happened the continued existence of their state would be far from certain.

What about using ssh and a SOCKS5 proxy? I would be surprised if the UK government blocked that.

The difference is that Bitcoin was an overhyped solution looking for a problem.

Whereas AI is as big as life, eukaryotes, multi-cellularity, human intelligence, agriculture and the industrial revolution. It will certainly change everything (and make humans go extinct unless we are very careful).

> It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it.

Surely there is a way to correct it: getting the issue on the front page of HN.

It's like they remembered their 1984 advert, and decided they wanted to be the baddy in it.

Nor me.

This is a very sensible proposal, that would guarantee essential tools, and would cost a very small fraction of the respective countries economies.

Which is in any case a better test of the core of coding, which is about figuring out algorithms and data structures, not writing glue code to connect various APIs together.

You can buy beer in halfs, but people more usually buy a pint.

In Britain the standard glass size is 568 ml, i.e. a pint.

Note that a 568 ml pint of beer of 5% strength is by this definition 2 drinks.

4 pints over a week is basically nothing, and if they are saying it causes ill health, I don't believe them. When I was a student I drank 10 times that amount, so did many of my friends, without any apparent ill effects.

When i try this I get:

> Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now.

Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means to block people from deshitifying their webshites.

> It's also possible for a roof mounting system to cost more than the panels in materials and labor and time.

Probably. The fix would be for the panels to be an intrinsic part of the roof, meaning they don't have to be separately installed.