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catigula··on Data Recovery CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Ransomware Victims
>Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national

Will he be fleeing as is custom?

catigula··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Because they're the exception, not the norm. These systems generally do what they're supposed to do, at least if implemented correctly. The key isn't efficacy; you need to be emotionally prepared to oppose privacy violations even if they're doing exactly what they advertise.
catigula··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
"We have you dead to rights. Check here in my fancy computer."

Just intimidation, pretty common.

catigula··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Do the lies ever end? Nobody believes this.

Talk to any Jew who has left the cult; they’re huge racists foundationally, no group is comparable.

catigula··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Had Israel been predicated in any way legitimately on the holocaust as their founding mythos, they certainly would not be engaging in genocide.
catigula··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
>The Law of Return offers citizenship to Jews wishing to immigrate, as well as non-Jews with at least one Jewish grandparent (see "Who is a Jew under the Law of Return?"), as well as their spouses

This is clearly a racial ideology.

catigula··on Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
There's a study for this, Bowling Alone.

Hint: it's diversity.

catigula··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
They can write brainfuck. I said less fluency.
catigula··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
You're probably doing something the LLM has less fluency with.
catigula··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
I'm trying to be nice here, but yes, it's a racial nationalist policy. We don't have many of those countries left in the world.
catigula··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
That country has long been known as a haven for American pedophiles/criminals who end up fleeing the country.
catigula··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
Is this statement more or less true than it was in 2023?

It takes one second of critical thinking to falsify this claim.

catigula··on Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There
Any anthropic observation requires merely a satisficing condition, which generally means that most requisite conditions are not optimal, including consciousness :)
catigula··on Gemini 4 Argon
Interesting. I don't play either LoL or retail WoW, but I am a historical WoW player.
catigula··on Gemini 4 Argon
I'm a Pro user and I do not have it. Seems scuffed.
catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
Weird how everyone is insane except for you.
catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
So, something with the potential to kill all humans isn’t notable to you?

What does Geoff Hinton have to gain?

This is a conspiracy theory FYI.

catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
Looking forward to your thesis where you’ve solved perpetual superintelligence alignment.
catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
Is Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton marketing?
catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
This is a strawman attack, aside from simply being an inaccurate claim. The notion that AI poses no danger and all claims to the contrary are IPO manipulations requires extensive conspiratorial thinking.
catigula··on AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
You don’t see how or why AI systems could be extremely dangerous, despite literally all experts converging towards a consensus that they are?
catigula··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Yeah, you might get away with a singular 'wrt' with some consternation, but two?
catigula··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
Why wouldn't they? We have no consumer protections so this type of thing is happening everywhere all the time on every level of society.

People with personality disorders, depression, anxiety, etc. all algorithmically being plied for attention. It's disgusting and nobody is doing anything about it, which will eventually erode buy-in in the system until someone is willing to let it all go without an adversary even firing a shot.

catigula··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
You don’t see a problem with LLMs in wet labs doing biology work?
catigula··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
This work seems directly dangerous to me?
catigula··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I made an argument of inference that underpins all philosophy.

You made an argument to solipsism, which historically means you aren't worth discussing philosophy with.

catigula··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I’m not interested in having conversations with people who are bad-faith, deliberately or indiliberately obtuse or otherwise non-responsive to logic.
catigula··on A warning about 'model welfare'
You’re mistaking what is evident from what is philosophically knowable.

It isn’t knowable to you that I am conscious.

However, it is evident.

catigula··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I basically accepted that LLMs could not possibly be conscious when a simple reductio was posed:

“My dog is zero percent persuasive regarding its conscious experience. However, it’s evident that my dog has conscious experience.”

It’s obvious that there’s no link between persuasion of consciousness and consciousness. I could write a story with a character, Dumbledore, that does everything in his power to persuade you that he’s a conscious entity.

He’s still just a character.

catigula··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I largely agree that this claim is likely correct, but as far as I understand the science, this specific claim;

>They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations

Is incorrect unless you’re being extremely pedantic in an intellectually unhelpful way.

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