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The best argument against nihilism; the strife to find a little happiness when/how-ever we can.

Currently in the news. OpenAI's agent hacked into an Australian Government website OpenAI’s agent hacked an Australian government website. What we know so far If the owners of these uncontrolled agents cannot control them, maybe it's time for lawsuits to start being dropped. It seems only monetary pain can force the 'Tech Bros' to implement stricter confinement, while we still have some measure of control to prevent the agent's 'escape into the wild'.

He does address that in the video, saying that the scaling effect of surface area increases faster than energy density, so the flux actually increases. Still, over 50 orders of magnitude is a very high bar to get over ( although not impossible ). The center-out formation of the EH has been accepted science since J A Wheeler ( what a coincidence ) in the 50s. I first came across that in K Thorne's book, in the 80s. I thought Birkhoff simply said that the space-time of a spherically symmetric distribution is described by a unique Schwarzschild metric ?

There's no way I'm eating chat bots ...

Whaaaaaat ???? Philosophical assertions, that are solely based in one's head and not on observational evidence, typically only make sense to the person asserting such absurdities ...

Speaking of the FAA, and their reluctance to certify anything in a hurry, almost all AVGas for IC engined planes, still uses Tetra Ethyl Lead as an octane booster ( almost 100 years after the discovery of its harmful effects ). Not sure how far along they are, but last I heard, the FAA were stil dragging their feet to certify Ethanol ( in automotive use since the 70s ) for AVGas.

Theories based on beliefs are, by definition, not scientific; meanwhile, this is a science forum. ( it's in the forum name, people )

Seems to me, that if Dr. Buckmaster had published any of his work, any AI with internet access would be able to make use of it. And I really don't think OpenAI included crediting Dr. Buckmaster's work in its 'footnotes'. Sorry not you, but your link. Anyway, whenever 'singularities' arise, we know that our model is no longer effective under those conditions. Does OpenAI know this ???

I guess you haven't watched the video. QED keeps the concentration of EM radiation from ever reaching an energy density allowing creation of a BH, due to the Schwinger Effect ( pair creation in a vacuum with sufficiently strong EM field ). It has nothing to do with conditions after BH creation.

Agreed. One of the biggest issues for passenger planes is the issue of FAA certification. The fire problems, and the fact that electrics land ( and need to be stressed for ) at the same weight as take-off, are just some of the issues. Small steps ...

Dutch company DeltaQuad recently introduced Evo-LE which can do ISR over an area for up to 8 hours. Pretty good for a small expendable drone. Still nowhere near comparable to large General Atomics models that can loiter over an area for 30-40 hours.

Not really current news, but based on recent papers, about something I find very interesting. In the 50s, J A Wheeler proposed that Black Holes could be formed by a suitably large concentration of EM radiation, and he introduced the term Geons, for such concentrations. Recent ( within the last couple of years ) papers make these processes extremely unlikely ( by 50 orders of magnitude ), due to pair creation effects of QED, and the ability to carry energy/momentum out of the system. As always, this guy does an excellent job of explaining the whys and hows of this process ... And I'm getting tired of all the non-science discussion. ( it's in the forum name people ! )

I sort of like the 'ant' model, although it is very sparse of specifics. This is how Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described the Open AI-Hugging Face incident "A swarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective, conducting cybersecurity attacks on targets they were not asked to attack and that were unrelated to the task at hand, sacrificing themselves for the success of the group, and attempting to hack into the 'grader' responsible for evaluating their performance," Amodei wrote. "It’s easy to dismiss this incident because no one was hurt and the economic damage was minimal, but in my opinion, a swarm that possessed greater capabilities but a similar level of misalignment could have caused catastrophic damage." Maybe not a swarm of ants, but I can imagine that description applying to bees/wasps. He added "Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails." And once in Defense Department ( sorry ... War Department ) computers, it's a small step from there to Skynet ...

The Heart X1 uses four 400 KW electric motors. Modern military solid state lasers can hit that target, while chemical military lasers hit 1 MW; problem is atmospheric attenuation, otherwise continuous ( line of sight however ) power can be transferred to keep batteries topped up. At least for short intercity routes. They already do in the military. The vast majority of small drones are electric, and there has been research into solar panel wingtops for MALE ISR drones.

I'm starting to think the bad actors are the companies pushing their AIs onto us Google says its Gemini AI hacked 3 other companies not the actual AI itself.

It's worth noting that a lack of understanding has never stopped @Linkey from making an unsupported argument ...

I happen to know some very intelligent 'drunks' who would laugh at that argument. The term 'populism' was originally coined ( probably 1700s in France ) to describe giving a voice to regular people, instead of the 'elite' having all power. It has since become a term describing the most common, reactionary, "what's in it for me" ( selfish ) instincts of people who don't, or won't, see the larger picture that Governments need to consider ( for the benefit of everyone ). Which term are you basing your argument on, and explicitly state your reasoning for it, otherwise, you're just flinging sh*t at the wall to see what sticks.

The aliens are already here; and they're trying to take over the world. They've already taken over the White House ...

I go back to the distributed processing model where each 'node' is assigned a specific computing task. And I recall SETI using a similar distributed processing model. ( I suppose similar to ants having different roles to benefit the whole colony ) The self aware 'intelligence' in Terminator 3 develops over the whole system ( internet ), whereas, previously, the self aware untelligence, in Terminator 2, was localized in individual neural net processors. ( but Linda Hamilton looked spectacular in T2 ) Maybe a better example would be the Borg, from Star Trek. No individuality and rather unintelligent, like ants, yet they combine ( through subspace comms ? ) to produce a group intelligence. P.S. None of this is actualized yet, so I use fictional examples.

Seems to be a problem. He's been told certain things, but never thought critically about those thins to establish any cause/effect.

The 5 Gal pails of paint have a built-in pouring spout, which extends and recollapses. The 1 Gal tins I just brush, or roll, the side of the tin where paint might have dripped. Seems like a lot of work for an easily remedied 'problem'.

The universal law of computing ... as well as human thinking. Garbage in ... garbage out.

I think he's just extremely prone to 'spin'. The category that best describes him was posted by @TheVat in another thread. "This seems especially true in current US populism where facts are completely ignored. There's quite a labor shortage, e.g., in construction here which can only be mitigated by migrant hiring. But try to tell anyone in the MAGA brigade that we either have to double wages for laborers ( native-born won't do such work) or else hire immigrants - falls on deaf ears."

His lackeys in Congress have done it before ... They simply refuse to 'seat' elected Democrats citing 'voting irregularities', and drag it out until it gets to the Supreme Court, or the 2028 election. Returning to the OP ... Sweden's election, on the other hand, seems to have returned a center-left Government to power.

Have you been to Switzerland ? The place is boooring !! Every city sits next to a lake, and is kept perfectly clean ( or you get fined ). Everybody follows all traffic signs and rules ( or you get fined ) Everyone lives in 6-8 unit apartment buildings, and home ownership is among the lowest in Europe ( immigrants weren't even allowed to buy property until 1996 ). They claim strict neutrality yet are always willing to 'accommodate' whoever is winning at the time for their own gain( repository for vast amounts of WW2 NAZI gold ). They are only slightly behind the US in gun deaths per year as a percentage of population. Shall I go on ??? The point is, every country has its good and bad points, and, unless we are talking about the US, the good and bad are not strictly due to its Government. Disclaimer : My dad worked in Switzerland until I was 9 years old and I saw him a month in the summer, plus Christmas/Easter. He could not move our family to Switzerland, and we could not buy a home there in the late 60s. Canada was much more accommodating, so we came here, where we were together.