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Prederick wrote:Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’
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And, finally, Twitter appears to have been lying to Elon Musk about bots quite extensively.Is there any way to punish Twitter while also forcing Musk to pay the 1 billion fee at the same time? How do we make is so they both lose?
Musk tendered the offer without doing any due diligence and the money folks went along because he's Musk. It's all on him.
I dunno. Having Musk own it seems to be punishment for both parties?
I dunno. Having Musk own it seems to be punishment for both parties?
Having Musk own it will immediately turn it back into a platform for the people who have previously been kicked off of it. Short of being able to burn the entire service down, I'd like the deplatformed pieces of crap to remain deplatformed.
Yeah at some level, there’s no functional difference between the countless humans covering Noah Kahan’s new single on TikTok and if those countless NPCs were robots instead of teens.
As Jonman points out, I’d say we’re actually extremely well prepared for ai generated content, and have been since we started playing video games with computer generated dungeons in them.
That said, I am eternally grateful that I am old enough that I will never be forced to take part in the upcoming
Matrixmetaverse that, despite half a century of sci fi warning us about it, seems inevitable. What a rotten, horrifying idea.
I also think that we are well prepared to weather the incoming flood of ai content by essentially ignoring it, but I do worry how it will impact the overall culture I exist in. For example, I have successfully ignored the entire "influencer" ecosystem, but I still feel the impact it's had.
I have successfully managed to stay off my own lawn, but I still worry about those darn kids.
(Nah for real though I get what you're saying and you're not wrong to be concerned, I'm just being a dick.)
Honestly, we gotta start beating some of these people up.
To be fair, paying a "subscription fee" so that you can try to get support for parts of your body when they start to malfunction is a fair description of the US Healthcare system.
yup...
Prederick wrote:Honestly, we gotta start beating some of these people up.
To be fair, paying a "subscription fee" so that you can try to get support for parts of your body when they start to malfunction is a fair description of the US Healthcare system.
To be fairer, we gotta start beating up those responsible for the US Healthcare system too.
Thanks Obama
Bigots of a feather, flock together.
Funny how this came about after NBC covered them.
They almost immediately got a .ru backup running but it’s barely functional and Keffals is already organizing a campaign against the company that hosts KF’s primary servers.
I'm sure if we just keep voting Republican, we'll all get our own trickle-down Xanadus before The Event.
Damn, Love, Death, & Robots 3 Robots is dead on.
I bet one of these underground shelters gets filled up with nothing but clones of a guy named Gary.
We need to keep track of where Bezos is shipping all the water chips. It's going to matter.
Or one dude and a crate of puppets.
They almost immediately got a .ru backup running but it’s barely functional and Keffals is already organizing a campaign against the company that hosts KF’s primary servers.
KF was just dropped by their .ru provider and Josh Moon, owner of KF, released a statement saying that he has two other potential providers lined up but doesn’t expect them to be able to handle the site, and that he “doesn’t see a situation in which the site is allowed to continue operating.”
Good start to the week.
Not entirely sure where this one goes, but I'll put it here for now.
They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Virtual reality or augmented reality? Who will get quantum computing first, China or Google? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader?
The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
The brains.... are bad.
Someone either hasn't read a particular chapter from World War Z, or has and thinks they can buy a different outcome.
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I think it might have been a year or two since I last read this thread.
It's like our spider picture thread, but for a different part of the brain.
I really need to rethink about reading this thread before I go to bed...
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Another article from the land of duh.
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