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  • It would be pretty trivial for their backend system to interpret the images server side and build an identification profile for each vehicle. This way, even if you remove your plate, your vehicle can be identified.

    They already are.

    That’s what Nightshift/OS whatever the fuck they changed the name to, the law enforcement portal that makes use of the camera feeds and cross references with/across the various law enforcement databases, empowers.

    The publication briefly mentioned it obliquely, but the article is about the camera software itself and they’re being remarkably restrained in their reporting. To avoid legal challenges perhaps.



  • The commenter you replied to, basically described basic human-ing for you, and why it works and has always worked, in the past.

    Your rebuttal is focused on…the Internet as an object of stagnant sociocultural jamming, is that right? I think that was the gist.

    I won’t engage that directly at the moment, as it could just as easily be insight with poor communication skills behind it, as it could be a strange conspiracy theory, as it could be propaganda meant to deflate and discourage.

    All equally plausible places to come from, because you keep repeating the same bits and not going deeper.

    We should be choosing lower effort and maximizing for effect. Protests are high effort low effect. Online culture jamming is low effort, high effect. It is logic to anyone who thinks about this honestly

    What is a low effort-high effect action you believe we should be taking?

    On the same token, if your tactics to achieve a strategy which you’ve yet to share are sound…what are high effort and low effect actions we can force the opposition into making?



  • Hey! Some of us sociopaths don’t give a fuck about titles, position, and power!

    In times of abundance we just happily feign whatever is in the best interest of being able to happily feign, which usually helps out the tribe and that’s why we got to keep making enough babies to pass that along.

    Ethics and morality are complex/expensive, no doubt about that. Everything you said (except equating all sociopaths with the same angles of sociopathy) is true, no question.

    Luckily, our selfish drive to get back to the comfy and unassuming does tend to result in…headaches for the other, less integrating members of the worst of humanity class.

    We’re outnumbered though and can’t tell precisely when it’s time to stop trying to feign along and go dispassionately tear apart the obstacles standing between us quietly living in the metaphorically cave near the village and basking in the sounds of a happy society whose periphery is all we need to get by.


  • They’re not compatible, under the current paradigms. You’re not wrong, imo.

    But neither is the commenter you’re replying to.

    It ain’t going away, and as it is (in every respect from function to marketing to access) ‘AI’ is currently absolutely poisonous for mental development, no matter the age.

    But that’s not inherently married to the way it will always be used.

    Imo, the ban should be in place all the way in K-12, for no less than 5 years, and some resources devoted to enable school districts to engage the necessary mechanisms to assess how to marry the use of AI technology into educational use, with an actual thorough process in place to assess how and if it can be done in a manner beneficial to educational goals.

    It’s not enough to have a techbro declare it the best thing in the world for learning, a child development psychologist declare it the worst thing to exist, and an education expert sitting between them looking anguished.

    They need to all be locked in the same room, metaphorically speaking, and honestly arrive at a form that is meaningfully impactful to student outcomes (if one can be found), before it’s something that schools should attempt to use within the curriculum.



  • These ones?

    We uh, can’t.

    Not in the timescale that matters to us, with the resources and technological development available at hand.

    But generally speaking?

    You would need to introduce a different, runaway feedback loop that modifies/cancels/counters the first.

    Like fungi did when they learned to eat lignin, or cyanobacteria introduced when they started spitting out that horrible and nasty O2.

    Time and scale are what will do us in.

    We just didn’t pace ourselves at all, societally speaking.

    Weren’t able to build the chemistry and engineering tools needed to meaningfully expand the scope of the system beyond our planet to access any other resources or solutions beyond it…

    And still cannot agree to any meaningful planet side changes that might even remotely allow for later pipedreams, because they need to happen now.

    The Futurama ice cube joke is funny, but we can’t even attempt anything half as harebrained on a fraction of that scale.



  • Could we build an AI network to fight this?

    There’s a reason why some very bright people in tech with decades of experience aren’t dismissing AI whole cloth.

    The dangers are vast. The social harm is a real effect. The brain atrophy is an actual pitfall to be avoided, even at the cost of tying yourself to the metaphorical ship mast.

    But the possibilities are also real, else they wouldn’t be using them against us.

    The hatred is fine and all, but I really really wish the kind of people who frequent the Fediverse and spouted all of the encouraging anti-establishment stances…also minded their basic Sun Tzu:

    If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.



  • All of which the physicist can trivially account for, control and variable test around, should the requested question be updated to require it.

    The requested question did not include “In all possible scenarios”, thus determining the volume of the sphere via physics calculation at the most average of conditions, is the most correct valid solution, absent further requirement parameters.


  • Trump still couldn’t work out…

    It doesn’t matter what anyone fills the rest of the sentence with, the answer would be the same.

    There isn’t an initial attempt to work out things in the way one would expect an adult to perform, not from a perspective like that. Just an infant-like grasping towards anything that might be desired and enters the perception.

    Most of us, when that exploratory reaching landed on things, concepts, people, that it doesn’t have a right to, experienced swift correction whether by caregivers who cared to educate, or the sting of consequences.

    There wasn’t anyone who cared for that lost soul, but now any possible pity is decades and decades long gone.

    And there also weren’t many consequences…

    Until recently.

    That is why all the reactions to not merely having his whims taken as imperatives results in response behaviors that are so infatile.

    They almost literally are.



  • There should be a button to ban anyone that submits any changes using AI from your projects.

    I do not at all disagree.

    From a technical reason standpoint:

    AI/LLMs/ML/Expert System Output, they all require proficiency and understanding by the operating user to actually live up to any potential, debatable or objective.

    From a data rights/licensing/sovereignty/FuckTheCorporations Standpoint:

    Fuck 'em. Anything that Claude Code/Codex or any other corporate backed proprietary model/inference pipeline produce is sin tainted, and feeds the beast. Ban on principle.

    From a social perspective:

    The linked article says it all better than I could.

    This is all said, as someone who does use open source and privately developed both versions of LLM, ML, and Expert System backed/using/supporting systems.

    I’ve scraped zero places I had no right to, and asked permission in several I had licensing rights to, but morality compelled me to not be a shit head human who doesn’t understand the idea of consent regardless.

    I’ve provided zero AI driven PRs to anyone, and even though my ass was fired not even a month ago and thrown into the blender of the current US labor environment, my repos are still private, I haven’t tried to sell anyone any bullshit SaaS ideas, and I haven’t tried to have a soulless automaton go roam the Internet for me and insert itself anywhere for the clout that may help get me hired.

    It is not that hard to not be a shithead with the technologies, even if that’s what the techbros are marketing it under, and anyone who can’t not be one with them, doesn’t deserve to be welcomed into projects they would need to put some heart into understanding before the idea of automating any portion of them should even be considered.

    Slopcoders would never be able to strip the included AI tool identifiers so it would likely be one of the most accurate automated ban tools ever made.

    This is only true of the sort of caliber of mind who thinks clicking ‘pay subscription’ on a tool that parrots the stolen knowledge they wish they had with a fraction of its functional spirit because the mind attempting it cannot direct nor supervise what it cannot understand, equates to having said knowledge at all.

    This is admittedly the grand majority of those causing the problems described in the article, but is by no means everyone.

    That is not a humble brag of any kind, I really wish more people understood the danger of bad actors being the only ones proficient in the use of “AI tools”.

    They are gleefully camouflaged right now, right under the idiots and the hate.

    Many of those PRs aren’t clout seeking, they’re sabotage, and some of them are sneaking right by without said AI identifiers in a multitude of critical FOSS projects, because of how easy it is to tell bad AI from human authorship and how hard actual enhanced human authorship is to detect.

    Cory’s reverse centaurs don’t all ride for the same side, and this battlefield will need more focus than just stopping Chad from using his credit card to make his LinkedIn and GitHub look good.


  • See, the strangeness comes from the expectation that the players involved and their institutions, are separate entities which are beholden to operating with the best interests of their respective sovereign government structures.

    Were this so, ambassadors to make those phone calls would have still been around and the method used in this part of the geopolitical dance choreography.

    They aren’t separate entities, regardless of what the charters, laws, and mission statements say.

    It is not the US and the Russian Federation’s interests that this meeting was for.

    An oligarch is an Oligarch first, and a member of their natal nation-state second. I hope I don’t need to spend a whole lot of time going over the US side of the transnational Oligarchy.

    But the head of the spy agency wouldn’t be discussing the effects of an attack with a foreign nation, but he would be a good messenger to send for an interdepartmental memo going over the long term strategy and the quarterly reports, from the Operations department over to the Finance department.



  • Ayup. I’ve noticed and wondered the same thing. Very logical and great ROI, it spreads itself

    And the cost is what?

    A little Thiel anti-christ buffoonery here, a little Zuck has to make a blog post about the wonders of the happy AI there?

    Their biggest issue is just self correcting the sentiment gauge for their vanity, the machinery to ensure they are the only ones who use and control the tooling with proficiency is already in place from their perspective.


  • Aqivex@fedinsfw.apptoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksIs this true?
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    You were supposed to run up in time to kill the first hard-dicked goblin you see first, before it dies in its scripted sequence.

    Then you can loot the sticky gobnut item, and if you interpret its lore correctly, you’d know that finishing the side quest where you find the lost canoe tribe would quell the hunger of the hard-dicked goblins, changing their world models and drops so you can’t craft the helmet recipe after that.

    Duh. Git gud.