That’s called thinking

I’ve recently assembled in my head one story, that went on for 13 years, that is, roughly speaking, connected to antisemitism (also cowardice).

I won’t go into details, but honestly Mossad and the state of Israel have a reason of existence bigger than my mood swings and feelings on the scale of this decade or that, and I can understand the ethical logic that, if there’s going to be plenty of bloodshed anyway, then rather it’d be their way.

I might have said very rough things about the state of Israel many times, but with all its crimes its existence means that some Jewish people don’t have to live at someone’s mercy saying “thank you daddy” every day. I’d drink to that if it weren’t work time.

Not really, more like “if I can find a key to the door, I can open it, so engraving a fixed combination for the door lock on the same key doesn’t change much”.

Poisoned data is fundamentally valid data. Concepts of logical connectivity and statements being true or false are something needed to use it.

I’m not talking about LLMs. I’m talking about future developments learning on LLMs, eventually there will be some resolutions of conflicting knowledge and logical connections, otherwise they won’t become remotely as useful as advertised.

I said, in other words, that it doesn’t matter what they do until this problem is solved. So if this is described as some sort of rebellion against AI (or “AI”), then no. At the point where it becomes dangerous technology in itself and not just for economy, it won’t be.

If, suppose, I were optimistic over this technology, but pessimistic over its current stage of development, I’d expect this to be a cure. It’s a problem they’ll have to solve. A test they’ll have to pass.

If somewhere inside those things someone makes a mechanism building a graph of syllogisms, no kind of poisoned input data will be able to hurt them.

So - this is a good thing, but when people say it’s a rebellion, it’s not.

This and other such news read as if those people were, in their own sense, similar to LLMs. Doing something on this buzzword or that.

What do they mean by quantum technology? There is already quantum technology all around us, it’s laser sights, optical media, lidars, optical cables and what not. There are also nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

They mean post-quantum cryptography? Well, very nice, but of what I’ve read, it’s a ready solution for a problem that might be 50 years away, despite promises of quantum computers to break encryption the very next year being common.

And then - what can they do to help anything vital, what the hell does a senator know about industry needs?

You should consider effects of scale.

With the size of China it’s simply easier to do “targeted investments”.

They are almost big enough for autarky with modern technologies and conveniences.

Bitcoin. A technology trying to circumvent our highly regulated financial system? Which is mostly used to … and evade sanctions?

So, if you are born with an unfortunate citizenship and location, you do need these things exactly. Bitcoin is one tech-bro thing I worship. It fulfills a purpose. The world would be worse without it.

I really would have expected governments to crack down harsh on everything bitcoin and cryptocoin and would have expected that owning or using them would be as illegal as owning child porn.

That’s because you live in a first world country and think, apparently, that everyone does or that those who don’t have only themselves to blame.

Yes. This is also similar to Strugatsky brothers’ fiction where people of the future seem like a society of scientific workers.

Same, except mid-00s.

I like minidiscs, even if I’m too young to remember any popularity of them, I remember discs for Sony PSP which are similar in idea, an optical medium with protection like of diskettes.

And optical discs are not such a common good to think a protection case is too expensive or something. They get scratches.

But there’s another moment - optical discs also degrade with time faster than one would think when they were common. Mostly. Some are good.

About cryptocurrencies … I don’t believe that actually. That is, I believe many of them are scams. Or, one can say, very weird fundraising schemes for their creators. But there are uses, as one can easily feel when being in a sanctioned country.

SteamDeck 2 will still have an ARM.

Of what little I know, ARM core designs should be relatively easy to repurpose for RISC-V ISA, once the set of extensions normally used becomes certain. Most of the work being in decoders.

So it just comes down to a still new and not entirely stable ISA. Like with network protocols.

I was going to write something hateful. But you are right here.

While reading this comment, I’ve realized that like 15 years ago I was dreaming of such a world of cheap devices, partially paid off by their users creating entropy for some deus-ex-machina big data thing that everyone needs. Those dreams had such a retrofuturistic flavor.

I mean, were this done in a way preventing personalized spying, could be nice.

There’s an effort combination here - to buy things that just work, you need not only demand, but their sufficient production and companies choosing that niche to concentrate, because they don’t have an option of something with “AI”.

It’s like negotiation, of what to produce. There’s elasticity of demand based on niche similar to that of demand by price. If you need a fridge and there are only AI fridges offered, you’ll buy an AI fridge.

So you won’t be able to buy something that just works when all companies with sufficient power to design and produce fridges want AI.

There’s also some stickiness there, like a hysteresis, and the current combined effort at AI promotion, even if not at equilibrium of said AI’s attractiveness for said elasticity, will hold. Unless there will be another combined effort at killing it with fire.

That is similar to 4:3 display ratio, ergonomic user interfaces, or perhaps home appliances that came with schematics, but not anymore.

Widespread interest in a plattform is probably a far more important factor.

That. Plenty of very good games were made for PS2.

At some point on the Web (in my childhood, in the Russian-speaking parts - around 2002-2004) anything requiring registration was treated as some sort of closed club, and that was about just registration. Though people exposed their ICQ UINs and email addresses, so that you could chat with them (that’s the old way you’d DM a person whose post you liked).

I’m not sure about all these rules of what websites should and shouldn’t do. Perhaps websites should be always treated as some untrusted alien space that can possibly do anything. If you want to do something where such a leak is really bad, or anything worse than a pocket theft of 20$ - then perhaps such a system shouldn’t rely upon untrusted centralized service having everything.

I like the social model that existed then, though. It was somewhat global, now we have modern Web services (even if in Fediverse) that expose everything over the Web, posts, DMs and so on. Back then forums were websites, DMs were in ICQ\XMPP\Skype, email as its own thing, feeds as RSS.

Eh. Good I never had premium then.

(Though I suspect my porn habits were exposed in much detail otherwise via something like personalized state surveillance.)

YOU have to pay the energy company for the extra electricity you put into the grid! Like… What‽‽‽

That might be logical in some situations. Where there’s surplus in the grid and it plays the role of amortizer of what you give it. They can’t just shut you off when they are getting too much load. Or they can but prefer to have a soft curve where you get less and less until you start paying for what you give.

Like water is a resource, but you do pay for water disposal (that is, I live in Russia, and there’s a separate line on the bill for what goes into sewers), or, if someone provides passive cooling service somewhere, you might pay for the heat you give away. Even if that’s energy.