MerryJaneDoe

This looks like something that might upset me very much if I knew what the fuck was going on. Fortunately, I’m 100% clueless, so I can happily go about my day.

The issue with using AI is that the author doesn’t openly disclose the use at the beginning of the paper.

Yes, I know this particular write-up isn’t for official submission to an academic journal, but sharing methodology is important.

I would have no problem with AI-assisted writing IF the author credited the service used and, where applicable, included the prompts used.

It should be similar to documenting any sourced material. It’s not just about giving credit where credit is due. It’s also about accountability.

What a dumb comment.

Why is this necessary? Does this add anything at all to the conversation?

I’ve run a honeypot for the last month and the data is near-identical to this. It’s definitely credible.

Ah, well then. Problem solved. Someone on the internet said it’s credible, therefore it must be credible. Tell ya what - when you create a webpage to display your data and then provide an analysis of said data, I’ll consider you credible. Until then, though, you are just some short-tempered, rude, anonymous voice shouting into the void.

The word is appreciated, but a link would be better…

Yeah, I think people are making some pretty naive assumptions about all the new datacenters popping up for AI.

What the fuck do you think the government is asking AI to do for them? Shitty cartoon artwork? Photoshopping vacation photos? Or, maaaaaaybe…I dunno…something like data collection and analysis on every byte of information sent across the tubes of the interwebs?

I think you would need to first make the case that software is making the world a better place. So far, it’s got a spotty record…

I think scale is the issue.

Basically, it was legal to rape, murder and/or kidnap Africans. It was so profitable that the main slave dealers were African tribes/nations who would sell their prisoners of war to the slave trade - thus encouraging more war and more slavery.

Estimates of African deaths (on the low side) are double that of the Holocaust.

This went on for 400 years. (Nazi power lasted only about 12 years by comparison.)

And even to this day, the African slave trade is responsible for much of the racism and division we see. So, yeah, slave trade shaped our world in many ways.

Because we teach kids all about civil liberties while mostly ignoring civic duty.

Civil liberties are 100% dependent on citizens completing basic civic duties. If people aren’t willing to do the bare minimum (like vote), then we end with a society of people who just want all the good stuff and none of the responsibility. Which is pretty much where we’re at today.

Yes, and a cat is much more likely to bite me than a great white shark. Yet I still pet cats and stay the fuck away from great white sharks. Wonder why that is?

Would it? Is that the only solution?

Why do Yemen and Switzerland have such high ownership and no school shootings?

Don’t get me wrong, less guns would be good for many reasons. And I think we can get there, eventually. But right now, I have zero confidence that our government is fit to enforce any law fairly. Neonazis are openly running the DoD and ICE, this is not the time to dial back the Bill of Rights.

I get what you’re saying, but reading these examples has me shaking my head in frustration.

The administrator doesn’t work in the office. They work in a different office, or from home.

Meetings between two higher-ups can’t be cancelled because 1. The employee wouldn’t even know that a meeting was scheduled and 2. The meeting is scheduled via Outlook and the only way to cancel it would be to have access to your boss’s computer while it’s unlocked.

But supposing you could do these things, and you caused a 2% loss in efficiency by gunking up the keyboard and canceling the meeting.

Great, they lost 2% for the day. It’s 2% loss of efficiency for people who only work at a 75% efficiency to begin with. They get another keyboard and reschedule the meeting. Tomorrow, you have to start all over again. It won’t be long before you’re found out.

The system is built with these things in mind. The number one security concern in any company is the employees. This is not a new thing and corporations are very good at creating systems of accountability.

You can watch some videos on YouTube, if you really want to learn. It’s interesting, sometimes in a full-dystopian nightmare fuel kind of way. Yes, we are at the point where some of these robots can climb and jump.

It’s a gimmick, though, for sure. Just like human-mimicking androids are a gimmick. The money for robotics is in manufacturing.

But I’ll bet there will always be an obscenely wealthy person who is willing to pay for a cool looking robot prototype.

…get busy asap and fuck it up from the inside…

Easier said than done. Security and risk mitigation is one of the first (if not the very first) concern of any IT company in this day and age.

I’ve been a system engineer. Digital assets are locked down, meaning that I couldn’t access anything outside of my scope (which was small and midsize banking websites). Physical assets (servers) sat in three remote locations, highly secure and staffed by a different team. Everything is backed up 5 different ways in 5 different places. Every keystroke is logged. Every door uses a passcard.

It’s built to be a trustless system of sorts, where no single person holds the keys to anything too important. Regular audits and individual accountability for every outage are the norm. About the only way to fuck it up would be to somehow incite a mass exodus of seasoned engineers.

I think what people often miss about these systems (not just IT, but all of our systems from finance to healthcare) is that they are supported by very intelligent, motivated individuals. These people are fighting hard to make sure that nobody can fuck up their work. They aren’t sitting ducks - they are nigh impenetrable sentries.

I think he’s just trying to further normalize the outsourcing/underpaying/devaluing of programmers.

Is it? Why is China “bad”?

Grades are meaningless to some people. They matter greatly to other people.

Video games are meaningless to some people. They matter greatly to other people.

The difference is that I didn’t get a scholarship and an education due to my ability to play video games. It was my grades that paid my tuition.

Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.

But guess what? Nobody’s asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!

Shilling much lately?

It could be.

But I don’t see any other PC/laptop reviews by this author. He writes mostly about cybersecurity. And his Neo articles seem a bit…biased. Compare to his other articles, which are well-researched. Example:

https://www.csoonline.com/article/563017/wannacry-explained-a-perfect-ransomware-storm.html

My guess is either someone is posting articles in his name, or he’s taking a free Neo in return for a positive review.

I had Google help me out with this one. For illustrative purposes, let’s take the Tesla Semi (an electric commercial truck) battery. You could transport about 4 MWh worth of electricity. That’s about 4 months worth of electricity for an average American household. Here’s the details:

A single Tesla Semi utilizes an estimated 850 kWh to 1,000 kWh battery pack, which weighs approximately 10,000 to 12,000 lbs. If a trailer were filled strictly with these large, fully integrated packs rather than smaller, individual battery cells, only about 4 to 6 of these high-capacity, 1-megawatt-hour systems could physically fit within the weight limits of a standard trailer.

Battery Capacity & Weight: The Semi uses roughly 1 MWh, which consists of four, high-capacity, smaller packs.

Total Weight: A full 1 MWh pack weighs between 10,000 lbs (4,570 kg) and 12,000 lbs.

Capacity Limit: Due to weight restrictions of 80,000 lbs for a loaded semi (with a 2,000 lb increase for EVs), you cannot simply load 80,000 lbs of batteries into a trailer.

Physical Space: While the trailer has massive volume, the 10,000+ lb per pack weight means the trailer would reach its weight limit long before it is full of, say, Model S packs (if that was the method).

If it’s any reassurance, the human race has historically been even stupider and less educated. It’s better today by leaps and bounds.

100 years ago, the world literacy rate was in the 20-30% range. Today, it’s ~85%.

The bad news is that the oligarchs use literacy as a weapon, through targeted media. So, yeah, it’s not so much stupidity we’re seeing, it’s just brainwashing, pure and simple.