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Ok-Welder-4816 t1_ja190k7 wrote

Reply to comment by Karmakazee in Even Hackers are reportedly getting Laid Off by Organized Crime Groups by TradingAllIn

Yeah, when it's bullshit like this that's clearly just companies lobbying the government to keep the common man down, I have no problems ignoring it.

Even just basic traffic laws, in my city (Toronto) the cops don't bother with any enforcement except the occasional speed trap. I've heard it's a form of protest on their part that's been going on for years.

Most people still obey most of the time, because it makes traffic flow better and keeps everyone safer. But if I need to turn left during a timed no-left restriction, I don't have a problem doing it. As long as it's not unsafe and I have a decent reason.

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jimbo92107 t1_ja16udr wrote

Reply to Are AI chatbots off the rails or doing just what they were designed to do? by Ssider69

OF COURSE they're doing what they were designed to do. Problem with AI is, you can't be sure what you are designing, because you don't program every response. Instead, you create a secret layer of influences that determines the output behavior. They call it "training," but I'm not sure that's the right word or concept. When you train a dog to fetch, it doesn't fetch a mailbox instead of the ball. The weird behavior of today's AIs reflects a poor understanding of the interaction between inputs and outputs. It could be quite a while before we get a handle on this problem. Could be that a "personality" does need to be hard coded to avoid some of the easy conversions to Nazism. We may need to give AIs a permanent id, ego and superego.

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drysart t1_ja159p5 wrote

Reply to comment by Ancient_Persimmon in Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69

I don't know that I'd characterize the entire industry except Tesla coalescing around an open, non-patent-encumbered, superior connector as a "defeat" they need to admit and switch away from.

Tesla's connector falls under Tesla's "you can use it if you promise to never sue us ever, for any reason" patent offering which already makes it kryptonite for literally every other company in the world; but it's also a less capable connector, not capable of safely carrying >500V when we're increasingly seeing vehicles capable of accepting higher voltages.

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