randomq - Something like "just for fun, rank the posters on this thread by demonstrated IQ, and identify any logical fallacies used by each.")
Thanks - in its "intelligence" (you keep using that word... ;) it seems it may misunderstand snark and silliness for logical fallacies, as if what we're doing here on Punaweb is actually some sort of serious debate (those days are long gone, if to whatever limited degree they once existed), and not largely just often absurdist hot takes on the topic du jour.
Durian Fiend - I recently viewed the Ezra Klein interview with Bill Gates on the subject of AI and found it worthwhile.
Thanks - was interesting overall, although I think Gates is overestimating the bioweapons issue. Designing new bioweapons is not a difficult task (a handful of years ago, machine learning came up with 40,000 such candidate molecules in just six hours), but actually making them requires real world expertise, facilities, and materials, most of which are under sanctions and government control. Klein does a good job pushing on this real-world distinction, which Gates largely avoids, because outside of the internet, obtaining information is just the first of many steps - the idea actually has to be translated into physical reality, which has its own set of limitations and constraints.
An "AI" phone nurse isn't real great at inserting IVs or catheters, and there's a reason most of the meth in Puna comes from Mexico and other loose-rule-of-law territories, and it's not because they somehow have special access to recipes on the web or from an unregulated "AI" chatbot.
As for cyberattacks, yeah, the internet is a kludged together mess of code, full of vulnerabilities, which Claude et al will both help identify how to exploit and then also contribute to with many reams more of vibe-coded output. Hopefully we would have learned by now to not expose critical controls for physical infrastructure to the open web, but I guess not. The lessons will continue until we value reliability over cost reduction.
And so here again lies Puna's tactical advantage going into the future - you can't hack infrastructure, or take a white color job, that doesn't exist. Long live the unlit dirt "roads", circle of doom roundabouts, tubs of collected rainwater, tank-in-the-ground sewers, off-grid energy sources, and local food production. We'll be the last human reboubt when the Optimus bots rise up and try to Grok us all (if they can, unlike most electronics here, actually handle the humidity ;)
Thanks - in its "intelligence" (you keep using that word... ;) it seems it may misunderstand snark and silliness for logical fallacies, as if what we're doing here on Punaweb is actually some sort of serious debate (those days are long gone, if to whatever limited degree they once existed), and not largely just often absurdist hot takes on the topic du jour.
Durian Fiend - I recently viewed the Ezra Klein interview with Bill Gates on the subject of AI and found it worthwhile.
Thanks - was interesting overall, although I think Gates is overestimating the bioweapons issue. Designing new bioweapons is not a difficult task (a handful of years ago, machine learning came up with 40,000 such candidate molecules in just six hours), but actually making them requires real world expertise, facilities, and materials, most of which are under sanctions and government control. Klein does a good job pushing on this real-world distinction, which Gates largely avoids, because outside of the internet, obtaining information is just the first of many steps - the idea actually has to be translated into physical reality, which has its own set of limitations and constraints.
An "AI" phone nurse isn't real great at inserting IVs or catheters, and there's a reason most of the meth in Puna comes from Mexico and other loose-rule-of-law territories, and it's not because they somehow have special access to recipes on the web or from an unregulated "AI" chatbot.
As for cyberattacks, yeah, the internet is a kludged together mess of code, full of vulnerabilities, which Claude et al will both help identify how to exploit and then also contribute to with many reams more of vibe-coded output. Hopefully we would have learned by now to not expose critical controls for physical infrastructure to the open web, but I guess not. The lessons will continue until we value reliability over cost reduction.
And so here again lies Puna's tactical advantage going into the future - you can't hack infrastructure, or take a white color job, that doesn't exist. Long live the unlit dirt "roads", circle of doom roundabouts, tubs of collected rainwater, tank-in-the-ground sewers, off-grid energy sources, and local food production. We'll be the last human reboubt when the Optimus bots rise up and try to Grok us all (if they can, unlike most electronics here, actually handle the humidity ;)