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Opinion | A public fixation on extinction from AI could empower industry insiders and distract from AI’s more immediate harms.
There is no obvious path between today’s machine learning models — which mimic human creativity by predicting the next word, sound, or pixel — and an AI that can form a hostile intent or circumvent our every effort to contain it. Regardless, it is fair to ask why Dr. Frankenstein is holding the pitchfork. Why is it that the people building, deploying, and profiting from AI are the ones leading the call to focus public attention on its existential risk? Well, I can see at least two possible reasons. The first is that it requires far less sacrifice on their part to call attention to a hypothetical threat than to address the more immediate harms and costs that AI is already imposing on society. Today’s AI is plagued by error and replete with bias. It makes up facts and reproduces discriminatory heuristics. It empowers both government and consumer surveillance. AI is displacing labor and exacerbating income and wealth inequality. It poses an enormous and escalating threat to the environment, consuming an enormous and growing amount of energy and fueling a race to extract materials from a beleaguered Earth. These societal costs aren’t easily absorbed. Mitigating them requires a significant commitment of personnel and other resources, which doesn’t make shareholders happy — and which is why the market recently rewarded tech companies for laying off many members of their privacy, security, or ethics teams. How much easier would life be for AI companies if the public instead fixated on speculative theories about far-off threats that may or may not actually bear out? What would action to “mitigate the risk of extinction” even look like? I submit that it would consist of vague whitepapers, series of workshops led by speculative philosophers, and donations to computer science labs that are willing to speak the language of longtermism. This would be a pittance, compared with the effort required to reverse what AI is already doing to displace labor, exacerbate inequality, and accelerate environmental degradation. A second reason the AI community might be motivated to cast the technology as posing an existential risk could be, ironically, to reinforce the idea that AI has enormous potential. Convincing the public that AI is so powerful that it could end human existence would be a pretty effective way for AI scientists to make the case that what they are working on is important. Doomsaying is great marketing. The long-term fear may be that AI will threaten humanity, but the near-term fear, for anyone who doesn’t incorporate AI into their business, agency, or classroom, is that they will be left behind. The same goes for national policy: If AI poses existential risks, U.S. policymakers might say, we better not let China beat us to it for lack of investment or overregulation. (It is telling that Sam Altman — the CEO of OpenAI and a signatory of the Center for AI Safety statement — warned the E.U. that his company will pull out of Europe if regulations become too burdensome.)
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smartphone storage plateauing in favor of just storing everything in the cloud is such dogshit. i should be able to have like a fucking terabyte of data on my phone at this point. i hate the fucking cloud
this is gonna make me sound very Old Man Yells At Cloud but i just hate how many things in my life assume i will always have access to a quick, reliable internet connection and almost cease to function without it. Obviously certain things Have To Have An Internet Connection, but i want to be able to listen to music if my service is bad. i want to still watch movies if Netflix is down. i want to have a working map when i can’t get a cell signal. nearly every tech product these days bears the fingerprint of the extremely internet-rich places they are developed, high rent offices in Seattle, San Francisco, etc.. I think often the idea of the internet not being available is so remote to them it doesn’t even factor in to development. i remember when the Xbox One was debuted and Microsoft was almost mockingly like “if you don’t have reliable fast internet, then don’t bother buying this”, and there was such backlash they completely went back on so much of that. But now that attitude is just the tech norm.

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I wish I could tell everyone in the world, who thinks they did something wrong when the file they imported from its native software into one of Google's online equivalents is completely broken in Google, that the only mistake was using something Google made, their work is perfect as-is, and if it was imported because they work for a large institution which requires a standardized format and picked Google because they know the name, I'm sorry and that is awful.
But if you did it on purpose and on your own, it's a bit on you and you gotta stop using what is becoming a company infamously consistent at making the worst version by leaps and bounds of every software, especially office software.
It was already bad before "AI" now it's worse.
If you're looking for replacements for Google in your personal life:
Libre Office is a FOSS desktop office suite that produces perfectly sensible documents that are easily read and opened by other programs.
CryptPad is an open source zero-knowledge encrypted online office suite that allows collaborative document sharing so that multiple people can work on the same document at the same time. The free version has 1GB of storage, there is more storage with paid versions.
ProtonMail is a free email service with encrypted email capabilities and a strong focus on privacy.
Use Firefox instead of chrome wherever possible. Please, please, if you're using an android phone install Firefox mobile and add the ublock origin extension and stop seeing ads.
For more detailed information about how to get google out of your life, please read my deranged pamphlet on the matter.
I am so confused right now and would like to hear some advice or recommendation from someone who knows about computers and safe backups etc. So I am trying here in case someone sees and might be able to help me. I make a collection of every info I can get to make a final decision.
So here‘s the thing: I recently bought a 4TB sandisk external ssd. A few years prior I already got a 1TB and later a 2TB one for all my 2D and 3D art files and backups, that worked just fine and everyone else I knew used sandisk, so I saw no problem. Now through coincidence I found out that since 2022 you should never ever buy a sandisk since they’re now faulty to begin with. And low and behold I checked and saw that my new sandisk is one of those faulty ones. On this 4TB is my whole dvd/bluray backup and I planned on connecting it to my TV, so I can revert to using it when watching smth that is not on streaming services or even when canceling streaming services.
I now need to spend a lot of money again on another external backup device and I don’t know which one. I want to make the right choice. I see forums recommending the samsung T7 ssd. Though I did some research and computer experts recommend hdd in general. I always thought ssd have at least the same longevity as hdd but are faster so I always chose ssd. But now I am reading that ssd always need to be „charged“ unlike hdd and have quicker wearout. Especially when you’re storing them in a drawer instead of constantly connected to a computer. Data starts to deteriorate faster. And hdd is fine with being stored in a drawer if not needed.
My first ssd was from 2019 I think (which also has important files on it) my second was from 2021 I guess. So I need to switch those soon too I guess. So what to do?
I need to store all my art stuff, my books, my backups, and separately my movies backup that is connected to a tv. Hdd? Ssd?
EDIT: I have my data stored on several external devices. That is one thing I learned from the past to store everything on at least two external devices.
EDIT2: I need a new setup. I will probably rely on online recommendations from experts to buy a samsung T7 or T9 ssd and a hdd one. Though I still need to figure out which one would be best. I often see seagate desktop expansion and toshiba canvio. Maybe one of those?
EDIT3: Now I hear from several sources that samsung ssds have a shorter lifespan than the others and are known for spontaneous death. My gawd what to choose now??
Samsung and Sandisk are both, generally speaking, reliable brands. Failure rates in drives as a whole are low, and for the most part as long as you're getting something from a reliable manufacturer it'll have a reasonable lifespan backed by a reasonable warranty, but I wouldn't count on it much longer than the warranty.
The primary limitation with SSD longevity is that they have a limited number of read/write cycles; once you hit that number you can't read data from the drive and you can't write data to it, and at that point it's just a useless piece of plastic. The goal is to replace SSDs before they get to that point in their lifespan.
SSDs don't have very predictable failure rates because when they fail is based on how much they are used; if you're using them a lot they'll fail faster, whereas if they mostly sit in a drawer they'll probably last longer.
All that said: the only advantage that SSDs have over HDDs is speed. Lifespan, cost, and predictability are all way, WAY better on HDDs, and data recovery on an HDD is cheaper and more likely to be successful.
So I'd say go with one HDD for backups and possibly an SSD for media, but even then video delivery doesn't have to be super fast and you'd probably be fine with an HDD? (I don't understand home media servers the same way I don't understand gaming rigs, my area of expertise is enterprise computing, but my buddies who have set up home media servers all use HDDs because SSDs aren't worth the cost but they're also storing like 12TB of movies)
Western Digital makes extremely reliable external HDDs for backups that have 3-5 year warranties depending on the model. The My Passport series is about $120 for a 5TB 2.5" external and is what I use for my backups; we recently got a 26TB 3.5" external WD for a client and it was around $500.
I think your use case is perfectly fine for HDD.
Historically, the high technical entry barriers to publishing one's own work has left indie video games vulnerable to allegations of "programmer art": that is, a tendency for the audiovisuals to be created by people who don't know what they're doing because "real" artists are barred from the medium by lack of technical know-how.
In this sense, it's heartening to see that coding one's own game has become sufficiently accessible in the past decade or so that we're finally seeing the fruits of the natural yet historically largely unattested-to counterpart to programmer art: artist programming.
I had to go into the office today to do annual inventory, which means I get to e-waste stuff that's been at the company longer than I have and *you* get to experience old computer junk.
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I managed to get 94 in that drawer and that's *with* me stealing about twenty.
my best find was a hard drive that predated not just my employment, not just me, but the building i found it in
A few years ago we had a customer bring in a 40mb hard drive for data destruction. It was dated 1989.
There's my special girl:
Last photo is next to a 3.5" floppy.

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hello ! do you have any recommendations for books discussing the history of computing/the internet? So far I've read Chelsea Manning's and Edward Snowden's autobiographies, 'Lurking: How a Person Became a User', and 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation' (which don't go back very far history-wise but I've found them interesting).
The Cuckoo's Egg! Its a story about a very early hack that I think is both well written and and interesting snapshot of a very specific era of computing. And if you're looking for some older history, History of the Internet is a good place to start (though be warned, it's "from 1843 to the present" but "the present" in this case is 1999; however I do have to say that I think reading per-millenium books about the internet is good for you and people should do it more because it really shows you what we've lost in terms of the scope of possibilities we accept). For more contemporary discussions of internet past and present, you should check out the writing of Cory Doctorow, who is active on tumblr as @mostlysignssomeportents and makes a lot of really good posts that touch on modern topics with a good eye to historical perspective.
Ralph McQuarrie for Isaac Asimov’s Robot Dreams (1986)
My previous PC was called "The Goblin" because I found its case in a dumpster and had to close one of the sides with cardboard and duct tape
I just needed to share my computer. his name is Jason and my coworker built him for me.
Sandhill, my S-100 kitbuild computer, lived in a postal tub for a while.
People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from
Cheryl Dunye’s directorial debut, The Watermelon Woman, was out of print between 2000 and 2018. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was only available to watch on a pirate channel on YouTube until last year. There is still no way to watch the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen except to own a dvd box set that has been out of print since 2005. Or to pirate it. It’s on YouTube.
Piracy is incredibly important to keep media that’s weird, or out there or just embarrassing to someone in power, alive. We need piracy and we need to stop being snitches when someone pirates stuff.
reminder that your and [social media company]'s interests will never be aligned
what if I bought [social media company]?
data is admittedly sparse on this one but i have a case study saying not even then

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Brooch with hand forged fine silver lily of the valey flowers on a sterling stem. The leaf is a polished and sealed circuit board inlaid with opals.
My patch to btrfs, "huge copy on write", or "HuCoW", almost made it into the repository trunk as-is, but my reviewer was unexpectedly worldly. Love loses