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Re: General Discussions

Reply #2745 –
The anthropomorphising that surrounds AI is such a joke, social media and media discussions about the morality of AI have already lost the debate and the plot the moment they started a discussion on morality.

An AI does not know the difference between morally right or wrong, between legal and illegal, there is no empathy, no pain, no guilt and no emotion.

AI is given a problem to solve, or a target to achieve, and intrinsically the AI contains no knowledge of how to go about it legally or morally, only a known Starting point and an end goal. Any apparent or perceived limits are externally supplied by those who create it, and even then the AI is a black box mystery to the creator.

If stealing your life savings or exposing your private information is part of the solution, AI won't be hesitating, won't have doubt, won't delay while waiting for a social clearance to proceed and won't feel bad or guilty about events later.

What privacy you cherish, the secrets you keep personal, the wealth you have built, is just a building block in the AI attempt to find a solution to the current problem whatever that problem might be.

An associate mentioned the other day, the big existential crisis AI is about to face is raising to funds to continue development, e-commerce and financial markets will be destroyed in the process of dining a solution, whole economies might suffer, so keep a little cash on hand because the one thing AI cannot do is physically reach into your pocket.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2746 –
If you had not yet settled on accepting a complete and utter lack of morality, accountability and integrity from the modern professional news media, then know this, Karoline Leavitt has now been employed by News Ltd!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2747 –
Quote from: LP – on
If you had not yet settled on accepting a complete and utter lack of morality, accountability and integrity from the modern professional news media, then know this, Karoline Leavitt has now been employed by News Ltd!

Leavitt is a perfect fit for MAGA’s state media 🙄
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2748 –
Erin Patterson's day in court didn't go the way she was hoping; not only did she lose her appeal but the DPP successfully had her non-parole period removed meaning that she should spend the rest of her life behind bars.

From what I could glean from the original trial, Patterson seemed to believe that she was smarter than everyone else, and her appeal reinforced that impression.  She will have plenty of time to ponder whether she overestimated herself.
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2749 –
Anyone else caught up in "the stock up for 72 hours of disruption" frenzy currently doing the rounds....
Woolworths have double length toilet paper (8 rolls) for $8.50.
That's a saving of nearly $4.00. ;)

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2750 –
The “stock up” frenzy seems to have originated with Yahoo, and that’s a blast from the past 🙄

Is it a marketing ploy by the supermarkets?
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2751 –
Quote from: DJC – on
The “stock up” frenzy seems to have originated with Yahoo, and that’s a blast from the past 🙄

Is it a marketing ploy by the supermarkets?

It seems many countries are in fact urging their peoples to stock up.
But it's really non-specific in terms of the supposed threat.

Military conflict, cyber-attack and natural disasters are all getting a run.
Some folks are even suggesting "First contact".
 :D  :D
So stock up on some Reeses Pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDt8gxWnSs

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2752 –
As Facebook's the Gherk has pointed out;

Quote
"Deep inside the Yahoo article, after the ominous headline, the Australian Red Cross representative literally says: “We are absolutely not encouraging Australians to run out and start stockpiling food. No panic buying, please.”

My wine delivery from Vinomofo arrived yesterday.  Is it too soon for another order?

And I just postponed my next Who Gives a Crap delivery.  Should I reconsider?

It's a good thing most of our chooks are laying but was I too reckless in giving my sister in law a dozen eggs?
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2753 –
Where this genuinely hurts people are the Norbits who start stockpiling medicines they don't really need.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

SPLIT: National Songbook

Reply #2754 –
I have moved the National Songbook posts to a new thread Blah-Blah Bar - https://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=7784.0
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2755 –
Strange going ons.... ::)

Worldwide Microsoft outage yesterday.
All flights in the USA grounded today.

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Reply #2756 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Strange going ons.... ::)

Worldwide Microsoft outage yesterday.
All flights in the USA grounded today.

Made an easy day at work yesterday as a result.

....and a terrible Monday coming up.

Initial reports were that it was not terrorist related.
Not sure i agree with that.
 

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2757 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Strange going ons.... ::)

Worldwide Microsoft outage yesterday.
All flights in the USA grounded today.

id say that the events may have some correlation.

I.e.  communication issues with emails out, meant that my job became more inefficient. I couldnt communicate without a call (normally a quick message and move on) and it also meant we couldnt get written confirmation about permission back to perform any tasks, lodge change forms with peer review as sharepoint was impacted, and we could get them signed off at the client either.

It meant delay, not end, which is likely why flights are grounded.  Too much air traffic and one method of transmitting data via secure messaging impacted significantly means its likely a check and balance cant be performed.

Id say the Microsoft outage could be cyber terrorism but thats a sliding scale of things.  More likely not given the timing. Microsoft patch Tuesday just happened.  Internet facing servers require patching within 48 hours which times nicely with the beginning of the outage.  Odds are their patch impacted exchange servers adversely and here we are.  I count 6 times in the last 12 months a monthly patched released has caused some sort of service degradation in many walks of life.

The only alternative is an sftp but even those usually email upon success and failure so you can get a notification.   Id say thats likely why flights were grounded as a precaution given a check couldnt ensure safety and now a review of alternative means of doing something will be sought. 

The systems that drive our lives are generally antiquated under the hood.  They'll be legacy Unix systems that just keep performing the task with a gui on top to implement the bells and whistles.

"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

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Reply #2758 –
Looks like the planes are right to go again....but it's going to take some time to clear the backlog.

Two eevents may be a coincidence...lets see whether anything a bit strange happens in the next few days.

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2759 –
Quote from: Lods – on
Looks like the planes are right to go again....but it's going to take some time to clear the backlog.

Two eevents may be a coincidence...lets see whether anything a bit strange happens in the next few days.
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