This is not about AI but about censorship of a nonaligned social network. It's been a developing current in EU. They have basically been foaming at the mouth at the platform since it got bought.
European courts have repeatedly said that in France the procureur (public prosecutor) isn’t an “independent judicial authority”.
The European Court of Human Rights has reminded this point (e.g. 29 Mar 2010, appl. no. 3394/03), and the Court of Justice of the European Union reaches a very similar conclusion (2 Mar 2021, C-746/18): prosecutors are part of the executive hierarchy and can’t be treated as the neutral, independent judicial check some procedures require.
For a local observer, this is made obvious by the fact that the procureur, in France, always follows current political vibes, usually in just a few months delay (extremely fast, when you consider how slowly justice works in the country).
> This medium page simply quotes people. Feel free to quote your imaginary friends on your own medium page.
Simply quotes people with obvious large financial interest in the success of the company, who are therefore motivated to continue the super genius narrative.
I guess we all have our biases - I believe first hand accounts, you believe social media posts. To each his own.
Yes, yes, everyone is a sycophant except you and your friends... For the record, you are lying about the quoted people having a financial interest in Elon.
No it's not "to each his own". Using your free expression to smear without admitting counterevidence, while painting everything that does not go along with your views as a doctored narrative is not a legitimate intellectual position.
> Yes, yes, everyone is a sycophant except you and your friends... For the record, you are lying about the quoted people having a financial interest in Elon.
Let's go through them:
- Jim Cantrell: SpaceX founder
- Garett Reisman: astronaut, former SpaceX employee, current SpaceX "consultant"
- Joshua Boehm: former SpaceX head of SQA
- Carmack: maybe this one is genuine, however, Carmack is also an industry outsider who founded his own aerospace company, so there might be some projecting going on there
> Using your free expression to smear without admitting counterevidence
Interesting take when you came in here telling me (in your now flagged comment) that my friends are imaginary and I'm a liar, who's rejecting counterevidence again?
RustDesk rolled out a "same city" restriction on their public relay server today in response to a Go Client botnet. No advance warning.
Users worldwide are now locked out of their own machines. The GitHub thread has people stuck in Japan unable to reach home servers, someone who just set up RustDesk for their 70-year-old father, and users blocked despite being in the same city.
The original attack was just automated connection requests requiring clicking "Accept". Users with password auth were never vulnerable.
i’m not the person you replied to. but a quick google search is just as much effort (on your part) as replying with a sassy “this sounds like a hallucination”. A low value comment in my opinion.
> “AI is already a reality for millions of health workers and patients across the European Region,” said Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. “But without clear strategies, data privacy, legal guardrails and investment in AI literacy, we risk deepening inequities rather than reducing them.”
My experience with ChatGPT is that it rarely dares to make short, generalizing, opinionated statements without an excruciating amount of hedging.
Doctors pay subscriptions for specialized software that relies on LLMs enriched with medical context. But like other professionals, they also use ChatGPT as a search engine and verify what it tells them by virtue of being, well, doctors.
Who might be the first European head of state or similar they lift out? Ursula von der Leyen? :-D
Air defenses in the EU does not seem to be in the best shape, the way Russian drones seem to operate without trouble.
Reading this, I kept wondering whether it would stay on the technical level or whether it would immediately start broadcasting the author’s cultural politics. It does, and the first giveaway is the kind of sentence you’ve seen a thousand times:
“These days, however, we write increasing amounts of complicated, unsecure code to express less and less meaning, in order to infinitely generate shareholder value.”
That line signals a tribe: “infinitely generate shareholder value” is the ritual incantation that turns every topic into the same morality play, with the same stock villain. It’s the worldview of someone who wants to live in a small enchanted technical garden, treating the economic world as a gross external thing, that you can blame whenever you need a cause.
And “unsecure code” in that context is part of the aesthetic: modernity is decadent, business is corrupting, therefore the code is “unsecure” and “meaningless.”
The Brendan Eich stuff is the same genre: petty culture-war residue kept alive long after normal people moved on.
So yeah, the internet continues, and until such artistic types learn to tamp down their own biases and refrain from injecting those into every word they write, I will keep away from their walled gardens.
> treating the economic world as a gross external thing
Well, a _specific_ kind of economic world in this case. Is it not a matter of fact that big tech companies largely guide how computing is used a developed, and that they are beholden to ever-expected increases in value to their shareholders? You have still have an "economic world" that doesn't operate that way.
What specific kind? The "economic world" exists in that you can work for companies with shareholders, you can work for other companies, you can work for NGOs and whatever other structures. What OP's whiney comment does is complain about the ones people like to work at because the pay is good. And his comment doesn't come from being an expert in economics (he's a programmer), it comes from vibes. Well what about aligning the vibes with the salary? Oh, no...
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