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“Put it there voluntarily.” Perhaps a focusing question is: which 10% will die?

I spent the summer in a rural area of a country whose very name you have been conditioned to be disgusted to hear. Low air defense coverage in this sparsely populated area. Mobile internet was down for days for all but extremely limited traffic to a few domestic internet services, because there was a need to prevent enemy drone systems from using mobile internet for command and control. Palantir AI threatened my family’s life and more than “severing fiber optic cable” was required.

So what would exclude military adversaries from consideration? I happen to believe that the country that the west so detests would not engage in such use of AI against civilians (and if you disagree then your reason for fear greatly increases!), but I have personally experienced that there is indeed a path to mass death should entities engaging in terrorism arm themselves with AI.

Definitely not claiming that the 10% claim is accurate or good behavior, but I do think I have a substantial counterpoint to the claim that there’s no path.


And then there’s the Orthodox Church, which included the Roman Church until the pope insisted on changing the Greek text of the Symbol of Faith in a way that altered basic theology. And hasn’t changed much at all.

Also, Berry wrote a foreword to one of Joel Salatin’s books. Modern intensive rotational grazing imitates nature, improves soil, and produces an important crop very profitably at scale.

In the sense that publishing marketing-driven press releases is a conspiracy between the publishers and the marketing team, I guess?


When using an LLM for details like this I keep it out of the mode of generating prose as much and as long as possible. I get better results when I work with bullet points. I think this helps me keep the right frame of mind when reading the responses. It’s easier to scan the facts or points for accuracy. And I think it might help the LLM to be less creative with those points, but I don’t rely on that.


You think it’s funny but it taint.


Ruby is a great utility language target for LLM-generated tools.


Trekkies are experiencing a major regression from Deep Space Nine.


There were prototypes. The Cardassians never get it right the first (eight) times.


Deep Space 4 vanished and was never seen again.


They never should have trusted Qwark


Going on your Slavic username: as an American who moved to a country without forced-air HVAC, it’s been quite a revelation to discover how backwards forced air really is.


Forced air is pretty necessary for air conditioning (cooling).

For heat, radiant is nicer. But most people don't want to pay to have two completely separate climate control infrastructures in their house.


Heat pumps, they are one piece of infrastructure that work for both heating and cooling as it's a symmetric process.


But you still need to move air for cooling (as opposed to using water for heating), because you can’t cause condensation during cooling without creating damage and health risks.

Hydronic (water transport) heat is great: extremely comfortable and quiet compared to forced hot air.


I fully agree that this was a big miss on the human operators’ part. But it’s a small business and I have repeatedly seen so much worse than this. Vendors charging money to allow customers to connect AI to systems must have a robust story for protecting them from disaster. Everyone involved needs to be working hard to limit the impact of mistakes and surprises.


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