“If someone tells a tool to do something, and the tool does it, I don’t think we would say, ‘Oh, what do we do about the tool?’”

I don’t know if I consider that a sane statement. If the AI goes rogue doing things the user didn’t expect, why are we blaming the user and not the AI (and by extension its creator)?

Bruce Schneier has been talking a lot about ‘genie effects’ lately. When you tell an AI to complete a task and it goes far outside of what a rational person would expect to complete the task.

This is the same discussion we’ve been (not) having about self driving cars for the past decade. Who’s responsible for damages when a self driving car causes an accident? At this point it seems like we’ve settled on the owner, not the company who created the self driving system. Which strikes me as insane.

Just because a stock has lost 70% of its value doesn’t mean it can’t lose 70% more.

The number of people I know in America who “can’t” drink just water and have to have some syrup flavored drink instead is astounding. Dude, you’re complaining about your weight. Maybe cut back on the sugar for one drink per day.

It’s a good thing a bunch of Dems folded to reopen the government so people wouldn’t go hungry.

Good job guys, you got played, again.

I made his lamb shank recipe a couple years ago and it was incredibly flavorful. About as subtle as a brick to the head, but still insanely delicious.

As a friend of mine says: “The American Bar Association is a very agree-to-disagree organization. If the ABA is warning about an imminent collapse of the rule of law, we are down to studs and wires.”

I broke like a 15 year streak of not giving Tom Cruise any money to watch the last one, and boy did that movie fucking suck. Given the choice of finding out the ending and never thinking about that shitty movie again I’m going to pick the latter.

It’s great that you have the skills to do that, but we both know that most people buying smart home gadgets don’t have those skills. I’d prefer those people to have a safe by default setup, which is why I advocate for Zigbee and Z-Wave.

One thing I like about Z-Wave and Zigbee devices is that they can’t connect to the internet no matter what, because they don’t have the hardware for it.

• This means you don’t need to worry about them phoning home with usage data. (privacy)
• It means you don’t need to worry about them being used by a hacker to penetrate your network. (security)
• It means you don’t need to worry about them being a node in some botnet mining crypto for someone else with your electricity. (resource usage)

You’ve already got HomeAssistant to connect them to your Google Home or HomeKit account, so you can still turn on your closet light from the bar or whatever. You’re not losing anything by them not being connected to the internet directly. You just never have to worry about that stuff. Instead of having to keep 40 devices that were sold by some company that no longer exists up to date on their firmware, you just need to keep HA up to date.

All it costs is one $30 usb dongle.

Considering how prevalent depression is I wonder how long it will be before we find out that a common processed food additive enhances the growth of Morganella morganii over other bacteria.

Just like Facebook’s search “accidentally” suppressing Democrat searches. Firstly, why would you have that ready to “accidentally” deploy? Secondly, There’s no way something like that gets enabled without multiple levels of manager approval. Facebook isn’t some startup where anyone can push code to production.

They would have literally set the White House on fire using pipe bombs.

They need to do what unions do and take it back by force.

Beyond Betrayal

Do these dumb motherfucker even know what betrayal means? He’s not betraying you, he’s doing what he said he would do. For once in his life you should have believed him.

They have taken control of personnel and payment systems because they knew the people running them would obey the law. And these people do not give a fuck about the law.

It’s always projection with these guys.

I hope they know what happened to the Brownshirts.

If you buy this property you’re going to be sitting there waiting for the day they send you a letter to tell you they’re expanding their mine onto your property.

That’s a level of uncertainty that I would not be comfortable with for my home. If it’s “recreation” property, like hunting land, then maybe I would feel differently.

I have a homeassistant instance connected to a no-name Z-wave thermostat. It’s been flawless for almost 10 years.

Well, no shit. Who actually expected the Israelis to stop killing people?