Thursday, October 23
Daily News Stuff 23 October 2025
Tea And Sandwiches Edition
Tea And Sandwiches Edition
Top Story
- A statement on superintelligence. (Superintelligence Statement)
These people are idiots. Or at least, suffering from an epidemic of Engineer's Disease.
If you outlaw AI that actually works, only outlaws will have AI that actually works.
And nobody is working in superintelligent AI because nobody is working on intelligent AI.
- Meta is laying off 600 people from its AI team. (CNBC) (archive site)
Certainly not those guys.
Tech News
- Will the $4500 price tag put people off Rivian's electric bicycle. (The Verge) (archive site)
(shake shake) Signs point to yes.
- Ring's CEO says his cameras could "almost zero out crime" within the next twelve months. (The Verge) (archive site)
I think that in most normal, average neighborhoods, with the right amount of technology - not too crazy - and with AI, that we can get very close to zero out crime.
Forward the Panopticon.
- Old-fashioned reliable IT systems - mostly COBOL - saved US states around $40 billion in nine months in 2020. (Financial Times)
The article comes to the opposite conclusion.
The article is written by an idiot.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Sandwiches are OFF.
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In most "normal, average neighborhoods", with ZERO technology, you can get very close to zeroing out crime, because it wasn't there to begin with. Then there are other neighborhoods where a dozen crimes are committed per day. And the people committing those crimes are probably smart enough to do it where there aren't cameras watching. So you'd only catch the dumbest of criminals. Unless your cameras were well-concealed, which is its own whole can of worms I don't want to open up.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Thursday, October 23 2025 06:46 PM (cJRa3)
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I'm tempted to believe that it can be mathematically proven that engineer's disease is a subset of idiocy. (IE, I routinely try to do mathematical proofs for things for which I do not have a valid mathematical theory.) Thing is, you could probably approximate benefits of a super-intelligent panopticon by firing academics, Harris donors, and registered Democrat Party voters. (Of course, such sorts of fast simple political remedies are almost always expensive and stupid. )
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, October 24 2025 04:13 AM (rcPLc)
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I too, can zero out crime in most neighborhoods in the next twelve months, without AI - because putting around the clock beat cop coverage in a neighborhood with backup within five minutes, does a wonderful job of zeroing out crime.
Posted by: cxt217 at Friday, October 24 2025 08:43 AM (ZLF73)
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Intelligent management first, then intelligent AI.
Posted by: Frank at Friday, October 24 2025 01:37 PM (amxkj)
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Also, locking up (or executing) criminals pretty quickly reduces crime to near zero because the 10% or so of the population who commits 99.9% of the crime simply wouldn't be available for more crimes.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, October 25 2025 03:52 AM (e0fX0)
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We built a super intelligent manager by crowdsourcing a bunch of five year olds. It went great until it started dealing with all of us poopyheads.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, October 25 2025 08:43 AM (rcPLc)
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