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Daily News Stuff 30 July 2024

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  • AI has been determined by the State of California to cause rats in laboratory cancer: SB-1047 - legislation introduced by Scott Wiener, so you know it's bad - aims to make it illegal for AI to do things which are illegal in the first place and which it cannot possibly do in the second place.  (Ars Technica)
    The bill lays out a legalistic definition of those safety incidents that in turn focuses on defining a set of "critical harms" that an AI system might enable. That includes harms leading to "mass casualties or at least $500 million of damage," such as "the creation or use of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapon" (hello, Skynet?) or "precise instructions for conducting a cyberattack... on critical infrastructure." The bill also alludes to "other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity" to those laid out explicitly.
    It's illegal to kill people, even in small numbers.

    It's illegal to destroy property that is not your own, even when it's less than half a billion dollars in damage.

    It's illegal to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

    It is trivially easy to find information on how to do any of these things, and that information cannot be erased, because people have done all of these things.


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1 "It's illegal to destroy property that is not your own, even when it's less than half a billion dollars in damage."
We're dealing with Scott Weiner, and the state of California, which has the city of San Francisco, where shoplifting less than $950 is a misdemeanor, and which, consequently, has hordes of shoplifters.
Weiner's bill is probably there to say destroying property less than half a billion dollars is a misdemeanor.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2024 12:33 AM (MItL9)

2 "Again it lacks the Four Essential Keys"
I think Asus just has more or less one laptop keyboard layout.
Then again, my Nuphy Air 75 v2 is so much better than any regular laptop keyboard it's not even funny.  It's also designed to sit on top of a laptop keyboard without activating any of the keys.  The only real problem is that the keys are in a nonstandard layout.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2024 12:35 AM (MItL9)

3 "how to block the scourge of new AI web crawlers from your site"

Fight fire with fire?  Train an AI to scan the access logs and try to figure out which are from AI scrapers.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2024 12:36 AM (MItL9)

4 Dasung:  LTT's reviewed a couple of their desktop monitors:  one b&w, and more recently a color one.  They have their uses for certain workflows but aren't great for general purpose--in particular, as you might imagine, they're awful for gaming.

This one is probably similar.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 31 2024 12:38 AM (MItL9)

5 "$ADJECTIVE for gaming"
Welp, I suddenly stopped caring about that opinion. Like `gaming` is a thing that certain creatures do?  Have I missed something about reality?

Posted by: normal at Wednesday, July 31 2024 03:56 PM (bg2DR)

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