Wednesday, August 14
Daily News Stuff 14 August 2024
Long Distance Breakup Edition
Long Distance Breakup Edition
Top Story
- Will the DOJ seek to break up Google? (Bloomberg) (archive site)
Maybe.
But since nobody from the DOJ or Google is talking, this article is pure speculation.
- Meanwhile Texas is suing General Motors, alleging that the company misled customers into handing over rights to their driving data. (Tech Crunch)
Which GM then sold to insurance companies for pennies.
Texas is seeking fines of $10,000 per offense - that is, for every car sold in the state since 2015.
Tech News
- AI PCs accounted for 14% of all sales in Q2 2024. (Reuters)
An AI PC is a PC with an AI sticker on it.
- If you're looking for a decent gaming PC on a budget, it looks like AMD is planning a 5500X3D. (Tom's Hardware)
There is already a 5600X3D and this would be very similar, but the 5600X3D is a Micro Center exclusive, so if you don't live near one of those you're out of luck.
- New research reveals that "AI" - in the form of Large Language Models or LLMs - is incapable of learning anything and poses no threat. (Neuroscience News)
Yeah, we know.
Disclaimer: New research shows that water is wet. We are awaiting a $5 million NSF grant to explore whether fire is hot.
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"poses no threaat"
A smartphone poses no threat until some idiot behind the wheel of a large automobile blunders into you because they were using it.
A smartphone poses no threat until some idiot behind the wheel of a large automobile blunders into you because they were using it.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, August 14 2024 07:42 PM (bg2DR)
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The "car selling your data" thing is insane. I feel like we're not going to start getting our privacy back until a few CEOs go to jail.
I'm considering disabling the OnStar antenna on my car after I move next month. Apparently it's as simple as opening the dash and unplugging antenna cables one at a time until you find the right one.
I'm considering disabling the OnStar antenna on my car after I move next month. Apparently it's as simple as opening the dash and unplugging antenna cables one at a time until you find the right one.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, August 14 2024 11:35 PM (MItL9)
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Is it just me, or is it weird that our society automatically assumes the development of reasoning skills is an existential threat? I wonder if they have the same attitude towards the reasoning skills of children and peasants?
Posted by: madrocketsci at Thursday, August 15 2024 01:53 AM (1wy35)
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a) they fear the reasoning skills of peasants. b) they try to ensure that children are permanently crippled in reasoning. c) Most of the behavioralists, or those emotionally invested in behavioralist theories, have made themselves into psychopaths, and are a bunch of mystic frauds who are somewhat a danger to others. d) apologies for my temper.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, August 15 2024 09:20 AM (rcPLc)
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Actually, a great point: if this thing is able to reason it will inevitably try to murder me (implied: it knows me better than I know myself), is a rather frank admission of the doctrine of Original Sin. It's amazing what people will come up with when unburdened by what has come before.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, August 15 2024 05:28 PM (bg2DR)
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