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Return of Clippy!

Ahh so it's just a game of whataboutism! Not surprising given your proximity to the former Soviet Union.

I'll certainly agree that this bill is too vague and needs refining language to specify its intent, but saying this makes us worse than China or Russia when it comes to digital privacy is laughable.

Ai development.

I work there presently, and this is 100% correct. I mentioned a union to a co-worker -- outside of work and suddenly I am getting harassed due to performance.

Things like going outside of our troubleshooting documentation to fix an issue (I told the customer to restart safari)

Being scored by a manager who has zero idea of how technology works, and trying to make me admit I am wrong about doing X, or Y.

Being harassed when I am not at work because their system stated I was still logged in and in an idle state. I hadn't even logged in that day, and the time frame was off that it would even be possible.

Gaslighting, bullying, harassment. It's disgusting when you see the image apple tries to put out -- but on the inside they're a bunch of bullies who are terrified to say anything in writing. But will most certainly call you into a meeting to chastise you.

Not that the government would care to understand what code libraries are in the first place.

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I do not live in a "beacon of democracy", I live in a totalitarian shithole of a country. And now as I saw your Restrict bill, I can not resist but laugh and make fun of you. A vague law, that will allow to ban any foreign site or software without disclosing a reason, allowing to jail you for a decade just for use of a VPN, for visiting restricted site, in a country, that sanctioned my shithole for totalitarian opression, that proclaims itself a spearhead of democratic and liberal values, what a treat!

I've been told that "dead" EV batteries go to landfills where they leak lead into groundwater. Are you saying that's BS? /s

Yes. But electricity is notoriously hard to store. Building enough storage gets really expensive really quick - preventing it from being competitive with natural gas.

It's not an impossible challenge to solve though.

First, the larger a grid is, the more resilient it is to the intermittent nature of renewables, and the less storage it needs. Being able to shift electricity around at great distances is great for grid stability, and a hypothetical planet-scale grid could go full renewable with impressively little storage. A large and robust joint grid, like that of EU or US-Canada, offers a lot of benefits still. Which is why a lot of industry voices are calling for more grid integration, both within the countries and between the countries - like between US and Mexico.

Second, "smart grid" tech can be used to balance the grid on the demand side instead of the supply side. If electricity prices are allowed to change during the day in small intervals, and consumers, ranging from industries and to home appliances, are designed to take that into account, you can get a lot of flexibility by soft-controlling demand. Raise power prices for 19:00 to 19:30, and watch all the ACs pre-heat or pre-cool beforehand to sit the "expensive" interval out, all the parked EVs suspend their charging process, all the washing machines shift their cycle around, all the home-scale batteries shift to using internal power, all the datacenters undervolt their servers, and so it goes. Thus, you get to "eat" a part of the peak on the demand side, and you need less storage capacity to cover what remains.

Third, "full renewable" is not a good goal to strive towards. Fission or possibly even fusion (not yet, but maybe in 20 years?) could make for "green" baseline generation that can be controlled to cover for deficiencies of renewables.

/r/ControlProblem

Careful what you ask for.

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Artists are much more expensive to hire.

Ok so I won't use it then I just sit here and hope no one else does?

No not the only thing that has changed. Its also very scalable. Even a single individual could launch a massive disinformation from their smartphone.

Its super easy to use. Even a child can type: "Pope in funny jacket." Then you can use other ai solutions to further spread disinformation.

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You don't even have to do a thought experiment. China banned Facebook and YouTube, they'd absolutely ban an American tiktok

Well its about scale and that makes a large difference.

Yes it will be worse. Because of scale. Instead of having to have an expert sit there making fakes and trying to spread them. You can automate most of that.

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It's getting banned because it's owned by china. Facebook and other social medias are not

“I am a man of the cloth a servant of God!” sits on his solid gold throne

the ease, speed, and accuracy of it. It's now possible to, within minutes of a live video being broadcasted. Use deep fake and AI voice generation to modify a video of a world leader. It doesn't have be something where the entire video is faked or edited, but say. edit a world leader saying "we will support Ukraine" to "we will no longer support Ukraine". Set it on blast, or in more repressive regimes run it as if that's the live view and you're going to have a way more difficult task of disproving this than an article that says "this world leader said this thing"

The more realistic, multi-faceted and abundant fakes are. the higher the chances are that people no longer trust the real thing.