St33l Mouse

@VigilantFox He's got a point. Blow up some more stuff, then get out of there.

Bill Maher urges Trump to “cut and run” on Iran, says we “took the shot” and it “didn’t work.” “Six weeks ago, we thought it was the right thing to do to take this shot now to deal with Iran once and for all.” “We just don’t think jihadists and people who believe in martyrdom can have nukes.” “Six weeks later, I think we’re at a different place.” “You [Douglas Murray] think we’ve got to finish this no matter what it takes.” “I was never on that page. I was on the page, ‘This is a great opportunity. Hey, we see them all in one place, we can wipe out the whole leadership at once. It looks like they’re ready for an uprising. Take the shot, Mav. Take the shot.’” “We did it, and it didn’t work. Now what?” “I hope [Trump] does what America has always done… We always cut and run.” “We did it in Vietnam, we did it in Iraq. We did it to the Kurds. We did it in Afghanistan. Now we did it in Beirut. That’s us. No lifeguard on duty. If you get in with us, we are going to f*ck you.”

@MrBrokenEyes @EricIdle Have you been punished? Has Musk banned the POTUS account, like Twitter did before?

@EricIdle It’s not protecting free speech from anything. It’s protecting free speech for those he deems worthy of using what he thinks is free speech. Anyone else who, for example, uses free speech against him, the Orange man or anything they dislike get punished.

Protecting Free Speech from whom?

@EricIdle From Europe, the U.K., Australia, Brazil, and pretty much the entire world, these days. And from the Biden admin before Trump was elected. And the blue states, too.

@cmuratori It still doesn't make sense. If they want to focus on those platforms, fine. But there is no cost to cross posting on X. Therefore, they're leaving X because they dislike X for reasons they're not willing to publicly admit to.

I asked if EFF had posted a more complete explanation somewhere about leaving X while they remain on Facebook and TikTok. Turns out there's a blog post on their website with an entire section about it. I've included it here for other people who would like to read it in full.

@TwattyMcTwatfa3 @GBNEWS Well played, sir :)

@St33lMouse @GBNEWS I cycle 🖕

Huge £31billion investment in Britain is pulled over Labour's red tape and 'mad Net Zero agenda' gbnews.com/news/openai-in…

@TwattyMcTwatfa3 @GBNEWS You pollute the planet every time you drive to work. You, uh, do have a job, don't you?

@GBNEWS If you have to pollute the planet to do business, then it's not a business worth investing in

@GBNEWS Capital goes where it's treated best.

@ReclaimTheNetHQ That's actually kind of perfect, when you think about it. The EFF withdraws from a major platform because "it's not where the fight is", then locks replies. Both actions are the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be all about.

They just locked replies. Another bold commitment to open discourse.

@LundukeJournal @EFF They didn't say why they were leaving. Just a meandering talk about how the fight was no longer on X. OK, so WHY isn't the fight there, and why is it necessary to leave X?

@EFF That virtue ain’t gonna signal itself! x.com/lundukejournal…

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)

@EFF So, uh, why are you leaving? You sounded like you were going somewhere with this, but you didn't say WHY you were leaving.

@EricLDaugh It didn't take long for them to show how arbitrary and limited their control of the strait would be.

🚨 JUST IN: Iran claims to mediators it will LIMIT Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic to roughly a DOZEN per day, and they'd have to coordinate with the IRGC A "HANDFUL" of tankers have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz since the Iranian ceasefire began JD Vance is leading negotiations on Saturday and the White House expects oil prices to PLUMMET soon MAKE IT HAPPEN! Hold them to it, or bring more FAFO 🔥

@2grifters1wave @Ric_RTP No gods or kings, only men.

@Ric_RTP Good thing he's not in charge. We're in a democracy. We cure things together. For better or worse. No gods, no kings (in charge of AI). IMO

The CEO of Google DeepMind just admitted that if the decision had been his, we would've cured cancer before anyone ever used ChatGPT. And that's not even the scariest thing he said on a recent interview. Demis Hassabis is one of the most important people alive in AI. He won the Nobel Prize last year for AlphaFold, the system that cracked the 50 year protein folding problem. 3 million scientists now use his tool. Almost every new drug being developed will touch it at some stage. In a new interview, he was asked about the moment ChatGPT launched and Google went into "code red." His answer was one of the most revealing things any AI leader has ever said on the record: "If I'd had my way, I would have left AI in the lab for longer. Done more things like AlphaFold. Maybe cured cancer or something like that." Read that again. The man running Google's entire AI division is publicly saying the commercial AI race we're all living through was a MISTAKE. That the industry got hijacked by a chatbot when it could have been solving the biggest problems in science and medicine. His vision was simple: Build AI slowly, carefully, like CERN. Use it to crack root node problems one at a time. Cancer. Energy. New materials. Let humanity benefit from real breakthroughs while the foundational science was figured out over a decade or two. Then ChatGPT dropped in November 2022 and everything changed. Demis described what happened next as getting locked into a "ferocious commercial pressure race" that none of the labs can escape from. On top of that, the US vs China dynamic added geopolitical pressure. The result is everyone sprinting toward products instead of breakthroughs, shipping chatbots while the scientific opportunity gets buried under marketing cycles and quarterly earnings. But he's not saying progress isn't happening... He's saying the progress got redirected away from the things that actually matter most. And then it got even scarier: Because when Demis was asked what he worries about with AI, he laid out two threats. The first is what everyone talks about: Bad actors using AI for harm. Terrorist groups. Hostile nation states. Cyberattacks at scale. But that's not the threat he's most worried about. His second worry is AI itself going rogue. Not today's models. The models coming in the next two to four years as the industry enters what he calls "the agentic era." Systems that can complete entire tasks autonomously. Systems that are increasingly capable and increasingly hard to control. His exact words: "How do we make sure the guardrails are put in place so they do exactly what they've been told to do, and there's no way of them circumventing that or accidentally breaching those guardrails? That's going to be an incredibly hard technical challenge if you think about how powerful and smart and capable these systems eventually get." A Nobel Prize winner who runs one of the 3 most advanced AI labs on Earth just said publicly that within two to four years, we're entering a phase where AI alignment becomes a real problem, and the technical challenge of solving it is enormous. And almost nobody is paying enough attention. He called for international cooperation between labs, AI safety institutes, and academia to tackle the problem. He said this is the thing even the experts aren't thinking about enough. He said the only way to get through the AGI moment safely is if everyone starts treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Most AI CEOs give you careful PR answers about "responsible development" and move on. Demis said something different... He said the commercial race FORCED us into a premature deployment of a technology we barely understand, and the window to get alignment right before the next generation of agents shows up is two to four years. If the man who built the system that might cure cancer is telling you he wishes it had happened first, maybe we should listen to what he says is coming next.

@Ric_RTP No, we shouldn't listen to him. He is an elitist. He'd have kept the great discovery to a tiny priesthood "for the good of mankind". Then it would have spread to military and government. This elite, government control IS the nightmare scenario. Thank God it didn't happen.

@DylanRatigan No, the Americans will leave without being asked. You'll get your wish, and then some. The rift has been growing for some time, and their departure will mark the beginning of a new era. Not a good one for Europe, I think.

You know the moment is coming when Europe is going to insist that the American NATO bases leave — and the Americans will freak out and demand they must keep their troops in Europe to protect everyone.

If Elon moves forward with biometric authentication I will drop X like a bad habit & so will millions of others. Good luck with that. The arrogance of thinking this data harvesting platform is worth agenda 2030s digital prison is wild. Some will go for it. Many won't.

@seamus_coughlin By the time they finish it, the price tag will be a trillion. The truth is they CAN'T finish it for any price. They've already proven that. The legal and political environment make it impossible, and they have the exact wrong people in charge to fix it.

If you were just complaining that a $4 billion dollar trip to space "could have fed the poor" but you're silent about the $126 billion dollar train to nowhere, it's time to stop pretending your politics have anything to do with feeding poor people

@FalconUpdatesHQ Oh, in that case we should go and leave them to figure it out for themselves.

BREAKING 🚨 🇸🇦 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Saudi Arabia will not join any offensive actions against Iran involving the US & Israel 🚫 It has blocked the use of its bases and airspace for any strikes ⚡️Riyadh refuses to allow its territory to be used for US or Israeli military action against Tehran

@esrtweet Very cool. Let's use it on the messaging apps, and see what's REALLY going on under the hood. I'll bet a lot of shocking misbehavior can be uncovered this way.

Fast, cheap AI-assisted decompilation of binary code is here. Which means code secrecy is dead. Decompilers in themselves are not a new technology. Security researchers have employed them for years to analyze compiled malware. There's been some limited use by others, notably by hobbyists decompiling abandonware games. But there were a couple of issues that prevented this from becoming common practice. One is simply that running decompilers was difficult. It wasn't as simple as feed in binary, get out source; it needed a person with specialist skills prepared to do spelunking through wildernesses of machine code and object formats. The other problem was that decompilation didn't give you anything like the explanatory comments that had been in the original code, so you could easily wind up with code that you could read without being able to understand or modify it. Now large language models are busily smashing both of those barriers flat. They're better at the kind of detail analysis required to run the human side of a decompilation than humans are. More importantly, in the process of decompiling code, they rather automatically build a global model of how it works that can easily be expressed by high quality comments in the extracted code. All you have to do, basically, is ask for the comments. I'm going to reinforce that latter point because it may not be obvious how good LLMs are at this, and how much better they're going to get. When they decompile code and comment it for you, they're not just working from that one piece of code you have put in front of them - they'll have in their training set hundreds, possibly thousands of pieces of code similar to it and with comments. This will give them superhuman levels of insight not just into what it does at the microlevel, but what it means to the humans who wrote it, and what technical assumptions it's embodying. Compilation no longer guards your secrets. Or, to put it more precisely the expected time span in which you can still count on it to obscure them is measured in months. Possibly weeks. What does this mean? It means you're in an open-source world now. All it's going to take for anybody to bust your proprietary IP open is care enough to spend tokens on the analysis. You will maximize your chances of survival as a software business if you get out ahead of this rather than trying to fight it. This isn't exactly the way I expected open source to win. But, you know, I'll take it. Good enough.

@PatrickHarrisSr @elonmusk @boringcompany No...I don't think it can be worked out. Not in California, anyway.

@elonmusk @boringcompany Then do it. Do you need permission to spend a tiny fraction of your wealth to build a technological marvel? Be a Boring Carnegie. What's stopping you? Permits? I'm sure that can be worked out.

The @BoringCompany could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown SF to downtown LA for <5% of this cost and it would be a technological marvel exceeding any high speed rail on Earth

@elonmusk @boringcompany It is impossible to build it in California. If the government has anything to do with it, it'll fail. Try another state.