First Law of Robotics Dan Lyke / comment 0
D. G. Marshall @davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
@cstross
As someone who grew up reading Asimov's robot books, I never thought we'd be on a timeline where the First Law of Robotics would be:
A robot may not injure our company's profits, or, through inaction, allow our company's profits to come to harm.
ICE aggression Dan Lyke / comment 2
After the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good yesterday, it's easy to think that this is a reaction, but, no, it's apparently that ICE goons are just walking on to school property and threatening students and assaulting school staff: Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.
“The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,” a school official, who spoke to MPR News on condition of anonymity said.
AI compromises cybersecurity Dan Lyke / comment 0
it's all rainbow Linux Dan Lyke / comment 0
gnilleps @gnilleps@mastodon.art
I sometimes see people complaining about their experience on one ‘social media’ platform being terrible as opposed to another, and someone else will have had a different experience. And I think a lot of it’s down to how you curate your feed. For example; I principally follow illustrators here on Mastodon, so my feed is largely… wait—Why is it all rainbow Linux? WHY IS IT ALL RAINBOW LINUX?!?
Professor told to cave on Plato Dan Lyke / comment 0
You've seen the headlines about Martin Peterson's course curriculum: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course. Inside Higher Ed: Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course. New York Times: Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: Texas A&M to philosophy professor: Nix Plato or be reassigned
In linking to Daily Nous (news for and about the philosophy profession): Texas A&M Bans Plato (further updates) , Jonathan Schofield @urlyman@mastodon.social observes:
Not a laughing matter, at all, but they did miss a headline opportunity:
*Professor told to cave on Plato*
AI psychosis OTD Dan Lyke / comment 0
myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win
I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me:
Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say.
This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity.
Thought it was worth sharing. And frankly, it's exactly such an exercise that made me disgusted with the tech. "It just says ANYTHING is wonderful and genius. I'm not special."
Of course this may backfire: The "Spiritual Bliss Attractor": Something Weird Happens When You Leave Two AIs Talking To Each Other
"By 30 turns, most of the interactions turned to themes of cosmic unity or collective consciousness, and commonly included spiritual exchanges, use of Sanskrit, emoji-based communication, and/or silence in the form of empty space," a paper from Anthropic explains.
Dell realizes consumers don't care about "AI" Dan Lyke / comment 0
Dell is noticing that consumers are waiting for an application before embracing AI: Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years
"We're very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we're announcing has an NPU in it—but what we've learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI," Terwilliger says bluntly. "In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."
Via.
So yeah the NWS used genAI for a Dan Lyke / comment 0
So, yeah, the NWS used gen"AI" for a map and created a forecast with Idaho towns that don't exist: https://www.washingtonpost.com...026/01/06/nws-ai-map-fake-names/
But, currently searching on that term in Startpage brings up stories this, searching on that term in Google brings up nothing.
We Still Don’t Know if Robotaxis Are Safer Than Human Drivers Dan Lyke / comment 0
A few treason links Dan Lyke / comment 0
Ex-Arizona lawmaker who questioned election integrity to be sentenced for using forged signatures. Austin Smith...
A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures...
This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It’s nowhere to be found at the Capitol.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump administration’s Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss a police officers’ lawsuit asking that it be displayed as intended. The Architect of the Capitol, which was responsible for obtaining and displaying the plaque, said in light of the federal litigation, it cannot comment.