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Or, perhaps a lot of people just didn’t think it was a very good show.

Well, direct your ire at the EU for that, I suppose. I’m just pointing out that calling for massive retribution against Meta isn’t warranted here.

the social media giant will not sign the European Union’s voluntary AI code of practice.

Emphasis added. If the result of not signing a voluntary code of practice is massive fines and IP blocks, was it really “voluntary?”

Getting Kasparov v. Deep Blue vibes here.

Did you read the article? It says:

The competition required contestants to solve a single complex optimization problem over 600 minutes.

They’re the ones who are putting the open-source base models out in the first place. If I write a program myself and release it as open source, I have every right to subsequently release a closed-source version. But I can’t rescind the license on the version I released previously (any open source license with a clause allowing that should be treated with immense suspicion) so anyone else can keep building on that version if they want.

Ask them why God wants to cover up the Epstein files.

It’s almost as if this were a community where we discussed new technologies that are just emerging and haven’t become well-established yet.

They do have guards on the sides, so it’s not completely out in the open.

Hopefully politics won’t get involved in the final report like it did in the EgyptAir case.

Or someone was lying.

A suicide like this has happened before. It even involved the fuel being shut off.

hanlon’s razor and all that

The fuel switches have been very carefully designed to take “stupidity” out of the equation.

It’s going to be hard to conclude for sure that this was suicide without some form of note or other evidence we don’t have yet, but really, at some point the effort it takes to come up with alternatives is going to start looking silly.

so it doesn’t appear one was trying to force it off or anything.

I don’t think it indicates that given how the flight was already doomed at that point. The damage was done.

Ooh, I used to mod Luanti a lot. Wonder if any of my old work is on this server. Is it just straight Mineclonia?

Surely someone committing suicide and taking hundreds of people with him in the process wouldn’t lie about it.

I watched a very comprehensive and professional video by Captain Steeeve on this subject earlier today. He didn’t outright literally say that one of the pilots deliberately downed the plane, but it was very clear that he thought that was the only explanation that really made sense here. Why do you say it sounds like they “did not mean to do so”? The switches are designed to not be movable without considerable deliberation and intent, you can’t just bump these with your knee and switch them off. And both pilots were plenty experienced enough to know that you don’t turn those switches off at that point in the flight.

An equally-true headline: “At last, a promising use for AI agents: debugging smart contract code.” The availability of this tool should make smart contracts more secure in the future, and cryptocurrency more reliable as a result.

Indeed. This sort of thing goes way back - the term “barbarian” was literally a result of Romans making fun of how non-Roman languages sounded to them (they used the onomatopoeia of “Bar Bar” to represent what they thought foreign languages sounded to them). Dismiss their language as meaningless gibber and you dismiss their thoughts as meaningless too.

Saying a black person is “well spoken” is such a common slight in the US, as if it should be surprising somehow that they’re not all speaking Jive or Hip-hop or whatever. If people insult African-Americans like that what hope do Liberians have?

Yeah, this is more of a camp. A camp where they can concentrate a specific sub-population of people into.

Some years ago now, a bunch of bike lanes got added to the streets in my city. The city did a big project of adding them and afterwards proudly declared that X number of kilometers of bike lanes had been made.

When an investigation was done into how the decision process had gone for where to add them it turned out that the only consideration had been “how cheap is it to add bike lanes in these locations?” Not “would bike lanes actually be used in these locations?” They were solely trying to maximize the kilometers-of-lane-per-dollar-spent so that they could put out that headline with as big a number as possible.

Subsequent studies showed that a lot of those lanes weren’t being used by bikes in any significant number. Bike lanes had been added on streets that ran alongside sidewalks that were already designated bike paths. I’m a bike rider myself, some lanes were added in my neighborhood but they somehow managed to put them everywhere except the routes I usually took. The city wound up spending a bunch more money to remove a bunch of the bike lanes that were doing nothing but increasing congestion.

It may be that this was a similar situation, where someone wanted to proudly show off headlines of how they’d pushed for bike access and got X numbers of kilometers installed and those were the only real metrics that mattered.