There's an awful lot of momentum with the USD being the world currency. Even if it eventually declines I think it might take decades, if the British pound is anything to go by.

Well if we create skynet but Grok (groknet?) we won't have to worry about it.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

> and destroys what it is for.

ooh rumbled

time to switch accounts

thanks for the heads up!

Trump will default on the national debt before the end of his term.

ah yes, fascism

Cancel culture and derangement syndrome. This admin is garbage.

don't look at the profit and loss though

the pride aspect is gone though

even if you've got an outstanding project, now everyone has to wade through no much noise it'll never be found

or the taxpayer

the high end probably pay the same sort of tax as professional footballers

Sex work shouldn't be shunned, but it's not a normal profession either. Mental health, addiction and abuse is just as much of a problem online and in countries where prostitution is legal and normalized.

> it's not technically difficult even if it is unethical.

kettle, pot, black?

I received the following offical spam last week from GitHub:

> Build AI agents with the new GitHub Copilot SDK

despite never granting consent for marketing material

(and yes, there's a GDPR complaint now working its way through the national regulator)

it's not logical, at all

it more or less guarantees the other side will retaliate with nuclear weapons

at which point the likelihood of escalation to strategic nuclear strikes goes through the roof

and if that happens our current civilisation is finished

> We have prior art that says humans don't just launch all the nukes just because the computers or procedures say to.

previously no-one had spent trillions of dollars trying to convince the world that those computers were "Artificial Intelligence"

of course they did. That's the literal topic of War Games (1983). You should actually be somewhat reassured that we aren't living during the era of Dr. Strangelove where you had characters in the military industrial complex who were significantly more insane when it came to the beliefs of what computer systems and nukes can do.

There was a time when people wanted to dig tunnels with nukes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Digging tunnels with nukes sounds better to me than shooting them at each other!

All you need is a elephants foot burning into the ground and a way to direct it via partial cooling..

MacArthur recommend turning the Korea-China border into a nuclear wasteland to prevent further Chinese troop movements.

Thank god everyone has nukes now it keeps people sane!

> There was a time when people wanted to dig tunnels with nukes

The article seems to be about mining rather than tunnelling.

And the issue with the idea being? We also dig using explosives, there isn't an in-principle problem. Reading the wiki article it looks like the yields were excessive, but at the end of the day mining involves the use of things that go boom. It is easy to imagine small nukes having a place in the industry.

>And the issue with the idea being?

See the 'rationale' section of the article. The point of it was to rebrand nuclear weapons as multi-use 'peaceful' tools and drive acceptance for nuclear weapons programs. Which was a pretty standard tactic of military projects during the cold war.

The more available they are, the more likely they are to be used on humans.

> That's the literal topic of War Games (1983)

Probably ran out of tokens before the end, during training.

"How about a nice game of Chess?"

They had to do with "state-of-the-art radars", "military-grade communication systems", etc.

Yeah but they dealt with sota and military-spec systems their entire career and they know that it just means "lowest bidder".

Or "alignment" which means "let's ensure the AIs recommend launching nukes only when it makes sense to, based on our [assumed objective] values"

> Neither of your citations has any relevance to this at all.

it's a common pattern in GPs comments

pretty certain he just asks the "AI" for citations on whatever he's written

(for a VC he sure has a lot of time to waste shit-posting on the internet)

> But it's not like the USA is now DPRK.

I'd say the perception is probably worse

kim is simply not a threat

he also hasn't threatened to invade us, and he's not kidnapped any foreign leaders (recently)

Exactly. These guys have blinders.