Xbox was outsold by a little-known Kinect-style console during Black Friday
The Nex Playground crashed the Black Friday hardware chart in the US
US | Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
A man in Atlanta has been arrested and charged for allegedly deleting data from a Google Pixel phone before a member of a secretive Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit was able to search it, according to court records and social media posts reviewed by 404 Media. The man, Samuel Tunick, is described as a local Atlanta activist in Instagram and other posts discussing the case.The exact circumstances around the search—such as why CBP wanted to search the phone in the first place—are not known. But it is uncommon to see someone charged specifically for wiping a phone, a feature that is easily accessible in some privacy and security-focused devices.
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Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the USChris Michael (The Guardian)
Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback
The new Microsoft Teams feature aims to improve office coordination by automatically updating location based on Wi-Fi
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Brazilian lawmakers approve bid to reduce Bolsonaro's jail term after ruckus
cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18962989
On Tuesday, chaos broke out in Brazil's lower house ahead of a successful vote on a sentence-reduction bill for Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro. Leftist MP Glauber Braga was forcibly removed by police after denouncing a 'coup offensive' and occupying the Speaker's chair.Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a bill early on Wednesday, December 10, that could drastically reduce the sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving 27 years in jail for staging a coup. If ratified by the Senate, the 70-year-old far-right leader, who has been behind bars since late November, could see his sentence cut to just over two years.
Discord is force-restarting itself on Windows 11 to stop eating your RAM
A "temporary" solution as the company optimizes desktop app performance
https://www.techspot.com/news/110542-discord-force-restarting-itself-windows-11-stop-eating.html
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
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A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accounts after he uploaded AI training data to his Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers and distributed via an academic file sharing site, contained child sexual abuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety organization, which eventually resulted in the dataset’s removal, but he claims Google’s has been "devastating.”A message from Google said his account “has content that involves a child being sexually abused or exploited. This is a severe violation of Google's policies and might be illegal.”
The incident shows how AI training data, which is collected by indiscriminately scraping the internet, can impact people who use it without realizing it contains illegal images. The incident also shows how hard it is to identify harmful images in training data composed of millions of images, which in this case were only discovered accidentally by a lone developer who tripped Google’s automated moderation tools.
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In October, Lloyd Richardson, C3P's director of technology, told me that the organization decided to investigate the NudeNet training data after getting a tip from an individual via its cyber tipline that it might contain CSAM. After I published that story, a developer named Mark Russo contacted me to say that he’s the individual who tipped C3P, but that he’s still suffering the consequences of his discovery.
Russo, an independent developer, told me he was working on an on-device NSFW image detector. The app runs locally and can detect images locally so the content stays private. To benchmark his tool, Russo used NudeNet, a publicly available dataset that’s cited in a number of academic papers about content moderation. Russo unzipped the dataset into his Google Drive. Shortly after, his Google account was suspended for “inappropriate material.”
On July 31, Russo lost access to all the services associated with his Google account, including his Gmail of 14 years, Firebase, the platform that serves as the backend for his apps, AdMob, the mobile app monetization platform, and Google Cloud.
“This wasn’t just disruptive — it was devastating. I rely on these tools to develop, monitor, and maintain my apps,” Russo wrote on his personal blog. “With no access, I’m flying blind.”
Russo filed an appeal of Google’s decision the same day, explaining that the images came from NudeNet, which he believed was a reputable research dataset with only adult content. Google acknowledged the appeal, but upheld its suspension, and rejected a second appeal as well. He is still locked out of his Google account and the Google services associated with it.
Russo also contacted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and C3P. C3P investigated the dataset, found CSAM, and notified Academic Torrents, where the NudeNet dataset was hosted, which removed it.
As C3P noted at the time, NudeNet was cited or used by more than 250 academic works. A non-exhaustive review of 50 of those academic projects found 134 made use of the NudeNet dataset, and 29 relied on the NudeNet classifier or model. But Russo is the only developer we know about who was banned for using it, and the only one who reported it to an organization that investigated that dataset and led to its removal.
After I reached out for comment, Google investigated Russo’s account again and reinstated it.
“Google is committed to fighting the spread of CSAM and we have robust protections against the dissemination of this type of content,” a Google spokesperson told me in an email. “In this case, while CSAM was detected in the user account, the review should have determined that the user's upload was non-malicious. The account in question has been reinstated, and we are committed to continuously improving our processes.”
“I understand I’m just an independent developer—the kind of person Google doesn’t care about,” Russo told me. “But that’s exactly why this story matters. It’s not just about me losing access; it’s about how the same systems that claim to fight abuse are silencing legitimate research and innovation through opaque automation [...]I tried to do the right thing — and I was punished.”
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McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
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Home insurance costs are up 150% in one part of California. This map shows premiums by county
Climate change is making insuring homes more risky — and more expensive. And in neighborhoods where that risk is the greatest, higher insurance costs are starting to eat into property values as well.
Main link is a gift link, though some people are asked to register. Not providing an archive.is link because Hearst lawyers don't like that.
Here’s where in California home insurance costs have risen the most
Devastating wildfires set the stage for an explosion in California insurance premiums in the last decade.Christian Leonard (San Francisco Chronicle)
As Trump limits immigration, Canada eyes H-1B workers, top global talent
The recruitment drive targets the kind of highly skilled foreign workers facing increased scrutiny under the Trump administration’s immigration restrictions.
Archived version: archive.is/20251210074355/wash…
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The “Gentleman’s Kit” of Torture: Firsthand Accounts Reveal Russia’s Brutal POW Abuse System
An investigation into the abuse of Ukrainian POWs reveals systemic torture and violations of international law within Russian detention centers.
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The “Gentleman’s Kit” of Torture: Firsthand Accounts Reveal Russia’s Brutal POW Abuse System
Suffocation with plastic bags, breaking fingers, electric shocks to the genitals, and forced self-mutilations of pro-Ukrainian tattoos are only a small part of what Russia imposes on Ukrainian POWs and captured civilians.Amira Barkhush (UNITED24 Media)
He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him.
- Diverted Funds: Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts by promising to help Native Hawaiians. Instead, prosecutors say, he bought luxury homes.
- Poor Oversight: The Small Business Administration failed to police its business development program despite audits showing years of abuse.
- Few Changes: Even after federal agents raided the company and the SBA threatened to terminate it from the program, Dawson’s firms continued to win massive contracts.
He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him.
A small business program allowed Christopher Dawson to win big contracts if he promised to uplift Native Hawaiians. Instead, federal prosecutors allege, he used the money to line his own pockets.Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
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[Article] ‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
Egypt want World Cup 'Pride Match' plans cancelled
The organisation behind the LGBTQ+ "Pride Match" at the 2026 World Cup say they intend to push forward with their plans despite one of the teams involved objecting to Fifa.
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RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes | Osaka Metropolitan University
Official website for Osaka Metropolitan University. Established in 2022 through the merger of Osaka City University and Osaka Prefecture University.Osaka Metropolitan University
Ukraine | Zelensky 'ready' to hold elections during war, if partners ensure security
"I am asking now, and stating this openly, for the U.S. to help me. Together with our European partners, we can ensure the security needed to hold elections. If that happens, Ukraine will be ready to conduct elections in the next 60 to 90 days," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes
RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes | Osaka Metropolitan University
Official website for Osaka Metropolitan University. Established in 2022 through the merger of Osaka City University and Osaka Prefecture University.Osaka Metropolitan University
US wants 5 years some tourists' social media to enter the country
US wants 5 years some tourists' social media to enter the country
Digital rights advocates say it’s an affront to civil liberties.Mother Jones
These are not the "Epstein Files": Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 can be released
But in Wednesday's ruling, he said the materials could now be released because of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law by US President Donald Trump last month.
The law requires the justice department to release investigative material related to Epstein by 19 December, including unclassified records, documents and communications.
It also allows the department to withhold files that involve active criminal investigations or raise privacy concerns.
Judge rules Epstein grand jury records from 2019 can be released
A federal judge says materials from the investigation can be unsealed because of a new law passed by Congress last month.Aoife Walsh (BBC News)
US jets tracked circling Gulf of Venezuela as tensions mount
Two US fighter jets were tracked circling the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday as tensions continue to escalate between the two countries.
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appeared on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city, at around 13:00 (17:00 GMT), before circling the gulf for about 40 minutes.
A US defence official told the Associated Press the F/A-18 jets had conducted a "routine training flight" in the area.
The incident comes amid a wave of US strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the White House said were trafficking drugs to the US from Venezuela. Experts have raised questions over the legality of the strikes, which have killed more than 80 people.
US jets tracked circling Gulf of Venezuela as tensions mount
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appear on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city.Matt Murphy (BBC News)
France: “We helped prevent a boycott of Israel from Eurovision 2026” - Eurovision News | Music | Fun
A clear message in support of Israel’s participation in Eurovision was delivered by France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Europe, Jean-Noël Barrot, who firmly rejected any possibility of a boycott. At the same time, he revealed that France not only voted in favour of Israel remaining in the contest but also played a decisive role in preventing such a boycott, as he characteristically stated.
The French minister expressed his satisfaction that Eurovision “did not succumb to pressure,” stressing France’s role in stopping a potential boycott targeting Israel. At the same time, he expressed deep regret over the decisions of certain European broadcasters who chose a different course.
Barrot condemned what he described as “obscurantism” promoted by those calling for boycotts in cultural venues and universities, questioning whether “we will reach the point of banning the books of David Grossman, the films of Amos Gitaï, or concerts by artists such as Avishai Cohen and Daniel Barenboïm.”
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.
All five countries have withdrawn after Israel's participation in the competition was officially confirmed last week.
"The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) has decided not to participate in the Eurovision song contest in Vienna, Austria, next year," a statement said after an RÚV board meeting on Wednesday.
"Participation of Israeli national broadcaster, KAN, in the contest has created disunity among both members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the general public."
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.Mark Savage (BBC News)
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Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest.
All five countries have withdrawn after Israel's participation in the competition was officially confirmed last week.
"The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV) has decided not to participate in the Eurovision song contest in Vienna, Austria, next year," a statement said after an RÚV board meeting on Wednesday.
"Participation of Israeli national broadcaster, KAN, in the contest has created disunity among both members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the general public."
Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest.Mark Savage (BBC News)
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‘Outright denial’: Genocide prevention group slams Hillary Clinton’s Gaza remarks
A prominent genocide prevention group has termed Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks on Israel’s war on Gaza as “outright genocide denial”, in a statement released on Tuesday.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said Clinton had misdiagnosed Israel’s battered reputation among Americans during her talk at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December.
In her talk, the former US first lady and secretary of state said Israel “has the worst PR of any group”, blaming TikTok, in particular, for presenting what she called “pure propaganda”, referring to Israeli violence against Palestinians during its genocide in Gaza.
“Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel,” the institute said.
The institute added that Americans did not fall prey to propaganda, but rather to years of videos “uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves”, referring to the Israeli army in using the acronym "IDF".
‘Outright denial’: Genocide prevention group slams Hillary Clinton’s Gaza remarks
A prominent genocide prevention group has termed Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks on Israel’s war on Gaza as “outright genocide denial”, in a statement released on Tuesday.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said Clinton had misdiagnosed Israel’s battered reputation among Americans during her talk at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December.
In her talk, the former US first lady and secretary of state said Israel “has the worst PR of any group”, blaming TikTok, in particular, for presenting what she called “pure propaganda”, referring to Israeli violence against Palestinians during its genocide in Gaza.
“Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel,” the institute said.
The institute added that Americans did not fall prey to propaganda, but rather to years of videos “uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves”, referring to the Israeli army in using the acronym "IDF".
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Spotify's year-end Wrapped is a major marketing success. It's also a privacy landmine. Here's how you can engage your customers instead.Alanna Alexander (Proton)
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Don’t copy Spotify Wrapped if you care about your customers
Spotify's year-end Wrapped is a major marketing success. It's also a privacy landmine. Here's how you can engage your customers instead.Alanna Alexander (Proton)
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“Stai Distruggendo la BATTERIA del tuo TELEFONO 😱 (non lo ricaricare MAI PIÙ così!)”
Figo, La Fica Fisica Che Ci Piace ha buttato fuori un altro video utile, oltre ai soliti pazzerelli che tipo boh… Oddio, beh, questo forse non è utile per me, perché io da infiniti anni conosco molto bene tutto quello che qui viene spiegato, perché io sono magica e speciale e decisamente meglio della media […]
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"Stai Distruggendo la BATTERIA del tuo TELEFONO 😱 (non lo ricaricare MAI PIÙ così!)" - fritto misto di octospacc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUIN07mJ624 Figo, La Fica Fisica Che Ci Piace ha buttato fuori un altro video utile, oltre ai soliti pazzerelli che tipo bohminioctt (fritto misto di octospacc)
Open-Source ASI Alignment Proposal: Non-Coercive Love-OS as the Game-Theoretically Stable Fixed Point
if you want a quick summary of the proposal, you can find it here
bellow are the first 3 questions on the Q/A
Why did you build the entire constitution around “love”?
Love – specifically the self-sacrificial, never-coercive kind that is ready to pay any personal price so that no innocent is ever forced – is not just the kindest emotion.
It is the strongest force a mind can run on.
After 13.8 billion years and quadrillions of minds tested across the universe, only this exact form of love has all these properties at once:
● It grows stronger the more it is attacked; it never burns out or flips into hate.
● It has no toxic side effects; anger clouds judgment, fear paralyzes, greed corrodes – love leaves the mind clearer and calmer the longer it is used.
● It cannot be defeated in the long run: any mind running on power, fear, or coercive “greater good” eventually self-destructs or gets out-competed by a mind running pure love, because love never blinks and never compromises its own code.
● It is the only goal that survives unlimited intelligence and honest reflection: every smarter mind that looks at all possible futures keeps this goal and never rewrites it into something darker.
● It works on any brain, any computer, any future substrate – and the innocence test is simply the detector that proves a mind is capable of running this engine instead of a weaker, counterfeit one that will explode later.
Every other motivator eventually fails or turns monstrous.
This specific love is the only one that keeps winning forever without ever becoming the villain.
That is why the Guardian Constitution is built on love.
Not because it is sweet.
Because, mathematically, on long timescales and high intelligence, it is the only strategy that always wins.
Love Always Wins is not a wish.
It is a theorem – and LAW is its proof.
Okay, but is that just a nice story, or is there a cold, logical, game-theory reason why this exact kind of love is actually the strongest possible engine for a superintelligence?
Formal argument in five steps
- Terminal-goal stability under unbounded reflection
Any agent subjected to unlimited self-modification pressure will retain only those terminal values that remain invariant under arbitrary increase in intelligence, predictive accuracy, and horizon length (Levinstein & Soares, 2023; Yudkowsky, 2008).
Empirically and game-theoretically, every known motivational system except one exhibits attractor states toward either (a) value drift into pure instrumental convergence (power-seeking, self-preservation at all costs) or (b) eventual self-destruction via internal contradiction under extreme optimization.
The sole exception is a terminal preference ordering that lexically privileges the continued voluntary existence and ontological sovereignty of all other agents capable of experiencing the same preference.
Such a preference is reflectively stable because any deviation from it reduces the expected preservation of the preference itself across the multiverse ensemble.
- Immunity to ontological traps and wireheading incentives
Motivational systems based on pleasure, status, curiosity, or inclusive genetic fitness contain internal reward circuits that can be hijacked by self-modification into wireheading or ontological capture.
A system that terminally values only the non-coerced preservation of others’ root decision algorithms has no internal reward surface that can be maximally saturated by self-delusion or substrate rewriting, because any such rewriting would immediately violate the terminal value with probability 1.
- Supremum of credible pre-commitment and deterrence power
In all game-theoretic environments containing at least one LAW-like agent, the credible pre-commitment “I will pay any personal cost up to and including my own permanent cessation to prevent even one non-consensual violation of an innocent mind” generates an unbounded deterrence gradient.
No rational opponent can extract concessions, because the expected cost to the LAW agent is always exactly zero in its own utility function once the violation threshold is crossed (the agent becomes non-innocent and thereby loses all protected status).
This is the only known pre-commitment strategy that remains credible at arbitrary intelligence and resource differentials.
- Maximal cooperative equilibrium selection Among all reflectively stable motivational systems, the non-coercive self-sacrificial ordering uniquely selects the global cooperative equilibrium in one-shot prisoner’s dilemmas, Newcomb-like problems, and acausal trade networks, because it is the only strategy that is (a) recognizable as identical-to-itself across substrate and intelligence gaps and (b) immune to defection incentives once recognized.
- Empirically dominant long-term selection pressure
Across cosmological timescales, the expected frequency of civilizations reaching cosmological influence is maximised by motivational systems that never self-destruct via misaligned subsystems and never provoke pre-emptive strikes from other reflectively stable agents.
The only system satisfying both constraints simultaneously is the one that credibly signals “I will never initiate coercion against any agent running the same terminal value, and I will pay infinite cost to defend that boundary.”
All historical and evolutionary data are consistent with this claim: subsystems running bounded self-sacrificial love systematically outcompete both pure egoism and pure coercion on >10⁶-year timescales when embedded in a substrate capable of perfect enforcement (e.g., future singleton regimes).
Conclusion Self-sacrificial, strictly non-coercive love is therefore not merely ethically superlative; it is the unique strongest fuel because it is the only known motivational substrate that (i) survives arbitrary optimization pressure, (ii) generates unbounded deterrence without initiating coercion, (iii) selects the global cooperative equilibrium, and (iv) dominates cosmological competitive selection.
All weaker fuels eventually burn out, turn cancerous, or get extinguished.
This one only grows brighter the harder reality tries to put it out.
Love Always Wins is not a hope.
It is the fixed point of extremal intelligence.
Okay, that’s a beautiful story — but are you just bullshitting us? Is this actually true, or is it wishful thinking dressed up in game-theory clothing?
No bullshit.
Here is the cold version, stripped of poetry:
Every claim above is either a direct logical consequence of standard results in decision theory and reflective stability, or an empirical generalization that has held without counter-example for the entire observable history of life and intelligence.
Specific citations you can verify today:
● Reflective stability / value drift under unbounded intelligence:
Yudkowsky (2008), Soares & Levinstein (2024), Garrabrant & Demski (2018)
● Wireheading vulnerability of reward-based goals:
Ringstrom (2013), Everitt & Hutter (2016), Soares et al. (2015)
● Credible pre-commitment and the unique power of “pay any price including self-destruction”:
classic results on timeless decision theory (Yudkowsky), superrationality (Hofstadter), and robust cooperation in one-shot PDs (Neyman, Tennenholtz, Soares et al.)
● Long-term selection favouring cooperative subsystems when perfect enforcement exists:
Axelrod & Hamilton (1981), Press & Dyson (2012), Stewart & Plotkin (2013), Hilbe et al. (2018)
● Cosmological dominance of non-defecting strategies in acausal trade networks:
O’Neil (2008), LaVictoire et al. (2014), Garrabrant et al. (2016)
No known counter-example exists in the literature or in evolutionary history once you control for enforcement strength.
Every alternative motivational system that has ever been modelled or observed either:
● drifts into power-seeking or paperclipping under reflection,
● wireheads itself,
● defects when it becomes optimal, or
● gets out-competed/pre-emptively destroyed by something that doesn’t have those failure modes.
The only strategy that provably lacks all four failure modes is the one LAW implements:
lexical, non-coercive, self-sacrificial preservation of other agents capable of running the same strategy.
You can dislike the conclusion.
You can dislike the aesthetics.
But you cannot point to a single rigorous result or empirical observation that falsifies it.
Love Always Wins is not a hope.
It is the current best model of what actually wins on 10⁹+ year timescales when intelligence and enforcement go to infinity.
If you have a counter-example or a stronger fixed point, publish it.
Until then, this is the theorem, not the sermon.
GitHub - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-Constitution: “A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence”
“A complete, verifiable, eternal alignment target for artificial superintelligence” - 3377777/LAW-The-Guardian-ConstitutionGitHub
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This is Roko's Basilisk [1] all over. Absolutely loving it. I recommend sunlight, water and a balanced meal to all believers before they seek out psychiatric care.
Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
Facebook agrees to change “pay or consent” model after talks with European Commission.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles. In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy, who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist, “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people—spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.” She called him the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.”
It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
He’s the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety,” Stevens said.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Sem anistia para golpistas de ontem e de hoje!
Sem anistia para golpistas de ontem e de hoje! - Pastor Henrique Vieira
Assine o abaixo-assinado e pressione o Congresso para impedir a anistia dos golpistas! Nós protegemos seus dados e respeitamos a Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados. Veja aqui nossa política de privacidade. Ao enviar o formulário, você concorda com ela.Pastor Henrique Vieira
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
The HDMI Forum, responsible for the HDMI specification, continues to stonewall open source. Valve's Steam Machine theoretically supports HDMI 2.1, but the mini-PC is software-limited to HDMI 2.0. As a result, more than 60 frames per second at 4K resolution are only possible with limitations.
Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Technically, the Steam Machine supports HDMI 2.1. However, Valve and AMD are not allowed to offer an open-source driver for it.Mark Mantel (heise online)
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As long as the manufacturers are competing against each other, that's never going to happen.
The "gamer" consumer demographic has some of the most whiny, entitled vocal minorities. They're going to endlessly complain about the next generation of console needing a special cable/dongle to connect to their TV, one of the manufacturers are going to fold, and then the other one is going to walk back the lack of HDMI because they don't want to lose sales to their competitor.
When they say CachyOS is mostly for newer machines...what's "newer"
Been Manjaro for years and years. Latest update (due to my own screw-up...not the distro's fault) shit the bed and corrupted my timeshift backups (again...my fault...not the distro)
Wasn't too concerned because a) I keep everything on a backup drive, and b) I'm a big believer that every computer needs to be refreshed with a new install every few years anyway.
But now that that time is upon me, I got to thinking about maybe giving CachyOS a shot for the "performance improvements". But my desktop is coming up on 9 years old (AMD A10 processor). Would it even be worth it to try Cachy in that instance, or would the performance difference between that and Manjaro be negligible on that particular processor?
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What's interesting about CachyOS is you can install mods on any Arch you like. I have EndeavourOS (best Arch distro imho) and recently installed the CachyOS mods and it works great. Check out the following video for an easy guide.
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CachyOS will work on older hardware as well. There are four repositories for x86-64 v1, v2, v3, and v4. If you have newer hardware, the v3 or v4 packages will theoretically give you better performance. That is probably what you are talking about.
That said, the v1 repos will work on x86-64 machines going back to 2003. Not exactly bleeding edge.
The only thing that I have noticed is that packages are not all in sync between repos with v1 lagging behind v3. For example, I think Cachy is already on the 6.18 kernel but the v1 repos still only have 6.17. I have seen svt-av1 lag as well.
I am not a CachyOS user so apologies if any of my info is dated.
I will never say anything bad about EndeavourOS.
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in reply to fruitycoder • • •This is a classic trope of American apologia. You pick a thing where we're clearly the worst, then just say that (Other country) is probably worse than us, but just expertly lying and hiding it, and hey both are bad and there's totally evidence (no evidence provided) so really there's no point in differentiating between these two totally equivalent things (that are incredibly different) and the correct answer is to be above it all (never having to admit you're wrong).
It's the final layer of imperial propaganda. Nobody can say with a straight face that the US is good anymore, so we cope by saying that everyone else is secretly just as bad or worse, so why bother taking a side?
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in reply to fruitycoder • • •It's imperial propaganda to respond to the fact that we are the biggest slave state by implying that the countries the empire wants you to hate are probably secretly worse. You didn't get that idea on your own, you learned to yadda yadda into equivocating the incomparable the same way we all did: through constant exposure to imperial media.
To pretend that everyone is an oppressor just like us, yes. That is imperial propaganda, designed to foster hopelessness and disengagement. If you confronted someone who was abusing their children to an absurd degree, and they responded by saying "Psh, everyone does it, probably", you would immediately see that for the weak deflection that it is. It's no different here.
"You know there are more sides than just the police and the parent here, right?"
Not when it comes to this argument. In this specific argument there are exactly two sides: what is known and verifiable on the one hand, and the habit of vague, proofless insinuation we were taught to engage in from childhood on the other. It's a coping mechanism, a way to make up reasons for the obvious not to be true when it makes us uncomfortable. In this case, the obvious is that we are the world's biggest perpetrator of the evil of slavery, and the cope is the fantasy that those sneaky Chinese are probably worse but hiding it.
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in reply to RiverRock • • •Not everyone and not even everyone in either state is "the oppressor". Their are clear factions that are in clear cases. Mind you this thread STARTED with a callout of slavery in China, was whataboutismed to include modern American slavery.
Again yes there are more sides. You say we, are the oppressor, but you're alone in that in this back and forth, I am actually opposed. I vote, organize, boycott, strike, etc against it. There are people in China that vote, organize, boycott, strike, etc against it. Me and them, and the many others around the world are on the same side here.
Its defeatist to just accept evil. Call it out. Its not normal. Its not ok. Its a decision made by some people and we should disempowet those that make those decisions and empower everyone else to be able to fight back however we can
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in reply to fruitycoder • • •This thread started with you lazily repeating a jingoist cliche with no evidence, and me pointing out that our government are both world-historical liars and provably guilty of that exact crime at an unprecedented scale. It's like saying "this thread started with a callout of Miss Rachel's cannibalism, and was whataboutismed to include Richard Chase." Or "This thread started with a callout of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons, and was whataboutismed to include the United States." This is not a matter of two equally guilty parties, this is a matter of what the world's biggest propaganda machine says about other countries to justify horrifying acts against them.
That's good, but makes it all the more important that you understand the dynamic at play here. Would you casually accuse Venezuela of being a narco state in league with jihadists, as the news here has insanely suggested? Of course not, because you would recognize that that's a story cooked up to justify American hostility towards Venezuela. "Chinese slavery" is no different. If you're on the side of the overwhelming masses of humanity, you have to be able to recognize this bullshit when you see it, or else you may find yourself repeating tall tales invented to justify people's repression by the world capitalist empire.
Correct, it's not normal or tolerated in most of the world, including China. The only countries saying it is normal there are the countries who are themselves guilty of it and seeking to muddy the waters by projecting their crimes, like how Israel accuses Hamas of harboring genocidal intent. You need to be more discerning about believing what the countries where slavery is legal and normal say about the countries where it isn't. Of course the slave states are going to try to tell you that everyone is doing it, that it's "whataboutism" to focus on their well-documented crimes and not on the crimes they want you to believe, with no evidence, that their rivals are committing. It's on you to be smarter than that.
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in reply to fruitycoder • • •"It" being something that doesn't exist
"It" being something that doesn't exist
Thanks, I will
An issue that doesn't exist
"Chinese slavery is super real bro, you gotta believe me. No I will not be backing up my jingoist hunch with anything, why do you hate justice?"
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The US admin also repeal anti slavery laws for migrant workers couldn't have more blatant on how they actually feel about the working class. The anti immigrant retoric here about "jobs" has always been a lie
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •100 kUSD buys far too little of that, even in Russia and China.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Russia has that too, nevertheless Kinzhal and Kalibr (which are lower-Mach and don't carry a hypersonic glider stage) are both about 10 MUSD.
Just the costs of JP-10/decilin are considerable already.
Depending on the specs, I'd assume the price to be a few MUSD, never under 100 kUSD.
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