Phone scams shouldn’t even be a thing. Every phone number has to be registered to a company. Simply hold those companies to account for all crimes committed using them.

If you sell numbers to Indian scammers, then you take the hit for all the scams, because why are you selling phone numbers to scammers?

That looks really cool. No idea what to use it in, but it’s great.

If it’s plugged into any of the mainstream models like GPT, GPT-OSS, Claude etc, they lie to you about what it’s thinking.

They deliberately only show you a fraction of the thoughts, but charge you for all the secret ones.

Russia is openly attacking Europe. This is the second time railways have been bombed right at the start of the olympics!

Fuck me, what will it take before we do something?

You don’t need to go faster than light. Once you approach anywhere near the speed of light, time slows down so much that journey time becomes irrelevant.

Interstellar space contains neutral hydrogen atoms. Hitting a spaceship, they would produce electromagnetic radiation. When the collision speed goes past about 0.25c, the radiation becomes hard gamma rays which are dangerous to living things, and cannot be efficiently shielded against.

At this speed, the time dilation is slightly above 3%, so you're still not going to reach even Alpha Centauri in one human lifetime, or maybe you barely can.

Alpha Centauri is only 4.2 light years away. 0.25c is definitely enough to reach it. You could even do a round trip in only your adult years.

A trip there to do… what?

There likely won’t be any planet better than the very low bar of Mars for human habitation, in fact maybe even worse due to binary perturbations.

  > A trip there to do… what?

to play golf, what else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jYOubJmfM

Why do people row across the ocean?

If humanity survives to a high enough tech level, someone will do it just because they can...

Yeah, if you take the highly unlikely and already lethat 0.25c achievability as a given.

That is the context the above comments are talking in.

Well, except that you changed below lethal to already lethal.

Well, things like the eventual expansion of our own star or the probability of a sizeable asteroid/comet hitting earth tells me, that we should at least keep thinking about leaving. Even if the current tech is nowhere near good enough.

Even if we do leave, it's unlikely that we do so for a very long time so taking care of the planet makes sense even if you intend to discard our crib. Similarly in the nearer term if we had a unified goal to colonize a near planet/moon that's still going to take a huge long term effort to do more than the equivalent of putting a tent up on an island off the coast to get that colony established (if it can ever be self-sufficient).

Life cannot leave, no.

A radiation hardened, self healing computer could.

I think you should assume that the radiation hardened, self healing computer would consider itself alive.

But importantly that's not us leaving. Some distant future descendent of humans could have engineered itself to leave, but it's not us and we shouldn't fixate on that distant and unknowable future.

But when it returns, would it say 404 or 42?

Not if you want to go back home to the place you once knew though

Right, but is that a like for like comparison?

AWS has redundant data centres across the world and within each region. A file in S3 will never be lost, even if you store it for a thousand years.

What happens if your city has a tornado and your data centre gets hit? Is your company now dead?

And how much do you spend on all these sysadmins? 200k each? If you’re saving 20k/month by paying 100k/month in salaries, you aren’t saving anything.

Yes, the idea is that you focus on the things that differentiate you from the competition. If you’re a factory that makes nails, a better data centre won’t make you any more money. It won’t help you sell more nails. So you should leave the data centres to the experts, and focus on work which improves your actual product.

If you don’t, you’ll be stuck trying to figure out data centres. Hiring tons of infrastructure experts, trying to manage power consumption. And for what? You won’t sell any more nails.

If you’re a company like Google, having better data centres does relate to your products, so it makes sense to focus on them and build your own.

For ML it makes sense, because you’re using so much compute that renting it is just burning money.

For most businesses, it’s a false economy. Hardware is cheap, but having proper redundancy and multiple sites isn’t. Having a 24/7 team available to respond to issues isn’t.

What happens if their data centre loses power? What if it burns down?

That’s positive. How is Claude? Is it censorship heavy?

If you broach subjects Anthropic considers sensitive (cyber security, dangerous biotech, etc) Claude is very likely to shut you down completely and refuse to answer. As someone that works in cybersecurity and uses Claude daily, it is annoying to ask a question regarding some feature of Cobalt Strike and have it refuse to answer, even though the tool’s documentation is public. I would have cancelled my ChatGPT subscription at this point if once or twice a month I didn’t need to ask it to look up something when Claude refuses.

How are the Chinese models in this regard? Qwen3 for instance?

No it isn’t. Writing the code was never the issue with making software, it was designing it.

You can shit out an app with AI, just like you could with Indian workers. But that doesn’t mean it will work properly or that you’ll be able to maintain it.

And most importantly, it only works for code they could steal from GitHub. It has no idea how to replicate sensitive systems which aren’t publically documented, and those are some of the most valuable contracts.