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Technically possible if some obsolete code was deleted but later a historical snapshot was analyzed

Is AlphaZero not a counterexample?

My understanding of that comment is that "a generally intelligent system" also applies to humans. Which can also be targeted by social engineering which those prompt attacks are. (as in, I won't be surprised if it is possible to put an adversarial human-targeted prompt in a document which some people will execute).

So, like with self-driving cars, while having fool-proof agents would be nice, agents being better than an average user would already be an improvement. Of course, blast radius from an agent might be larger, this should be taken into account.

My setup: philips hue switches in 3dprinted boxes on top of (currently perma-on) dump switches.

Smart home works? good

Smart home dies? remove the smart switches (held in place by magnets) - and the buttons of dumb switches are exposed. Lights have power-on behavior configured, so they act as dumb lights in this case.

FWIW mobile maps rolled out "immersive view" (3d view of selected landmarks, e.g. Trafalgar Square, with model from desktop 3d view) a few years ago. That had camera just rotating around the object but now it seemingly allows free camera?

Wonder when will we get something other than a side view

Can't wait for a machine printing images on film by exposing it with a laser.

Kursor Klone

The precedent seems to be that anyone can broadcast anything without caring what territories can receive your broadcast (see Voice of America broadcasts during the Cold War or GPS jamming in the Baltic nowadays). This seems to be extendable to broadcasting from space. The nominal group in power may ban/jam _receiving_ equipment on their territory though.

>it would be unfair to pay wind farms 10p/kWh and gas turbines 20p/kWh when the electricity they supply is the same and fungible It is not the same, supply from gas turbines is more flexible/predictable, this might be worth an extra premium.

Motorola did some A/B testing in 2011 with Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX. They had identical hardware, but first one was the thin one with a camera bump, second one was uniformly thick (thus no bump) and put an extra battery there (which doubled the capacity).

Given that 3 years later they have stopped producing phones with bumps, I guess people really prefer battery to bumps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hackers could have redistributed their coins to the existing wallets in the same ratio their balances were at the time of attack, keeping some coins (say, 1/21) to themselves as a reward. The outcome would've been: the hackers become owners of 1/21 of all bitcoins ever; Satoshi either keeps his 1/21 or is left with 1/184000 (depends on the implementation); everyone else sees their balance increase 20k times overnight. bitcoin/fiat exchange rate drops the same 20k times, so noone has lost any fiat value. Block rewards immediately become essentially worthless; mining becomes 100% fee powered.

Imo not great, not terrible.

One possibility is to call 911 and ask what time is it.