Natanox

Trumps cabinet can sign off many things, doesn’t mean it would end up being put in place. Before a world-ending machine where thousands of people have to knowingly cooperate for, which we all know “can make mistakes”, would be finished too many cogs (people) in the system would stop properly working. Info leaked, malicious compliance, (AI) companies refusing due to investors getting pissy, etc etc.

It’s one thing to build a world-ending system “for the good guys” if a majority of those tasked with it truly believe it being a good thing for “deterrence”. But the whole AI paranoia itself would cause this plan to fail somewhere.

It’s good to be vigilant, but despite everything currently going on there really is no reason to drive yourself crazy about something so absurdly unlikely. There are way better things to put your energy into to fight fascism successfully.

The government is, but there are quite a few more people involved in the process. Which make it very unlikely for something to happen.

Also the AI companies themselves know very well it would be an awful idea, no matter what their marketing says. Trump would evidently be stupid enough, but the people who actually would work on the new system wouldn’t all be. And we’ve seen in history that even loyal soldiers refuse to destroy the world when put on the spot with systems already working, in this case it would be a long process of many people working on a system everyone knows “can make mistakes”. No way that system would end up being finished.

True, pure marketing - or outright propaganda.

It won’t get us killed. It would require a state to plug an AI into their nuclear arsenal with full, independent target and fire permissions - there are too many humans in any state for something that absurdly stupid to happen. I know we’re living in the most stupid timeline, but that’s something simply not realistic to expect ever happening.

Other than that it’s just scaremongering by AI companies for marketing reasons and social media influencers to make money (remember, outrage and fear generates revenue through clicks and impressions on corpo media).

A compatibility layer translating 32 to 64bit calls would be the best option. Devs are right, keeping up multilib support is suboptimal. However those in the issue thread saying that “a majority of users want to get rid of 32bit libraries even if that makes old games not work” is just mad. A majority wants their games to god damn work optimally and do not care or even know about library issues. Even if Proton still works, it’s one less option and the native one at that.

Good. Breaking old games unnecessarily is not an option.

This. There are so many excellent reasons to dislike Linus, but the way Pop_OS! screwed him over (yes, that way around) isn’t one of them.

Mmh, seems like that project is somewhat in license hell. Awesome that person does it anyway though, better downloading the releases before Nvidia gets pissy.