For example, US water infrastructure would need $2.1 trillion or something around that amount to actually become current and fully repaired.

Source?

You act like this is a new problem with technology. It’s not.

When one country figures out how to make guns, the other country doesn’t just say “You know what… I’m going to stick with the same sword and shield warfare.” No, they figure out how to make guns of their own, and figure out defenses that are appropriate to gun warfare. It is the new norm, and everybody else must account for it.

When the Internet popped into the public zeitgeist, some companies were slow to adopt but pretty soon, everybody had a website. Those that didn’t adapt to this new technology failed as a business and died.

This is an adaptation problem, and unless people take it seriously, there will be one side that uses LLMs to their advantage and one side that doesn’t.

“Baseline” is subjective, so I’d recommend just start a global rules file and steer it away from the behaviors you don’t like. Don’t be afraid of quizzing the agent itself on why it did that thing, and what’s a good bit of language to add to the rules file to prevent it from happening.

Also, for specific tasks, skill files are really useful, and LLMs can write the whole thing, based on what you did the hard way in a session. Same thing for triggering a skill file and then ask it if there are any useful improvements to make to the skills file in the future, at the end of the session.

I use this shit on a daily basis at work. They work well, as long as you’re choosing the right models, making the right engineering decisions, and have a good set of baseline rules.

Most vulnerability patches are a few lines of code. Finding it is the hard part.

Even then, the AI session that found it probably already has a solution to fix it.

It requires an extremely unusual system configuration that may or may not even exist in the real world it is so unusual.

You have to remember that the same AI agents finding the code are also able to exploit the code. So, if it’s some extremely rare race condition requiring some convoluted pattern, it’s still easy to exploit.

More like AI is much faster at finding obscure vulnerabilities, because it doesn’t get tired of digging into the mind-numbing details of human-generated spaghetti code. Give a human the same kind of task, and they would die of boredom 12 hours into it.

We’re entering an age where AI is quickly cleaning up the stupid security holes that have been created by decades of human mistakes, and will continue to be this way until increased AI security reviews will become more standard. The tribals wielding spears will continue to get shot by superior firepower until they adapt to the same weapons and protection themselves.

Did the Trump administration get some bad Intel?

This is assuming a good faith argument that Trump actually gives a shit about public money. And frankly, even saying “good faith” and “Trump” in the same sentence already makes me sick.

It’s not his money. Trump does not give a shit if the money is wasted. He only cares about propping up this AI bubble for as long as he can, to keep his own stocks afloat.

Psycho Pass?

The only systems to have level 4 are taxis that only operate in limited areas, on limited, known routes, and they are well known for being very easily confused and blocking emergency vehicles.

Even then, they have overrides for human operators when they fuck up. Driverless cars, my ass.

That’s okay. We’ll take a stand to vote in a bunch of Democrats, have a majority in the House and Senate, get blocked on presidential veto powers and filibusters, and the public will just blame Democrats for not changing things. Because they are too fucking stupid to understand basic federal government processes that you learn in elementary school.

And then two years later, they’ll betray their own country again and vote GOP.

Even when voting doesn’t take much effort, the apathetic dipshit public can’t even be bothered to stay motivated for more than one election cycle. Meanwhile, a bunch of old ass boomer conservatives are clocking in at the polls every fucking year.

They are too scared to name their own bosses.

If Starlink wasn’t run by a fascist supremacist corporate dickhead, they’d offer their plan for fucking free, to show their support towards Ukraine. That was the whole fucking point. This was going on right when the US and Europe were offering military and weapons aid.

Instead, Elon Musk took one look at Rule of Acquisition #34 and ran with it. He used it as a PR stunt, and took it away to ask for more money.

You called them “murder drones”, like you disapproved of Ukraine using drone warfare in their fight to defend themselves. That’s tankie behavior.

Tankie much?

I predict a lot of H100 GPUs are going to crop up super cheap on Ebay pretty soon.

Yeah, and with the state of cybersecurity, we can regularly experience the beginning of that movie Upgrade!

Are you sure?

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

If I could pick a company that has fucked up more than Microsoft or EA, it would be IBM. For the past 20 years, the whole company has been on a wild bender of buying good products, and shoving them headfirst into the ground.