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  • In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same – setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.

    Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.








  • From the article you posted (emphasis mine):

    Democrats passed their sweeping anti-corruption bill known as HR 1. It’s already doomed in the Senate.

    Democrats love to bring up impressive-sounding bills when they’re confident they won’t actually become law. It’s part of the tag team play they do with republicans. I’m surprised people still fall for this shit. Please let me know when democrats pass bills like this during the times they have the power to actually bring it into law.

    You call seizing power like trump hypocritical, but when you’re faced with fascism, you have to fight back and I mean actually fight back, not sit around and wail about “muh institutions” because those institutions will crumble under force unless you actually protect them with your own force. Doing things “the proper way” is just another tactic to look like you’re doing something while actually welcoming the fascists. It’s a dog and pony show.



  • Biden was getting his sorry ass kicked until South Carolina where he got one critical endorsement to edge out a slight victory. Then the party’s buddies in big media ran a “Biden miracle” story and the party got all the other candidates to drop out and put their full support behind Biden just before super Tuesday. They also funded a PAC to keep Warren in the race to split votes with Sanders. Thanks to the moronic primary process, after that point it’s like a snowball rolling downhill because by the later states, it will appear as if one candidate is the guaranteed winner so supporters of other candidates won’t bother showing up. It’s why superdelegates were used in 2016 to make it look like Clinton was too far ahead for Sanders to matter. All that plus it’s a party-controlled process where diehard party supporters are more likely to vote in that process than normal voters, so you’ll have an automatic bias for the party favorite (some milquetoast center-right stooge).

    If you want to ignore all that and focus on raw dumb numbers, then you should consider that the voting population of the US is much greater than ~30 million people. Do you think all those other voters’ choices don’t matter?



  • Both democrats and republicans are in line with neoliberal thought about letting corporations get bigger and bigger and giving more freedom to capital than to people. A simple vote isn’t going to change this. Let’s pretend that democrats are opposed to money in politics, you’d have to vote them in every single time because there aren’t singular times when it’d matter since the assault on democracy is ever-present. This is impossible under the two-party system. Things will go wrong and people will blame whoever is in power. Things are constantly getting worse which is why we’re seeing this more frequent swapping of parties in power.








  • hark@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldLayoffs are infuriating
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    The interest rate isn’t at near-zero anymore so instead of growing with insane leverage, they’re trying to keep the juicy profit margins going by cutting while still raising prices as much as they can. Squeeze is a very apt term here because us peasants are getting squeezed every which way. When the fumes run out from the post-covid squeeze, the decline will accelerate. Government and corporate coffers are getting raided by the rich on the way out.