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Restraint or a realistic sense of how easily they could figure out who did it.

But after the system turned up just a single vulnerability, he concluded the hype around Mythos was “primarily marketing” rather than a major AI security breakthrough.

Now there’s a surprise.

According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal. Sohaib allegedly queried the EEOC database to retrieve the credentials, which were then used to access the victim’s email account without authorization.

That shouldn’t be possible. Why were they storing passwords in plain text?

Consciousness is something completely different. It’s what makes you fully feel the present moment. It’s the fact of feeling alive. So it has nothing to do with the ability to crunch numbers or stitch words together into a logical sequence.

And there’s one fact you can’t get around. Consciousness, in every case observed since we started studying it, only ever appears on biological substrate. Never on non-living matter. Never on stone, never on metal and never on silicon. So it’s a fact that looks an awful lot like a law of nature.

This bit strikes me as odd. It suggests we’ve done experiments to check whether consciousness ever occurs in non-biological systems, and concluded that wherever we find consciousness it’s in a loving organism. But has anyone done such an experiment? Could they? Do we understand well enough what consciousness is, what it is for it to be present in an entity, and how to test for that empirically, that we can simply do experiments to test when it occurs and draw conclusions about laws of nature involving it?

You can’t do an experiment until you can say, to a good enough approximation, what you’re looking for and how you’ll tell whether it occurs or not. I doubt we even have a clear enough notion of consciousness to agree on what we’re talking about, let alone how to test whether it’s present, to do empirical experiments and draw lawlike conclusions. And it’s not that we just need to get a bit clearer about the kind of entity consciousness is: it’s not even clear that it is an entity in the empirical world.

Right now if you use encryption the authorities have no proof you’re doing something illegal, because you might not be. But if they make (secure) encryption itself illegal, then anyone they aren’t sure about suddenly becomes a criminal they’re sure about. Then it’s just a matter of selectively prosecuting those whom they most dislike. So it doesn’t matter to them that much whether lots of people find a technical workaround. If they can’t read your messages that’s all they need to be able to silence you if you’re inconvenient.

They won’t understand. 33% of Americans will swallow whatever incoherent excuses he pulls out of his ass on the day. 33% will object. 33% won’t be paying attention.

Sure. Just do this cheek swab, let us scan your retina and fingerprints, show us your government-issued ID, provide a little blood and a stool sample, and unlock your phone so we can review your social media posts and messages for the last 5 years. We’ll need bank statements and a credit history too. If you’re approved you can rent shared space on a Chromebook for only $30 per month. Terms and conditions apply.

One calendar year, 10 lived years.

Sure, you may be able to buy a cheaper motherboard for a while. But you’ll pay through the nose to populate it, hence the falling motherboard sales.

The old Israeli approach to ceasefires.

There’s going to be a lot of us running 2019-vintage PCs indefinitely.

Do we have evidence that Tesla’s manufacturing in China has better labour practices than others like BYD?

Fuck Carney. We were promised Chinese EVs and we get Nazi American shit cars.

That’s quite a big downside for a phone.

Casio digital watches.

If only the prices were not so 2026y.

Are Microsoft OK? Has someone been over to check on them?

Everyone’s shit sometimes (and some people often), which is why you always need non-shitty processes to preempt and/or catch the mistakes.

It’s never just the developer that’s the problem. There should be a system in place to catch obvious bugs like this before they get anywhere near production. So there’s something not right in the company’s review and testing practices. And a bug like this, if it does sneak through, should be fixed very quickly. This has been up for a while so again there’s a problem with the company’s processes.