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Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Jacob - Today at 02:16:26 PM

Interesting read from the European Council on Foreign Relations:  Get over your X: A European plan to escape American technology

Summary

• Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe's growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms.
• Trump rarely hesitates to weaponise technological dependencies or attack the EU's digital rules. A change of president in the future is unlikely to alter these dynamics.
• The EU should build an independent "stack" of technologies to shield itself from other powers weaponising tech against it. Building this "EuroStack" must begin where such risks are greatest, namely in the domains of space, chips, cloud computing and AI.
• The EU does not need to construct an entirely independent new tech ecosystem to strengthen its defences. Instead, it needs to build "just enough" capabilities in these key areas to extricate itself from its dependencies.
• American backlash against this effort is likely. But Europeans can make strategic concessions where necessary while keeping their eyes fixed on the sovereignty prize.
  
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Full article in link above

[At sixes and sevens with you]

#2

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:11:50 PM

From "Don't Cry for me, Argentina":

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel

#3

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 02:00:11 PM

I wonder does the department name make sense in English?

#4

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 01:41:53 PM

I guess we also can't discount the possibility that someone made and posted the hoax but then someone else reported it to the train company not knowing that it was a hoax.

That sounds the most probable.  And the most worrisome as people post AI images that become increasingly difficult to detect are "fake".

#5

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 01:13:01 PM

What is it with liberals and Quebec scandals 

The permanent anti corruption unit has just announced it's opening an official investigation on the QLP.

All is going well for the Liberal Party.  Nothing to see here.

#6

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - Today at 12:48:16 PM

See raz, this is what happens when you spend too much time on Facebook

#7

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 12:20:49 PM

Posted by DoD. Interesting flag on the helmet there. Gilead is closer by the day.

The fact that there are still American Jews supporting Trump is powerful evidence falsifying the stereotype of Jewish intellectual achievement.

There isn't much choice. You can support the "West" which wants to destroy Israel and all Jews and promote Islamism and slavery for all Christians and Jews alike, or you can support a dumb as fuck tyrannical idiot who halfway wants to push back on that, undermined by how he corruptly loves a bunch of Muslim oil sheikhs. It's not exactly a good situation for anyone other than people who want to see Islam come to dominate the world.

The west wants to destroy all Jews? Since when?
Even destroy Israel.... A bit of a ridiculous over reaction to the actual position most are taking of "Israel... You know we support you but.... Could you maybe tone down the genocide a smidge?"

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by OttoVonBismarck - Today at 12:02:58 PM

Posted by DoD. Interesting flag on the helmet there. Gilead is closer by the day.

The fact that there are still American Jews supporting Trump is powerful evidence falsifying the stereotype of Jewish intellectual achievement.

There isn't much choice. You can support the "West" which wants to destroy Israel and all Jews and promote Islamism and slavery for all Christians and Jews alike, or you can support a dumb as fuck tyrannical idiot who halfway wants to push back on that, undermined by how he corruptly loves a bunch of Muslim oil sheikhs. It's not exactly a good situation for anyone other than people who want to see Islam come to dominate the world.

#9

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by garbon - Today at 12:01:32 PM

There is always a risk analysis and balancing that is required.  If lives can be lost in the time that it takes to generate an analysis of an image to determine whether or not it is valid then the prudent thing to do is not take that time, but just shut the system down to ensure safety.

That's why it is a criminal offence, at least in this country, to intentionally make a false report.

But was it a report? I haven't seen anything on how the posts were framed on social media (like did they tag the train company) just reporting on how fake image stopped trains.

That's a good question. How did the information get to a decision-maker with the authority to shut down the system?  I assume it was a report of some sort.

I guess we also can't discount the possibility that someone made and posted the hoax but then someone else reported it to the train company not knowing that it was a hoax.

#10

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Tamas - Today at 11:52:02 AM

I know right.
This is being mostly reported as a "AI does bad" story. But I'd even more so read it as a cutting back on employees and ruining resilience story. This bridge was just half a mile from Lancaster Station.  They seriously didn't have someone they could send on a 10 minutes walk to check?

I loved the double layer as well. The article reported on it probably being AI fake because the journalist ran it through an AI tool, relying on its judgement.

I guess eventually the dead Internet will be supplemented by the AI Internet where we watch and read AI reactions to AI content.

And all this will burn our climate down and collapse our economy. Maybe this will be our civilisation's version of the Easter islands statutes.