A big problem in computer security these days is all-or-nothing security: either you can’t do anything, or you can do everything.

I have no interest in agentic AI, but if I did, I would want it to have very clearly specified permission to certain folders, processes and APIs. So maybe it could wipe the project directory (which would have backup of course), but not a complete harddisk.

And honestly, I want that level of granularity for everything.

This technology is wasted on smartphones. We need this on laptop screens.

into space and strapping it to the exterior of the ISS, exposing it to the full brunt of cosmic radiation.

The USS isn’t that far out in space; it’s in LEO, well within the Earth’s magnetic field, and therefore protected from most cosmic radiation. But not all.

That doesn’t make the experiment invalid, just the phrasing inaccurate.

Can the Supreme Court overrule a jury? Doesn’t he have a right to a jury trial? Can Mangione be convicted if no jury is willing to do it?

Not that constitutional rights have ever stopped Trump.

That joke, about just uploading everything and letting others decide what’s worth saving, is one I first heard decades ago. Might still have been him who first made it.

Different generations. They didn’t get each other’s cultural references.

Pay workers the bare minimum they need to survive, and have them spend all their waking hours working for you. That’s how you get rich, apparently.