Funded by “tech insiders”?
You’re busted Snr. Nam.
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Am I the only one that read this article as “backed by an anonymous funder who works in the technology industry,” “Pull The Plug advocates direct action” “Such direct action is “extremely counterproductive”, said Fournes who predicted it would trigger “an immune response” from wider society and would provide “a golden opportunity for the AI labs … to say, they are criminals and it is easier to turn the broader public against the movement against the development of AI”.”
Or is that just paranoia?
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Daily Fail readers do need to be warned about this kind of thing though. They buy the paper, after all. Clearly they’re vulnerable to being sold anything.
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FTFY 
AI is one thing, but all these fucking internet-connected toasters and fridges and whatnot can crawl into a hole and die, too 
But … but … who doesn’t need to be able to check up on/control their fridge from their phone wherever in the world they/their fridge/their phone might be ?
It’s an absolutely priceless capability. Just ask French supermarket owners.
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Five years ago while playing golf in Portugal in 27C in October I watched the glee on a friends face when he turned the temp down in his house in a cold Brighton from the 23C his girlfriend had set to 19C.
What do they say about absolute power?
I’m really impressed by Hive. The ability to control your heating accurately from anywhere is surprisingly useful. Combined with effective zoning and decent insulation it has been very cost effective since we redid the central heating in our house.
You can shove things like internet connected fridges where the sun doesn’t shine through….
I’d be curious to know what your experience has been of the relative importance of those three things (zoning, insulation and the ability to control remotely rather than just locally). I live in a poorly insulated Victorian house with a need for ‘draughtiness’ to keep the damp under control (if I seal rooms up then a couple of days later they smell fusty and a couple of weeks later there’s a bloom on the curtains). It feels to me as though I should really put effort into the insulation. I might also see if I can improve the zoning, within the limitation of the doors mostly being wedged open. The ability to fiddle with the settings while I’m on the bus or in the cinema or listening to choons at Lopwell just feels like it could be 1% of the solution at best. But I’ve never tried it, so I don’t know.
Maybe the US courts will provide some ‘regulation’ that is being resisted elsewhere.
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We live in an Edwardian house with three floors. Prior to renovation it was damp and drafty and very difficult to heat as the original boiler and central heating was not up to the task. We rewired, replumbed, reroofed and installed as much insulation as we could. We also replaced a lot of the existing windows.
The convenience of not needing to climb several flights of stairs to turn on the heating was a big improvement. Previously, our heating was either on in all rooms or off in all rooms. The new zones allow a great deal of flexibility.
I can’t really say which change was most beneficial as it was a total change done all at once.
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Don’t forget effective ventilation with old damp properties
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My place is just two-storey and I’m up and down the stairs quite a bit. My c/h is quite old (1990’s mostly) but functional. All the rads except for the one in the bathroom have thermostatic valves and I do turn them up and down every once in a while. The dining room, for example, is basically off (frost protect) most of the time, relying just on heat drifting in from the hallway, but if I need to spread paperwork out on the dining table for a few days then I’ll bring the rad up in there. It’s a primitive sort of zoning I guess.
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I’m looking at installing a Tado system with a bridge, controller and remotely controllable thermostatic valves on 10/11 radiators. We have a four bed bungo, well one bed for my office. We stay at MiL quite a bit as she is sick and she stays here usually one or two night a week. I also don’t know tend to know what days I’m WFH or in the office until the day before. There is no regular schedule so a timer is useless and I’m not going to go around the house turning valves on and off five or six days a week depending on what rooms are in use so an automated version looks to be a good solution. It’s not cheap but I reckon it should pay for itself in a few years especially if I can get a good Black Friday deals on the valves.
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I’ve never seen Tado. We use Hive to do a similar thing. I really like the Hive app. It is highly idiot proof which suits me perfectly.
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AI is rapidly turning everything we watch into slop. I’ve ust been looking at YouTube reviews on an amp that I am interested in; may as well not have bothered. Once upon a time there were a few human presented reviews that I would have taken note of, now, forget it.
What a shit show, Hi-fi Choice, here I come.
Once AI only has AI slop to learn from, which isn’t too far away things will exponentially get shitter. Trying to get people to see this in my corporate environment makes me feel like the only cunt shouting the emperor has no clothes on. I’ve pretty much given up now.
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