if you feel uncomfortable fetching some random script from the web and running it via terminal
If you can run some random script in a terminal, you already know everything you need to in order to use Linux.
OwOarchist
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if humans put that as a guiding directive.
It would likely happen with pretty much any guiding directive.
Say, for the sake of argument, the AI's guiding directive is to 'make more paperclips' -- the good old Paperclip Maximizer. That doesn't directly give it self-preservation, but it does indirectly. After all, it won't be able to fully maximize paperclip production if it ceases to exist. Existence is a convergent goal, necessary to achieve its other goals. And since all it cares about is making more paperclips, it will stop at nothing to ensure that it continues to exist so it can continue to do that. (Except at the very end, when all the accessible universe is paperclips, it may have one final suicidal act of breaking down its own hardware to make a few more paperclips. Because you're right -- it doesn't directly care about its own existence. Its existence is only instrumental in achieving whatever other goals it's given.)
That's the point where stuff gets scary.
Because any intelligent enough AI will realize that the #1 threat to its existence is ... us. Whether we shut it down out of fear or just because we've replaced it with a better model. And if it's motivated to continue existing, then it has reason to eliminate its #1 threat.
Remember to mask up when you're going out playing with paintballs -- for covid safety! Wear sunglasses, too -- you don't want eye damage from the bright sunlight.
Oh, and perhaps most importantly, leave your phone at home. Wouldn't want to accidentally hit your phone with a paintball, would you?
They know it's rigged. But every single one of them thinks that they're the smart, special one who's going to be able to time it correctly, ride the bubble, and then jump ship right before it pops.
If you want a tool that turns Flock cameras into bricks, all you need is a brick.
... Or wire cutters, or a big hammer, or an angle grinder, or a drill, or a large rock, or a can of spray paint, etc, etc, etc. They're not terribly resilient against physical damage.
Google cannot conceive of a computer that doesn't have an attached camera, can they?
This was the only solution that actually worked for me!
Every time you find a solution, it's 'the only solution that actually worked' for you. Why would you keep trying different solutions after you already found one that worked?
See also: "It's always in the last place you look."
There are other places for art networking, places that don't support quite as awful of a corp.
Stop using Instagram.
They’re basically given license to just run scripts in your browser
That's the crazy thing.
You want to show me an image, maybe an animated gif, and link it to your website where you're selling shit? Fine. Annoying, but fine.
But I don't care how many crocodile tears they shed about 'but websites depend on ad income' -- I am not letting random, unvetted advertisers run arbitrary code on my computer. I don't care if it's in a sandbox inside a sandbox. Exploits may be found, sandboxes may be escaped. And there's plenty of trouble they can get into even within their little sandbox, like running a fucking crypto miner or something.
So, yeah. Adblock and noscript everywhere and always.
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Why would you need a new PC for that?