Unless it’s changed recently, Bay Area 911 calls all get routed to CHP in Vallejo and they didn’t have any information of where you are if calling from a cell phone.

Doesn’t seem fixed from a quick Google https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/cellphone-users-in-oak...

Maybe San Francisco should upgrade their tech to be on par with Kansas

And this is rural Kansas too, not Kansas City!

I’d be easier and more cost effective to move to a well managed state, and more likely to happen in human relevant time.

SF can't tell where you are when you use a cell phone because the cell phone providers don't provide that information.

They don't in Kansas, either. I reported an accident on the highway last year and they weren't able to locate me based on my cellphone's GPS.

Speaking of well managed states...California is the world's 4th largest economy. The entire Red Belt combined is smaller than California's economy.

So why do cell phone providers provide that information when you call 911 in Marion County? The 911 dispatcher literally showed me on her computer how the map displays the GPS coordinates of the cell phone, and live updates, and keeps updating even after the call has ended (for 3 minutes maybe? IDR).

Your cell phone provider isn't able to provide accurate live GPS coordinates; it can only triangulate your approximate location based on cell tower triangulation.

If Marion County is getting your pinpoint location, it's getting it from the phone itself, which requires a modern 911 system.

Which is the well managed state? Is California poorly managed?

Wow, you need to subscribe to a $20 per year app for 911 to work from a cellphone in Oakland.

Perhaps its time to get them onto the ESINet with a modern SIP stack and dispatch console. You can only kick the can down the road so far, this is an upgrade that has been clearly needed for many years.

That news article is over ten years old.

Good catch I read 20x6 and my brain filled in the wrong digit

The claudespeak immediately irks me now, then there’s also the irony of using Claude to complain about Claude

One thing worth noting is just how load-bearing it all is. Great point!

Almost all EA takes I’ve read strike me as basic contrarianism

A significant number of people in positions of power in the AI industry get their moral framework from science fiction books and a particular Harry Potter fanfiction. It’s hard to predict what ideas and philosophies will become important.

Most people get their moral framework from TV, movies, and memes. Hence the common refrain of “this is just like gattaca” and “have you not seen the movie X? This happens there!” And the torment nexus crap.

I call this https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Story-Logic_Bias

But that seems normal and historical. Stories are how we encode memorable concepts for transmission to each other and probably why the Bible is full of parables and so on.

Someone pointed out to me that said Harry Potter fanfiction author has written about this specific bias as well https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...

That seems like a major misstatement. The likes of Yudkowsky and his types are the primary critic and proponent of regulating the AI industry.

How do you reconcile the values of those proposing moratorium up to and including bombing data centers with those who are building them as being the same?

Sorry, purely just curious here because I'm not sure what you mean - what Harry Potter fanfiction?

"Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" written by Eliezer Yudkowsky has become something akin to a sacred text among the rationalist community.

edit: posted is a podcast by Behind the Bastards about the Zizians, a death cult that branched out of rationalist community and which was responsible for six deaths, but it covers the rationalist community and the Harry Potter fanfiction as well.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJAerUL-7w

Sweet, I love Behind the Bastards, thanks for providing the entertainment for my next few walks :)

Bad no matter which side you look at it. Fritz Zwicky coined the term as spherical bastard