Man, Douglas Adams was a real one.

I’m waiting for it to be inverted.

If it doesn’t work, try going into reading mode, then reloading the page. Often times, that catches many of the problematic sites that try to block Reading Mode

I vaguely remember it having a USB mode, but it’s been a long time. Check the settings.

Also, chargebacks aren’t zero-sum for the merchant. It costs them money on top of the cost of the sale, so enough people doing it would likely lead to legal action against the AI companies that negatively affect merchants’ bottom line.

That’s honestly probably a good sign. It means we’ve now come to a point in scientific achievement where that is a genuine possibility that we consider.

Before anyone gets too worried, remember that the FBI is run by Kash Patel, who is a nepo hire and certified idiot.

Right? How about neither option? How about Authoritarianism is bad, regardless of who’s doing it?

Precisely. Just ask Naomi Wu (SexyCyborg) how much she enjoys the surveillance state, how much she enjoyed being disappeared for a few months, how much she enjoys being told not to do any more techno State Resistance content, and how much she enjoys being able to leave but can’t, because her partner is queer.

Really, its a bunch of people who either like being in an in-group and/or they like feeling superior/powerful by promoting authoritarian communism.

Saving for months ≠ using money earmarked for necessary expenses. I saved for months to buy the parts for my PC, and all of it was discretionary income.

But I otherwise agree that you should not spend your necessary funds on unnecessary expenses.

Fair enough. I’m just hopeful I’ve given them a little spark of doubt and a reminder that multibillion dollar companies aren’t in the business of telling the objective truth.

This is not a good source. This is effectively, “We’ve investigated ourselves and found [that AI is a miraculous wonder].” Anthropic has a gigantic profit incentive to shill AI, and you should demand impartiality and better data than this.

Considering your comments, you don’t seem to know what the point I made was.

Thanks! I appreciate you noticing.

Cool, know what job could easily be wiped out? Management. Sam Altman is a manager.

Therefore, Sam Altman doesn’t do real work. Fuck you, asshole.

It’s resistant, though, specifically because you can fork it. Don’t like where things are going? Like the features of a previous version? Fork that version and run with it.

It does mean extra work for somebody to maintain that forked version, but the option is nonetheless there.

Cool, and I bet it will be just as trustworthy as WhatsApp (i.e. not at all).

If we Americans can’t sensibly regulate ourselves, seems like the reasonable thing to do.

Same

It’s good to know what we can do to reduce our own use—we all have to live on this planet, after all—but these kinds of articles pop up and, at the very least, make people think their efforts will have a meaningful impact. They go to sleep thinking they’re solving the problem (barring extreme situations like war-driven scarcity, for example).

But if every household stopped using electricity, many countries would still have a massive energy problem on their hands, because households aren’t really the problem.