This is like asking if you have faith in plumbers…

But no, I don’t have “faith” in anyone or anything.

That’s why I vote and advocate for others to do so, because lots of informed voters mitigates the threats from bad politicians.

AI is shit.

Facial recognition is shit.

But none of that was really the issue here:

Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.

It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time

But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.

So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.

The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.

But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.

But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time

AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…

Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.

This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.

And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.

It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.

Edit:

Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?

Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?

I can’t tell if the author is ignorant or really think “posting knowledge” to social media isn’t just handing it to AIs…

Like they even take a break in the article to defend people who take low paying jobs training AI and that how it’s actually a good deal for people who don’t have a job.

It’s like when a 9 year old learns what reverse psychology is and does a shit job at it.

Everything the author said just gets AI free or cheap training.

What?

Thing 1 is bad, thing 2 is worse.

Being raised by the worst parents is bad, being raised by ai is worse.

Being paralyzed from the waist down is bad, being paralyzed from the neck down is worse

I picked what I thought would be the clearest comparison of “undeniably bad” and “undeniably worse”. So I’m honestly impressed someone got confused enough to get offended.

Now imagine how much worse those kids would be if just raised by AI.

This is like if someone said being paralyzed from the neck down was worse than being paralyzed from the waste down, so you say look at all these people paralyzed from the waist down…

Nah, even a shit parent is better than chatbots

Try “random start” mods.

Instead of taking you thru the opening scenes of a big RPG like Skyrim, it just punts you to some random area so you can immediately start messing around

A lot of games have big scripted events the first couple hours, being able to skip those helps it from feeling repetitive, because that’s the stuff you’ve done ever playthrough you’ve ever started.

Jokes on them, I was wasting my money on xbox’s subscription service at the time and didn’t have to buy it…

No…

The first amendment protects against censorship by the American government, ideally at least.

Private companies can and do censor shit constantly, and that is definitely censorship.

You’ve just seen people repeat it about the first amendment, didn’t understand it, and are attempting and failing to regurgitate it

And if people see you using it wrong, they’ll start off from an even worse position.

All you’re doing is exacerbating the problem you think your fixing.

it would have to be some serious quality of life changes to make me shell out for it again.

Eh, I first bought it 20 years ago, and have bought it a couple times since on different platforms.

If it’s $30 bucks I’m buying it regardless. Maybe not right at first, but eventually I will.

That’s also why I don’t think any game shouldnt be able to run “maxxed out” on release. A great game people are still gonna want to run it a decade later. It doesn’t hurt anyone if the dial turns to 11 if 10 is the same setting it’s always been.

So make games that in a decade still look decent on settings no one could enable all at once on release. It doesn’t change the quality on release, just gives it legs to look good longer.

Oblivion was alright, but I remember seeing most players topped out at like 5 hours played.

It was fun to see it all again, but the novelty wore off quick…

This tho, I could see sinking 10s likely 100s if hours into.

4 years newer doesn’t sound like much these days, but 2002 to 2006 was a huge jump. NV has a much better starting point for an update, and could feel like a truly modern game that pulls people in without having to drastically change the experience.

Plus the desert setting makes it easy to hide graphical shortcomings. So even after cranking the resolution up, it’s not gonna take a lot more resources, there’s plenty of room to improve other stuff too.

This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…

It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…

But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.

Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.

It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.

Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.

I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup

I have doubles of the data. Some of 'em. That way I know I have a pristine one in backup. Then I can use it, it gets corrupted, I don’t care.

Actually, I have triples of the W2s. I have triples, right? If I don’t, the other stuff’s not true.

See, the W2s the one I have triples of. Oh, no, actually, I also have triples of the kids photos, too. But just those two. And your dad and I are the same age, and I’m rich and I have triples of the W2s and the kids photos.

Triples makes it safe.

Triples is best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Inf1Yz_fgk

A lot of the electrical grid is actually cooperativly owned

Sure, if you care about miles of wire and not customers, it sounds huge…

But anyone who hears that should be able to quickly figure out why it’s not relevant

So leave it with the oligarchs who are actively brining trump to make it worse?

What the fuck kind of learned helplessness is this?

Yeah they beat and starve us, but if we stop them from doing it someone might show up and if we let them they’d beat and starve us to!!!

Like, fucking newsflash man:

This is a continual fight, and boomers acting like it wasn’t is why shit is like it is today. No matter what happens this fight never stops

It’s a month old account.

But the biggest redflag is she’s never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO…

She literally has no idea how any of it works

It doesn’t matter who has it, it’s the one ring.

It’s sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they’ll be able to keep it.

That’s why there’s such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it’s not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it’s built.

Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.

People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.