You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

Very few of those green states are for electricity

And if you just meant:

Non profit = good

Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

Bullshit.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.

Wasn’t the studios fault

They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…

Which is exactly what happened.

Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

So instead of X disabling it…

Only Apple did

The problem is instead of finding better ways to stop it (regulations) you’re looking for “productive” ways to use it…

Apparently because you’ve pre-emptively given up.

But if you succeed it would lead to more AI and more damage to our planet.

I fully understand you believe you have good intentions, I’m just struggling to find a way to explain to you that intentions don’t matter. And I don’t think I’m going to come up with a way you’ll beavle to understand.

It’s like if someone was stuck in a hole in the ground, and instead of wanting to climb out, you yank everyone else back into the hole when they try and keep trying to get them to help you redecorate the hole.

I truly hope someone can present that in a way that gets through to you, because you are doing real damage.

Sure, we sunk billions into this thing destroying our planet and we don’t know how to profit off, but that no reason to stop or even slow down

You know what else would make life better for people?

Accessible healthcare…

You know why that’s better than AI? We don’t need to burn the planet down to use it after spending billions to get it going

They don’t real fluctuate, it’s more oscillating.

Sometimes it’s “normal” but due to a wide range of issues that can change quickly and stay that way for months because everyone waits till prices go down. So as they go down, people stop waiting,

What?

You think this is the first ram crunch?

It’s not even the first one in this decade…

He’s not even rebranding them…

He just charges more than orders one and passes on the shipping info.

Like, he could have at least bought some up front and threw a sticker on there

Lol…

I don’t think this is as reassuring as EA thinks it would be…

It’s like if Comcast got bought by United Healthcare, but assured us their customer service would stay at the same level.

Ultimately the problem with LLM accusations is that short of a confession or doing some hardcore surveillance of the other person you can’t prove it

Human variation.

Ironically you would have to take the others person word on it, luckily you just said you were comfortable doing so.

Some people are statistically insignificant, and to them lots of stuff is incredibly obvious and they’re constantly frustrated others can’t see it. They might even sink sizeable free time into explaining random shit, just to practice not losing their temper when people can’t see the obvious.

So you might not be able to tell that was AI from a glance, but humans are pattern recognition machines and we’re not all equally good at it.

So believe a “llm accusation” or not, but some people absolutely can pick out a chatbot response, especially when taking the two seconds to glance at typical comments from a user profile.

Jump from 1-2 sentence comments to a stereotypical AI response…

Well, again, not everyone is as good at picking out patterns quickly.

To some what took me literally under 10 seconds and two clicks counts as “hardcore surveillance” because it would take them a long time to figure it out.

Don’t assume everyone else is exactly like you.

but even if it is, that’s still a fairly off-putting way to respond.

No you’re right…

It’s not like it’s literally burning our planet down and the people profiting off it aren’t tech bro fascists…

Stop burning the planet down to generate social media comments

I mean, I thought it would be obvious my issue was with using AI to do so…

Even if it had been a serious question.

But, to be fair I was thinking of what a normal.person would be able to parse, and not people who’s critical thinking had already atrophied from offloading to AI.

They probably don’t have any idea what I meant and would need it explicitly spelled out.