AI will solve it, bro. We just need 100 billions to build it more data centers with a couple coal plants each but then it will revolutionize all the jobs. Every single one of them

Just 500 bil and it will improve itself and stuff, do all the science and we can just chill bro can you imagine it? No work, no problems, just 24/7 chilling

We can’t afford to stop bro we’re almost at the singularity. 10 trillion us dollars and it will terraform mars or what you fucking want? Time travel? Sucks your dick and fucks your wife? You don’t want chinese commie bastards getting quantum superintelligence do you bro? Fucking give it here. Your fucking future, give it to me you stupid piece of shit. Trust me bro.

In what world is that risk comparable to cigarettes?

Even comparing it to junk food is a stretch, and nobody suggests we put age verification on chips.

Is there a paper linking gooning to cancer, why would you compare those things

Fam have you seen evaluations of AI companies. For the amount of venture capital poured into openai, their profit should 20x or it’ll take a century for the investments to recoup. The reason for why they keep investing is that the AI is supposed to blow up the market and earn gazillions back.

Everyone agrees ML is extremely useful. Most people also agree that LLMs have their uses too.

What we don’t agree is that AI is the printing press, electricity and the internet rolled into one. And if it isn’t, then all this investment is made under false pretense, hence it is a bubble

Oh, that’s cause YouTube is blocking a lot of unsigned requests (from non-logged users). I have my own VPN on a popular VM provider and it’s blocked too.

Not really a newpipe fault, and not much to be done unfortunately.

Doesn’t it? https://newpipe.net/

We tried microplastics and PFAS for a few decades, clearly they aren’t killing us fast enough. Bring back the GOAT

Samsung

It absolutely won’t be. Best case It’ll be a white label from local Chinese brands like Oppo, worst case – a no-name company selling 150$ phones on alibaba. I’d put my money on the latter, the margins will be much better.

Great scam for a washed up celebrity with a cult following.

If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.

It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.

I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

Ublock with firefox. Wasn’t able to set up a filter for the popup, didn’t try very hard though.

Had a “youtube doesnt allow adblock” pop up yesterday, set up freetube. No login required, even has a subscription import tool. So far so great.

opt-in:

Can we take all your stuff?

1. Yes daddy
2. Remind me tomorrow

This isn’t really up to China, NK won’t listen because it’s not really up to them either. Most authoritarians would love to scale the repression down, but you can only do it while political and economic climate is right (without losing your power and your head)

If you signal to your citizens that they can speak more freely, the first thing out of their mouths will be Hey why did you do that fucked up thing?

Thus, you can “loosen the bolts” only when you are safe in your position of power and don’t mind a few concessions to the masses. “Yes we overstepped a few lines, but it was all the fault of this one bad man and also look at all this bread we have now!”

This is why authoritarian countries usually have “seasons”.

A single message now generates 20 different summaries and analyses, requiring a rack of GPUs and a diesel generator.

We’re so lucky that electricity is unlimited and free, otherwise it might’ve caused a serious problem.

If you can’t see what would bother me in that situation, me explaining it further will not help, sorry.

“Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can’t send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You’re going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes”

If you can afford existing without big tech, I’m honestly jealous. I’m willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I’m barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷‍♀️

Sure, if I want to pay per message/call. I could also hire a butler to do all my chores for me, alas I am not a Swedish royalty.

Central Asia, businesses here do not have websites. They put a listing on aggregators with a phone number and may be an instagram account.

The problem is not that I’m not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms, or a pigeon.

So all this bloat still affects me, whether I “just use signal” or not.