More like:

“Should we publish your search results, that text with your affair and have your teenager arrested for his drugs? No? Then come over to the office on Friday at 4 PM and suck our dicks. We mean that literally by the way. Brush your teeth beforehand.”

The problem isn’t the “AI”. It is people praising its babbling as the solution for everything.

No fuel? All you need is something that makes a fire. And it is not like crude oil wasn’t know to people back then.

If the invention had been further explored it is entirely reasonable to assume people could have invented a “practical” steam engine 2.000 years ago. All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.

My code is not intended to be run by any idiots but myself! Anyways why can’t i make sense of what i have written just a month ago?

Quality over quantity.

Great places to socialize are sports-clubs, social-clubs, volunteering, activism, religious communities…

I’d much rather spend five hours a week distributed over two or three occasions with people i share interests with, than with people i share work with. Meanwhile at work i am mostly engaged in small talk, that is quite repetitive as i see the people every day and i have to guard what i can say and what i cannot say more than in other circles.

Also bring an ID and some cash. E.g. to buy some snacks/meal/water if the day goes longer than you planned for.

You just described that he is in fact indifferent.

It is not like we don’t have easy to access knowledge about authoritarianism and how it plays out. It is not like we lack information about the criminal and murderous stuff Palantir is involved. FFS the company is owned by a guy who lets himself be “refreshened” with the blood of younger people.

Anyone who does a minimal level of due diligence in looking up his employer knows what kind of company it is. And it is an intelligence company, so the type of people working there must bring a higher level of research and diligence skills.

They know exactly what they are doing and they are fine with it.

Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.

That implies that Britain didn’t intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an “unfortunate” result of taxes and tariffs.

Britain genocided more than ten million people in todays India about a century earlier and then again about three million in todays Bangladesh during World War II.

Britain murdered the Irish very much deliberately.

Infinity does not require to be all encompassing.

The set of natural numbers is infinite, yet it contains no negative numbers.
The set of whole numbers is infinite, yet it contains no fractional numbers, except arbitrary fractions like four halves.
The set of fractional numbers is infinite, yet it does not contain most real numbers…

It is the other way round though isn’t it?

Sodium Chloride is just chilling as a rock or in suspension and then humans put a lot of energy into it, so it is forced to separate. Imagine you and your spouse being torn apart with a lot of violence.

Of course you get traumatized and act out until you get reunited and have some time to become chill again.

The thing is that it becomes different when the order becomes “go to your home town, shoot anyone who disobeys, including your friends and family.”

It might take a decade of brutal civil war, but look what happened in Syria. In the end the people in the army were also tired of murdering their own people.

Police issues a dispersal order, but blocks all routes to safely leave the area.

Congratulations, you will now be charged as having committed a crime and good luck proving in a court that there was no realistic option for you to leave.

Also police seizes your phone. Congratulations now they access your data and either go after people you have had contact with or they claim you to be part of a criminal organization as they pin other charges on people they found a connection with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS5St-ak7U

Wat?

I recently had an online event about using “AI” in my industry, construction.

The presentor finished on “Now is no the time to wait, but to get doing, lest you want to stay behind”.

She gave examples of some companies she found that promised to help with “AI” in the process of designing constructions. When i asked her, if any of these companies are willing to take the legal risk that the designs are up to code and actually sound from an engineering perspective, she had to deny.

This sums it up for me. You get sold a hype by people who dont understand (or dont tell) what it is and isnt to managers who dont understand what it is and isnt over the heads of people who actually understand what it is or at least what it needs to be to be relevant. And these last people then get laid off or f*ed over in other ways as they have twice the work than before because now first they need to show to management why the “AI” result is criminal and then do all the regular design work anyways.

It is the same toxid dynamic like with any tech bro hype before. Just now it seems to look good at first and is more difficult to show why it is not.

This is especially dangerous when it comes to engineering.

Not just Russia.

Israel, US, China, North Korea, India and other countries… Nuclear Lobby, Fossil Fuel Lobby and countless other industry lobbyists… Private companies advertising their products…

I know that people here generally like to shit on Brave, but it seems that the claim “Privacy by default” has held up in this context.

Using machine learning including neuronal networks, generative AI based off of neuronal networks and so on exist well longer than since the past few years.

“DeepDream” was released as a software ten years ago. Research into LLMs exists since at least the 90s.

“AI” also has been a hype term in many industries since a decade, just that it reached the general public with the ChatGPT hype.

“our crypto is backed in value by bitcoin”

If i understood it correctly, meta wants to slap its own crypto-currency on everything.