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You can't eat AI slop

Taste changes. Teslas now feel like janky, shoddily assembled, cheaply sourced ipad cases with wheels and a passenger compartment. Novelty wears off.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

This particular technology has been trained by explicitly ripping off a lot of peoples' friends, though.

Understood, apologize for my misconception of your assertion. Mass media, of course, is only too happy to cultivate such misconceptions on the part of the public.

Maybe don't be so dismissive of that which you lack a thorough understanding.

Recommend reading "Against the State" by James Stout, wherein he describes history of various Anarchist societies, including Barcelona during Spanish fascism, Myanmar where they are very successfully fighting the junta which wrested control from their civilian government, and Rojava where he personally visited and gives a firsthand account.

If we need to check everything AI produces, every reference and factual assertion, where is the value in what it's producing? Why should we spend the money on producing this, and the time reviewing it, when I can just do it right the first time? Where is the efficiency?

Equities are underlying collateral. Prediction markets are literally just betting on an outcome, no underlying asset exists.

He could be right, or he could just be a phone company CEO trying to get you to buy a new phone, or he could be both.

Take it a step further. Words, in the financial world are largely used for obfuscation, marketing, concealing of the truth by financially motivated actors. Thus, financial literacy is looking at the numbers, market conditions and geopolitical situation, while consciously discarding whatever bullshit corporate speak is being disseminated by captured media.

The whole idea that pushing back against resource exhaustion and planned obsolescence is inherently apolitical is bunk, in fact. Politics are only "extra" and "bolted on" when you are comfortably benefiting from the status quo

Absolutely, and exactly my point. This boils down to wasteful make-work again.

As the bard said, brevity is the soul of wit.

And they are generating the longer version with AI, that you are then using AI to summarize.

This is not adding value for anyone except people whose function is to look busy, and people trying to avoid their busy work.

UnusualWhales begs to differ

Because your fear is their marketing, is their valuation. There, saved you a click.

“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

Many people struggle to differentiate between illusion and reality, these days.

There's a sucker born every minute, after all.

Who's going to enforce antitrust laws in this environment, pray tell?

It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted grows smaller by the moment.

I imagine this trend will continue, and the price will go up.

This is not creating widgets or lines of code, not creating a product for consumption, this is fostering the development of inquisitive minds, hopefully encouraging them to become critical thinkers and ultimately the next generation of leaders who will push the bounds of human knowledge further than ever before.

Why would better tools be expected to do enable teachers to do that for more students at a time?

There is a lot of research out there showing worse educational outcomes as class sizes increase. This is one of the areas where wealth disparities in education manifest; rich areas tend to have smaller class sizes, and historically the very rich would pay for private tutors for their kids, whereas poor kids are stuck with bigger class sizes, less individual attention from educators, and typically average worse educational outcomes.

Corroborates that zero-trust until now has been largely marketing gibberish. Security by design means incorporating concepts such as these to not assume that your upstream providers will not be utterly owned in a supply chain attack.

I will sell you hotdog default swaps. Even if I lose, I win.

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And I wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change.

So what can you do?

Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

Very cool that these companies can scrape basically all extant human knowledge, utterly disregard IP/copyright/etc, and they cry foul when the tables turn.

Cool story, bro!

Significant crop price increases, which tends to be bad news for anyone who eats food.

>or lint traps stuffing and toilet cloggings will happen.

Thank you for your service

Without Qatari helium, there's a massive global semiconductor crunch.

The fertilizer crunch and food scarcity too.

It's wild to me how oblivious ostensibly intelligent people on this site regularly manage to be.

That's true, I was referring to the United States.

I beg to differ, as I see it, it's both. Solving the problem necessarily entails punishing the malicious actors attempting to subvert and demolish our governance, justice system, society and way of life. Allowing Jan 6th to go unpunished at the highest levels was a key factor in what brought us here.