oldjim798

Uber was a mistake. Shut it down.

Yes

The police should be banned from using AI in any form

What nuance is missing? The above comment is a list of facts.

Do their boots taste good?

Just because you are nice to the oppressors, doesn't mean they won't come for you too.

I think they know exactly what they were doing with the naming. They were and are absolutely ok with the evil connotations and uses

Because this is what capital has told us. Capital always wants to reduce the labour cost to $0.

I'm not sure there is much worth in imitating a Roman Emperor. They were violent megalomaniacal psychopaths to a man. There is little, about Marcus as a human being, I would consider "successful". Just because he was a good Emperor doesn't mean he was a morally successful person.

To me, successful "mind hacks" help us become more success at being better people; not enabling a horrible empire.

Of course the final word on Marcus should go to Mary Beard, the best classist of her generation:

--->“I have never understood what people get out of him. It’s a bad book. It’s hard to argue about it — it’s so evidently garbage that it’s hard to sit down with somebody who doesn’t think it’s garbage and fight it out. He’s a terrible writer."

Given the documented behavior of ICE that is clearly false. They arrest people here legally all the time, torturing them.

ICE should be disbanded and most of its leadership jailed for their crimes.

Anything bad for Wall Street is generally good for the rest of us.

Completely agree. It is deeply irresponsible for OpenAI to release this product.

They should held liable for malpractice for every incorrect statement and advice provided by it.

Beyond the ad driven internet, ad driven content has been at least 150 years old. Ever seen a photo of a pre-WW1 baseball stadium? Or soccer stand? Covered in ads. Old newspapers are awash in ads. Day time TV soap operas are so named because they were sponsored by soap companies.

All a giant waste. Just propaganda blasted at our eyes and ears all day, a drum beat of distraction attacks on our attention. Almost all forms of advertising should be banned or regulated till they are as quiet and unobtrusive as possible.

Then a new regulation is needed; one that caps the ratio of seconds of ads to minute watched.

A much better question is why anyone likes AI or see any value in it

I have yet to see any value generated from AI. Just as useful as NFTs

This can't happen soon enough. AI is a vacuum sucking up a lot of capital and attention that could and should be put to much much better uses

No such thing as a non-ruthless corporation, it is inherent with the legal structure.

I never said homeownership. Just a place to live thats not owned by a ruthless corporation that spends every day trying to squeeze every penny possible out of the tenant

Yes, the natural state of every resident is to live in their own home. To be clear by home I don't mean "single family detached house on a suburban street", I mean a place to live with water, electricity, and a roof.

Landlords provide no 'service'; they are merely an existence tax.

The market already does not build dense multifamily; what is there to halt?

"Skimping on maintenance" is capitalisms main and really only play. So many issues (housing, transport, utilities) are because "the market" won't ever pay to maintain.

Ban corporate ownership of residences. Only individuals, Coops or condominiums. Cap how many rentals an individual can own.

The government should also build massive amounts of housing. Everywhere of all types - apartments, townhouses, single family. After built transferred to the residents as coops.

Honestly shocked it took this long for governments to start doing this; it seemed inevitable that governments would want all the data private entities have been enjoying.

More and more it seems like the benefits of being connected are not worth the cost of being so visible to so many hostile (state and non-state) actors

Desperately we need to reign in car "style" choices like this. Beyond headlights being too bright, lift kits should be banned and tint regulations should be enforced. Same with sound regulations.

Public roads are not race tracks; they are for people.

-->could you name some positive things the Internet has enabled

This interaction? Honestly much much harder to list the positives.

I think much more regulation much much earlier. Cypto-currency should have been shut down immediately never allowed to grow. Same with Uber and AirBnB. Social media companies should have been banned from during algorithmic feeds and been required to moderate content much better.

We need to start paying people to leave Florida. Moving that population will be cheaper than trying and failing to make it resistant to climate change

There was the time facebook enabled a genocide in Myanmar, there is the Uber and AirBnb operating criminally without consequence having significant negative economic impacts to countless cities, there is all the research that shows the deep emotional damage done to teens on social media.

It enabled crypto, which is a criminal exercise to defraud people.

It also massively enabled echo chambers and conspiracy theories, undermining our social cohesion and community.

The way we rolled out the internet was a mistake and obviously so.

Was it? It did a tremendous amount of harm as well. Future historians may judge us very harshly for how cavalier and flippant we were in unleashing this technology onto the public.

Following this logic, I suppose that, in the future, cars that cannot automatically detect the presence of a child in a wheelchair and prevent the engine from starting will be banned.

You said this like it is a bad thing, which is baffling? Obviously cars should do this. One of the best things about adding self-driving features is we can add features like this (and speed governors) to make cars a lot safer for everyone.

Helpin the damn revolution come quicker