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901.
by blibble 1y ago
> Because Apple makes its money by selling you hardware and services, not by selling advertising. have you used the app store in the last few years? I search for my bank and the first results are a load of scammy crypto app ads then my a
902.
by blibble 1y ago
a capable university student with their lam equipment could easily extract that key I don't think the CIA will have any problems
903.
by blibble 1y ago
odds are they'll push out an update that requires a CPU feature not present on that CPU then GP parents' machine will just bluescreen at boot with illegal instruction
904.
by blibble 1y ago
I don't think it's AI the problem with meta is three fold: 1. zuckerberg is completely misaligned 2. facebook has hundreds of billions dollars of resources 3. zuckerberg has total control of facebook normally a company with this l
905.
by blibble 1y ago
> Capitalism and the competitive market have created more prosperity and taken more people out of the cold than any other economic system in history. there is no guarantee this will continue to be true forever I don't see how capita
906.
by blibble 1y ago
> the ribbon is fully customizable so was the one in office 95 > with greater functionality than traditional menu you click a button and something happens? except now the button isn't in a consistent place a usability regression
907.
by blibble 1y ago
> It's like stealing from someone and then making sure they never make money again. isn't this the entire AI playbook? artists, software developers, writers, musicians, everyone total parasitism always kills the host
908.
by blibble 1y ago
if there was a major "incident" I would have thought the odds of the insurer going bust are 100%
909.
by blibble 1y ago
did you get those the wrong way round? office 95 (without the ribbon) is more usable than office 365 (with the ribbon)
910.
by blibble 1y ago
> #2 Software projects that somehow are 100% human developed will not be competitive with AI assisted or written projects "competitive", meaning: "most features/lines of code emitted" might matter to a PHB or Mic
911.
by blibble 1y ago
> but rather the risk that AI will spit out code from its training set that belongs to another project. this is everything that it spits out
912.
by blibble 1y ago
still a lower risk than having your entire country's internet services turned off by the US regime to gain political leverage
913.
by blibble 1y ago
> Or even code farming: just have AI agents constantly build totally random shit and go through and see if any of it is useful for something. so you're saying the venture capitalists will soon be out of a job? what a shame
914.
by blibble 1y ago
big tech on their way to speedrunning that too, with the AI data centre buildout https://esgnews.com/ai-boom-drives-150-surge-in-indirect-emi...
915.
by blibble 1y ago
> At least Microscum can't yet lock one out of their own PC or laptop at this stage. tell that to the people that received the dreaded Bitlocker unlock screen after a broken windows update key is... stored in your MS account
916.
by blibble 1y ago
> The code was tested, but not this edge case. so... it wasn't tested
917.
by blibble 1y ago
this is really amateur level stuff: NPEs, no error handling, no exponential backoff, no test coverage, no testing in staging, no gradual rollout, fail deadly I read their SRE books, all of this stuff is in there: https://sre.goog
918.
by blibble 1y ago
big tech's desired outcome is the capture of the majority of value currently generated by employment quite how they expect capitalism or liberal democracy to survive this scenario I don't understand there will be mass unrest long
919.
by blibble 1y ago
I'm never going to use the metaverse. I'm never going to use use Blockchain. I'm never going to use use NFTs.
920.
by blibble 1y ago
the real weakness of the "AI industry" seems to be the massive increase in CO2 emissions required if I was trying to kill it politically that's exactly what I'd focus on
921.
by blibble 1y ago
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922.
by blibble 1y ago
lies, from big tech? say it's not so!
923.
Are machines smarter than venture capitalists?(ft.com)
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924.
by blibble 1y ago
the AI boosting community is a cult it really is that simple
925.
by blibble 1y ago
> As datacenter production gets automated, the cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity. what he has left unsaid, is that electricity demand will rise substantially good luck heating your home when
926.
by blibble 1y ago
> Interesting the level of confidence compared to recent comments by Sundar [1]. Satya [2] also is a bit more reserved in his optimism. well yeah, you can't continue the ponzi scheme if you say "aw shit, it's gonna take an
927.
by blibble 1y ago
he obviously thinks he can maintain control, else he wouldn't be trying it in the first place (unless he's one of these must-summon-the-machine-god assholes)
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by blibble 1y ago
what incentive does facebook have to make anything other than token efforts re: safety? "safety" is them paying to slow down their own research
929.
by blibble 1y ago
it still also can't count the legs on a dog https://vlmsarebiased.github.io/ another decade and we'll be able to get the Not Hotdog app from Silicon Valley
930.
by blibble 1y ago
this "logic" applied across society will lead to our ruin

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