downrightmike

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by downrightmike 5d ago
The only thing keeping AI models from making a worse covid is all the post training stopping it and probably the millions it would cost in tokens
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by downrightmike 6d ago
Just like mobile apps, subs will never come close to the growth expectation. Given trillions are tied up in AI, subs aren't going to do it.
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by downrightmike 6d ago
Fun fact, they track you via GPS even harder and upload that once it can
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by downrightmike 6d ago
"Oh no did that 'Allow us to train on your org's data' toggle get turned on after the last update? We're so sorry. No we won;t delete the data, the toggle was -ON- what part of that don't you get??
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by downrightmike 8d ago
There are two types of AI safety: 1. The companies that make AI only care if AGI can happen. Terminators can nearly wipe out humanity, but that is A-Ok with them. They don't care about current or near current future people. They are fa
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by downrightmike 9d ago
no
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by downrightmike 9d ago
https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/10/glyphosate-used-kill-prep...
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by downrightmike 9d ago
I just found out that farmers spray enough of the chems to kill all the plants off so they can be harvested at the same time. They aren't applying it just to grow, they then pump it full of them and then we eat that. No wonder why peop
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by downrightmike 9d ago
You will never pay enough to cover the cost. That's why you don't see subscriptions in apps anymore, because ads pay more.
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by downrightmike 9d ago
Prime, netflix etc
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by downrightmike 9d ago
It's just text, how expensive can it be?
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by downrightmike 9d ago
That's how we got Chinese APT in our phone systems that we are apparently going to do nothing about. Seriously, can be fixed, AT&T et all just won't
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by downrightmike 9d ago
Morris at least got slapped with a fine
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by downrightmike 10d ago
Human trafficking political stunt by embezzling politicians
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by downrightmike 10d ago
Belling cats is actually really useful
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by downrightmike 10d ago
They don't go at that speed the whole time. They do that journey in just short of two months
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by downrightmike 10d ago
Just like Nixon in Vietnam and Ronnie in Iran, the purpose isn't to win, it's to hold on to power
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by downrightmike 10d ago
The UK parliament thought it a good moral lesson Irish should starve because they were the wrong religion
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by downrightmike 10d ago
Destroying demand is about getting people to not consume the thing. Oil being a knock on everything else and at such a volume would probably starve millions at the very least. This whole thing is a depopulation war. If you're reading t
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by downrightmike 10d ago
Fun fact oil tankers only go about 12mph, so it takes months for it to cross, the same time it would take to bike the route(if you could)
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by downrightmike 11d ago
That's why Japan and USA are building TSMC fabs locally
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by downrightmike 11d ago
They are just setting up for even larger profits this year than last.
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by downrightmike 11d ago
That's basically the Amazon argument. But it too needs to be addressed
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by downrightmike 12d ago
They fired that guy years ago, so no one knows how to decom it without breaking everything
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by downrightmike 12d ago
Child endangerment
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by downrightmike 12d ago
This is pretty opposite from the safe and secure image they have.
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by downrightmike 13d ago
Except the Gov can't buy services from corps to do things they are not allowed to do: Pinkerton Act. None of this is legal
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by downrightmike 13d ago
The Knights Templar did the same thing, they just charged appropriate fees for every service instead of interest. Risk has to be paid for, call it interest or fees, No real difference. And then when the kings ran out of money, they sacked t
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by downrightmike 13d ago
China caught up even with tech restrictions
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by downrightmike 13d ago
Except as time goes on, it becomes cheaper and hardware agnostic. Depreciation for these cards are 2-3 years, but the financing says 4-6. A lot of money is locked up into older, slower tech far longer than usual. Eventually that gets writt

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