They manufacture a significant portion of the transport hardware that makes up the backbone of the internet. They also just acquired Infinera who had another sizable chunk of that market.

Russia can’t even fully exploit their neighbor. What the fuck are they going to do to the whole world?

Oh, well in that case it’s a totally reasonable and very much not insane rule. /s

How is a school going to regulate what kids do outside of school property? They could ban cell phones on campus but that’s not going to change what happens after hours.

Funny how that kind of thing only works for rich people

If someone had shot the top MAGA leader in Minnesota you wouldn’t be blaming religion, even if they were as overtly religious as this guy.

Why would capitalists give a fuck about any constraint? We’ve conditioned them for a century to believe they can do anything they want with impunity.

LLMs work in some limited use cases with good data to draw from. Most companies, especially large corporations, have shit data. Current AI cannot fix bad data. They will never do what these guys are promising they will do.

You don’t have to have a total lack of self control to be prone to overconsumption. That’s a caricature you have in your mind that’s main function is to make you feel better about your own habits which keeps many from examining their habits in any detail.

No you’re not. Advertising, propaganda, and overconsumption impacts everyone.

Come back to what you’ve posted here in two years and read it again. You’re trusting people with data that you really shouldn’t. Perhaps that’s an acceptable risk to you but you should be sure that you can live without the privacy you think you have because that is a really bad bet.

I’m not going to touch the ethical and emotional minefield that is flirting with a chatbot but I will say that those conversations are definitely not private. That whole industry is based on stealing other people’s data. Do not do anything with an LLM that you can’t handle other people finding out about because there’s a very good chance that they will.

I don’t know what sources you’re referring to but I live in a place in the US that has been choked out by wildfire smoke multiple times a summer for the last several years and no one really talks about it. It’s not acknowledged as a new phenomenon or related to climate change at all. At most you hear a “smoky out today huh?”

Speed running colon cancer

So we’re back to sticking UV flashlights up our asses? Nice

He’s gonna be dead soon enough one way or another. He doesn’t give a fuck about the future. He’s just trying to profit as much as he can right now.

Somebody get this man an idea board. We’ve got a new Steve Jobs here who, presumably, wouldn’t try to treat cancer with apple juice.

You’re making an awful lot of assumptions about me and how I live my life. That’s fine, but I’m not all that interested in being a sounding board for your frustrations with my country.

I have the means and the desire to do what you’re suggesting but when it comes down to it my desire to protect my family outweighs my desire to protect my country. At least for now that seems the wiser choice for me personally, and I suspect that is true for a lot of others as well.

The problem is that there’s no clear line to delineate what that decision should hinge on. If you asked me 10 years ago where the line is I probably would have said somewhere well behind us now. Still, I know what will happen to me and my family if I’m the one to act first and that familial preservation instinct is difficult to overcome. Choosing to be first through the breach, so to speak, is a heavy burden to bear.

I think that dilemma is what prevents most who are predisposed to act from choosing to act, more so than a lack of knowledge about the situation.

While there are certainly flaws in the American system of government, this is not the result of one man simply being above the law. There are plenty of existing ways to stop this from happening but half of the government is actively supporting his efforts. There is no system of government that can survive when the people who are charged with enforcing the rules collectively decide not to enforce them. At that point the specifics don’t matter.