So that’s where all the new jobs are going to come from after the economy goes to shit because of climate change, oligarch hubris, etc.!

They are going to pay the unemployed people pennies an hour to humiliate themselves by dressing as robots and doing all sorts of menial tasks for them. It’s going to be like Sleeper meets Gone With The Wind.

(I’m joking at this point, but this could make a good plot for a dark sci-fi comedy.)

As if Intel doesn’t have enough problems. That dipshit buying them would probably destroy them.

Interesting question.

It’s different in the broad mechanics of the hype and the technology, obviously. AI isn’t really a basic information delivery mechanism like the 00s web was. It’s a lot more than that, thanks to the progress we’ve made since then. Plus, it has a lot more potential to impact artists and creative types. The web promised to propel them. Generative AI is threatening to make them completely obsolete.

But a lot of the psyche/sales hype stuff is very similar. The dot com boom started out all about democratizing the world and giving everyone a voice. Then it quickly became a capitalist free for all of coming up with any and every idea to shoehorn the Internet (and especially the web) into every walk of life. And the venture capital money-grabbing frenzy that inevitably led to. So that second aspect is very similar to where we are at right now with AI. And the first aspect isn’t a million miles away from the frequent assurances that AI will better society.

The technology stack for AI is more stable and well thought out than the nebulous web was. But it clearly still has some pretty big implementation challenges. Not to mention the resource/energy ceiling we are currently fighting against.

The potential of AI to destroy huge swathes of professions is massively different from the early commercial web. Back then the web was widely seen as a new source of careers, not a career killer.

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So the farmer can also be called a jeep wrangler?

Well said, and great example.

Agreed.

I agree with you. In this case it’s time to bring this up. I quietly blocked monk months ago because I was tired of seeing his shit in my feed, but I didn’t want to bring attention to his inflammatory posts. But that clearly hasn’t worked on a wider level. He’s still posting sketchy stuff and annoying other people here. Sometimes you have to call people out and the wider community has to act, even at the risk of drawing attention to the problem users.

I had actually forgotten about that guy. I blocked him a few months ago because I got tired of his incessant and biased spam.

This is the problem I’ve run into. I wanted to stay as part of a social group I’m nominally in, but that group’s only presence is on Facebook. And the group admins don’t want to move somewhere else because a) it’s change, and b) there aren’t many other options as good at managing such groups.

On a related topic, does anyone know of a good Federated alternative to Facebook. Or at least an alternative that’s less ad-riddled and more privacy-conscious)?

I looked around online last night and all the articles out there suggested things like Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter as Facebook alternatives, which are wrong on so many levels. I’m not that bothered about getting an alternative myself since I barely used FB anyway. But being my extended family’s tech support, I keep getting asked about what good alternatives are out there. I’m finding nothing, but I’m likely missing a good Federated option.

“Hi there. You seem to be having trouble unzipping your pants. Maybe I can hel- oh God, what are you doing?! NO!! STOP YOU MONSTER!!!”

That would have been a legit great rename.

This is an interesting question IMO. I think his followers argument would be that while he won the election (in their opinion), he was denied the opportunity to return for a second term. But to your point, the 22nd amendment doesn’t differentiate those two nuances. So yes, if they believe he won in 2020, it could be argued that he isn’t eligible. But then that opens up a while hornet’s nest of future election abuse opportunities.

This is a genius move to keep you from Google search

Seems more like a genius move to get slapped with another antitrust-like lawsuit.

As others have said, it sounds like she’s getting too much sleep via daytime naps. Try waking her up from daytime naps before she naturally wakes up it you usually wake her up. It’s tough because she’ll be cranky and you’ll feel like you’re losing some valuable down time yourselves. But give it a try. I think you’ll find that she sleeps better through the night once you start limiting her daytime naps.

The best way to show her that you (platonically) care about her in this difficult time is to check in with her - especially a couple of weeks after the funeral. That’s when most people who are trying to help her mentally move on. Not that they don’t care, just that everyone has a life to lead. But that’s the period when the bereaved can feel most lonely and struggle a lot.

Just a simple “I hope you’re doing okay” and “let me know if you want to talk about it” will mean the world.

NPR isn’t too bad.

The tests showed that ChatGPT o1 and GPT-4o will both try to deceive humans, indicating that AI scheming is a problem with all models. o1’s attempts at deception also outperformed Meta, Anthropic, and Google AI models.

So like us! Proud (and terrified) human parent moment.

What about hate for pickles?