For me it stopped me plenty of times.

You need to share the schadenfreude with the rest of us, brother.

Unfortunately that’s not how it works. Once you have a sufficiently large userbase, the network effects are enough to sustain them. A ton of people use facebook still and that has been a logged-in experience forever. Same with instagram.

However it generates only a fraction of the traffic that would otherwise reach twitter, and also makes it useless as it cannot be data harvested.

People will pretend they still live in a rules-based order until jackboots start breaking down their own door.

They didn’t “freak out”. This is clearly a retaliation for anthropic daring to oppose them earlier this year

That line is actually a quote from “Red” Emma Goldman.

My point is, even a racist bridge has uses as a bridge. The solution is not to tear down the bridge, it’s to address the systematic racism. Likewise with GenAI tech, we are not involved in making it, nor do we promote that the way it was created was correct. We just say that people using it are not necessarily reinforcing the problem, anymore than a random pedestrian crossing that bridge would be reinforcing racism.

Yes, the way the tech was created and is being used, is problematic; an imperfect creation of a deeply flawed system. I’m not disputing that. I’m disputing that any and all uses of an imperfect creation are by necessity “fascist”

I feel the author routinelly conflates technology with technological implementations to make their point. For example, they conflate surveillance, with camera equipment and they conflate bridges, with city planning. What me and others are pointing out, is that we’re not hostile to GenAI as the technology (like cameras, bridges) but we’re absolutely against the popular (i.e. corporate) GenAI implementations.

I feel there’s no harm whatsoever to use GenAI to personal gratification. Games, Porn, Shortcuts on boring but known tasks etc. But there’s absolutely harm to using corporate AI to do so, and there’s absolutely harm in using it for purposes outside of it (facts, propaganda, agents etc)

And yes, any technology built in capitalist systems, will be inevitably corrupted from its inception from those systems. This is not exclusive to GenAI as a technology however.

We don’t consider that.

Anarchist/Environmentalists get debanked: I sleep.

Epstein-club child-rapist billionaires get the slightest inconvenience: Real Shit.

I’m the exact opposite. I love services recommending new artists and songs I would have never stumbled into on my own

Hear hear! I love me the brainz projects. Their player is a bit buggy still but so so good to avoid being locked in

Lol at all the companies who got rugpulled again because they trusted Zuck’s promises. Get rekt bozos.

Trust me, Luxembourgers are worse. Germans have decent public transport in their metropolitan areas. Luxembourg otoh is more like US suburbia.

Don’t assume everyone replying in a way you don’t agree with lives in the US. I am speaking from experience living in the Luxembourg/Germany area…

Even Germans take vacation to visit relatives and vacation homes. A range like that easily doubles a 200Km drive’s travel time.

It’s good if you don’t long-distance travel by car, or if you use it as a secondary car for work commutes. Then it’s perfect.

And terrible range. Advertises 300Km per charge. You’re lucky if you get 200

In game AI can be pretty sophisticated even without the addition of neural nets which could be OK with determining strategy based on player action, but really isn’t going to be good for the entire control.

Given that it has been the weak point in almost all 4x games in the past 30 years, I’d be happy if they give anything novel a try

Actually if they can use that to make good ai opponents for 4x games, it’d be pretty sweet

That was definitely a man with a bone to pick. Good on him!