It'll never happen because the law favors big capital. If the new owner wants to leverage it, they need to either honor the original deal struck with buyers or do a full buy-back.

Full release of technical documentation including source should be a requirement of bankruptcy.

yeah Twitter is just a straight up nightmare at this point. i think it's a little bit of both -- it was always terrible, but it's gotten so so so much worse.

Well, I do go along with that, but it caused me to stop buying computer games a few decades ago. (Alpha Centauri is getting rather old.)

while (humans.exist()) { humans.selectRandom(10000).kill(); }

I don't believe you. I think you'll just move the goal posts.

Think of it as a generalized version of Poe's law.

FWIW, I think of Poe's law more as a statement about the asymmetry between an experience and the desire to comment about it than about something inherent in an individual. When people dislike something, they're more likely to comment about it than when they don't care or are pleased by it. And more emotionally intense messages are more likely to be promulgated as memes because they cause a greater fraction of people to react to them.

Well, Kiss did that, but It always struck me as repulsive and conspicuous consumption. I can't say it made me angry, but it seemed a clear message that they did not respect their tools.

"Side-effects include failure to understand statistics"

First, Rick Beato uses Pro Tools. So a soul might think that they could pick up an iPad and at least get started making music with it.

I'm thinking of two use cases here. The first is the guy who has been recording on his iPad with the headphone jack and now discovers that in addition to the new iPad being exorbitantly expensive, it can't even do what his old one did. So this guy instead figures it's time to break the Apple habit and discovers that he can do quite a bit better for quite a bit less. He won't be buying another Apple product.

The second use case is that of the young adult, who tries laying down a few tracks with an iPad and BT headset, only to become really frustrated with the delay. He doesn't understand why he should buy yet another piece of hardware so he can have the same functionality already included in his android phone. So he instead calls the rest of the band over and records the whole thing live with his phone. Again, someone else who won't be buying an Apple product.

It used to be that as long as you were paying the Apple surcharge, you could get something that had all the features you needed and would Just Work. As much as I've recommended Apple over the years - because, generally speaking, they've built better products that Microsoft - it's getting to the point where I have to ask, "You don't intend to use this for professional work, do you?"

Indeed. Having AI reinterpret photos to "clean" them could be a problem, introducing unwanted artifacts when it guesses wrong, and probably shouldn't do it in real time anyhow, but in a later edit stage if and when user wants to tweak them.

Try "a mechanism". That only explains about 20% of the cases.

Actually, I think the gp intended his comment as humor.

Instead of 6 fingers per hand, ImprovedGPT will draw only 5.5.

Just remember: This upcoming AI may very well be a friend, teammate or collaborator. But it will be to the corporation that creates it, not to you.

Just like with current tech companies, their business partners and advertisers will be their customers. You will still be the product, but with the creepiness factor cranked up by an order of magnitude.