If I'm reading this correctly, they're saying "Beware of chinese memes". Seems dumb.

There's no watching Videos without downloading them. It cannot possibly be against TOS to download them.

What did google train their models on? The internet, I'm pretty sure. Pot, meet kettle.

In 2003 Munich did this, and in 2017, Munich switched back to Windows/Office. In 2018, Lower Saxony also switched back to windows. They really oughtta make up their mind!

If the paywall version is an alternative to their ad spam, SEO crap, then I would gladly pay it. But if it's just an additional text box with summary at the top on top of all their glorious garbage, hell to the no

To be fair, if any of the major cloud providers went down, pretty much all business, whether their coders need the internet as a reference or not would be S.O.L. So this isn't limited to ChatGPT specifically. It does speak to the vast dependency of our economy on our tech platforms though.

No I'm saying that if the only evidence you have, of anything, comes through a simulation, your only evidence is useless. Because there is no reason for anything you get through the simulation to conform to reality. You can't even know that there are such things as 'laws of physics' if the only way you know about them is what you experience within the simulation. You're not thinking basically enough. The fact that we know there is anything at all, that something exists, is only because the sim tells us. So we couldn't trust that info itself.

I like it the way it is now. It's infinitely better than ChatGPT and/or raw Google. But if they start using Ads, I'm out. I am paying a monthly subscription, because I felt that was better than the distraction and extra navigation caused by Ads. If they put those back in, why would I pay them again? I wouldn't. Stay ad free for paying subscribers, or else, perplexity!

The reason I pay perplexity $20/month is because they do not show ads and they don't muck up my rankings with promoted ads. The second they do that, even one time, it's over and I'm gone. I know I wont' be the only one.

If you were really inside a computer, you couldn't reason about that fact, at all. How would you know that there are even such things as computers in the first place? Only via the simulated input you get from yours, supposedly, so therefore anything and everything you know about the world would be 'simulated' and thus cannot be used as a basis for reasoning about it. Even the rules of logic are only revelatory to you, so there is no way for you to use them objectively.

I love when people make technological prognostications like this, assuming that nothing will change and that everybody will continue to use the same algorithms they always have been that are just as energy and hardware hungry as they are now. 10 years is a long time to come up with something new. I'll bet we see something new before that

The moral of the story then is: don't comment on your official anything from a personal account and you can block whomever you like. If you're an official, then create an official account and comment from there, but you can't block anyone. Seems dumb, but ok.

I've had jobs I hated too. It's a fact of life. There is no inherent responsibility of an employer to make a shit job palatable. There's a reason they are paying someone to do it, and it's because they aren't doing it themselves. Many times that could be because the job sucks. It's still a pay opportunity. What next, are we going to bitch that sewer workers don't like their jobs either? GTFO

Imagine if you invented something only to be told by a judge that you didn't. (Not saying that's what happened here.) What recourse would you have? I guess if you need to document that you did something, you should document that you did it. Preferably in a way that can be verified later.

I have no problem at all with teachers using tools to help cut through the drudgery. But, they had better damned well make sure it isn't saying stupid crap before they return it to the students. That's the actual least they can do.