I'm actually quite envious that rsilvergun has managed to occupy someone's imagination so much that his name comes up in every single Slashdot post.

I wish I could get that kind of attention.

The anti-woke sure like to imagine that there's this huge woke/anti-woke battle going on, don't they? Like, do you have so little to do in life that you sit around ruminating on what the woke agenda will push upon you next?

You're right though, plastics must have made life so easy and carefree that you have plenty of time to imagine all the various ways that large groups of people are out to get you.

I have never seen a Slashdot comment illustrate how ignorant a person is as well as your comment does. Congratulations!

Of course, man, this is a country full of people who left whatever country they lived in because they didn't like it enough, including the original pilgrims. Heading off on your own is the whole pioneering ethos of frontiersmanship and capitalism alike. We were taught that it's better to be a cowboy, oil tycoon, or CEO than it is to actually give a damn about your neighbors.

Hey, turning someone's observation into a joke about sexual abuse is pretty funny! You were born in the 80's, am I right?

That means that OpenAI devised the most efficient compression algorithm ever.

I seriously doubt that it can ever be a practical source of energy though.

The danger of saying "ever" is that you can't predict what other technologies we'll invent along the way.

Your statement is like a scientist from the 40's saying, "I doubt we'll ever fly to the moon, because we'd need computers to do that, and there's no way you can fit all those vacuum tubes, punch card readers, and refrigeration units on a spacecraft."

Let's acknowledge what this technology is all about: Apple providing yet another reason, in the form of big file sizes, for consumers to justify paying the premium upgrade price for flash storage upgrades, and the Apple cloud services they integrate with.

Per Apple's product purchase page for iPhone, there's a "helpful" dialog option entitled "Not sure how much storage to get?" This can help you determine whether you should pay $100 to upgrade from 128GB to 256GB ($100/128GB), $200 to upgrade from 256GB to 512GB ($100/128GB), or $200 to upgrade from 512GB to 1TB ($100/256GB). Of course, Apple would rather have consumers focus on how "great" a deal to upgrade from 512GB to 1TB, rather than focus on how terrible a deal it is to pay $500 extra for an additional 892GB of storage.

Let's remember: the jackasses protesting with those so-called Palestinian flags and chanting "from the river to the sea" started doing it in the immediate aftermath of the worst mass-killing of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust.

Here, let me fix that for you:

"Let's remember: the jackasses protesting with those so-called Palestinian flags and chanting "from the river to the sea" started doing it after Israel started killing 17 Palestinians for each Israeli killed, and wounding 9 Palestinians for each Israeli wounded, decades after Israeli basically forced Palestine to have one of the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the world, with 80% of Palestinians relying upon international aid for daily survival."

Oooops, that changes your narrative a bit, doesn't it?

"Customers", generally pay for service.

We do pay for the service, with our time, attention, and private data.

The good news is that virtually everyone studying intelligence has come to the conclusion that LLMs are fundamentally incapable of producing actual intelligence.

Of course, because our definition of "intelligence" is abysmally imprecise to the point of being useless.

We know that you are going to keep repeating the same claim over and over and over again, even after AI takes over the world and fundamentally changes everything about society.

Why not save yourself some work? Just write up a detailed blog post about all of your claims, and then share the link every time you have something to say about this topic. Heck, I hear there's even a few online services that can write your blog post for you.

The good news is that I would be willing to make such a film, for the low price of a few million dollars.

They are thinking about planning to think about planning to announce it.

Ah, Imran Chaudhri, the idiot who convinced Steve Jobs that iPhone didn't need a back button. I'm guessing his device will lack all buttons whatsoever.