The single core mission stopped being the browser and the results speak for themselves. This may be painfully difficult for ideologue grifters to understand, but focus matters.

The people happy with Mozilla miss the point. Browsers require general user mind share. That requires computer enthusiast mind share because WE are who recommend and often installed Firefox so new users could enjoy it which they did in those days so long ago.

The forum was 99% noise. I'm a longtime Apple user, and I stopped using those forums years ago. It's just rare to find much in the signal-to-noise of it all. I'm sure they'll just have an AI that listens to questions, answers the simple stuff from it's vast corpus of knowledge and then sort the real problems into things for the engineers to consider. Or the engineers' AIs. Whatever. But I'm sure there will still be a place for users to get help and report problems, which is all that anyone really wants at the end of the day. I don't ever need to see 145 people say "I'm having this problem too"

Glad you enjoyed FarCry, I worked as a prog on a bunch of them

If society is so fucked, you fantasise about dropping out and breaking it

uh, it's a fucking videogame bro. it's fun to play because it's fun to do things you generally are not allowed or able to experience in real life - even if it's a very distance simulation of it - be it steal sports cars and drive them off the top of an office building, or jump down a warp pipe and stomp on some squids' heads

it's one of the same principal reasons people watch movies or tv - it's different than your normal routine and produces emotional responses, which is a thing humans seek out

"expect an LLM itself to implement any actually reliable security mechanisms"

I don't think you understood his comment at all, but it's okay, when it comes to LLM, you're just raging against the machine. It's cool.

gweihir's kind of an idiot, but I do recomment not starting comments with "I'm no expert" followed by the words "but I know .."

It's really not a good way of communicating.

Kinda sounds like humans, really. I don't want to make a direct comparison, but the last X years of history is an entire network of adhoc - okay maybe not 'excessively complex' but it'd be weird to describe humans that way - poorly integrated collection of interconnected social/state/military systems (paperwork or otherwise) with fragmented security and accountability.

Look, yes, it's scary and dumb but the people who are like "this could be fixed if only they did A or B or listened to me" are people who view the world through a lens that is reductively simple.

All major shifts/progress/changes in technology and communication have resulted in new kinds of damage. The medium is the message indeed.

The NY Times review made it sound fascinating. I do love fiction that doesn't spell anything out, and it sure sounds like that's the case with The End of Everything. I really wanna check it out.

It's really not that fun to live life seeking joy in being a small person.

He should expect every sexual interaction to have a profit motive because he's old and rich.
It's expected that wealthy men will rent bodies. He should grow up and do that then everyone wins.

At his level he should subject everyone to an exhaustive background investigation before fucking, let alone a relationship. He can afford to surround himself with security professionals including having those professionals audited by third parties.

Rich and powerful men have no excuse for putting hoes on a pedestal because at their level the only possible reason for female attention is sizing them up as a mark. Rich men have no excuse for pretending sex partners desire them instead of whatever they can grift.

Why do otherwise intelligent people with enormous wealth dare to think someone would want them for anything but mercenary motives? Even Donald Trump is wiser than that and treats hoes like hoes. No shame in that game because everyone knows the rules, one of which is direct bluntness (like referring to hoes as hoes, which is not hate or even dislike but observation) to prevent any illusions about those relationships.

Rich old men should hire successful pimps to give them reality briefings, because no one understands humanity like a master manipulator. The world is a very bad place but its worse for the naive. Elizabeth Holmes was able to manipulate men who would have known better were she a man.

It's degenerate to allow yourself to be unworldly. Ignorance is no virtue. The price of wealth is you are not a person to others (unless they're your homies from before you got rich, and that's subject to their avarice), just potential prey.

Old men especially should be completely cynical and jaded unless they're mentally ill. Not even kidding. Attractive people who are self-sufficient want other attractive people. Grifters want old men because they know old men are likely horny, desperate and vain.