Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.

However... It is possible that some influences come from other universes. By definition, a universe comprises things that influence each other. However, it is entirely possible that one universe's influence is one-way on another.

Most of my life I believes logic was absolutely fundamental underlying everything in the universe until one day I realized I was definitely wrong.

Godel's Incompeteness theorems show it simply can't be. However, a simple look into the universe manifestly validates that it isn't. What we see in both the very small and the very large are oscillation patterns. Logic, being any system of axioms (rules resulting in categoric answers like True/False, or A/B/C, etc), is only found from relative perspectives. For example, day and night. And, exactly as in the theorems of Incompleteness, it only works from that point of view but does not always work. Moving in the direction of north will eventually take you south. Logic is always relative between the oscillations of the absolute universe.

This is also why Number Theory is broken. The axioms that describe the number system we use for all mathematics are known to be ambiguous.

However, the universe is an interweaving of linear influences. This is not logic but it is consistent and is not a heuristic. It provides a form of reasoning that is not logical but is fundamental in the universe. When these linear relationships come to what logic would call an ambiguity, we see what we now call quantum phenomenon. This is merely the natural continuation of the linear relationships.

Poetic justice.

the first hit is free.

My statement doesn't address the gravity of the two things I mentioned. Just like the statement "Foot fetishism and pedophilia are both paraphiliae" is factually true and says nothing about which one is worse.

All I said was, if there's a new technology, the first people to use it for their particular interest are always people peddling smut and magical thinking.

You can be certain two things always corrupt any new technology: porn and religion.

https://youtu.be/U0YkPnwoYyE

He has no earned income because, like all billionaires, he's arranged to have no income in order to dodge taxes.

I'm mad at the loopholes, but I'm also mad at the fuckers who exploit the loopholes, because just because being a selfish asshole is legal doesn't make it okay to be a selfish asshole.

until he starts paying taxes like everybody else.

Fuckhead billionaires...

In 20 years, the movie Idiocracy will be fully realized.

I have worked in many organizations over my 30+ year career and one thing I learned is that the modern corporate ecosystem, on average, encourages the incompetent (more or less) to rise in the ranks of management. I know a lot of you have also learned this. The way to succeed is mostly just make sure you can blame others for failures and don't get in trouble. Above all, their like things that save them time. AI looks like it can do that for them.

However, I've already seen in my own work place and the work places of others I talk with situations where developers were fired with AI to replace them. It failed and they then started trying to rehire the lost positions. Sometimes, they really are just looking for reasons to get rid of certain individuals. The executives are those often more interested in firing to save money. In those cases, it's usually more random or whole departments.

This all said, I develop AI tools and refine models all day long. I also use AI to code for me. I do find it useful but it took me a lot of time and work to learn how to use it effectively. It really does require skill and knowing where and how LLM models screw up. For example, don't just tell them what you want have them make it. Give detailed descriptions of the tools, protocols, coding style, etc. Then design the tables/columns, the API calls, etc. Design your software at each layer and have it build each layer and test and debug each layer comprehensively before moving on. Then, in the next layer, tell it not to edit the other layers. Or at least, tell it not to modify the regression tests for the previous layers. It will give up on bugs and try to hide them or belittle their importance, etc. Force it to fix them... keep trying until it gets it.

AI doesn't "siphon up and launder" code any more than your brain does. Both *can* memorize (which is why sometimes comedians can accidentally steal a joke), but both are also learning from patterns.

AI isn't going to make people stop contributing to open source.

Don't let your kids grow up to be professional techies.

Unless they're unwilling to be enslaved and have a union.

I mean, that is really it, at the root cause level, Tick-Tock is gone (and has been for a while really) because they no longer have the people and teams in place to innovate. They lost those people really a decade ago now when they sat on their heels and were content to watch AMD struggle with their bulldozer designs and decided to stop their then very regular Tick-Tock approach that lead to the dominate the market, and instead add additional months/years between when the cadences continued to improve the manufacturing lines (the "Tick") because their technology was easily 2 generations better than their competition, and all the energy efficiencies, power usage, heating requirements showed that to be the case. This was why they dominated in the datacenters, which is where the real money is located in computing. But the rested while AMD continued to innovate, and purchase ATI, getting them a foothold in the then just emerging GPU computing space (a market space which has since kicked off the mainstream AI computing revolution)...