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Comment Re:The Enshitification Effect (Score 1) 63

While in general the hardware has been improving, manufacturers are experimenting more with deliberately making bad products at the lower end. I have a low-end Moto G Play, and the 2024 model's camera is a noticeable downgrade from the 2023 model. Presumably, they have to create some reason to get the pricier models.

But I would rather much be coerced into upgrading that way, compared to what Samsung does. They skimp their low-end phones so badly on storage that you only have 2 or 3 GB of space after their mandatory layer of crapware. It would cost them like $5 to add another 16 GB of storage and make the phone usable. They deliberately make the phone run out of space after you install a handful of apps.

The goal was to get me to move up to a higher-end phone, but I just went to Motorola. They still have an SD card, and the headphone jack.

I still use wired headphones. I have bluetooth earbuds I keep at work and other set I use for exercising, but at home, BT latency is unacceptable for videogames or making music. The absolute best set is always going to be wired and over-ear.

Comment Re:29 Months? (Score 1) 63

The horse is alive and kicking. I bought a new Motorola for $40 last year, would have been $120 unlocked. It's never failed to do anything I've asked of it. OLED screen is every bit as big and bright as whatever iPhone - I've used them all, working in tech support.

Samsung's main problem is they're emulating Apple.

Comment To Build What (Score 1) 7

I have to question what these data centers would be used for. The guys at the controls don't seem to be angling to provide people healthcare, housing, jobs, or education in any capacity.

The same people who have been telling me my whole life that government can't do anything useful. Makes you wonder what they are doing with it, then.

Comment AI Lump (Score 1) 14

Didn't Humane already produce and market an AI Lump? Do they think there's still room in the market after that amazing success?

I think the only ones waiting on "AI hardware" - in this context, seeming to mean a gadget saleable to consumers - were investors. Investors who believe that all OpenAI has to do is hire an Ive and they'll pop out an iRobot iPhone that people will want.

Their lack of understanding the technology doesn't surprise me. Their lack of understanding human needs and wants does a little, though.

Comment Re:Banned. (Score 1) 66

As for Sam Altman, maybe you can point us to some example when he or OpenAI violated academic integrity by fabricating data like this?

I wasn't thinking about academic integrity specifically. I was thinking of examples of both Sam's and his company's apparently flexible relationship with fact and truth.

Comment Re:Banned. (Score 1) 66

There is an always has been an underlying element to the American-psychology where we sort of admire the conman and outlaw. Its really baked in to how we have characterized our conception.

Even going to back Patriots vs Loyalists, while there were plenty of legitimate grievances with colonial governance. They were inflated to a degree that almost beclowns everyone involved, doubly so in the context of what was implemented in the aftermath at least on the representation, regulatory and taxation fronts. Our very founding revolution was sold on if not lies, radical liberties with the truth. Everyone knows we just don't really talk about it.

So to with something like this. Most people will outwardly condem the guy. At least some people will inwardly be impressed by how much he got away with and wounder what he might do for them, if they happened to throw a little gold his way..

If I had seen your comment before I wrote my own, I would have simply modded your comment 'Insightful' instead. Or maybe 'Informative' - for me it's both.

It looks as though you may have been downmodded. Maybe what you wrote hit a little too close to home. Even I was - as you said - "inwardly impressed". And I think there's a good chance that he'll do well in life, at least in the financial sense. After all, the upper echelons of our society are full of smart people with flexible morals and the ability to lie convincingly.

Comment Re:Banned. (Score 1) 66

Fabricating data is generally an academic death sentence.

Ironically, it might not be a death sentence when it comes to working for an AI company. The guy is obviously very bright, and he can tap-dance, and he's willing to have a "flexible" relationship with fact and truth. I imagine that if I was Sam Altman I'd be thinking "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!"

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