... now comes the switch part. We all knew this would happen.

So did social media, streaming, and everything else. First is great and cheap, then it's shitty and expensive.

This time at least I had read Cory Doctorow and did learn to host and use open source alternatives from the start.

Big Tech leaders think they know better about society and politics than those who studied in those fields.

They never studied politics, sociology, history. They have no background in humanities, and they think they know better than those who did.

This is and a weird cocktail of double ignorance, Dunning-Kruger effect, and the God syndrome that comes with affluence and being surrounded by sycophants.

It doesn't help that media pays attention to every shower thoughts they post on the Internet. They cannot be allowed to play gods. Thay talk about free democratic societies while undermining these exact ideals with each action they take. They just don't care, and we certainly need people in charge to care.

This ! And it is also a gift to black market sellers because it'll be much cheaper to sell capes without all this tech and computing capabilities.

What makes this sound? Pressure waves. Pressure waves that could have pushed a piston but ended up exiting the exhaust system because of internal combustion engine's inherent inefficiencies. Heat, sound, smelly exhaust fumes are all byproducts of lost performance.

Irrational feelings of nostalgia and the comfort of habits are great selling points for people who forget that generations come and go, that oil prices often spikes, that EV’s are a lot cheaper to drive ((total mileage / mpg) * $/gallon), and that sacrificing one’s future for short term gains are a great way end up worse off.

Exactly what I thought. "Education is illegal in the US" is becoming less a meme and more a reality.

Why would someone need an AI agent to monitor deterministic data in a stable, reliable manner that can be tracked through time ?

Ai Agents are great for all sorts of stuff, but I can't see how they could beat a good old dashboard when you want to track your mains KPIs.

Screws are great, but houses are still held up with nails because of their sheer strength. AI Agents are just a shiny very powerful new tool in our toolbox, not the entire toolbox. AI's lane is not to flip switches of add compute taxes on a bill.

The real great "feature" in this system is for Microsoft itself. They want their devices to see what we see and hear what we hear because that would be a treasure trove of data to sell brokers and to improve their AI models. I don't dream of being tracked, I don't dream of being spied on, I don't dream of a world where the concept of privacy is completely gone.

They don't care about user experience, they don't even really care about convenience. Convenience is just the bait they dangle to lure us in, and then the convenience fades away as the trapdoor closes behind us. We've seen what happened with the Internet and Social Media. We've seen what happened with smartphones. Why would AI be different ? It will not.

Keep it open source.

Open Source is always the way to go IMO. Just like it is to work for the people instead of against them, and to develop technologies for peace instead of for war.

Open AI looks like a good idea, hence the company's name. But Open AI is no longer Open, and tech companies are walking back on their pledges instead of acting upon them. It feels like the current state of capitalism creates incentives that does not align with the people's interests.

You want to fight climate change ? Internalize the costs of pollution. You want people to earn a living wage ? Tax the hell out of profits made by businesses paying people below a living wage. Want the working class to pay less taxes ? Have the people who make billions off their backs pay taxes.

If our current political and economic systems fail to create incentives to do the right things, only activists will do the right things. If you expect the people to do the right thing for the whole, make sure you don't incentivize against it. Our current reinforcement system give extra points to bad actors.

I walk 1 km to and from work twice a day, I found that it really helps to activate my brain in the morning and after lunch. But I felt that the gains were less noticeable during winter, even though the effort of going outside is greater (the temperature felt outside was -33C here this morning).

I can't be sure that this would explain the whole thing, but walking in an industrial area of town during winter is less about breathing fresh air, and more about inhaling the exhaust fumes of diesel truck and machines that people keep idling because that was the good thing to do a few decades ago and they didn't update their habits to new engines.

The colder outside, the worst it becomes. It was pretty bad this morning as I made the last part of my trip coughing.

Other than the benefits of staying active and having my blood flow well before I sit at my desk for hours, I figure that inhaling all this pollution can't be that good for the health of anyone working in the area. I wish we cared a little more about making this world better than we care about not changing our habits.

I am with you on that. My 14yo car will soon need a replacement, and I am mad that no car manufacturer can keep a simple model without all the bells and whistles that keeps the same main components for a decade in order to offer a cheap and reliable option to people.

Smartphones work well and could be made the same for years, but they have to "upgrade" it. My noise-cancelling headphones work perfectly and I could buy the same thing over and over, but they put AI in it, to be connected to devices with AI in it, connected to an Internet with AI in it. That AIception for you.

It all feels like waste of resources and sprawling mass-surveillance to me, but anyone who asks for a device that just works is told "We don't make it because nobody would buy it." This is BS, they tell that to everyone. I'd certainly buy the same exact model of headphones as the ones I'm wearing right now when mine dies, and it'd be dirt cheap and durable since all the manufacturing tools would be paid for, there'd be no R&D and marketing added to the price, and every bug and pain points would have been fixed by then.

Capitalism is a very wasteful and expensive machine that didn't provide anyone much value for our money in the last few years. Whatever happened to the KISS principle.

When I lit that fire, there was even more wood in it, and the house was cold. Now there's much less wood in the fire, and the house is warm ! We must put more wood in that fire ASAP! Wake up sheeple !

There is now a consensus between the two alternance parties in Canada about rolling back the carbon fee and dividend system.

I wish we could sue these people out of power so bad they'd think twice about seeking power against general interest. At this point, legislating against scientifically back effective climate action like that should be unconstitutional and disqualifying.

Translation : They don't care that the lack of antitrust and government action has let capitalism enshittify into a dystopian oligarchy of cyber-surveillance and corporate propaganda posing as consumer products and social networks. They're only concerned about the fact that some people push back when you say harmful and hateful stuff against others.

We would put someone who acts inconstantly in a high level position, except maybe for 45 and 46 POTUS. We would trust humans that say false stuff with confidence, except if they are a CEO or a consultant.

AI is built to empower those who can say stuff with confidence without knowing what they're talking about. Anyone else will doubt the AI so much that the productivity increase it provides will be less, even less so if we account that actually competent people produce a quality of work that is harder to replicate with AI.

Many workers and managers are actually just copy-pasting their way to the top. We all gotta work BS jobs to pay the bills. It's not like a society where absolutely everybody needs to work is build to be efficient in any way.

AI will empower the con artists among them, and put the people who earn a living by actually mastering their trade and working for real out of a job.

It might free up a lot of people who can show how the king has no clothes. But who cares if the king has clothes nowadays ? They say he has the greatest clothes nobody has ever worn. I don't know, but people say that.