Comment Maybe, but ... (Score 1) 131
the use of HIS AI is very negotiable and many countries have already been steering away from "OpenAI" (currently probably one of the most non-open AI countries out there).
The current trend in AI research indicates that smaller and thus much cheaper and less resource-hungry models can be used for most tasks and that trend will continue.
The bad news for Altman is that it currently looks like there is no way for him to ever make OpenAI profitable. It is hard to see what the USP for OpenAI could be that would ever allow it make up for the huge investments and become profitable.
Comment MAGA idiots and the like ... (Score 1) 208
will just vote for those who tell them it is all a big conspiracy and the right thing to do is drill, baby drill and buy even more large cars!
The number of stupid people, especially in a large country, especially in a country with amoung the highest CO2 emissions per capita, is apparently just too high to allow any hope at all.
Comment Of course they will do it ... (Score 2) 165
when people are stupid enough to accept it.
And apparently, a large (big enough) part of people are stupid enough.
Comment Could MS please retreat from EU? (Score 1) 62
That wouldveventually turn out to massively improve everyone's safety and quality of life so much.
Comment Say somebody murders their spouse in the bedreoom (Score 1) 132
Should we not put surveillance cameras into all bedrooms?
Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 251
Comment That will re-inforce his psychoses (Score 1) 315
and given what a fascist kind of psychoses those are, that is rather bad news.
Comment What has this to do with the original question? (Score 1) 166
I think: nothing.
So again: why is it so terrible to have a registry for knowing which person is associated with a telephone number?
What are your use-cases of using a phone where that knowledge would affect you negatively?
Comment Soon Internet Access will require Age Verification (Score 1) 120
... ANY internet access.
Of course just to protect the children. That all internet access will then be linked to the user personally is just an unavoidable side-effect.
But we need to think of the children!
Comment What exactly is so terrible about that? (Score 1) 166
Registering your ID with your number is totally unacceptable - why?
Comment Just imagine how many more crimes could get solved (Score 2) 61
... if a surveillance camera was installed in every room of your house!
Would that not be superplusgood?