Fortunately, Trump has already trained his followers to accept that truth is irrelavant, and that they should worship everything he says as a form of religion, so they're already primed for Trump's tech bro billionaire contributors to take over their lives! Thanks, Peter Thiel, great puppet show! Jim Henson would be jealous...

Zuck is SO LIFE-LIKE, he could almost pass for a real human being... if it wasn't for that pesky uncanny valley.

That's reason AI is doomed, the old "Garbage In, Garbage Out" principle. AI will increasingly be trained more and more on AI slop, resulting in an inevitable spiral into mediocrity.

Any behavior you measure and reward people for increases. That seems like a no-brainer. Maybe they should consider rewarding people for actual accomplishements, and not for wasting the most electricity?

Personally, I subscribe to the 'Shoot the hostage" school of negotiating with criminals.

Communisim did fail. All developed nations are now to some extent socialist (included the USA). The Chinese use of capitalist economic incentives while still having a centrally managed economy is an interesting development that hasn't failed yet; currently China is building out renewable energy much faster than the USA is... which means the best place to site AI data centers is probably in the Bobi desert, not in US cities that already have electric and water shortages.

I still find it amusing that Zuck renamed the company to signal it's new obsession with being THE metaverse company, only to decide about a year later that they were actually an AI company. That being said, Meta Reality Labs is now focusing on robotics, not VR. The billionaire class is now in a race to see who can replace all their workers with robots first. Musk hallucinates he's going to win that race, but only because he does a LOT of drugs.

Meta massively overpays their workers, which must be a reaction to nobody wanting to work there.

I quit my position as a contractor at Meta Reality Labs when I finished the project I was originally hired to do an they reassigned me to maintaining old python code that simulated optics, because i realized my job had become training their AI to to my job for me. Now I'm working remotely from my beach house. Pays a lot less, but I don't have to drive 800 miles a week with regular gas over $6/gallon in Washington state.

To make sure all his neighbors know he owns a Harley! To be fair, I once had a neighbor rich enough to rent the house next to mine that did the same thing with his Mustang that had overly loud mufflers.

Only slightly less annoying than laws mandating electric vehicles make enough noise to warn ignorant pedestrians that they are coming, which results in quiet electric cars playing simulated engine noises with no off switch.

How much is that in football fields, for us 'mericans?

I guess it's not an autobahn.

Only because anything they are releasing almost certainly isn't a picture of a top-secret experimental military aircraft.

The fact that the iPhone N+1 is indistinguishable from the iPhone N is already a meme, so I agree we're already past the point of diminishing returns where manufactures are trying silly things like folding screens to trick buyers into upgrading. Spoiler: the folding screens quickly fail at the crease. My ex's certainly did. I would have told her not to buy a folding phone if she had only asked.