It would be useful if they were required to make any training data they didn't pay for publicly accessible...

But they aren't

Don't worry, I have no illusions about reaching him. This ain't my first rodeo where he's the bullshit

Except you can't trust that Google's browser isn't snitching anyway, so no, it's really just a way for Google to keep you using their service without having to process your tokens

It's the techbros who don't understand it, obviously. You agreed to install one thing, they took it as permission to install another thing. Conversely, they also offer to support you, then they release the same product under another name and tell you to go fuck yourself. That shit is fucked both coming and going and you're here to defend it.

"that military is stopping a nuclear armed terrorist state from setting the worlds trade rules."

No, it isn't. America has been setting those rules for decades, and if you don't like it, we will invade you. We are the only nation to ever nuke anyone. We are the terrorists.

Ok coward bot troll.

We do, but we don't get it until we swap the thoughts and prayers for torches and pitchforks. As long as we spend our time fighting over scraps while the billionaires feast, we will deserve the nothing we get.

So it could fund nothing? Why didn't you say so up front to save time?

Kinda. A company has an inherent duty to do what the owners say to the shareholders they are doing, in its charter. That charter says something about serving the interests of shareholders, or investment does not occur. Once that's in the charter, they are bound to obey it.

So while a corporation does not legally automatically have first duty to the shareholders, in practice, yes it does.

Notably we have to start prosecuting wage theft. How are we going to have more people get into the middle class if their bosses keep stealing from them? I should have another $15k in the bank right now, as I was paid less than the legal minimum wage to the point where the amount makes it grand theft in this state, but no DA prosecutes such cases unless they think there's a political win in it for them. I was able to get a settlement for half of it through the labor board, but any more would have required me to get a lawyer and struggle and I might have wound up with nothing.

The tariffs were designed to be chaotic and unfair. There's no way to wind that back which is not also unfair, but it's not at all chaotic. The tariffs were paid by the importers, anything other than giving the money back to them would be chaos.

The importers will know for the most part how much extra they paid. They could give back the money to their customers. Businesses which don't get that money back will be looking to switch to different importers.

That. Is. Not. How. Anything. Works.

No amount of AI guardrails will prevent state-sponsored attacks using AI-discovered vulnerabilities, because governments will always exempt themselves from using those guardrails. Even if you accept the idea that you will always need big iron to train LLMs, that still means someone will be making them specifically for the purpose of defeating security.

QED, anyone who says we can fix the problem with guardrails is either a classical idiot or is part of a con. The only way to "solve" the problem is with constant attention to security, and elimination of single points of failure. And there is no "solution", only eternal vigilance, or failure.

I agree that this centralization is a big problem, but there's another one — all of the things which don't really benefit from being computerized, which are done on the computer anyway.

As you allude, the real problem with education is how administrators and consultants are sucking up all the cash. Once again, privatization is a huge problem when mixed into a government function. If the government cannot perform a function without some job being done, that job should be a government job. This is both so that the person doing it can be managed competently, and so that person can get the benefits they should be getting. Otherwise there is a constant push to hire external consultants just to avoid paying those benefits, which should really be a minimum for any worker, and the government especially should not be avoiding that responsibility.

Schools which don't wish to be subject to that can do their thing without government funding. Conversely, schools which do receive government funding should be treated like any other governmental entity. What, you say they're not a governmental entity? Again, let them do it without The People's money, then. Government shouldn't be funding private enterprise.

This really isn't true. Both parties constantly vote for more military funding for example, that's putting money directly into the pockets of oligarchs. And then there's the support for fossil energy.

What's true is that things get worse much quicker under one party than the other. But if we look at how they come to power there's been at least two elections with questionable results, especially bush v gore, where the Democrats just threw up their hands and gave up. Meanwhile Republicans contest the results of elections where it's obvious they lost. At what point does Democrats' not pursuing actually democratic results become deliberately losing?

I thought about building a dual Xeon China server, you can get motherboards and processors dirt cheap and by reports, most of them work. But then I looked up the TDP and did the math and it wasn't a cheap machine any more if I actually plugged it in, and the only thing it would be better at than my desktop is I/O which I'm not having problems with now.