I remember both of them, and I remember thinking they were full of shit. Aside from Bill Gates and some other forgettable nobody, no one thought the Internet was a passing fad. However, just about everyone on Slashdot thought that most of the companies in the dot com boom were doomed to failure, even (especially?) as paid pundits talked up the brilliance of the companies' CEOs.

I see history repeating. The underlying technology has some cool uses (though not worth the catastrophic cost of building the models), but it's pets.com all over again.

If the programs are given access to phone service and/or email, then it is inevitable. And the people who granted such access should be the ones doing the prison time.

Sports are neither critical or even remotely important to modern life, so of course there is an alternative: don't watch, and break your addiction. There are many things that have become crucial to modern life, but sports are just drug addictions that have no redeeming qualities. It may be enjoyable to people (as addictions tend to be, before they become painful), but you will be better off without them.

That explains why employers are laying off workers by the tens of thousands. Oh wait. It doesn't. If America were in a labor shortage, workers would be revered. The truth is that workers are treated like shit because there are a hundred unemployed for every available job.

That we are at full employment is laughable at best.

So far it has proven itself to be nothing else. This Google lie will reveal itself at some point.

And none of that matters as long as static IP addresses aren't being given out as standard operating procedure. That means IPv4 needs to go, NAT needs to go, and IPv6 needs to be the new standard. Until that happens, there is zero chance any hobby services will be in any way disruptive to big tech.

I can't even find the words to describe how stupid this lawsuit is, and how stupid the public has become who support it. There is a lot of responsibility to be had, but not in any of the directions espoused by this lawsuit or its supporters. The cause is the destruction of the family unit by Feminists, the public school system, and the shitty 8-5 on-premesis work culture. If not for them, there would always be a parent at home to watch over the kids, and the kids would always be at home to be guided by their parents.

There is an entire series of dissertations that can be written about this, but there is no such thing as social media addiction. That bullshit is just a symptom of what I described above (which itself is just scratch the surface of our societal problems).

Researchers have gotten the major models to regurgitate the vast majority of books by starting with a paragraph of the book. The notion that training only tweaks probabilities is complete and utter nonsense. Alsup was 95% wrong in his decision. He was blatantly lied to by Anthropic, and he bought the crap hook, line, and sinker; lock, stock, and barrel.

And everything he typed was entirely true.

Where I work, we had two senior developers retire a couple years ago. We posted the job openings, and got a few applicants. In the interviews, they all asked about our work-from-home policy. I had to tell them that we don't have one officially, but it does happen (we actually had an unofficial hybrid policy after COVID ended). Two of the three weren't interested, and the one we hired left for a fully work-from-home company a year later. I told the boss that we would likely get more applicants with an officially endorsed work from home benefit.

When replacing the one who left, we officially adopted and advertised the hybrid model. After posting the job opening with the hybrid model officially endorsed, we got dozens of applicants.

COVID proved that working from home obviously works perfectly well, and the labor market is clamoring for it as a standard benefit.

The more coordination and collaboration there is, the more benefit there is to doing it remotely. If you're not getting those benefits, you're doing it very wrong. Where I work, we get way more benefits from collaborating over the Internet, and much more friction trying to do the same thing in-person. It's not even a fair fight. In-person vs. remote is like a fat slob at his worst vs. Mike Tyson in his prime.

That's the way to do it, at least until IPv6 with static IP's becomes standard. I do the same thing you do. I have a personal server and a small business server. I pay about $13/month for each. They only have 100Mb connections, but that is adequate for my needs.

That is exactly what is happening now.

It is marginally useful at the best of times, but not useful enough that anyone is willing to pay for it to the degree even remotely necessary to sustain it. Not only is it barely useful at the best of times, it is actively useless in most circumstances. It costs more to use AI than to do the same thing with traditional means.

As you pointed out, the reason there is a dearth of GPUs and RAM is because of all these large AI server farms. When the AI bubble pops, there will be a glut of GPUs and RAM. This will make them dirt cheap for a short while after they flood the used equipment market.

Conscious AI is only as dangerous as the political power of those stupid enough to believe it's somehow possible, and worse if they not only believe it's possible, but that it's right around the corner.