You can just not connect these screens to the internet. Some of the more annoying ones that are really cheap will give you a bit of nagging when you boot them up before switching to your video.

Don't get me wrong we should properly regulate businesses but this is way down on the list of crimes a company might commit or laws that we refuse to enforce.

Every single TV manufacturer is doing this. If you have a problem with it just buy a really really huge PC monitor I guess. It'll cost you about $1,500 instead of $300 though.

And there is no point to getting angry at companies for doing what companies do. Not when people on this forum refused to vote for the kind of politicians that would properly regulate them. I guarantee you some of the people reading this will vote Republican on Tuesday. Even though the Republicans refuse to enforce laws against what Vizio is doing here.

So using AI to write a little bit of boilerplate code for you isn't what most people are talking about when they say using AI.

There isn't a single game publisher on the planet that is thinking about AI like that. They want AI to build the entire game so they can fire their staff.

Almost all of the cost of making these big AAA games is the staff that make the game because well of course it is it's art.

We all know the goal is to replace all the artists with bots that generate slop for us to pay for. With enough subsidies and with enough electrical bill and water bill increases the slop generators will be cheaper than employees. Especially artists. You can't really offshore too much of your artists because if you try to the different cultural barriers create games that don't translate well. Just like how Bollywood movies have a fan base in America but it's not the general public. American movies managed to do well overseas but that's because of the overwhelmingly high budgets. Take away the spectacle and make the movie without it and they would bomb.

So realistically when we are talking about AI in this context we're talking about games that were built almost entirely with it. Because that's the current goal of the industry. Get rid of the art but keep all the profits

He has a good video about the SpaceX IPO where he explains it. Basically it's very expensive for SpaceX to provide data services of any kind. They cannot compete with terrestrial data services when those are an option. Nobody is going to pay extra for satellite internet when they can just have a physical line to their house or apartment or can have access to Cellular radio service.

The market for SpaceX is people that do not have access to terrestrial services because they're out in the boondocks and they don't have any other options. That market exists however it's got a cap because if you ever get enough people in a single area that form a large addressable market then somebody runs some cable to them or builds cell towers and suddenly you just lost your market.

Mr Boyle brought this up in the context of how SpaceX cannot possibly generate enough income to justify its valuation and that it's very likely that SpaceX is just a scam to rip off our retirement savings and our 401ks.

But getting back to the point they're not going to use starlink for cellular internet because it can't compete with regular cellular service. It's just too expensive to keep all those satellites going.

I was right here saying that the merger should be killed but you do you.

If a company can't compete then let it shut down and then let other companies get the spectrum besides the big three. This isn't hard wireless is a natural monopoly because of physics. Impractical terms this means that you have to tightly tightly regulated like you do with any natural monopoly. This means that if one of the players collapses you don't let the existing players buyout their spectrum. You bring in a new player and if you can't find one then the government itself spins up a new player and then eventually privatizes it.

And if the big three have a problem with that they can fuck the fuck off and we can give the spectrum to somebody else who will play ball.

You don't have to bend over and take it in the ass every time a corporation says you should. I know it sounds crazy but you can actually advocate for your personal well-being and the well-being of your community. And when a corporation does something bad and tells you to suck it down because capitalism you can tell them to fuck off and that's allowed. At least as long as we're still a democracy but the corporations are working on that. Maybe don't help them along...

Multiple industries depend on the price of RAM and it's playing havoc with all of them but we can't do shit about the obvious antitrust violation done by The Big Three ram producers.

If we can't do something about an antitrust violation that obvious and that out in the open and that has been repeated over and over and over again there's fuck all chance we can fuck with somebody as politically connected as Elon Musk. He dropped a half billion dollars on two elections nobody is going to go after him.

If you want and he trust law enforcement you need to somehow convince your relatives to stop voting Republican long enough that we can get back on track. We are also going to have to do something about all this county level voter suppression. In North Carolina for example they have a law that requires a second envelope that you seal your mail-in ballot inside and they use that to invalidate 3.5 percent of all Democrat votes. I guess technically there's some Republicans mixed in there but the majority of them are Democrats because Democrats are much more likely to vote by mail because when you vote as a Democrat you wait in line for 7 hours...

Even if you're a republican for some god-awful reason if Democrats can't vote then there's no reason for Republican politicians to listen to you because they can't lose their elections anymore.

and post it to The Everything App on X!

Right now we've had AI generated games for at least a year maybe longer. And so far the only ones that could be considered at all okay all the ones that are just ripping off a game that somebody made.

I don't think you can make a good game with AI. The guys who made super meat boy spent months manually tweaking the gameplay mechanics to make it feel good.

Human beings are just too analog and complex. You are not going to be able to tell a computer to make something fun and it's going to do it. Now what you can't do is point a computer at something that is already fun and it can copy it but that's just going to be a pale imitation.

It's like all this Sonic the hedgehog rip off games from the '90s. They were all pretty terrible. The best AI can do is make Bubsy.

Sitting in a system designed from the ground up for money laundering. It boggles my mind that we have that much crime happening in the open but then again orange pedophile was President so here we are...

Just go on the internet and lie?

Seriously, of course the Amish don't go around telling people how they actually run their communities. And yeah individual Amish people are sincere and kind and fine. But they have a ruling class just like everybody else has a ruling class. And that ruling class uses religion and cult tactics to maintain their control and power and wealth and abuse people.

You've got Google you can look into this it's not hard. Amish communities are not poor. Individual Amish people are not doing great. Because again like everything else in this world the money gets funneled up to the top.

Just because you don't like the way the world actually is doesn't mean the world isn't actually that way. It doesn't have to be but when guys like you turn away from reality to pretend in an Amish Paradise then the abuse goes ignored and the abusers can continue to do whatever the fuck they want.

Then odds are your manuals are written by folks in India who don't speak English very well. One of the first things that got offshore was technical writers. So the quality of most enterprise software manuals has been shit since about 2005.

Typically the information will be there but it will be buried deep deep in the innards of the manual. Rather than spend several hours pouring through what is less a manual and more a reference guide stack overflow and Google was a good place to find answers and a chatbot can usually find them just as well or better since stack overflow has lost so many users and Google has been complete shit for some time.

Go actually look into the Amish there are really nasty religious cult where a handful of assholes get very very rich making people work for free. AKA slavery. You aren't technically a slave in the Amish cult but when you're born into it they don't educate you in any way shape or form so it's basically impossible to leave because you're not going to be able to get a job outside of the cult.

Also saying no to antisocial and destructive technology isn't being a Luddite or a member of a cult. It's just fucking common sense. You have to live in the real world whether you like it or not and in the real world we need to keep the majority of people employed because the majority of people think like 12-year-olds and if we can't maintain roughly 90% employment then we're going to have a huge problem between the people who still need to be working 40 hours a week and the people who we have no work for.

Remember we don't automate everything useful or miserable or that involves drudgery. The stuff we automate is the stuff that pays the most. We automated high paying factory jobs first and now we are automating high paying White collar jobs because the purpose of automation is to line the pockets of the person who owns the automation.

You know, the c word. The one if I mention it this entire thread goes to shit as idiots argue over what men with funny hats and bad ideas used to keep the public giving them power...

Super intelligent sounds way cooler to somebody who thinks that the love over 12-year-old.

I'm not saying this is an insult the age of 12 is based around where most people read at. About 60% of the country reads at a 6th grade level. If you are reading at the level of a 12-year-old you are probably thinking at the level of the 12 year old.

This means everything is very black and white and very simple. Marketers have spent decades telling these people that artificial is bad so it's no surprise that they are trying to rebrand artificial intelligence.

We could pretty easily raise the level of thinking in the country but it would cost money nobody wants to spend and it would undermine organized religion. Parents don't like it when their kids come home from college with all that highfalutin learning questioning established doctrine from the holy books they never read... The real problem is that well-educated children are not going to be able to relate with and get along with they're under educated parents so those parents are going to get upset if their kids are taught critical thinking skills...

It's probably just money laundering. It's just much larger scale than we are used to seeing.

This is like 6% of their total worth. No they can't cover it. If I had to guess they are in on it somehow. With the complete lack of any law enforcement for white collar crime right now thanks to the current political administration they can get away with a hell of a lot for a very long time. I am guessing this is something like a Bernie Madoff level of scam where the people involved are hoping to just keep it running indefinitely.

If they can prevent changes to the current political climate they can keep the scam going just like scams never break in Russia or China unless you don't give the party heads their cut.