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Comment It's just like horse armor (Score 2) 14

Us old timers looked at them selling shitty microtransactions slop and knew it was garbage. It wasn't like the arcades where your quarter bought you as much of the game as your skill could handle and 1ccs were part of the fun. It was an infinite money machine where you kept pouring more in and getting less out. Like when the CEO of activation famously bitched about all the time people spent playing call of duty without constantly paying for it.

Basically you do the evil thing and kids grow up with the evil thing and the evil thing is normal so kids don't know any better.

It's like how you can live in China was absolutely no civil rights whatsoever and it's just normal so you don't think about it and you just live like that. Or like how in America every few years we freak out about some stupid moral panic because that's just part of Living in America. And we all act like it's normal and good.

They will do the same thing with ai. They'll keep cramming it down our throats until we have to take it because they're the ruling class and we're too much of a bunch of freaked out weirdo cowards to do anything about the ruling class. If all else fails they'll use the classic hey that guy's going to steal your cookie trick from the joke about the union guy and the non-union guy at the table with the factory owner...

I don't know what you do with these basic problems with human cognition. I don't think our species has enough time to evolve around them.

Comment See how they got you? (Score 0) 23

This is exactly what the PR company was trying to do and they succeeded wildly with you

Both Depp and his ex are pretty terrible people by all accounts but his publicist was better than her publicist and so you're only focused on what they want you to be focused on. Meanwhile why the fuck would you even give a shit about any of this in the first place?

Do you have enough money in the bank account? Have you got enough retirement savings that you don't need to go back to work when you can't anymore? How is gas prices treating you? How are your kids doing? These are all things that should be substantially more important to you but a publicist managed to make Johnny Depp's messy divorce the most important thing for a brief period in your life and Lodge it in your brain so thoroughly that you immediately responded to my post when I brought it up as a knee jerk defensive action.

You're not defending Depp and you're not going after his ex, you're defending yourself because they managed to convince you that for you this entire thing is personal.

That's the point I'm trying to make. The PR company very easily manipulated you and you're not even aware of it. If you manage to read this post congratulations you're now aware of it but what you do with that knowledge is up to you.

Odds are you're going to go back on the defensive rather than learn anything from this experience because people really do not like being reminded that they got tricked and easiest way to deal with that situation is to just pretend you were never tricked in the first place...

Comment So Johnny Depp hired a PR company (Score 3, Interesting) 23

To go after his ex. It came out during their divorce proceedings that he did it.

The PR company had a bunch of people go around social media pretending to be people saying bad things about Depp's ex.

It created a eating frenzy and the right wing picked it up and ran with it.

The head of the PR company in internal emails expressed... Let's just call it concern about how easy it was to turn the entire public against somebody with a handful social media posts that weren't even automated.

The point is it's really easy to set the public off. Especially these days when if a cooler head shows up and tells everyone to calm down they get dismissed as one of them Washington insider expert scientist types...

Comment Sega used is for the Shogun remaster (Score 1) 33

And it was a disaster. It turned into the samurai armor into cylons. When I first saw the screenshots I thought it was somebody making fun of AI instead of actual AI slop. They have the pull the game from steam.

So yeah we know it's being used in the industry and it's laughably bad and it's damaging the industry and costing the industry money for very little or nothing in return. Stop it already.

Comment Re:They don't know what they're talking about (Score 0) 150

They know what they're doing. This is France telling American social media companies to fuck the fuck off and stop fucking with our political system.

This is them kicking Facebook and Twitter which are both owned by fascists out of their country. If America can't do that themselves France is going to do it for them and try and let America go to shit. Of course that didn't work out really well when the rest of the world ignored Germany in the 40s so but you know how that goes

Comment Yeah that's the idea (Score 1, Insightful) 150

America can no longer be trusted and American tech companies especially cannot be trusted. This is Europe cutting them off but not in a way that could be challenged in their courts.

America elected orange pedophile twice now. The first time could be chalked up to a fluke but the second time not so much especially with threats to invade Greenland that carry the implied threat of invading the rest of Europe. That's a real thing that orange pedophile did and I don't think we freaked out anywhere near enough about it.

I think Europe was hoping that orange pedophile getting elected would just give their billionaires a leg up on the markets as America's economy collapsed. I don't think they were expecting full on fascism and neo-nazis in the White House. And they certainly were not expecting threats to invade Greenland that orange pedophile doubled down on several times and only backed off when Congress finally said knock it off.

I don't know if you're up will be successful with cutting America off and they probably need to do something about Russia running roughshod over our voting system but at the very least they're trying to do something about Russia running roughshod over there people. And these moves against social media which is really what they are are all about that

Comment Trump is openly hoping for a terrorist attack (Score 2) 22

It's painfully obvious he was hoping that attacking Iran would get us a second 9/11 and he could ride that into a third term in office.

Trump put completely incompetent people even by his standards in charge of anti-terrorism. One of them is literally a 20 year old grocery store employee. That's who's in charge of keeping you safe from terrorism at the federal level at least.

Iran isn't stupid so they didn't bite. Trump is of course doubling down because that's all right wingers know how to do. But Iran has pretty good control over their non state actors.

Bush Jr would never have gotten the second term without 9/11. Trump looks at that and says hey that could work for me. A couple thousand dead Americans isn't even a price to pay in his eyes.

Comment It's also a way to cope with the situation (Score 2) 177

Particularly a situation that you have given up on having any control over.

And left wing spaces we call this complying in advance.

The implication isn't just that you're looking down on the person making the comments, the implication is that you don't have to care about the comments they are making. That you're above all that.

It's painfully obvious that we are not above the decisions Sam Altman makes. He gets to decide how our lives go. He's making serious decisions about the future of society, america, and the human race in general.

I think that's too big for most people to wrap their heads around and deal with especially because most of us have figured out we don't have a place in that future.

Comment Re:Heat and Power (Score 1) 102

The summary mentions 1kW for the satellite with 4 TPUs, but the latest TPUs do seem to have a power draw of 1kW for a single chip.
Your calculation seems to be pretty good; a quick search turns up a paper that mentions 1.1 m^2 to 1.4 m^2 per kW for the proposed SpaceX datacenter sats. I've no idea how large they could make the radiator, maybe 500m^2 is doable. Enough for a tiny data center, but keep in mind you need almost twice that area again in solar panels, to generate the required power.

Comment Engagement bait (Score 1) 118

This post is low effort engagement bait. Apple hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. The only questionable choice is that silly touch screen and that's harmless enough. Most of their energy right now is focused on their processors and seeing if they can get in on controlling all of AI and the massive automation push coming from that but that's what every single tech company on the planet is doing.

Nothing to see here just lazy rage bait and that comes from somebody who is not really much of a fan of Apple

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