Yes, because those are totally a real thing.

Anthropic does most defiantly not have the power here. If you think the current "Secretary of War" will hesitate to use force of any kind to get what he wants, you're mistaken. No AI currently built will protect you from the US war machine working in conjunction with US Federal law enforcement.

Yes, he does. But so does Anthropic. I think they're just arguing over who gets to credit for creating it.

But my current phone is 5 years old... I was hoping for a new 10a that would be better than last years 9a so it would be more future proof and last another 5 years. Now it seems like it might only last 4 years. Don't know what Imma gonna do.

You are not telling the whole story here.

I'm currently in the middle of a $15,000 purchase dispute with a Chinese vendor (for a CNC system). The device arrived non-functional, the merchant's customer service is wildly non-useful and time consuming, and after 3 months of dikking around I've decided to send it back.

I have clear E-mail evidence from the merchant acknowledging the problem, the CC company yanked back the payment and is forcing the merchant to issue an RMA for the device.

The credit card company isn't on my side, nor are they on the side of the merchant - they are on the side of honest transactions, and they police those transactions for me.

Twice I've had my CC info stolen at a restaurant(*), the CC company detected fradulent purchases, and issued me a new card. A couple of times they incorrectly detected fraud, and a quick phone call sorted that out.

All of this is value added to using a credit card.

It's not *just* rent seeking on transactions, it's also providing a service: "peace of mind" in your purchases.

If anyone is interested, ask ChatGPT about the Fair Credit Reporting Act as regards to dispute resolution. If you receive a defective product, you have 60 days from the statement (not the purchase, but the statement) to initiate a dispute, and there are several "states" the dispute can be in, such as "vendor is working with the customer to resolve the issue".

It's not just rent seeking, the extra 5% CC fee for the purchase is for "peace of mind".

(*) Don't let the CC out of your sight. If the waitress takes the CC away from your table, she can easily write down the number and security code before bringing it back.

Honestly, long release cylces can be just as much of a pain in the ass if everyone else is upgrading before you, you're left supporting software whos devs have long since forged ahead on later versions, leading to your bug reports getting ignored and or other software breaking it due to incompatibility wiht the old versions.

over and over again...

They need to drop the panic. It doesn't work. It's always 10 or 20 years out and will be irreversible or gone forever. In 2002, scientists predicted the ice fields on Kilimanjaro would disappear between 2015 and 2020 “if current climatological conditions” persisted. Yet that didn't happen.

Now if they just said there is a trend of warming. You know, coming out of an ice age it's been warming. The glaciers made by that have been melting. okay.

Until then it's all about "give me money". if it was for real solutions they would be worried about pollution in India, china, etc. But I don't see any of these people trying to slow down the growth in those countries. Heck, China was just in the news for building more and more coal plants. If it's a world problem, but only treated as a "here" problem, it's about money and only money.

" I played roulette with the mortgage payment and WON on 22 Black. WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I LISTEN TO ANYONE TELLING ME NOT TO GAMBLE ON 22 BLACK EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!!"

I just don't understand the blind hope of the crypto dudes. " I figured out how to do money by doing nothing just by buying a thing and watching number go up, my highschool and 1 year of community college has prepared me to be a financial genius those wall street guys never saw coming" Dude, smart people will eat you alive. It doesn't matter the market: Dumb money is gambling. And eternal gambling will have you broke in no time.

I was surprised to discover that you can purchase a 30TB hard drive for about half a grand.

That's 30,000 gigabytes, or about 30,000 hours of recorded video. How much of a person's life could be recorded on this?

There's about 8800 hours in a year, but you're asleep for 1/3 of that so call it 6000 hours. You can get 5 years of continuous video of your life on a device the size of a paperback book. If you can compress the video of your mundane activities, such as driving to/from work or waiting in line, only record single frames every second during these times, or do lower resolution during those times with key frames at higher resolution, you might get away with 4,000 hours of continuous video in a year. Probably less.

So this new disk could conceivable make a continuous record of 30 years of someones' life - all the interactions, all the people, all the information you see, all the places you've been.

(And probably more, probably more like 50 years. And if cloud storage is easily available everywhere, you wouldn't even need the appliance on you.)

This will inevitably lead to some interesting social changes.

For example, 50 Years of video using an AI assistant to search through and answer your questions (have I met that person before?) would be quite useful.

Also, the AI could train itself on your video and behaviour. The AI could then simulate you once you're gone.

Lots of possibilities here...

I own the superbox. I don't watch much TV, so it doesn't see much use, but yes, it has nearly everything. More stations than I know what to do with, all the sports channels if you care about that stuff, video on demand (they're just downloaded torrents) so while most are good quality, some have the weird logos or closed caption forced in, but mostly it all just works.

I do like the live tv rewind feature too. Show started at 5 o'clock and it's 5:20? No worries, just start from the beginning. Not available on everything but the most popular. Stream through your VPN? No problem, it's an android device so just add it.

Again, I rarely use it, but that's mostly because tv today is nothing but crap. But if you want to watch a thousand channels of crap... Well then get one of these and enjoy.

So basic economics of supply and demand?

Way to go Bloomberg... Right on the forefront

I think what we need is (a conceptual model of) two modes of personal knowledge.

One mode is your personal area of expertise. You could be a web app programmer, or biomedical researcher, or welder, or plumber, or whatever. You have all the knowledge you need to participate in your field without help.

The other side is "everything else". You use AI to get you by the tasks you need to accomplish, because it's too difficult or onerous to go and read the documentation for everything.

For example, just yesterday I wanted to convert an existing laptop windows partition into a VM to run on my office computer under VirtualBox. It took 12 hours of back-and-forth with ChatGPT, and I understood most of the actions at every step, but I could not have recited the steps needed. It's all sdisk and VboxManage and ntfsclone commands that I didn't know existed, but that made sense in context. I didn't know how to do it, but I knew how to describe what needed to be done, and I knew how to sanity check the steps.

For the two modes, perhaps we need an oral exam for each student to verify that they actually know their area of expertise. Or something similar: a proctored exam in a secure location, for example.

If the student shows competence in their area of expertise, then the education system can simply ignore everything else and let the student use AI as much as they want.

Just a thought. File under "changes in culture brought about by AI".

See previous story. Apple's AI was a complete flop. This will be running Google Gemini. Still dumb. Open Ai pin also dumb.

According to the developer, WMI is required for their licensing system.

It sucks, really. Before I bought hardware I surveyed the available software packages, LightBurn was best in class and they supported linux.

About a year later, they dropped linux support.