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Comment Re:Thank you (Score 1) 17

Most of those complaints are from people too lazy or too stubborn to just type in the word into google and see what comes out. Worse, there is also a variant of people who say "I dont know what is", in a transparently bizzare attempt at trying to sound knowleagable, by feigning ignorance.

Comment Re:Beholden to shareholders? (Score 1) 26

Don't this just make them chase never-ending profit to the detriment of all?

Anthropic where always a for-profit company, meaning that chasing a profit is a fiduciary legal requirement.

Tbh, of all the AI bro companies, Anthropic are the least obnoxious, and I do wonder how their stance against weaponization survives when board is stacked with venture capitalists instead of TESCRAL doomers.

Comment Re:trillions of dollars to AI, but AI not hiring (Score 2) 14

Mindyou Nvidia may well be skewing young with its headcount. Prior to the AI boom NVIDIA had a very generous vested share program for its engineers, and suffered a rather unique problem when the AI boom shot their shares through the stratosphere when suddenly all their senior engineers where sitting on, in some cases, upwards of 20 million USD worth of shares each. And like normal people instead of wall street suits, they pretty much collectively said "Well, fuck this working shit" and cashed their chips and retired with their millions, gutting their ranks of senior engineers.

Comment Re:Stupid Passenger, but why was it an issue? (Score 1) 131

I think it's likely there was some dumbass passenger making an issue of it with the flight crew. With crazy lady yelling at them from one side, and extremely strict company policy regarding bomb threats on the other, I can see why they erred on the side of "keeping my job".

From other comments in this thread, it seems the Bomb Bluetooth speaker is a mass-produced, mass-market device that has probably been on hundreds of other flights without issue. Something different happened on this one.

Comment Better quality, too (Score 2) 20

Given how crappy a lot of "official' upsampling and other AI slop is and other batch-processing errors, aspect ratio changes ruining editing, and IP licensing making the music vanish, pirated media is frequently simply better quality.

But their big problem is reinventing all the cable shenanigans people hate without the natural monopoly to enforce it. When you run a wire to someone's house, there's lock-in. Streaming removes that "loyalty'. Now add in all the constant media swapping that means you can't count on things staying in the catalog, and there's no reason to want to use any of them, other than convenience.

And my storage server is a lot more convenient than any offer I've seen from the streamers.

Comment Re:At what point is it unforgivable? (Score 1) 20

"Fixed" probably means they appended another prompt to the list: "Please don't give account credentials to random people."

The real fix is ripping out the AI and - if I may dream - replacing it with US employees. No chance of that happening in this greed-soaked society though. You'd have to rip out the executives first, and probably the government too.

Comment Re:Stupid Passenger, but why was it an issue? (Score 1) 131

Or, why would a potential terrorist put a bomb on a plane with an active Bluetooth beacon advertising a bomb, if they don't want it found pre-explosion?

The whole thing is stupendously idiotic. Even if someone built a bomb to put on a plane, they wouldn't use Bluetooth. They'd use WiFi and have it automatically connect to the in-flight WiFi SSID once it's in the air, and then use the pathetic security that allows you to download an app from the app stores to breach the router to get to the Internet.

Nobody intent on doing actual damage would have left a Bluetooth device beaconing "Bomb" because that would be pathetically stupid. Like, even more stupid than the shoe bomb guy.

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