The trouble with Transhumanists is that they all imagine there will eventually be only one human per company with an army of AI's to do the work.

But they all think they'll be that one person.

Also, they're insane.

Boogergooks.

They've never met 7th Grade boys, have they?

I moderately to heavily use AI for my work because it is capable of speeding up routine time-consuming tasks. I do that so I can use my time more effectively on other productive tasks. However, I did rough calculation and it costs about 4$/hour in tokens for that. That is subsidized costs where LLMs are offered at a loss to capture market share. True costs are easily double that. This is not trivial cost if everyone in a company starts doing that.

I know people that still expose their lives to Google, but I am not one of them. Especially now, at the start of the age of AI where all information is used to profile you and used against you, from salary negotiation to loan applications, it is absolutely crazy to want any product at any price, including free, from Google.

Regrading the "Killdozer" guy -

Those two things go hand-in-hand a lot more than I am comfortable with.

When CUDA started taking off we had ATI hardware, to support their open source pledge, and looked into ROCm.

Just getting the drivers to build on EL-anything was an extreme effort, and it wasn't my first rodeo.

Without betraying confidences, I was told second-hand that there were only ten people on the GPU driver team across all platforms and that they were doing their best and not sleeping enough as it was, with Compute way behind gaming bugs on the priority list.

I couldn't independently verify of course but the theory fit the data.

I immediately empathized with the suffering of the devs and went out and bought nVidia cards, annoying binary drivers and all.

Since then I've felt like that some bean counter at AMD wrote nVidia a trillion dollar check.

If you're not a tiny company *overstaff* your engineering departments so you don't miss new opportunities as they arise. The opportunity costs exceed the opex costs.

Same here but this lack of support will matter much less than dropping i486.

There are still embedded systems sold today that only meet i486 specs. I don't use them but some industries do.

Sure a $12 ESP32 can handle those tasks but it's a revalidation thing.

Not that anybody from those vendors stepped forward to maintain a tree.

OTR might be small enough.

The Axolotl Ratchet is much better but perhaps too big for SMS.

TextSecure probably would have offered it were that feasible.

Of course if you can arrange one-time pads you're 1:1 at 140 characters.

There are two ways to opt out. First, is that you call and withdraw consent to connected services. Manufacturers will punish you by disabling every remote feature. For example, Toyota will disable keyfob remote start when you opt out. This does not generally prevents your car sending out the data, as verified by multiple people doing signal analysis.

You can find a remote telematics/data collection module and remove cell modem. This is A LOT of work as these modules tend to be deep in the dash. You can disconnect cell antenna, this usually less work but people reporting that driving next to cell towers you can still get signal.

Really this is far more probable than a dozen people went crazy in the same way at the same time which seems to be a plurality of comments.

If there's an American great ape they live in Washington state, not Ohio, based on report frequency.

Star Wars nerds? Yes, so many in Ohio.

His best buddy specialized in making exploding pagers.

Good luck out there.

In my younger and more foolish days I had a Pontiac and I opted out with wire cutters to the Surveillance module's power cables.

At the time I was actually more concerned with remote unlock hijacking than tracking but still I didn't trust GM.

All together now: WE TOLD YOU SO.

If I had to guess 20 years later doing that would disable the ECU.

You concluded all of that based on AI data centers increasing electricity costs?

Yeah, this sounds like some kind of jaded Transhumanist humiliation ritual.

If true as written, those 'monks' are without honor or reverence.

By pretending that a robot could have spirituality its creators pretending that they could create fully sentient and spiritual being.