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- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 6 months ago:
Some beggars do indeed see it as a job and make substantial money, that is just a fact. Doesn’t mean that there are not people in real desperate situations and needing any help they can get.
- Comment on People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality 8 months ago:
Yeah, we would all much rather talk with a real person, but when I’m walking my dogs at 1am there is no one available.
I use ChatGPT voice as a kind of “podcast on demand”. If there’s something on my mind I run it through ChatGPT, if not I ask it to come up with something interesting for us to discuss - and it as yet to let me down.
It’s not a matter of replacing people - it’s more as if you had your own on-demand youtuber that could talk about anything you want and answer all your follow-up questions.
- Comment on The employees secretly using AI at work 8 months ago:
I think I understand why this is a double-edged sword. Most consulting companies basically invoice hours. Even a lot of software development is charged by the hour. So now empoyees use AI, come up with awesome work much faster, and all that looks like a big advantage - until you get to the end of the month and find out that you now have a lot less billable hours logged.
The bright side is that yoy can now deliver more projects - so you now have to do much more work to invoice the same as before, and all tge competition is now also delivering awesome work. It’s a race to the bottom, more stress and less money for everyone involved.
- Comment on Details leaked of "GOST" program used to profile the social media posts of US visa applicants 8 months ago:
That’s all good, but then in this same situation agents would find nothing about you at all and “thumbs down” you because you are obviously hiding something.
- Comment on Why advertise on YouTube? 8 months ago:
But why then are we even getting ads “not aimed at us”? Doesn’t a platform like youtube, which has access to basically all data on the google account, know us better than ourselves? Why all the tracking, only for us to be eternally bothered by stuff we’ll never buy? I’ve lost count of how many “atlas VPN” ads I’ve been bombarded with, and still no intention whatsoever of ever getting it.
- Comment on The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion 8 months ago:
The article you referred to appears to delve into the actions and subsequent consequences faced by Jimmy Zhong, a 28-year-old computer expert from Athens, Georgia. The narrative begins when Zhong reports a theft of a substantial amount of cryptocurrency from his residence, leading to an investigation unveiling one of the most significant cryptocurrency crimes in history ➊.
In 2012, an individual pilfered 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road, an illicit dark web marketplace. The valuation of these stolen bitcoins soared over time to surpass $3 billion, marking one of the colossal mysteries within the cryptocurrency realm for many years. Nearly a decade post this heist, a grave mistake by the perpetrator enabled the IRS-Criminal Investigation division to resolve the case ➋.
Jimmy Zhong, known for his partying tendencies and also for his exceptional computer skills, was the person behind this massive theft. His downfall was linked to his report about the crypto theft, which was a cover-up, and his robust digital home surveillance system which perhaps played a part in his identification ➌.
Following his conviction in 2022, a raid on his Georgia residence led to the confiscation of approximately 50,676 bitcoins, then valued at over $3.36 billion. Zhong cooperated with the authorities and forfeited the stolen assets ➍.
This tale highlights a significant event within the cryptocurrency community and demonstrates the long-term investigative efforts that can span several years before reaching a resolution.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 9 months ago:
I read this as “40-70% of VR developers don’t know what they are doing”. What needs to be done to avoid motion sickness has been known for a long while now.
- Comment on [TECHCRUNCH] Magic Leap’s original headset will stop working at the end of 2024 10 months ago:
Magic Leap 2 still feels like a prototype. It’s heavy, unconfortable, you have to carry the compute unit with you, it easily gets very hot and the compute unit’s fans make a lot of noise. The field of view is still small, you see blots of random colors all around your vision, and the AR contents still look ghostly and see-through (although not as bad as in the original Magic Leap). There is practically no software for it.
The future of AR seems to be in VR passthrough, like the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro do.