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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds… plausible actually. They have this big stake in GPU datacenters for AI, that are (and will be) burning incredible amounts of money and are not turning a profit anytime soon. That same crazy level of investement on AI is making hardware costs go up, especially gaming hardware.

  But Microsoft, being the benefactors who have inherited the company from philantropist and kids-lover Bill Gates, have thought of us! They will share a bit of their shiny GPU datacenters’ plwer for gaming and all they will be asking for is a lot of your money. I can see that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like watching a real-life version of Avengers, but one where Tony Stark says “hey, this Thanos guy is diarupting industries here!” and teams up with… Thiel and Musk to fund his quest for the Infinity Stones. You know, we can’t let China get them first!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost funny how all those AI doomsday scenarios are actually meant to prop up investment in AI.

  See how Amodei and Altman are usually the ones pushing these narratives on how worried they are by the incredible advancements of their respective companies’ creatures. They are so, so worried about the demise of the human race and how fast it’s coming.

  And I sort of understand them because whatever disruption they are peddling needs to happen very fast or they will all run out of money. But what does it tell about the rest of the human race. Ghat we are actually buying into it and pouring money into creating a dystopian rfuture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever tf this is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that’s how ship cannons worked at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate… more of them would give you the only way to have sustained firepower.

  But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. “And look, this shit has cannons… Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!”. I guess it’s what happens when your so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn’t help sell… “how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every 1 in ~200 dollars of wealth of the US population is owned by one person⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t leave me hanging… is it me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasons

  just his idea of fun, basically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say this as someone who’s not particularly a fan of AI and tries to use it very sparingly.

  For me AI is not so much about productivity gains. Where I find it useful instead is to push me past the initial block of starting something from scratch. It’s that initial dopamine rush that the article mentions, from seeing an idea starting to take shape.

  In that sense, if I compare projects by time spent on them with or without AI after they are completed, I too would probably find there were no productivity gains. But some of these things I would never get started at all by myself.

  If you are a senior developer in a corporation, you know what you have to do, you are an expert in your domain, you rarely start something really new (and when you do, it is only after endless discussions and studies on tools, language, tech stack, architecture). AI is probably not a great help for you.

  But even in corporate life, there are a lot of things that are inportant but that you constantly set aside: from planning your career, to honing your communication skills or whatever it is that you could certainly learn to do (with time and dedication) but for some reason you keep postponing because you are not already an expert at them and it takes motivation to learn. That’s where AI found its niche in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Loophole. They didn’t cross their heart and hope to die. The only way is calling them out with Liar Liar Pants on Fire

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a bubble does not mean the service they provide is useless. It means that the service is never generating enough profit to repay for the huge cost of providing it.

  Would you pay 500 dollars a month to have the possibility to do your movie searches? Or alternatively, would you like your LLM of choice to counter that, having read all your emails and browser history, you are probably interested in a totally different movie that just happens to be playing now at a nearby cinema?

  Because these AI companies are currently burning through literally a good chunk of all the cash in the world and they will eventually need to make even more gigantic profits to repay that cash. And the only one that is currently making money from AI seems to be NVIDIA, by selling the hardware that powers the AI giants.

  I’m not saying that it IS all a bubble, by the way, as I can’t read the future and these gigantic profits might well materialize in the future. I’m just saying that “bubble” and “useless” are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft could write an AI agent to filter threads based on context you don’t like. Come to think of it, Megagenius Elon Musk already has one he wrote to censor anti-Israel posts on Trump’s Truth Social. There, I think I got them all… Happy holidays!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert at all, but I think to an extent this already happens with the current system in most countries, and it would probably need to be done much more now. Not that Automation pays more taxes, but that having employees generally qualifies companies for tax breaks. For instance, when Amazon said “we’re going to open a new HQ”, States tripped over themselves to try and give them the largest tax breaks. But that was under the assumption that the HQ would give jobs to tens of thousand of people, not to 5 data scientist and a massive, energy-hungry data center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yes, you CAN run Doom on it. But turns out it’s not a great idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ***k

  Hey, how do you know my password?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it did. Making up variation of the same story in order to farm upvotes used to be done by humans.

  But the strategy of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks has now been industrialized with AI, because the machine can produce tons of cheaper, faster, smellier shit.

  Socials are basically the perfect application for AI. Unreliable results are not a bug but a feature. You have humans helpfully training it for free by up or downvoting the result. And the AI companies get a machine trained to persuade large groups of people of any made-up story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how there are all these terms with increasingly loose definitions, to which we attach different levels of evilness:

  • algorithm - older, more reliable, mostly deterministic except when it’s “The Algorithm” in capital letters like “The Social Media Algorithm”, then it becomes evil
  • machine learning - been out for decades, hasn’t destroyed the world, mostly does its job undetected. Mostly used only by technical people
  • machine intelligence - The machine is starting to become conscious but it is still mostly helpful. “Machine intelligence” does brain surgery, folds and unfolds proteins whatever that means (but it sounds like a good thing, so we’ll give it a pass)
  • artificial intelligence - machine intelligence’s evil twin. Takes credit for everything good that comes from the other ones and we tend to believe it, because it’s the only one we can actually speak to and can lie to us very convincingly. On its own it can draw pretty pictures and animate them, write code that occasionally works, pretend to love us and teach us the most effective way to slash our own wrists
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One day we’ll read some of these comments and laugh at how shortsighted they were.

  Of course we’ll probably have to read them on a manuscript or smeared on a wall with feces because all the world’s resources will be used to power the huge datacenter that powers our AI overlords

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m not a Nazi, I just like the esthetics of blood on a black uniform”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like “you have to buy a new laptop to install it and help train our AI on all you documents” is somehow not convincing enough. Maybe if they also removed local accounts and forced you to have an online MS account? Nah scratch that, it would be stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI goes haywire and starts actually giving reliable information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but can YOU do it before I finish my coffee?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI likes to finish on his face and some went in his eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I track the location of hundreds maybe thousands of phones every day for minutes at the time. I see people using them while I commute. Where can I collect my fee from the US government for my services?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Not with that attitude, you can’t!” -Lego

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more that each person will have a moment in their life when they are at their gayest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  or CEOs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might not be the biggest risk to your life but it’s 2.3% out of 55 Millions death (so, just to put things into perspective, we’re talking 1.6M deaths per year).

  Besides, the risk is not only death directly in an accident. For those 33% who died from heart diseases: stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the paper does mention specifically work stress as a risk factor

  The risk of a cardiovascular event was higher in patients with a history of social isolation (OR, 2.47), marital stress (OR, 2.28), work stress (OR, 3.2), childhood abuse (OR, 2.78), or trauma (OR, 2.67).

  Again not all of it will be due to commuting to work, but raising your stress levels by having you commute needlessly in traffic is not good for your health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A grand transformation into AI is the only way out of growth declines resulting from a population shock,” the ministry said in a statement, referring to South Korea’s record low birthrate.

  The funny bit is how “AI companions” are one of the most profitable uses of AI so far . See how THAT increases a country’s birthrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PDF] Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Analysis-Paralysis. Why should they spend all their time counting past crashes when they are busy increasing the production of new ones?

  /s