willington
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- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 day ago:
“We will build one concentration camp less than the Republicans!”
Signed, Democrats.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 5 days ago:
Elon turned Grok into Mecha-Hitler.
Trump is telling the Smithsonian museum to ignore slavery, or to cover slavery as a positive.
The domestic appetite for propaganda is huge. Pragar U is American.
Let’s not center foreign countries when we have so much work to do at home.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 5 days ago:
How indeed. It’s probably a multi-factor phenomenon which requires an anthropological study for a serious answer. (Good luck trying to get the necessary access to study them.) My guess for one factor in this, is that they have more money than they know what to do with.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 6 days ago:
As an assist to an actual oncologist, only.
I can see AI as a tool in some contexts, doing some specific tasks better than an unassisted person.
But as a replacement for people, AI is a dud. I would rather be alone than have a gf AI. And yes I am taking trauma and personal+cultural baggage into account. LLM is also a product of our culture for the most part, so will have our baggage anyway. But at least in principle it could be trained to not have certain kinds of baggage, and still, I would rather deal with a person save for the simplest and lowest stake interactions.
If we want better people, we need to enfranchise them and remove most paywalls from the world. Right now the world instead of being inviting is bristling with physical, cultural, and virtual fences, saying to us, “you don’t belong and aren’t welcome in 99.99% of the space, and the other 0.01% will cost you.” Housing for now is only a privelege. In a world like that it’s a miracle the people are as decent as they are. If we want better people we have to delibarately, on purpose, choose broadbased human flourishing as a policy objective, and be ruthless to any enemies of said objective. No amnesty for the billionaires and wannabe billionaires. Instead they are trying to shove down our throats AI/LLMs and virtual worlds as replacements for an actually decent and inviting world.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 1 week ago:
A narrow purpose AI trained to recognize tumor growths early is the kind of AI that makes sense to me.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 1 week ago:
The “owners” of our world want us to be passengers, not drivers. They own the carusel, and we rent our rides.
They say we have no skin in the game. Truth is, SKIN is ALL we have in this game. We must have assets in the game as a birthright to make it worth playing in good faith. If most are landless and assetless, sorry, the game sucks. That means untill we get the rules that protect all of our interests, as opposed to protecting massive wealth accumulations at everyone’s expense, we will ignore the rules, the norms, decorum, civility, etc.
If the hoarders break the social contract repeatedly, like they have since 2008, it takes people some time to internalize and digest the fact of what it means for none of us being bound by a social contract. Once people catch on, there will be hell to pay.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
Of course the power dynamics cannot ever be eliminated (either by breeding or enculturation) from the interpersonal relationships.
Instead, power can be regulated and managed, to maximize distributed decisionmaking, and to protect those decisionmakers who could not or would not protect themselves.
In a free for all, feudalism will always result. The strong and the willing will rule over the weak and the unwilling.
There have to be limits to the power dynamics. Those limits will have to be enforced to protect the vulnerable, the gullible, and the unwilling (those who have the capability to exercise power, but refuse by choice), etc. This requires advanced democratic governance with a very strong government.
Doing away with the government is just a speedrun toward technofeudalism.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 week ago:
When democratic gornance withers what fills the power vacuum is feudalism.
Technofeudalism is feudalism with computers.
Ironically, to create a space that selects for and protects distributed decisionmaking (the desire of most sane anachists), you need a strong government!
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
My use case for AI is to get it to tell me water to cereal ratios, like for rice, oatmal, corn meal. If there is a mistake, I can easily control for it, and it’s a decent enough starting point.
That said, I am just being lazy by avoiding taking my own notes. I can easily make my own list of water to cereal ratios to hang on the fridge.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 1 week ago:
I was fine before the AI.
The biggest customer of AI are the billionaires who can’t hire enough people for their technofeudalist/surveillance capitalism agenda. The billionaires (wannabe aristocrats) know that machines have no morals, no bottom lines, no scrupples, don’t leak info to the press, don’t complain, don’t demand to take time off or to work from home, etc.
AI makes the perfect fascist.
They sell AI like it’s a benefit to us all, but it ain’t that. It’s a benefit to the billionaires who think they own our world.
Fuck AI.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 2 weeks ago:
Try asking AI for a complete list of the recently deseased CEOs and billionaires based on the publicly available search results.
When I tried, I got only the natural deaths of just some of the publicly available results. All the other deaths were ommitted. I braught up the ommited names, one by one. The AI said it was sorry for the ommission, and it had all the right details of their passings. With each new name the AI said it was sorry, it ommitted it by accident. I said no, once is an accident, but this was a deliberate pattern. The AI waffled and talked like a politician.
The AI in my experience is absolutely controlled on a number of topics. It’s still useful for cooking recipies and such. I will not trust it on any topic that is sensitive to its owners.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 5 weeks ago:
Tecnowashing is also fraud.
Take a failed concept like the gold standard, technowash it, and you get crypto scamcoins.
Greenwashing, sportswashing (saudi arabia), sanewashing (presenting insane ideas as debatable ideas, like debating human rights), small business washing (using ostensibly a pro small business argument to push a fortune 100 agenda), worker washing (treat workers like shit in private but make pro worker noises in public). Now we can add tecnowashing to the list.
Another example of technowashing is when a real estate company presents itself as a tech startup to inflate its valuation.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 5 weeks ago:
I use IronFox all the time. For me almost nothing is broken.
Once a year I find one low value site that I have to load in Cromite to see what it is, and then I never use that trash site again.
In other words, IronFox fulfills 100% of all my browsing needs excellently.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
New people enter the market all the time.
That update is for those that don’t already have a Fairphone, presumably.
That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
Consumer activism, by itself, has rarely, if ever, accomplished anything.
The best recent examble was Tesla, but that wasn’t a mere non-buying action. Tesla action involved vadalism and a massive word of mouth campaign.
Basically if we want to fight for a future we believe in, we must stop playing patty cakes and fight like it’s a life and death struggle.
Symbolic resistance is not enough.
- Comment on Palantir hits new highs amid Israel-Iran conflict 2 months ago:
I think both peace and war are profitable. But those that profit from war may be more pushy than those that profit from peace, and so may get their way even as an unpopular minority .
Unless, the left (usually more pro peace) learns a few lessons from the right and places good outcomes above the holier than thou moral purity. “I’ve never made anyone uncomfortable” is not the merit badge that some think it is.
Of course the left can never be a mirror copy of the right because the left cannot afford to give as few fucks about anything as the right (who represent the already-haves economic incumbents; it’s not called the “fuck you money” for nothing). But the left can be way tougher and nuncedly uncompromising and even calculatingly and carefully millitant.
Might does not make right but might DOES make POLICY.
You need both right and might to live under a good policy.
Lotta good it does anyone to be right and insightful on all the issues and have zero impact anywhere.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 2 months ago:
Quote from the video, “You can smell it as well.” Refering to the turbine opetation.
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 3 months ago:
Crypto is a solution looking for a problem.
The people behind crypto never studied the history of the gold standard.
Crypto is a ponzi scheme virtual asset, not a currency.