iAvicenna
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 19 hours ago:
eh perhaps to collect usage data and somehow benefit from it.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 19 hours ago:
anyone who buys a mattress that can’t work without being connected to the internet deserves this
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 4 days ago:
I would normally be sympathetic to their stand except earlier this year when this first started, they called on Trump to use all available political leverages to prevent this and protect free speech. Calling on Trump to protect free speech is just absolutely ridiculous.
- Comment on I do it at least 35 times just in case 6 days ago:
“And the results held up to rigorous statistical evaluation even after other lifestyle factors and the frequency of PSA testing were taken into account.”
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 1 week ago:
“He told police at the tunnel and said in a later interview at Folkestone police station that his phone contained information about “vulnerable girls” whom he had spoken to during what he described as his journalistic reporting on grooming gangs.”
In US this generally ends with a republican having child porn in his phone.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 1 week ago:
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 weeks ago:
Probably her husband is a Nazi hired by ICE or sth like that
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
I think we are strongly geared towards survival with lots of cost cutting measures. Going with the option that best suits our mental state is probably a side effect of that.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
Yea agreed. When shitty science is given as a reference then it becomes much harder to critically judge something but at least it is not a huge amount of work to see that there is conflicting scientific data on a topic. It is a huge effort to try to gauge which one is more credible. And it does not even have to be agenda driven. It can just be bad science, science driven by strong priors. Then you really have to be an expert on the topic to be able to spot the weaknesses in thay study. Luckily however most outrageously stupid statements made by politicians don’t refer to science and are easy to pick apart by realizing the.blatant contradictions in their statements.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 weeks ago:
if you get too close, they will poke you with tiny bee spears too
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
the problem is that critical thinking should be a reflex and not a mental effort
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes it blows my mind how naive some people have to be to buy into this shit. Almost everyone who speaks of their war against their self described Antichrist is acting like one in major ways. This guy literally conflicts himself by the minute, first calls government control as antichrist and scapegoating as a very dangerous social dynamic and then signs surveillance deals with Trump so that he can blame the immigrants and poor people for USA’s problems. For fucks sake, you don’t even need the subtly misleading evil anymore, anything goes.
- Comment on oui oui 3 weeks ago:
plausible deniability: I was just cutting a baguette (to be read in French accent)
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 3 weeks ago:
Pumpkin Soupius
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 weeks ago:
you are beint generous. They are more like
“Under enlightened Trump’s benevolent leadership we have realized that environmental concerns, inclusivity, modern medicine and claims of political misinformation are all woke scams. Therefore effective immediately we are ditching all our efforts in these directions.”
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 4 weeks ago:
Say what you will at least China seems produce some much needed tech in exchange for selling their people to capitalism, the latter which almost all countries do but in exchange for funnelling the revenue 99.9 % to billionaires and/or war (pulled the stats out of my hass).
- Comment on This is art 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on This is art 4 weeks ago:
if this is a troll, then it definitely is a troll king
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 4 weeks ago:
prevalence of cancer has increased ∞% since 0 BC
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 weeks ago:
Well these kind of companies are great at finding loopholes. Not sharing data and not consulting using your overall understanding of the playing field is different. And in most cases the latter means “refined understanding of statistical analyses” which is what most other companies needing data will be interested in.
I do agree that their main business model is analysing data for clients but that does not mean that they can generate more revenue by other means. It seems like many big tech companies have a facade of a service that they provide but they have a lot of mechanisms behind the service that generates revenue for them. See Facebook, twitter etc whose data/platform has been used countless time to steer political decisions (unfortunately used mostly by right wing organizations).
most likely drive away a lot of their clients. You would think so but today there are still left leaning politicians, academicians etc using twitter, two years after extreme right wing fear and war mongering of Felon Musk. All Palantir needs to do is amass sensitive and critical data across many different fields and consult interested parties (without breaking any of the contracts so they are not liable). It will be ages before they will start losing enough clients that their main business model will become unprofitable. Anyway, by then they will likely have enough money/influence to hop anywhere they want.
I know this is all circumstantial so I will finish by adding one more circumstantial data. Look at the picture below and tell me Palantir will play fair with all the extremely sensitive knowledge it gains across defense, health, energy, transport etc
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 weeks ago:
So palantir analyses pretty sensitive data, for instance health data from NHS. They may not be able to share the data itself but are there any safeguards against them using the knowledge they gain from these analyses to consult health insurance companies for outrageous amounts of money so insurance companies can fuck people even more by grinding stats?
Same goes for them analysing surveillance data. Any safeguards against it actually consulting fascist political parties on results of these analyses so they can more efficiently carry out fear mongering?
- Comment on 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! 4 weeks ago:
Ah this reminds me of a right wing demonstration in Turkey infront of the Dutch Embassy because of something bad Mark Holland had said about Turkey.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 4 weeks ago:
Can’t believe Catholic church pope election results are the only ones getting progressively better in the last decade.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 4 weeks ago:
I have been telling since the start, Keir Starmer is a seat warmer for Nigel Farage.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
All this depends critically on one premise: that sometime in near future AI coders will become fully automated and produce senior level code. If not we are wholly fucked because currently they are employing less and less junior coders which means that we will be running very low on number of senior coders in a decade or so. If LLMs still need supervision by then there won’t be enough senior coders to do so.
- Comment on Is this a mushroom? 5 weeks ago:
nope gummies
- Comment on Point taken 5 weeks ago:
“I used to be a fascist like you till I took an arrow to the neck”
- Comment on 9 arrests for violent fascists attacking police - 900 for grannies and disabled people holding placards 5 weeks ago:
“carry out violent protests against immigrants”
“go queue at an indian stall after a hard day’s protest”
- Comment on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts 5 weeks ago:
lol that will be the least of your worries if you integrate anything Elon makes into my military systems
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 weeks ago:
if they stay long enough healthcare would inevitably go in that direction too. They have already signed a deal with Palantir to process NHS data.
