chaosCruiser

@chaosCruiser@futurology.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is an AI winter coming? Diminishing returns and scaling limit fears freeze AGI hopes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s going down.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tests wooden data centers in a bid to cut carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What they really care about is investors, some of which happen to care about ESG. The E stands for environment, so this way Microsoft can write many pages of greenwashing nonsense on their ESG report in order to attract investors without actually hurting their bottom line that much. Microsoft looks green, investors are happy, it’s a win-win… Oh but the energy consumption is still through the roof, but we don’t talk about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How X users earn thousands from US election misinformation and AI images⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, let’s add some financial motivation to hanging out in social media all day long. What could go wrong. Literally nothing. It’s just physically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, basically the whole article is just a complete nothign-burger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker shows how a cigarette lighter can grant you root access⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is impressive. However, if you have physical access to the RAM, you can probably also just pop in a live USB, chroot into the system and do whatever you want. Regardless, this injection was interesting and impressive. Hats off to a clever hacker like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true for consumer electronics. However, more expensive things like cars are usually kept running for much longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They can also leverage the ecosystem effect. If it’s well integrated with some enterprise products, companies might buy it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solid-state batteries could power the next generation of wearable tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that Samsung is doing it, you can expect the production to ramp up significantly. Hopefully this is going to be like time when Sony started manufacturing LIBs at large scale and changed to world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs Less? When That Happened?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking is copying, soon after the iMac became popular, everyone was making iThis and iThat products. That was just hilarious!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs Less? When That Happened?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple was in serious financial trouble, and pivoted to manufacturing premium products instead. Apparently this shift in strategy worked, since the company is still here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just realized, there’s also another benefit. You could bring multiple batteries to a trip and not worry about charging. You know, the way you have always done with DSLR cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about 80-130 € depending on phone model, and that includes work and the battery. If I could just buy a battery online and replace it myself, the prices should be more reasonable. Apparently one day that will actually happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European iPhones are more fun now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the moment replacing the battery is pretty much out of the question, so I prefer to optimize my charging patterns so I never ever have to get the battery replaced. However, if replacing it was a realistic possibility I might abuse the battery much more. I might even leave my devices plugged in overnight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook: “Hold my beer. I’ll show you who’s the real cancer of the internet.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I assume that it resulted in lots of mayhem and destruction.

  Anyway, goes to show that even my most original ideas have already been done. Usually several decades before I was born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Office apps aren’t really designed for the things people use them for. You shouldn’t write a book using Word, nor should you do complicated calculations in Excel. Regardless, those things actually happen in real life, and the people involved in these atrocities suffer because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By default, you assume that the people around you are at least capable of caring what you have to say. I wonder what would happen if you took that assumption away.

  Let’s say the latest flu virus has a side effect where it disables that feature from a significant number of the affected individuals. Suddenly millions of people are literally unable to actually care about other people. That would make casual conversations a bit of a gamble because you can’t really be sure whether you’re talking to a normal person or not. Maybe people wouldn’t want to take that gamble at all. What if that would force social norms to change and human interactions would o longer come with this assumption pre-installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might also help if the LLM remembered what you discussed earlier.

  However, you’ve also touched upon an interesting topic. When you’re talking to another human, you can’t really be sure how much they really care. If you know the person well, then you can usually tell, but if it’s someone you just met, it’s much harder. Who knows, you could be talking to a psychopath who is just looking for creative ways to exploit you. Maybe that person is completely void of actual empathy, but manages to put on a very convincing facade regardless. You won’t know for sure until you feel a dagger between your ribs, so to speak.

  With modern LLMs, you can see through the smoke and mirrors pretty quickly, but with some humans it can take a few months until they involuntarily expose themselves. When LLMs get more advanced they should be about as convincing as a human suffering from psychopathy or some similar condition.

  What a human or an LLM actually knows about your topic of interest is not that important. What counts, is the ability to display emotion. It doesn’t matter whether that emotion is genuine or not. Your perception of it does.