WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Fever dream phone. Also, no apps. 1 hour ago:
A browser with added data collection.
- Comment on Fever dream phone. Also, no apps. 1 hour ago:
It doesn’t have to be that style. That launcher is so flexible, you can customize your phone like crazy. Apple’s glass look, windows phone look, … But that’s me. People don’t touch my phone because they can’t operate it anymore.
- Comment on Same... 9 hours ago:
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 2 days ago:
Reticulating Splines
- Comment on it 🆗 3 days ago:
Then you get the witching hour, when she’s asleep, relaxes, and all those farts escape.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 4 days ago:
Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society.
It’s just very difficult to think outside of society , to think of a working society without the organizing power of money and labor. And even more difficult to think about the path to get there.
- Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam 5 days ago:
And all it took was one mail address being blocked at the ICC in the Netherlands to kick them into action. Before that, the problem was mostly theoretical.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 6 days ago:
I’m more afraid of the AI propped stock market collapsing and sending us in a decade of financial ruin for the majority of people. Yeah, they’ll do bailouts but that won’t go to the bottom 80%. Most people will welcome an AGI for president at this stage.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A great time for those that didn’t replace their people with AI to take some market share.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 week ago:
Parameters are even more. A quick search tells me:
ChatGPT-4 is estimated to have roughly 1.8 trillion parameters
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 1 week ago:
Hundred billion circles should be close enough
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
like pervasive distrust of Jews
Historically that’s a manufactured thing. Christians were not allowed usury, charging interest on loans. Jews didn’t have that limitation. One solution they came up with was barring Jews from doing other jobs and forcing them into the money lender role, with the Christian landlord asking for their cut in fees. That gave Jews a reputation for being distrustful greedy bankers.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 1 week ago:
Maybe. But I always loved this scene from Young Indiana Jones.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Corporate undercuts co-ops making a loss until the co-ops die, then increase the price to make it all back. They’re predatory like that when not stopped by local laws.
- Comment on Taxes and nature 1 week ago:
Or worse, he gave them really generous IOUs, collectible the week after the flood was expected.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Mostly as in 51%. Yeah, about half is AI.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
That sure sounds like “to save the economy, we need to destroy the economy”.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
The amounts going around now are getting too big for a government to cover. Instead of too big to fail, they’re now too big to bail.
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 2 weeks ago:
And what is completely normal and legal today can be criminal tomorrow, so no need to worry for all kinds of companies and instututions hovering up everybody’s private data.
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 2 weeks ago:
2 microseconds later…
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
That’s been going on for a lot longer. We’ve replaced systems running on a single computer less powerfull than my phone but that could switch screens in the blink of an eye and update its information several times per second with the new systems running on several servers with all the latest gadgets, but taking ten seconds to switch screens and updates information every second at best. Yeah, those layers of abstraction start adding up over the years.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
That’s “disrupting the industry” or “revolutionizing the way we do things” these days. The “move fast and break things” slogan has too much of a stink to it now.
- Comment on Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI 3 weeks ago:
And the bottom 90% of the population wants more regulation for the same reason: more money for them.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
Spam and astroturfing mostly.
- Comment on Careful folks 3 weeks ago:
These signs float. We found that out when the leak was a bit bigger than expected.
- Comment on Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT. 3 weeks ago:
These days they call it “disrupting the market”. Same thing really.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to the AI bubble. It’s going to be a wild ride possibly taking other sectors if not a country or two with it when it falls from grace.
- Comment on Cast your spell on me 3 weeks ago:
+20 strength
+10 intelligence
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debuff activates in 01:59:59
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 3 weeks ago:
If you’re curious for the price of data: (source)[muvemm.com/…/how-much-does-it-cost-to-buy-consume…]
Basic Consumer Data Lists: £40 to £120 per 1,000 records.
Verified Consumer Data Lists: £120 to £240 per 1,000 records.
Highly Targeted Consumer Lists: £240 to £400+ per 1,000 records.
It’s about that order of magnitude.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 3 weeks ago:
Because an AI doesn’t have legal standing. It can’t own a company, close contracts, get loans, hire people nor can it sue others. It can at best act as a representative of a real CEO. There’s still a human signing on the dotted line
It also doesn’t come with daddies money and contacts to set up a startup and call investors.
