WanderingThoughts
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- Comment on We can play that game too 2 days ago:
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
That’s the neat part. They do try, repeatedly, and it always fails. A classic one is Grafton. It’s also known as A Libertarian Walks into a Bear because their little paradise got overrun by aggressive bears. Lack of public services will do that.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 5 days ago:
A lot of what happens in business is performance theater, not actually being productive. It’s one of the reasons bosses like AI do much, because if gives a magnificent impression of doing lots of work, even if in some cases you have to hire more people to correct that slop afterwards.
It’s the same for going back to the office. They want to see the worker show being performed in the building even though working from home is usually more productive.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 5 days ago:
Yes. They’re busy buying everything already. They just need a financial crisis to get the rest for pennies on the dollar. After that it’s time for neo-feudalism.
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 5 days ago:
and I owned nothing
Companies love that, until everybody is completely in debt and they learn you can’t seize property from people that don’t own anything.
- Comment on South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 1 week ago:
“Hacked” is a bit much. It’s probably like the cameras on insecam.org, cameras plugged into that internet with no password or still on factory default like admin, 0000, 12345 and the like. That’s the security level of hanging a “keep out” sign on your bedroom door.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
It might make players demand lower prices if some cheap AI slop is used in the game. That’s the thing publishers want to avoid. They want to sell cheap slop for full price and pocket the difference. That’s what it’s about in the end.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 1 week ago:
Like is often said, for many it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
That reminds me how McDonald’s and other gaat food chains are struggling. People figure it’s too expensive for what you get after prices going up and quality going down for years. They forgot that people buy if the price and quality are good. Same with AI. It’s all fun if it’s free or dirt cheap, but people don’t buy expensive slop.
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
Japan has a habit of doing this. The birth rate cratered, productivity is not that great and economic growth is famously low. Most workers do a form of performance theater, an actual “we pretend to work”.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 1 week ago:
Tuned for optimal exploitation.
- Comment on We've done it, boys 1 week ago:
It all turned to shit.
- Comment on "Jurassic" Park 1 week ago:
And most likely it’s because of that movie that regular people know a Cretaceous even existed and what animals where there. It did kick the field and public interest into high gear.
- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 1 week ago:
private consultancy
Yeah, there’s your answer.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 1 week ago:
Their whole shtick is to bullshit and confidence game their way through their career. Of course they’re going to be impressed by the rock solid bs and confidence of AI.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 1 week ago:
Its the Carey Return, New Year marking the end of this year.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s why they add gambling mechanics in games. That way many can not stop playing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Usually by irritating the magic incantation: “This time it’s different!”
Of course it’s not. The same human motivations are in play that also caused the same problems over the last few millennia, just with different names attached to it.
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
The training data for a lot of robots comes from tele operation so that form factor is going to stay important for some time. And making the whole plant basically wheelchair accessible isn’t worth it for now. There are variants with a wheeled base but once you add in some balancing for heavier objects and kneeling to pick stuff up it’s not much cheaper.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty common for animals in the meat industry. A broiler chicken goes from hatching to supermarket in 6 weeks. That’s what’s being called efficiency these days.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My neighbor tried to raise some turkeys for Christmas. Those were bred to grow really quickly but his timing was off. They have to be slaughtered within a small window before they get too fat and their hearts give out. He had to do an early Christmas.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
So, it’s a DAI requirement
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
There was a clip recently from a former silicon valley worker, saying that AI was everywhere, the talking point of every part, and basically the god they all worship. They can’t understand other people not wanting this.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
Except they see stockholders and investors as their real customers, and us as the plebeians they can dump their stuff on and be grateful for the experience. That’s what you get when speculative future value is the only thing that counts.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He probably means for anyone with at least 100 million in wealth. Everyone else just doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 2 weeks ago:
They’ve learned they can get away with it.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 2 weeks ago:
“No bail-out, no economy” basically.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 3 weeks ago:
Using a different way of measuring. Using the same way, USA is 1 out of 5.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 3 weeks ago:
It’ll end with 9 out of 10 packages returned and a lot of companies complaining about that.
- Comment on Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now 3 weeks ago:
And that’s how you make sure these kids will never want to have kids of their own.
