WanderingThoughts
@WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
- Comment on Dutch chips star exec slams EU for overregulating AI 1 day 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 1 day ago:
Spam and astroturfing mostly.
- Comment on Careful folks 4 days 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. 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days ago:
+20 strength
+10 intelligence
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- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 6 days 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.? 6 days 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.
- Comment on Hydrogen's Big Year Continues With New California H2 Transit Project 1 week ago:
It’s typical to see the proposals devolve.
Fully green hydrogen!
Yeah, bit expensive to build now. What if we first do half green and the rest from fossil fuels.
So we ran the budget again. We were thinking just a quarter green.
Well, infrastructure doesn’t quite support this, so you know what? Gas with hydrogen added!
Is this a good time to tell we settled on natural gas with a homeopathic amount of green hydrogen?
- Comment on YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot and to "protect the community". Yet Google has bots crawling all over for their AI. 1 week ago:
As soon as it’s an individual’s, it’s fair game it seems.
mechanical voice
You are a tier 3 citizen. These rights and privileges do not apply to you. Please disperse. You have twenty seconds to comply.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
If they’re not wealthy it’s usually individuals that are in some way special and exceptional because they have a power by birth, accident or because of a rare doohickey.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well no, you can buy flying cars, certified and everything. They’re just not as great or as cheap as you hope they would be. Pal-V is a car that transforms into a gyro copter, still needs a runway, and goes for somewhere between 400k and 600k.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 1 week ago:
I think of it as the Juicero era. Everything needs to be a subscription, with an app, selling your data and is barely functional. And in a society where the basics are getting more difficult. It’s like selling more convenience to people in the upper floors of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, while many people struggle to just get housing, heating, food and health.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
Youtube doesn’t have the best history for this. One channel makes stop motion animations and showcases Transformers. It got marked as a children’s channel. The channel went on to showcase Transformers doing lewd acts.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
I think it’s weird people would want that USA stable coin. It’s a government controled coin linked to a central bank controlled currency for crypto currency where one of the big arguments for using it is being free of government controlled currencies and central banks. But I guess many like to pay tribute to the new overlord.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 1 week ago:
The market can stay irrational with various crypto currencies longer than you can stay solvent, so you fight irrationality with your own brand of irrationality.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 1 week ago:
People kept stealing the toilet paper rolls. Poor elderly are notorious for this from what I heard
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
But now every client thinks 3D drawings are the ultimate interface. In reality it just takes up screen real estate and drives up costs. Especially fun when they want something changed and get a pretty large bill.
- Comment on Come back to this post in 2030's 2 weeks ago:
Western Europe. Places stopped having any freezing in winter. It just turned into one long autumn.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Would’ve been enlightening if Cap asked a few normal Germans along the way how the whole Nazi regime came to be instead of just pummeling people.-
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
What I see from farmers and the current usa president in my feed, that part was actually damn close to the truth.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
Because what kids watch will influence their sense of morality
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Also saying you need to be a rich prick to get anything done
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Disney kids movies aren’t about super heroes usually. But even Lion King is how you can’t escape adult responsibilities and have to continue the cycle.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Superheros also just preach that you have to maintain the status quo, never tackle the root of the problem, just violently attack the symptoms and that only a small few special people can save you, so everybody else just has to get out of the way and cheer.
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 2 weeks ago:
Everything the current and future governments can use against you, legal or not.
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
The profile picture:
- Comment on And now it's not even working properly 2 weeks ago:
Wear polarizing sunglasses and now only you can see the screen. Hardware based incognito mode.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
You can’t do a large rollout of these things within the current regulations. They’re simply not made to accomodate all that traffic. Creating the regulations and systems around it will take a long time so best to start early.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 3 weeks ago:
You need a fully automated and certified air traffic control first. That’s only been discussed for a free decades now so any time now it’ll arrive. Nah, nobody wants to put in any funding or take on the liability.
