bigbangdangler

Weird: didn’t see a point mentioned in your post. Maybe you should be explicit about it? It’s exceedingly hard to read minds on the internet.

I think that’s one of the things: it’s hard enough to convince people to use Signal. It’s probably not the best choice, but I can get (some) people to use it.

Home and Pro are by far the most common versions of Windows. Isn’t the position that “Enterprise and Server are fine” just whataboutism?

Self driving cars are only looking good because mass transit is not getting US investment. They have a ton of issues mass transit wouldn’t have. Isn’t that also just whataboutism?

Consider too that you generally need to push beyond an acceptable result towards a greater goal to make it happen. That’s one reason why I like Linux and trains. Aiming for status quo yields less than the status quo if another side is pulling further.

Sausages?

Just throwing out that they wanted $30b and got $11b: those are b’s, not m’s. It’s shocking to think that $11b would not be enough to keep a company like OpenAI running.

A lot of what we’re seeing is tacit leveling of absolutely insane numbers. OpenAI has doubtless a lot more wiggle room than they’ll tell investors, and that’s from someone who really wants this bubble to burst.

That said, if investors stop investing en masse, that’s pretty much the burst. The product has literally never made money. There’s a reason why Altman is desparate to control narrative, because it really is as fragile as “when the rich stop giving us money, there is nothing left”. He needs to convince people to continue to take the risk.

Thanks, need to look into this.

Alternative messengers which are privacy focused or friendly?

I noticed you didn’t list any.

Makes sense.

Voting people out: there’s probably a reason you aren’t voting for them, based on what they’ve done in office.

Voting people in: they have yet to prove they’ll do what they say.

Only one of them is actually based on what the candidate has done in an official capacity, so the stakes are higher.

How would one even measure this quantitatively?

Empty words from a man who doesn’t even seem to understand his own product.

This is letting perfection be the enemy of progress. Lots of complaints, but what realistic alternative is there?

Which media? I’ve never seen it off of Lemmy.

It’s truly a puzzler. Almost like the media is bought and sold by the rich. But that can’t be it. Right? Right?!

And they’ll get them. Because that’s cruelest towards the people.

Cool.

Not supporting your company anymore though.

It is crazy how TNG feels much more recent.

Somewhat related, it’s also crazy that Rosalind Chao (Keiko O’Brien on TNG) played Soon-Lee on MASH (the woman who marries Klinger). MASH and TNG feel absolutely eons apart, but in real life they were within ≈4 years of each other.

“And don’t make any mistakes.”

RIP. What a legend.

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An optimist might call these kinds of “psychopatriarchal” responses a death roll, for the toxic portion of the population which finally feels challenged for their position. Then again, I long ago stopped being an optimist.

These AI companies pushing the sentience angle are not doing so by accident.

The concept of sentient AI is something people have been conditioned for for years, through popular media. It’s publicity that cannot be bought, whether it’s true or not. Users believing it probably drives engagement.

They’ll mention it every time, because it makes headlines.