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  • Yeah, it’s not that people don’t like the lemmy.ml users, or even really their mods…

    It’s (at least one of) the admins.

    If they see something they don’t like on their server, they delete it and give a very very short ban. Because they don’t want those people gone. They want them enraged and chomping at the bit to come back.

    It’s ran like a troll instance, and it’s not alone.

    The only time they permanently ban someone, is when they see someone in a neutral place they can’t control talking about it. Advocate for people blocking them, and they don’t want anyone signed up to their instance seeing your comments



  • If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

    I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

    Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

    But if it works…

    Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.




  • Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

    No, it wouldn’t.

    I think search engines didn’t work with it;

    No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

    Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

    So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

    But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea


  • If it pops it takes the whole stock market with it and no one is retiring, probably ever again. Same with home ownership, it will exacerbate every problem we’re currently facing.

    But if it actually works…

    Corporations will fire virtually all their employees, what few jobs remain will see their wages crumble because there’s so much compeyfor such few jobs. Just instead of all of us being fucked, only 99.9999999999% of us will be fucked and a very few people will have successfully hoarded the wealth of an entire planet.

    What else are we going to do? Stop spending hundreds of billions a year on a pipedream?

    Then what? Spend it on education, housing, Medicare, and a functional society where everyone fundamentally has enough to lose that crime basically elimates itself?

    Ironically enough it all comes down to the message from that Movie where Ferris Beuller played an AI at video games:

    A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY



  • You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

    There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

    To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

    Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

    https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

    Very few of those green states are for electricity

    And if you just meant:

    Non profit = good

    Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

    And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest




  • Good luck…

    Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

    There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

    The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

    Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.




  • Still not a “big” one…

    I think it was late 1800s America got hit by one that allowed unpowered telegrams to be sent nationwide for like, a while. If we got one that strong in the modern era, it would blow every single electric transformer on that entire hemisphere. Not just hit the safety and cut out, like actually explode and be permanently destroyed.

    Those things are already difficult to produce for multiple reasons, and losing them on that scale would take over a decade to recover. And it would obviously happen in the wealthiest places first, and global demand would mean other places can’t afford to replace any from normal breakage, along with driving up the price of a lot of materials used for other electronics.

    We won’t see it coming either. Like, the article says we’re predicting more the next few days, but that’s because these are always happening, and when there’s one big one, there’s likely to be other big ones.

    It’s one of those things you can’t unlearn once you realize we’re at a constant risk of something that would basically ruin society. At least it’s a coin flip if it hits anywhere specific when it happens. Because eventually it will happen