That lines up well with all statistics I have read on that topic.

but if that’s how it’s gotta be, how do you successfully communicate that you are not a threat?

That’s what a predator would say.

No, seriously, trust is built over time.

Thanks!

Four sentence horror

The fundamental difference is the direction of the redistribution.

The capitalist system inherently distributes from poor to rich. With no state involved, a capitalist system strictly and always devolves into one person (or a very small group) owning everything and everyone else being owned by them. That’s why we have states that do have redistribution systems that try to counteract that: We have progressive tax systems that tax the rich more than the poor to fund free (or at least subsidized) public good systems.

To get back to your example: The rich don’t need free schools. Even without free public education, they would still be able to afford to send their kids to expensive private schools. A free school program is there to mostly benefit the poor.

Redistribution systems that redistribute from poor to rich on the other hand are inherently broken. The base economic system already does that redistribution from poor to rich, so allowing the rich to mooch even more off the system is not a good idea.

Ok, so you are advocating for mass murder, is that right?

1. If vanilla ice takes 6 notes from the base line from a queen song it’s theft and costs $4mio. If AI copies whole chapters of books it’s all fine.
2. No. PEBKAC is if it affects one person, or maybe a handful of people. If it affects whole sections of the population it’s systematic. It’s like saying “poverty is an user error because everyone could just choose to be rich”.

I really don’t get why “fairytale” is supposed to mean anything positive.

Fairytales are almost exclusively horror stories.

I wonder if it really didn’t work. Without all the shitstorm, nobody would have noticed or cared about the movie.

I’m pretty sure a lot of the people who watched it did so to see what all the fuss was about.

It was still a major fail, but imagine how much of a fail it would have been without these viewers.

Turning off AI data centers will instantly save water and energy and reduce pollution.

But the “human counterparts” will still eat and shower if you fire them.

So unless you are planning to murder all the unemployed people, your argument makes no sense at all.

Tbh, he’s missing one of the most imporant groups of useless jobs: Work done in useless endeavors.

My work is not useless per se. I build programs that work, they do what they should. The quality of my work isn’t bad, so no issues there. But the whole product and in fact the whole department could just be cut without substitute and nobody would notice.

That’s been what I did in my last three jobs. In fact, the last two jobs I left had an active total team collapse happening when I left, and these teams were just cut without replacement after everyone left voluntarily.

Might want to get these checked out.

I read that in Senator Amidala’s voice.

He wields the machete, but he uses it to dig holes to sow seeds.

Haven’t updated your humor since 2008, have you?

Well, the answer to your curiosity is there. No need for further wondering, same as you don’t need to wonder wheter the sun will rise tomorrow. We know.

But you insist on wondering even though the knowledge is already there.

So why are you still claiming that it’s a “casual statement of curiosity about the future”, when the result is already there?

The terminology you use and the insistence of ignoring factual knowledge that we have claiming “you are just wondering” or “just curious” or “just asking questions” is identical to the tactics used by conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers.

If you are persistently acting like a conspiracy theorist and antivaxxer, why are you surprised you are treated like one?

That’s actually true. I read some research on that and your feeling is correct.

Can’t be bothered to google it right now.

That’s what happens if MBAs run the show.

Preheat to 60°C using waste server heat, then boil conventionally.

That’s outdated info. Yes, not a lot of scraping is really necessary for training. But LLMs are currently often coupled with web search to improve results.

So for example if you ask ChatGPT to find a specific product for you, the result doesn’t come from the model. Instead it does a web seach, then it loads the results, summarizes them and returns you the summary plus the links. This is a time-critical operation since the user is waiting for the results. It’s also a bad operation for the site being scraped in many situations (mostly when looking for info, not for products) since the user might be satisfied with the summary and won’t click the source.

So if you can delay scraping like that by a few seconds, that’s quite significant.