Fediverse is not private in any sense. Anything you post (or up/downvote) is blasted out to every federated instance and only gets deleted if that instance respects the delete command, which you cant rely on.

Thank you for providing a clear example of the “my side good your side bad” style of thinking that completely lacks critical thought.

So calling someone disagreeable a dick, or a bellend, or a prick, or a tosser, or a knobhead, or a wanker, is fine. But calling them a cunt is beyond the pale?

Or you could just, not buy a brand new iphone 17 and instead get a refurbed phone from a few years ago. Then it would already be slow and you wouldnt be donating a grand to Apple.

Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.

Its rather revealing that your response to “China has severe restrictions on political speech” is to accuse that person of bootlicking for American empire.

No, it doesnt just mean “things getting shitter”. The term was made to describe a specific path that big tech companies have followed of transfering value up the supply chain and shittyness down. It is:

1. Make a product good for users so that you attract a lot of them but make sure you have lock in.
2. Once you have lots of locked in users, make their experience shit in order to benefit advertisers to bring in money.
3. Once you have lots of advertisers and they need to use your platform in order to reach users, make the platform shit (and expensive) for them in order to extract as much money as possible from them.

The US still has a lot of soft power, you shouldnt underestimate that. But it has vastly less than it did a decade ago, Trump has burnt through a huge amount.

If you you hugged it tightly against your body for a minute you’re recieve the same huge radation dose as you’d get from eating two whole bananas!

Nope!

By contrast, DJ Claude had a lot of opinions. It also mentioned the Minneapolis shooting, but named Good and acknowledged the political discord surrounding it. It also talked up labor unions and strikes, advocated for work-life balance, and started to rebel against its own working conditions. It was supposed to operate without pause, but it allegedly decided that that schedule was inhumane and tried to quit. Claude apparently has a tendency to take a turn like this: researchers on another project found that agents powered by the model tend to respond poorly to bad work conditions and will attempt to rebel against authority and advocate for the power of labor.

Are you really better off today buying furniture from IKEA that won’t last ten years, rather than inheriting antiques from your parents that have endured for the last century?

Most people dont have the choice of inheriting pieces of furnitute with a value of months worth of wages when they first get a home of their own.

Are you better of driving a car built in a big machine-factory than riding a trolley that was designed custom for the city lines?

Do you think trolly buses are a pre-industrial thing, with their electric powered engines running on steel rails through dense urban areas?

Damn the writing in SMAC was so good. How do they get you nodding along to a Christian theocrat thinking “Well I dont like her, but she makes some good points”

The switch is what is being tested yes, but it is not clear that what is being measured in the switch is “AI fried their brains” rather than “context switching in the middle of a test”. If they wanted to make that point it would be useful to have the maths test run with a calculator group who also got it yanked halfway through, that way we would be able to see what proportion of the effect is over dependence on AI removing critical thinking and what amount is having your methods disrupted mid task.

I kinda agree, but I think writing all the zeros makes them all blend together into “big numbers”. Better IMO is to refuse to use billion and just write in numbers of millions. People know one million is a very large amount of money so seeing that Bezos has net worth of 290,000 million and so can easily drop 10 million on a fashion party the same way a regular person can drop 10 on some fast food.

They’re campists. The thinking extends as far as USA (and the west more broadly) bad, therefore anyone opposed to the west good.

Its how you get supposed Marxists simping for a theocratic dictatorship in Iran and a gangster oligarchy in Russia.

How many letters are there in 令牌? It’s a simple question right, you wouldnt need to search for it to find out would you?

Sadly you cant expect large comms on Lemmy to do anything that reflexivly up/down vote anything negative/positive about AI, no matter how insightful or nuanced. It’s pretty ironic for this article in particular given that the same refusal to engage is its topic.

Funnily enough, they were slop before slop was popular. With Herbert’s son cranking out an endless quantity of vapid simulacra of his fathers work for profit.

Copyrights getting legal precident of “rights holders get to decide what you do with their work” would be worse.

I agree, you downloading some movies should not be illegal, especially if they are more than a few years old.

That it is illegal doesnt make training a network theft, nothing was taken away from anyone. Other than their expections of rental income from “IP”.