Live in slavery and be happy? Hold a sign no one reads? Own nothing? Feel no peace, have no medicine?

I don't condone it, but I understand it.

I believe there's still the possibility for us to fix things in peace, but I can see why others don't.

The whole point is that the users can have it doing shit for them instead of them having to babysit the computer.

The fact that users still have to sit there and argue with it erodes their value proposition. The proposition you can pay fewer salaries.

Would it be immoral to interfere, or would it be more immoral not to interfere and to let that situation continue?

There is an argument to be made either way.

I miss when the web looked like this, and pages were documents instead of applications.

We built the wrong web, we needed two, one for documents, and one for applications, but we built this rube goldberg contraption instead.

They're both beautiful in their own way, the darkness and glow in the hardware versions, some certain pixellated charm and roughness in the software version

I'll take my information from a neutral third party, thanks.

The free version has the character drink "apocalyptically strong coffee" to cope with the orientation process.

In the print version, it's just strong coffee. The original literary vibe was incredible.

All of it is free here: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

Kids can turn apple juice into wine in their closet

they can drive their bicycle to a drug dealer

they can rub a butter knife against the sidewalk until it's pointy

Do we need govt AI cameras in kids closets and on their bicycles? How do we verify they're cycling somewhere safe? How do we make sure they're not getting shitfaced on bootleg hooch they made with bakers yeast and a latex glove?

i.e. they shifted the cost of training from the employer to the employee.

What makes you think that will suddenly reverse course, or that society will suddenly start to care?

People want the cheapest, fastest shit possible. Companies too, generally.

I can only work so many hours in a day on a contract, but with a product, I can work 3 hours and sell it 200 times, or license it and make money forever.

My customers have said to me point blank "I hate SaaS" and paid me anyway. They've said everything is "so easy with GPT and all now", and paid me anyway.

I think I have a chance.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong and my AI-using competitors will eat my lunch.

Or maybe, I'll drown them and Claude in complexity and attention-to-detail.

We'll see.

They'll never be able to explain what they want to the AI, and even if they could, it couldn't solve the problem anyway.

Nevertheless I'm not going to be contracting much longer, I'm writing software by hand to compete with the garbage shat out of Claude's VibeCloaca. I already have customers, I just need to ... tune a few things before I scale, so that I don't have any customer support problems at scale. :)

*Nvidia is no longer a primarily consumer company, so all the other GPU stuff is no counterpoint

"We both want a docile American public who go along with our desires so we can achieve goals that may be contrary to the interests of the American public."

More of us should learn to do things the hard way more often, and to be familiar with less-convenient things. There are life-changing advantages to doing things the hard way at least some of the time.

The tools will be used however the government wants them to be used. The government makes the laws and wages the wars, and the corporation will follow the law whether it wants to or not.

So either you are willing to work on a tool that is not under your control, or you are not.

Also, if AI exists, AI will be used for war. The AI company employees are kidding themselves if they think otherwise, and yet they are still building it (as opposed to resigning and working on something else), because in the end, money is the only true God in this world.

There's a problem here, right? Who else might want to flag you and lock you out of shit? Is this the new normal?

Will they flag Republicans / Democrats / Catholics / Buddhists / People Of Any Particular Skintone / People with Blue Shoes Who Are Exactly 5'9 / ????

The corporations are out of control. We should bring them to heel.

We should also resist and refuse to comply with these totally arbitrary requests we don't have to comply with.