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New comment by ajam1507 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

ajam1507 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:42:19 +0000

> We don't even know what human consciousness is.

I think Douglas Hofstadter satisfactorily answered this question.

> We can't even answer if we have free will or not.

Sure we can, it's just that most people don't like the answer.

New comment by ajam1507 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

ajam1507 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:17:48 +0000

> But I look around and I just don't see anyone implementing such policies.

Because we have low unemployment. As long as we have jobs for people, you shouldn't expect UBI.

New comment by ajam1507 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

ajam1507 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:29:35 +0000

Why do you need a job in the scenario where machines have replaced all human labor?

You're forgetting that work is a means, not an end, for humanity.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

ajam1507 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:50:22 +0000

Using a 3 prong extension cable on the charger will prevent this.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

ajam1507 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:37:12 +0000

No need to look at history. We have plenty of contemporary examples.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

ajam1507 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:20:01 +0000

They should be spending exactly $0 on marketing. They're sending people around the moon in a giant rocket ship. It sells itself.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

ajam1507 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:11:28 +0000

Yes, it's dangerous and the benefits of sending people to the Moon and Mars are few.

New comment by ajam1507 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ajam1507 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:58:06 +0000

That was before they knew AI needed a bunch of money.

New comment by ajam1507 in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

ajam1507 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:08:28 +0000

Did you mean to post this comment in 2021?

New comment by ajam1507 in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

ajam1507 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:35:21 +0000

Maybe it's unavailable in your region. Four options on this page for me.

https://antigravity.google/pricing

New comment by ajam1507 in "Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents"

ajam1507 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:18:55 +0000

Even if an AI company spends more on inference than their revenue, that does not mean that they are selling inference at a loss.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:53:07 +0000

Even if this were true, this does not justify any particular type of action, except maybe an in kind response.

For example, would they have been justified to murder the blogger?

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:45:24 +0000

Journalism is absolutely not by definiton a secondary source.

If a journalist is on location covering a flood, for example, they are the primary source.

A journalist conducting an interview would also be a primary source.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:06:16 +0000

The primary source for most news is journalism.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:43:44 +0000

So their desire to not be used to commit a cyberattack doesn’t factor in? As long as they aren’t legally liable, it doesn’t matter?

Also a checkbox that says something like “I would like to help commit a crime using my internet traffic” would keep people from having their traffic used without consent.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:39:05 +0000

That works better when there is a defendant.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:12:15 +0000

The doctor using the word “whiplash” is one of the authors of the study.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:45:08 +0000

So you shouldn’t have to inform your users that their traffic will be used in a cyberattack?

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:43:43 +0000

> Not defending any party, it's basic ethological expectation: a creature that try to beat an other should expect aggressive response in return.

Another basic ethological expectation is that the strong dominate the weak, but maybe we shouldn’t base our moral framework around how things are, and rather on how they should be.

New comment by ajam1507 in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

ajam1507 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:34:43 +0000

And what’s the context for using the internet traffic of your unsuspecting users to accomplish this?