more importantly though, is the fact that there are enough "critics" that consider Global Warming a cycle that "man" merely accelerated by a few decades. most of these "skeptics" are also perfectly capable of discerning between the amount of energy "wasted" in office buildings and lit up skyscrapers as well as anything at the end of luxury supply chains and markets and what the rest of the world "wastes" or expends. to them, the hoax is the "man-made" part ...

it should be "some-man-made climate change"

Sounds like open communism. No chance, buddy, it's either less or more viking, but not just viking. Pick a camp the profits are for or get surrounded by trashy turd nuggets even Ronald felt enough pity for to give them some poourpes

'nuff to run most governments nowadays (Europe and US come to mind. 2026 and they have the Space Programs of DIY youtubers with money, whaaaat) so why wouldn't it help a dog helping his dog vibing game(s)?

side note: indie games are not complex software.

and most "overvalued" and "impossible" and "walking it back now" comments are true in as many cases as they are not true and I really do not understand these commenters. smart people should not fall into the same category as people who think that "nobody cares" because they never met devoted lawyers, investigative journalists and law enforcers passionate about justice AND law. it's all so weird, man ...

Cooperation has to serve the ego, individual and/or collective, or there will be no cooperation.

Think of it this way: some almost Fascists back in the day knew how that thing would end and/or play out and decided against cooperation.

Enough actual Fascists survived anyway and the narrative and their actions still serve the same conviction. Some are rich and influential and fascist as fuck while others live in delusions.

> We do not keep any information around

... "around"

Legal systems are the ones being "immoral" and "unethical" and "not just", not "righteous", not fair. They represent entire nations and populations while corpos represent interests of subsets of customers and "sponsors".

If corpos are forced to pivot because they are behaving ugly, they will ... otherwise they might lose money (although that is barely an issue anymore, given how you can offset almost any kind of loss via various stock market schemes).

But the entire chain upstream of law enforcement behaves ugly and weak, which is the fault of humanities finest and best earning "engineers".

Just take a sabbatical and fix some of that stuff ...

>> I mean you and your global networks got money and you can even stay undetected, so what the hell is the issue? Personal preference? Damn it, I guess that settles that. <<

If you deviate from the sub-cultural norms of Wall Street, Jahmunkey, you fucked.

It's fraud or nothing, baby, be sure to respect the warning finger(s) of God when you get intrusive thoughts about exposing some scheme--aka whistleblowing.

the police knew what's up. the law knew what's up. people knew what's up. you could be vigilant and prepared and reimbursed if the police managed to catch the thief. then came wall street and thieves (mostly) mourned their craft.

the law has no idea. the police has no idea. the people have no idea. it's all fraud. no honor, no skill, no chance to reimburse those who are defrauded.

jobs? demand creates jobs. doing things the right way creates jobs. not greedy, fuzzy business logic. that killed more jobs and SMEs than it created. killed more agency than it created opportunities. we know, it's just logic. but the law, the police, engineers looked the other way and worse, supported wall street. it's fun, I'm sure.

but don't think the world doesn't know what role programmers played. mourn all you want.

programmers had the chance to fight shady corporations and bad business practices and the darkest of dark patterns but they shat on teens and their attention and blamed the individual and worked for facebook and wall street and played key roles in expanding fraud, bad business practices and implemented more and more dark patterns and ways to hijack parents and teens minds, and to stress parents and kill agency and attention and care and vigilance.

they had a chance. now they mourn their craft.

I'm exaggerating. Relax. Y'all be fine. Others won't.

but that's just an assumption based on stories in the good old Soviet Union.

Itself meaning the company, meaning their sharehodlers, meaning whatever massive circle jerk eats all that data and then shits boatloads of bullshit straight into user brains, the developing teen ones being the main target.

An infinitely growing population and economy require distributing as much productive, constructive, inspiring and stimulating output as precisely as possible or huge amounts of capital get lost. As insanely sad as it is, the big guys don't care about that because they are not capitalists. After decades I'm not even sure anymore "capitalists" and "capitalism" even exist. I actually think it's just another Utopia.

I have come to understand that our economic, social and political leaders never got the right input themselves and neither did the techies, although engineers somehow get that stuff intuitively or at least "on first look".

Notification systems are an ugly analogy to what goes wrong when you do things out of the wrong, the "Facebook kind" of motivation.

> Using these services began to feel like standing in front of a blaring loudspeaker, broadcasting fragments of conversations from all over the world directly in my face.

Exactly.

On the one hand, you can't reduce the signal-to-noise ratio without throwing it all at your users--or consumers in general--and letting them teach you what is worth it and what isn't, but on the other hand: YOU ARE A BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY COMPANY AND PART OF A MULTIMULTI-BILLION DOLLAR HEAVY NETWORK OF CORPORATIONS and you share all that data anyway and then use it for, against, by and off the people and for profit mostly.

Your employees studied and learned for at least a decade, which means that whatever you intended, had pretty much ZERO unintended side effects, which means you actually wanted to tire out users and consumers and one of your goals or your sharehodlers goals was an effective war of attrition against the good people of whatever nation.

The resulting brain fog, confusion, twitchyness, over-stimulation and/or reduced ability to distinguish signal from noise and/or the "who cares", "new times, man, nothing is important, ALL HAIL ALL THAT NOTHING THAT IS NOT IMPORTANT" and/or the exorbitant increase of stress hormone levels somehow served what exactly?

[I got a bit lost in the end ... I hope it serves it's purpose]

but it does sound fun. let's see if all these large coding models and agents are a similar scheme.

These fucking Tarifvertraege have kept salaries from growing, too. The people would have pushed a long time ago but the truth is masked well enough.

Those who don't believe the shit, earn more. It is sad and the change and progress happens elsewhere. Enjoy one or two decades of German companies looking like they still matter. Nobody will account for the reasons later on. It's a shame.

And an average of 65k to the average person is gooood.

At least some team at MS probably wanted to see what kind of data about and from their user base they could squeeze out with those features in those places.

No matter how much value this company has brought the people, the main goal at some point became extraction of data. They rolled those features out just when AI tools began to hit the same wall: no more data this way; I guess not even more noise.

When the first apes sorted stones, they didn't use any sorting algorithms and toddlers reason based on still limited/yet to develop and yet to be tutored/still untutored skills, knowledge and the systems that connect these two (CNS, ... bio-chemistry) ...

AIs are still just models and far away enough from intelligence. You could "script" (code algorithms to return) entire 24/7 news channels AND the news they broadcast and even the characters and the crews personal blogs and if you let some SSS graphics dudes work their magic only a few of those with an above 90% recognition rate (of GenAI content) would be able to spot "the slop", because it really wouldn't be slop anymore.

But it's not the AIs fault. So, if their parents put in the time and effort, the AIs could already fake being a grownup pretty damn well, as can over 90% of the human population, and that is, as we all know, enough to build all that is. But we don't need that kind of AI and those efforts and returns would serve no more than some peoples entertainment. There are more efficient and concise training methods, but we all know almost nobody will/ever really care(s) anyway ...

True AI won't see the light of day for a long time. While the concepts will serve all kinds of narratives pretty much forever, the distinction between "it's all algorithms!" and "how does the human brain do stuff?" isn't really worth it.

Zooming in on the parents and their reasoning, on the other hand, now that would be an interesting pursuit.

I meant thinking patterns that go beyond our understanding. High functioning autism that is beyond jealousy/envy, and beyond the need to hold or be on a leash and beyond the enigma of emotions that come with the influence to dump and pump stock market prices of precious, precious metals.

Or, in other terms, the kind of intelligence that is built for abstract, distant, symbiotic humanity. From the POV of Earth as a system, we're quite the dumb nuisance. "Just get it, man". :D