and I support extra legal measures against these people. They do it for the attention and they deserve the attention they will have coming to them.

In Seattle they had a guy in Belltown being a nuisance with a loud charger at all hours of the night in an urban setting. They knew who he was and he lived with his mom (lol). I never understood why the community didn’t deal with it when the police would not. Lack of enforcement is what leads to vigilantism.

Often times, a stupid take is useful to manipulate people or change the discourse. We argue about how dumb the take is and get distracted about what really matters.

It’s the same strategy that causes working people to fight each other and ignore the real enemy.

And a company openly instructing poached employees to exfiltrate documents on their way out the door, well…

OpenAIs billions are in IOUs to Nvidia

Back then this was more expensive, adjusted for inflation, than many AAA titles today, and the scale of those games was way smaller

I won’t argue that today’s games are not expensive, but they have always been expensive.

I don’t have time to do much gaming anymore but I can find a ton of good stuff that isn’t bleeding edge if i did. Patient gamers always win.

Forums were easy to search. The threads were mostly chronological and easy to stay in touch with.

These corporate platforms are designed to promote reposting. Always “new” content and impossible to find anything else. keep the user reloading that feed at all costs. And behind the scenes the corporations are mining your activity

I’m somewhat optimistic that as future generations of LLMs keep scanning this new LLM driven social media landscape, the models will collapse and the content will just suck more and more.

And people with interesting takes and novel ways of expressing them leave the corporate platforms, and we return to the humble days of user owned platforms without all the bots

After all, it’s easier than ever to build a platform now that we have LLMs to do all the chore work

I am not going to litigate every detail in these articles because that’s not the point of this thread but for SOME REASON you feel obligated to jump to an oligarch’s defense and I am not going to waste any more time on you.

I mean really, what can I say to someone who is drawing lines around content of children in bikinis as some kind of defense. So weird and gross.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5689660-xai-investigat... - musk “not aware” of any naked underage images, pushing back on concerns

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/a-new-form-of-gende... - musk downplays concerns and blames users and hackers

If I like an artist that I find on streaming, I buy an LP and get a lossless download for free. I still have a music library and I will never rent my favorite music.

Artists prefer to connect directly with their fans and BC is probably the best platform for people who care to pay and support acts directly. They have high res downloads and I import them.

If I have an option to get a 16bit version of a recording or a high-res version, I choose the highest quality version very time

Same with a physical copy. A limited edition, better quality vinyl LP is more attractive if you are going through the trouble of curating a collection.

I’ve been curating a music library of digital files since before the iPod was released and I will always go for the highest quality version out of principle. I can always downsample it to any thing that makes sense.

I woke up to a bat in my house. Local animal control told us to go to the ER immediately and get the rabies cycle started.

Don’t play games.

Every instance of them harassing her over each post gives her a mountain of evidence to sue the government and retire on the proceeds.

Just look at the settlements for everyone who was fired over Charlie Kirk posts

The “Hypocrisy” you are experiencing here is just you having to sort through other people’s opinions and getting upset at the ones that disagree with yours.

Surely you have heard the stories of people using LLMs as girlfriends, therapists and drug trip guides right? Sometimes with fatal results?

Yes, people are taking LLMs very seriously.

The bigger the name of the company, the more attractive upper management is to these types of personalities.

If your idea of a satisfying career is navigating the various disorders associated with narcissists, egomaniacs, delusional, Machiavellian, for the status that it affords, upper management might be for you.

Mid to lower level management often just serves as the enforcement arm for this upper class. They make the “tough” decisions (which are not tough at all if you lack empathy), and force the managers under them to actually implement it (the real tough part)

The managers who have no trouble doing it (because they share the same traits) are obviously the best suited for promotion. And so it continues