LanyrdSkynrd
I want the bubble to burst, but it seems like companies can get away with being fraudulent forever now.
Tesla was a fake ass company built on hype for so long. There was several years it was worth more than all the other automakers combined, despite being incredibly unprofitable. Yet Elon was able to keep boosting one scam after another until it was a real(but significantly smaller than promised) company. He was going to build a $35k electric car years ago, going to have a fully automated factory, going to have 1 million robotaxis on the road in 2018, going to launch an insurance company, and many more promises. Each time the company was desperate to raise cash, he gave a presentation with big promises, and all the dipshit venture capital firms lapped it up.
AI is a perfect grift, too. It's really easy to trick people into thinking something is intelligent, you just need to make it produce human like output from real human input that you steal.
Doesn't the party make the rules? The DNC was able to make a rule change at the Nevada caucuses on a voice vote and despite it being clear the vote didn't pass, the chair ruled that it did.
Ultimately I think VP's rarely ever matter. Maybe in a rare instance where a VP has an amazing reputation in their home state it energizes some voters who would have otherwise stayed home, but nobody is not voting because a pres has a bad VP.
Have you done any of these?
I'm being forced off disability benefits this year and am freaking out about being able to handle in person work. Looking at Telus's AI bs job, it seems like it would work well for me if I could get enough hours. The hourly rate is a little low for my area, but it beats working at McDonald's or something.
I only need to make $1100 a month to match my current benefits, do you think that's possible if I did this kind of thing?
So it's not even a mouse designed to last forever, but a mouse leasing program with free replacements.
Or, when your old mouse breaks, order a replacement, put the broken one in the box and return it. Free replacements for as long as they keep making that mouse
I came to a realization that my anger is mostly a useless emotion, it was hurting me, not the things I was mad at. I decided to reserve my anger for only when it was useful. Even then it was problematic, because unleashing my anger selectively could work to achieve things, but it still made me feel terrible, hurt personal relationships and other people, and I felt like I lost control of myself.
Now I try to look at the reasons why I'm angry, what I can do about it, and put off acting on it until I've calmed down. Communicating without anger works as well or better than communicating through anger.
I don't know if this is the right way to deal with it, but it mostly works for me. Sometimes anger still overtakes me and I stew in it, but I try to distract myself until it passes.
I think that's the best argument for why the tech industry won't let that happen. All of the big tech stocks are getting a boost from this massive grift.
Worst case scenario one of the tech giants buys them. Then they pare back the expenses and hide it in their balance sheet, and keep everyone thinking AGI is just around the corner.
The most complex moral dilemma we get in games these days are just dialogue trees where you decide whether to be nice or an asshole.
Most games that give you that option don't even have any consequences for those choices, either. It'll be like:
"Will you kill this person?"
"I will not"
"Oops, they died anyway"
Awesome post!
I just did this, filed a claim and quickly got an email that they're sending $31. Plus I'm filing several for my deceased father. I also had several family members who have unclaimed property.
On that pages there's an RSS feed link, I think that will work in any other podcast app
This reminds me of The Tyranny of Structurelessness, a great article about how organizations without formal power structures inevitably become oppressive.
Informal power structures are still power structures but the positions of power are not chosen in a democratic way. Popularity and perceived necessity to the organization are the only things that matter. Because leadership in informal power structures is taken not given, people who abuse power are more likely to end up in those positions.