I only drink brawndo. It’s got what plants crave

This is nice to see. I wish they’d actually do something about our water companies too.

Hell, even when it’s not too good to be true and you already feel ripped off! The audacity of these mfs!

We all have to feel sorry for the drones?

I think there are two things. There’s definitely a level of brainwashing where mediocre MBAs who have built a career on “failing upwards” project their own lack of scruples onto their workforce i.e. “if I worked from home I’d just play golf all day so I assume this is true for everyone”. They genuinely don’t understand management models beyond micromanagement because they have no frame of reference for “self-motivated” or “autonomous”.

Then the other factor is that many of the c-level execs at these companies or their bosses (the board) have commercial real estate portfolios. Propping up the value of those units is contingent on companies renting office space. The bosses know which side their bread is buttered and even if they don’t have skin in the game directly will happily do favours for ‘friends’ who they want to impress to help them climb that next rung of the ladder.

Relative privation is when someone dismisses or minimizes a problem simply because worse problems exist: “You can’t complain about X when Y exists.”

I’m talking about the practical reality that you must prioritize among legitimate problems. If you’re marooned at sea in a sinking ship you need to repair the hull before you try to fix the engines in order to get home.

It’s perfectly valid to say “I can’t focus on everything so I will focus on the things that provide the biggest and most tangible improvement to my situation first”. It’s fallacious to say “Because worse things exist, AGI concerns doesn’t matter.”

Here’s how I see it: we live in an attention economy where every initiative with a slew of celebrities attached to it is competing for eyeballs and buy in. It adds to information fatigue and analysis paralysis . In a very real sense if we are debating AGI we are not debating the other stuff. There are only so many hours in a day.

If you take the position that AGI is basically not possible or at least many decades away (I have a background in NLP/AI/LLMs and I take this view - not that it’s relevant in the broader context of my comment) then it makes sense to tell people to focus on solving more pressing issues e.g. nascent fascism, climate collapse, late stage capitalism etc.

…Right?

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Cool… So if those sources are verified you won’t mind sharing them with me?

But that means they also killed killing killing everything

A lot of people in England get Turkey Teeth these days. Few things are more godless than that.

Everyone knows Franz Ferdinand, the indie rock band from Glasgow. Their 2004 hit “take me out” is definitely historical /s

Civitai has entered the chat…

I take your point though, it’s not gone mainstream as far as I know

Stupid sexy pipes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest provider of compute resources and servers in the world. They have huge data centres full of servers and Nvidia GPUs that they rent out to AI companies. Almost every fortune 500 spends 7-8 figures $$$ on aws services a year and a lot of smaller companies spend 6-7 figures too.

Amazon invested billions in anthropic who incidentally use their GPUs and sell access to their models via AWS too.

They certainly have skin in the game when it comes to LLMs/GenAI.

They know it’s BS but they’re not concerned with providing anything of value. It’s all about making a profit at any cost. If it’s legal they’ll do it, screw ethics. Hell, if it’s illegal but the punishment is a fine, that’s just the cost of doing business. Fuck MBAs and suits.

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In the United Kingdom yes because of our authoritarian Online Safety Act that came into power earlier this year. If I join a discord channel marked as nsfw I get a prompt for id which I bypass with a VPN in another country.

The issue with this is that like 95% of android devices run android with gapps and re-imaging your phone is becoming increasingly more difficult as manufacturers lock down their bootloaders. Normies who aren’t technical are not gonna want to mess with that shit. I’m not saying this to instill hopelessness but highlighting that it’s a challenge.

For censorship circumvention, mainstream tech is gonna continue to be increasingly useless. We need to educate people about these matters and also try to encourage people to lean heavily into decentralised comms like lora/meshtastic

You’re giving apple too much credit. Tim Apple literally gifted trump a golden statue. The press are reporting that this is directly in response to a request from the DOJ. This isn’t apple having a moral epiphany and thinking they’re doing ice targets a favour. Corporations don’t do that sort of thing unless it will make them $$$

I personally only visit neighbourhoods where the frogs respond to my chirp of greeting by rolling around on their backs and allowing me to pet their tummies