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Andy

@ andrewrgross @slrpnk.net

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  • OpenAI warns people might become emotionally reliant on its ChatGPT voice mode

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  • I don't think it's secret. A lot of OpenAI's business strategy is to warn of the danger of their own project as a means of hyping it.

    OpenAI, despite having produced a pretty novel product, doesn't really have a sound business model. LLMs are actually expensive to run. The energy and processing is not cheap, and it's really not clear that they produce something of value. It's a cool party trick, but a lot of the use cases just aren't cost effective at this point. That makes their innovation hard to commercialize. So OpenAI promotes itself like online clickbait games.

    You know the ones that are like, 'WARNING: This game is so sexy it is ADDICTIVE! Do NOT play our game if you don't want to CUM TOO HARD!'

    That's OpenAI's marketing strategy.

  • Labour Ditches Tory Plan to Oppose ICC Request for Netanyahu Arrest Warrant

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  • A little bit of good news. Nice.

  • Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla

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  • They start at $70k. And they are actually still losing money on each sale.

  • Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla

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  • It's largely marketed as a recreation/sport vehicle. It's for going camping and off-roading.

    That isn't too say that it can't also get you to and from work, or even be used for constructive uses. But at the price and feature set, I think anyone would agree it's designed to be a fun luxury first and foremost rather than a practical tool.

  • Macron slaps back at left’s bid to govern France

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  • What a tremendous dick

  • Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla

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  • Whew. I'm glad he's happy with his purchase. I can't ever imagine having enough money that I could drop that kind of cash on a toy, no matter how neat I think it looks.

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  • Haha a bike.

    I hold out hope, actually, that as the right-to-repair movement continues to grow, eventually repairability and control will become more common consumer interests, in the same way that vehicle safety wasn't something people thought about when buying a car before the 70s, and now it's one of the main influences when buying a car.

    Once people start caring -- and again, I believe this is the direction we're heading -- it will become something manufacturers have to design for.

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  • This is modestly interesting. My brother worked here before they had layoffs about two years ago, and had a generally favorable opinion of the company and leadership.

    Fundamentally, while I think RJ seems like a sound businessman and technologist, and I like the company's taste a bit, I will never be able to reconcile his views with mine. He very openly views cars as computers and software and services that happen to move you around, and I would like it to be a machine over which I have as minimal a relationship as possible with the manufacturer after I acquire the product.

    Still, I wish them luck.

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  • I agree with you... but I don't disagree with @john_mcmurray.

    The fact that Biden actually participates in genocide at all is just ghastly. I honestly struggle to find the words for it. And once he crossed that bridge, I will never ever try to argue with someone who assigns him equal moral equivalence with Trump.

    It's like debating whether someone who killed one of your children is better than someone who killed two. Mathematically? I think so. Conceptually? Those are who child murderers. The difference is negligible.

    There are still Palestinians alive right now, though, so we can't give up, no matter how heartbroken.

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  • This take gave me a chuckle.

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  • A little yes and a little no.

    I think all of these people are monsters, but I'm also trying to find the best option among bad options. If Harris is president, I can live with that. If Trump gets elected again... I think the possibility of Palestinians getting exterminated becomes a genuine possibility, and the damage to our climate and our ability to reverse course after four years look very fragile.

    It's very depressing.

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  • I get where you're coming from, but the meme is a joke, and this particular set of jokes doesn't work if you do it that way.

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  • The truth is, you didn't need to convince me. I think Biden is a monster. The meme is a set of jokes written in the voice of a mainstream American political pundit, not a genuine reflection of my personal attitudes.

    My personal attitudes are that every US president is a war criminal, and Biden, Bush, Cheney, and Blinken should be hauled off to the international criminal court.

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  • Sadly, all the candidates are very big cops.

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  • This is a common layman misconception. The term "hitler" isn't actually based on how much the candidate engages in human rights abuses: it's just a marker of how widely voters recognize them as "hitler-y" (to use the technical term).

    A fun fact: within the field of meme political science it's recognized that if we did apply a quantitative rubric, ALL of the US Presidents are actually hitlers!

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  • Oof. I kinda would too, but also... boy that'd be an uncomfortable read.

    Pure guess? 30% would pick Hitler.... 15% would refuse to answer.

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  • I don't know if you can read the text easily on mobile, but there's a joke in the text describing there about how he is indeed committing genocide.

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  • The label says "Not a hitler?".

    The X means you fail at not being a hitler. Hitler fails this test.

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  • Did you not read the graph? She's a lock.

    I mean, Kelly is a lock too. Anyone who can fog a mirror and doesn't get an erection watching Starship Troopers will win this election. But Harris is kind of right there already, so that works for me. She could probably keep using the same email address and business cards. That's a nice plus.