And that’s the AI industry endgame. A world where developers are no more and people can only get software tools or apps from them by paying insane fees.

They want this for everything, not just software. Skillsets, knowledge bases, web searching, reasoning and logic.

They flat out admitted that with statements like “we want intelligence to be a commodity that people buy from us”.

They are fascism-craving sociopaths. That’s it.

Polyamory + dnd also has a synergy bonus. Plenty of candidates for a regular group 😁

Test scores are not that strong of an argument if you ask me.

Development of critical thinking, forming functional adults, understanding over simply repeating subjects, a culture of sharing and respecting. Proper intelligence and development, cultivating talents and diverse skills.

This is what schools are supposed to do. Not to get the average from 65% to 70% in classrooms full of feral, phone-addicted teens that bully their teachers and are neglected by their parents.

You bet your ass we’re gonna start seeing a bunch of “pc as a service” products hitting the market soon. Thin client with good wifi antennas and everything is just video streamed from infrastructure owned by Amazon for you to use like a good surf.

You are now banned from visiting Greece.

If neither party represents you perfectly, which it never does, you just vote for the closest.

And you make your opinions clear so that movements and parties potentially rise up to represent those opinions of yours.

Also trying to change the two-party system so that other voices can be heard and an actual decent attempt at democracy would exist, would also go a long way.

I’m not political why is far right on the rise

Bruh. Inaction/neutrality helps the oppressor. Far-right is both a distraction from inequality and a tool to promote the interests of the elite by propping them either established success stories, or (alt-right) as alternative voices of genius fighting the corruption of public sector and big governments, even though they benefitted from that more than anyone else.

That is why.

Point A) I’ve tried less frequent “yes” swipes and overall match rate was about the same.

Point B) calling people “low value” sounds like disgusting incel-speech and I think we should all avoid it and embrace the different qualities and virtues we all have.

Expecting “individualized” education from a technology known for being abused in sloppy ways, for being non-deterministic to the point it’s producing NSFL content if it doesn’t have safeguards, and that hallucinates inaccurate information while being controlled by the most powerful sociopaths in the world then…

Yeah. That’s a reasonable expectation and not unsafe at all my dude. /s

Used DDR4 sodimms on eBay. Got 2x8GB for 35 pounds.

That sounds very US specific ngl.

Because almost every aspect of the modern high-tech industry is an oligopoly. No small-time maker could even hope to compete with big brands like Samsung, Asus, Intel, AMD or Nvidia even if they had decades worth of credit to catch up due to how the current system reinforces “first past the goalpost” advantage.

Malicious tech is not something you “vote with your wallet” against. That’s neoliberal copium and propaganda.

States need to step in, regulate and control makes of digital goods and services. Unfortunately, we have the reverse going on right now.

Have the city take over apartments that have been empty for over a year and sell them for cheap to individuals and families owning 0 homes, with the condition they fix them up within a timespan.

I don’t care about the landlords. If they can afford to keep a property unused, they can afford to lose it.

While you’re in that mood check the documentary Hypernormalization from BBC. Explains a lot.

And when it ends check the year it came our for extra oof.

Now search for Roblox child exploitation on YouTube to watch a 30min dive that will make your soul weep. Whiskey optional.

You have no idea how convoluted and over engineered the ad serving tech is on Facebook/Meta. It’s basically an arms race against ad blockers.

Unless I’m mistaken, Ublock Origin recently admitted that they basically just can’t allocate resource trying to fight Facebook’s ad system.

You have it wrong, people don’t despire nor are envious of your success.

People are just aware of this kind of “rags to riches (or just middle class)” transition based on hard work is the exception, not the rule. Countless people work as hard as you did, maybe more, and yet will see almost no improvement in their socioeconomic class.

More importantly this “success story” is so often used by capitalism and neoliberal supporters as “evidence” that “system works” and all you need to do is work hard. Which is, frankly put, just propaganda when we can all see that the main statistical factor for becoming rich is just how rich your parents already were.

Absolutely. AI (at least the LLM, generative style we all know these days) is basically a force multiplier.

It’s just that the force vector we have right now is (self)destructive.

Typa shit that neoliberal asshats write to defend and whitewash billionaires.

Yes tech is tech, but the form it takes is, in part, defined by our system and needs.

The current state of AI industries for example would be vastly different if we didn’t have both world governments and financial institutions bending over backwards to give them credit while techbros also have the accumulated capital from the last two crisis due to governments failed to regulate and punish sufficiently.

I was getting worried as I saw some glitched stripes on the plex web player, maybe even on full-screen games for a few milliseconds.

welp, hope we get 7.1.8 soon.