I guess this is how speedrunning was born

That’s cool and all, but an LLM just built me a dashboard for visualizing data, following my instructions and asking clarifying questions when it needed my input. I don’t care what you call it, it’s the most impressive new technology and the most powerful software tool I have seen in years.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said

We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.

I don’t see how anybody could see this and think it’s democratizing something. It gives the rich a way to reduce their dependency on the skilled worker, shifting power away from the people with skill to the people with money.

There used to be a promise that if you worked hard and studied diligently, you yourself might be able to capture some of that wealth. Now this option is slowly disappearing.

Even a 2% ANNUAL wealth tax would not take anything away from them, it would just make their wealth grow SLIGHTLY SLOWER.

Isn’t Trump the self proclaimed crypto president? Isn’t crypto the main source of his family’s wealth by now?

I’ve never seen any price displayed in Dogecoin, Safemoon or CumRocket, nor have I ever been offered Shiba, Bitcoin or Monero for anything. It’s been almost 20 fucking years and you can’t pay shit with crypto. The only thing that works perfectly in crypro is paying bribes to Trump by buying his own shitcoin, which many sketchy rich people have done. No, this is not the salvation you are looking for, it only makes everything worse.

To be fair, crypto only enabled scams, NFTs imploded because of how useless they are and the metaverse seems like a dystopia to most people. AI on the other hand has changed the way I do my job significantly. It’s not just a promise, it’s a genuinely powerful tool.

I like to imagine that at least some of them are proud that their work has endured. They showed of their bodies and what they can do with them at the peak of their attractiveness. I hope they look back at this and think “Damn I was hot!”

If AI, specifically LLMs, are so great, how come it’s been 5 years and they haven’t meaningfully contributed to a cure for anything?

Reminds me a little of cryptocurrencies. They were supposed to change everything, but all they did was enable unprecedented levels of scams and grifts and enable criminals to move money across the globe without any sensible control mechanisms.

I mean, I was hoping we could give genuinely intelligent people and educated experts more of a platform, but I guess that works too.

Look, this politician says really stupid things. Let’s all point out how stupid he is, share it, comment on it and boost it in any possible way.

Yeah, screw this. Haven’t been subscribed to Disney+ for a year now and I certainly won’t return. If you have children, I guess you’re fucked though.

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irgendwann gilt es dann auch als Widersetzung gegen Staatsgewalt und dann kann sogar ein Marktausschluss ausgesprochen werden.

Ja, das wäre wirklich ein großer Verlust für die Gesellschaft. So weit darf es nicht kommen. /s

Life after the dimension collapse triggered by making a ruckus in the dark forest universe.

These stupid labels are a scam. The rich want you to fight each other over meaningless differences so you don’t realize they’re the ones fucking you over.

Johnny Harris made an excellent video about money in US elections: https://youtu.be/-NuXpwB2DV4

People were way too scared about companies buying politicians. It turns out that the real danger did not come from companies, but from their rich owners.

Linux runs Hunt Showdown 1896, what the fuck else do I need?

You don’t understand.

80% of people will think you’re an idiot if you advocate for communism.

60% of people will think you’re an idiot if you advocate for capitalism.

90% of people will agree with you if you tell them the growing power of elites and the gap between the rich and the poor is a problem.

If you’re trying to convince people that communism is a great idea, you’re fighting a lost cause. If you use either the word communism or capitalism, you have already lost the argument and people’s attention. On the other hand, if you address actual problems, people will support you. Language matters!

(Btw, I pulled these numbers out of my ass. But you get the idea.)

I don’t like communism. I don’t like capitalism. I don’t give a fuck about your petty squabbles and philisophical debates.

But I do find the imbalance of wealth power concerning and I’m supporting whoever will do something against it.

Gloomy and hopeless means harmless, easy to control, not a threat.