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Trump made 3.5 billion dollars his first 100 days in office. I’m sure these monetary rulings will match that scale. Right guys? Right? And then the best part is they’ll go to openai to pay for their shiny new autonomous weapons contracts!
I think the answer is pretty complex and gets into why online communities in general become hostile, not just Reddit.
First off, there are incredible amounts of money and effort being spent to make people feel tribal and hate each other. Destabilization happens by convincing people that those next to them are at fault for their woes, and ensuring they don’t look up at the strings being pulled.
Second, those who generally aren’t hostile naturally don’t gravitate to places that are, so the gravity of hostility increases by hostile people being there and echoing hostility to those they perceive to be being hostile to them, even if the sentiment is “be less hostile.” It’s baked into meme culture. “Touch grass” is genuinely like “hey go outside, take a breath” at its core, but is now an insult or hostility that gets a reaction of further hostility.
Third, the world is really fucking shitty in ways outside of most people’s control. You can vote, martyr, donate, but generally the world has gotten to a close point to 100s of sci fi stories we’ve written warn us about, and so some people are just doing what the money in item one is spending, the conditioning works. Feels warm to hate someone. But then for those on the opposite they want to hate what they consider stupid.
That being said, people are genuinely shitty often, and it’s foolish to pretend that’s not the case. Open source has often been full of pettiness and bickering. Many a GitHub threads are just arguing about someone who wants a feature and is mad at volunteer developers for not delivering it. I could go on a tirade but I’ll end there
well you eyedrop it into your butthole and then expose your butthole to the sun so the positive solar energy modifies it primally because we're all made of starlight and that's just how it works
Yeah active noise cancelling basically is constantly running a little DAC/signal processor as opposed to signal -> output so there’s constant computation to make the noise cancelling happen
I haven’t seen how Lemmy responds to troubleshooting requests about Linux. But I remember some Linux Reddit communities being full of vitriol of like “don’t use things you don’t understand” or like “distro? version? Hardware specs? Logs? Did you even search?” Which I believe led to people just starting out uncomfortable with asking for help there
Then less than 24 hours he's already struck a deal with the military. So it's certainly giving overt praise to Anthropic, but at the same time here we are
Yeah most likely Sam Altman just spun up a side company and copied over the entire model weights and sold it to the government in either a singular purchase/acquisition or license and then can say “well they’re not using OpenAI APIs”
Yeah but as that Yale professor recco shows he said “v small good looking blonde” so most of these people knew what kind of person Epstein was and chose to engage with him anyway. Like you said, perhaps not all of them, but it was clear they knew Epstein wasn’t just “powerful guy who can make opportunities” and they rolled with the punches on the creepiness factor
President Trump: We'll do it at the White House... we'll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys. And we have to, I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that?
United States men's hockey team:Laughter and cheers]
Trump: I do believe I probably would be impeached, okay?
