I don’t think I’ve ever seen commentary like this offered up by a guy who actually stood even the slightest chance of actually having sex with whatever woman he’s complaining about.
Jeremy looks like the sort of guy who thinks the waitress is coming on to him because she smiled and called him “hon.”
Yep.
All you have to do, and exactly what they’re doing, is set up a system under which whoever you consider undesirable is more likely to end up poor and unemployed, then you eliminate most social services and tie the remainder to employment, and eliminate most public health policies to allow for the widest possible exposure to carcinogens and disease. Then you just sit back and wait while the “undesirables” sicken and, denied healthcare, die.
That’s undoubtedly not an accident.
The technofeudalist plan appears to be to arrange things so that “undesirables” - mostly non-whites, non-heterosexuals, non-conservatives and anyone else who isn’t likely to be an obedient cog in their machine - are overrepresented among the poorest of Americans while eliminating as many services for the poor as possible - especially healthcare and housing. It’s certainly not a coincidence that that means that a significant number of the poor, and thus of the “undesirables,” will die.
The survivors will still be homeless, which will be (and increasingly already is) a crime, so they’re end up in (conveniently privatized) prisons, which will allow the new generation of feudal lords to use them as slave labor.
It’s as if some notable proportion of humanity suddenly switched to eating nothing but vaguely food-shaped plastic, then a study concluded that that might have negative effects nutritionally.
No shit?
The DoJ needs to have its name changed, because at this point it has absolutely nothing at all to do with “justice” in any way, shape or form.
I’d suggest something like “Department of Overt Corruption and Brazen Bullshit.”
It doesn’t get much more performative than that.
Because he’s too busy sucking techbro dick.
I propose that STEMbros be required to complete at least a Philosphy 101 course before they’re allowed to comment on “AI.”
I’m so fucking tired of utter nonsense from people who self-evidently don’t know even the first thing about consciousness or agency.
this research shows that AI agents struggle to perform simple tasks
They can’t “struggle” because “struggle” indicates intention and “AIs” don’t possess intentionality.
and often unintentionally sabotage users in the process.
Again, “AIs” are incapable of intentionality. They can neither “intentionally” nor “unintentionally” do anything - the entire concept is incoherent in this context.
In the study, Nvidia and Microsoft outlined three distinct kinds of blind goal-directed (BGD) activity it often saw in AI agents.
Just like intention, “blind” is incoherent in this context, since “AIs” don’t perceive anything, so they can be neither “blind” nor “sighted.”
They showed a lack of contextual reasoning
They are entirely incapable of reasoning of any form.
tend to make assumptions
They are entirely incapable of making assumptions
and incorrect decisions
They are entirely incapable of making decisions
Each of those three things are conscious acts, and AIs" are not in any way, shape or form conscious.
And note that this was written by a purported critic rather than a cheerleader, and those examples are from only one paragraph.
Even the critics can’t manage to comment on “AI” without demonstrating that they don’t have the foggiest fucking idea what they’re talking about.
With Trump taking the spoiled child lead.
Though that’s a role he plays every day.
Generally MAL.
Anilist is the most handy IMO, and if I want quick simple information, I might use it. But if I want more in depth information, reviews, recommendations and the like, MAL is definitely my preference.
Can’t help but wonder if Tessier-Lavigne is related to the Tessier-Ashpools…
My favorite capsule description of (The Adventures of) Buckaroo Banzai (Across the Eighth Dimension) is “A stupid movie for smart people.”
It was actually my number 1 for a long, but somehow, over the years, Repo Man just crept up the list until it took its place.
Repo Man (1984)
Honorable mentions:
The thing with the data centers is that the goal is entirely different from anything we’ve been told.
The key is that Google is implementing a system that allows people to get the information they’re after directly from them rather than clicking theough to a website. That’s undermining ad revenue, which not only threatens the existence of the websites but threatens Google’s existing ad-based business model.
So it can only be the case that they’re pivoting to a new business model.
And the key to that is the data centers.
Their goal, I grow more certain nearly every day, is to effectively privatize the internet by driving independent sites out of business, so that they (and their handful of more or less equally wealthy and powerful competitors) become the only source for all of that data they’ve already stolen.
Yeah - there’s a fairly significant game of The Emperor’s New Clothes going on, as the new set of impossibly wealthy assholes insist on pretending they’re not impossibly wealthy assholes and instead try to force society into accommodating them, apparently entirely unaware of the simple fact that all they’re doing is hastening the demise of the civilization that birthed them and on which they’re little more than grossly destructive parasites.
And that’s not an opinion - either mine or anyone else’s. It’s a simple fact that’s been borne out by history over and over throughout the ages, and will be again, no matter how many comforting lies people tell themselves and each other.
Google has become a colonialist project.
First they gained access to the communsl property of the internet. Then they stole it from the original inhabitants. And now they’re trying to claim a legal right to exclusive control over the property they stole.
Nah - I don’t think it’s any sort of dog whistle. It’s more in the nature of sour grapes. It’s an incel thing - they fantasize about proactively refusing to have sex with women who would never be willing to have sex with them in the first place