salacious_coaster

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[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If it makes you feel better, that $77 billion was just numbers in a ledger. Vapor bucks. It was just a representation of Zuckerburg's power in society, which is now gone. It's not like $77 billion in food or housing vanished. The financial economy is mostly not backed by real things.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I thought for sure that if nothing else, the CIA would have done it. He got a ton of them killed for no reason last time. Seems like it would have been simple self-preservation.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've found that you can experience the world as a child at least one more time. If you're older than 30 and haven't tried weed yet, you're in for a treat. One of the best experiences of my life was being stoned for the first time, wandering around my garden looking at leaves and bugs and stuff.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Not sure if I'm coining a term here. I meant people whose primary existential concern right now is ChatGPT becoming Skynet and enslaving or hunting humanity to extinction. There are hundreds of them on r/collapse on reddit. Apparently there's a whole youtube rabbit hole that convinces people of this. Edit: I guess I would also include people who think LLMs will imminently--and actually--replace all human workers; as opposed to human workers being laid off due to promises from AI salespeople that could never live up to reality.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't imagine I'm allowed to say...

 

I've had this conversation too many times to not make a meme out of it.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I only ever played Ys 3. The ratio of music composition quality to gameplay quality of that one was insane.

I sure hope so. I saw at least one poll indicating that nobody would use LLM products if they actually had to pay what it costs to operate.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same. Seems like a ton of people would actually like being cursed with telepathy that you can't turn off, being forced to share and receive every thought that crosses the mind.

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately not. The word for this is "dictatorship." There are and have been plenty of those that aren't failed states. Democracy is a historical anomaly, not the norm. The failed state part is coming, but we're not there yet.

DANGER: HACKING TOO MUCH TIME

[–] salacious_coaster@feddit.online 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The other things going on don't get as much clicks. Need to seek it out specifically.

 

If I wanted to subject myself to repeated brute-force political messaging, I'd watch cable news.

 

The Internet being mostly broken at this point is driving me a little insane, and I can't believe that people who have the power to keep a functioning search engine for themselves wouldn't go ahead and do it.

I wonder about this every time I see people(?) crowing about how amazing AI is. Like, is there some secret useful AI out there that plebs like me don't get to use? Because otherwise, huh?

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