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- Comment on How do slang words and phrases start? 1 week ago:
Which slang word does that image represent? It might be one I'd like to know.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
People do occasionally buy new computers, and this one looks likely to be a better choice than most of what's on the market.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds 1 week ago:
Hey Grok, why is Elon Musk so popular?
"Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields. His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands. Regarding love for his children, he exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement despite scale."
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 2 weeks ago:
Pretty quiet on lemmy without .world and .ca and whatever else. I'm glad to see beehaw still up.
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 3 weeks ago:
Prove_your_argument
Maybe you could mention a few examples of times they got it wrong, what specifically they said that "didn't stand up to scrutiny", and how if at all they responded upon learning about it?
- Comment on ‘Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk’ – why investors are happy to pay him $1tn 3 weeks ago:
It's the deficient market hypothesis in action: If someone has money, he must be right. Therefore, give him more money.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 4 weeks ago:
I didn't read a word of it, simply scrolled to the end to verify that yes, there is a link to X down there.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia 4 weeks ago:
Elon cares deeply about the truth and seems as if he has boundless energy to devote to suppressing it.
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- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 5 weeks ago:
Sure they're utterly boring and stupid now, but just wait until next year when Sirius Cybernetics finally launches its Genuine People Personalities models.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 1 month ago:
Yoti, a trusted third-party identity verification provider
Sure they could do it without relying on a third party, but Microsoft knows its users are going to have an easier time trusting "Yoti" rather than trusting Microsoft.
- Comment on Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. 1 month ago:
Well I dunno, I just watched their demo video and otherwise know nothing about it, but it looks like an interesting experiment. Maybe some day — if they keep throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at it for another decade or two — it'll get good enough to justify however much it costs to run.
- Comment on Why are there pyramids in Egypt? 1 month ago:
To be fair, if they weren't too heavy to move then by the time England got there they probably would've found that some of them had already been relocated to Rome or Constantinople.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 1 month ago:
Let’s assume being a landlord is made illegal overnight. Tenants won’t be made to leave their homes, however, until the landlord has been able to sell up.
I mean obviously we're not going to abolish landlords overnight unless we abolish a whole lot of other things along with them in some kind of incredibly successful revolution, but thinking that we'd keep them around long enough to profit from the sale of their real estate assets is just a failure of imagination. Let's assume that all mortgage debt is cancelled and ownership of every dwelling is granted to whoever's been living in it.
- Comment on Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate 1 month ago:
Good call there over at the Grauniad.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 1 month ago:
Yes... that is the topic of discussion. I'm just saying it's manifestly unfair if they apply that tax to refills of your cup at Nando's, but don't charge extra for each lump of sugar in a cup of tea.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 1 month ago:
In order to be consistent they'll need to start charging tax per lump of sugar as well.
- Comment on RUMOR: 'The Future of Xbox is Software Publishing' as Next Console Generation Faces Doubts 1 month ago:
RUMOR: There is no future for Xbox.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UK 2 months ago:
"You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that."
Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.
- Comment on Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards 2 months ago:
Making Britain less attractive to illegal migrants, at the cost of also making it less attractive to everyone else.
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 2 months ago:
There's still a catch, though — you have to keep running Windows 10.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 2 months ago:
I think it would sell better if it had more surface areas for sensors, one near the mouth for a mic, and a big compartment over the nose to contain the battery in
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 2 months ago:
I dunno whether that's Facebook pushing it more often to men (because their analytics shows it works on their audience) or men clicking on it more often because it works on the Facebook audience.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 2 months ago:
Some fraction of the harm they do is by carelessness rather than malice. That some mindless algorithm intended to find and exploit for advertising purposes the posts that got the most engagement disproportionately selected ones featuring images of cute teenagers does not seem unlikely.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 2 months ago:
Weird that the man assumes those images were chosen to target him, but horrifying that he might be right.
- Comment on 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC 3 months ago:
They tried that. Don't underestimate the progress already made towards building the Great Firewall of Britain. I guess the main problem was that when the filtering was optional, too many people chose to opt out.
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- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto 1 year ago:
If I were looking to assign blame, I'd start with the coal and gas operators who are digging up fossil fuels that would otherwise remain in the ground just to fuel their bitcoin mining rigs, those who peddle specious arguments claiming that it somehow isn't a problem, those who turned the whole thing into a machine for separating the gullible from their money, and those who've built the shaky, buggy, mostly proprietary, convoluted, half-finished, untrustworthy, horrible mess that is the software ecosystem surrounding the whole cryptocurrency sphere. Perhaps none of that could have been foreseen by whoever designed bitcoin. On them we can instead put the blame for the failure to make it anywhere near sufficiently scalable, and the ridiculous choice of mechanism for the bitcoin monetary policy which serves to make it function only as a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme and not a durable currency. Regardless of who's to blame, it's got to go.
Perhaps there's already an alternative out there somewhere which is actually useful and not based on avarice, fraud, unsustainable resource usage, or unsustainable hype, but if so it's currently hidden under such an enormous pile of shitcoins that it's impossible to identify. At least the internal combustion engine was good at doing the thing it was supposed to do.
- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto 1 year ago:
If you can afford more than a small plot of land in this economy, you've probably been hoarding too much wealth. I know it's a very popular hobby, but it's quite bad for you if taken to excess. But this is getting somewhat off-topic.
Some kind of technology that resembles today's cryptocurrencies may or may not have a future. As they exist right now none of them are anything like a good investment opportunity or a safe store of value.
