Person who will do anything for money continues to do anything for money

“We never thought that would happen here.”

When will they learn lmao.

Just give it another few years, and half the people with the same political views as you will tell you you’re equivalent to the far right unless you vote for the right! 🤗

I mean, this is no different than Walmart making prices low until other businesses die out and then raising them.

It is no different than police shoving all the homeless people and drug addicts into one area of town to crash the property prices, and then evicting them once developers buy everything for cheap.

They’re purposely operating at a loss in the expectation that they can get ingrained into a ton of workflows, and then gouge everyone absolutely to death while also worsening the quality of the service to make it cheaper for them to run.

If it weren’t so horrible for the environment, I’d kind of like it, because all the dumbass executives that are signing up for this are going to get exactly what they deserve. You’d think they’d recognize a scheme when they see one.

Oh yea I mean I was joking, the whole idea of the basilisk is comically stupid to me. Mostly because of the absolute impossibility of constructing one. If we take for granted that such a thing could exist, then it makes a lot more sense to be afraid of. But I see no way for that to happen. I don’t see how the categorical imperative relates though - would be interested in hearing some explanation on your thinking there.

Well we have to try to lie to ourselves to convince ourselves we don’t believe in it otherwise there’s no escape

Most people are so stupid and just do whatever they’re told to the extent that if meta releases these glasses and tells you that they’re cool, then people will be like, wow, these glasses are cool. Rayban just wants in on it. It makes a lot of sense unfortunately.

If you actually looked at the link that they gave you, it’s pretty obvious that the person has a lot of programming experience. I would say less than 2% of the developers I’ve ever met have an app on the app store so for a lot of them it would be their first app if they published one too.

I mean however unlikely this law is to pass it would be outright impossible if the idea was to take 50% of AI profits and then somehow mail checks to every person on earth, even outside of the country doing the profit distribution

Earnest question: do fresh news stories belong in a TIL community? It seems like a clearly overly literal interpretation of the name and goes against not only the spirit of the community but the general good practice of keeping communities from becoming generalized dumping grounds for any kind of post.

You were the chosen one!

Yeah. Market downturn is always when they take the opportunity to make things worse. Resisting the fucking is a big part of what creates a better job market. But I totally understand not everyone is in a position to risk it

I get why people do this, I feel the pressure mounting at my job too. At some point we gotta draw a line. We’re gonna collectively manifest AI into being a fact of life, just like they want us to. Purposely using AI for dumb junk isn’t rebellious, its exactly what the AI creators want you to do. They want us all to have one big mass hallucination that this shit is as necessary as they say it is.

Again, purposely using your job’s AI for wasteful purposes is NOT rebellious, but in fact purposely plays into a worse future as planned. If you can afford to quit on principle, and your job is forcing AI usage metrics, thats probably a good time to quit on principle.

Oh yeah this is a very nice way to get it across. I know a couple smart people who are always saying shit like “people can’t be that stupid” and I tell them they don’t understand how smart they are. Homie thinks he’s 20% smarter than like 65% of people, its probably more like 200% smarter than 80% of people

I’m sure they do. Probably using an AI model to calculate it tbh

The article alludes to it: “The United States does not lack flat, open land away from population centers on which to build data centers. However, AI hyperscalers prefer to locate their campuses near existing infrastructure so they don’t have to spend massive amounts of time and resources building everything from scratch.”

It costs a lotta money to run electricity and water to the middle of nowhere.

Also, companies are doing research to specifically build in areas where they believe the local community is not politically empowered to prevent it from being built. This guy goes into some more depth at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/1CpVmPh3BDE?t=831

Seems more foolproof to just ban killing people directly tbh

I dislike hypocrisy as much as the next person. So I feel where you’re coming from. At the same time, the wind turbines are generating power that everyone benefits from, whereas these things are consuming power for a product that very few people actually like or even want to exist. So I think its fair to say that maybe the noise is tolerable when you’re getting something you actually want out of it. Also, wind farms are usually built further away from large population centers, whereas data centers are because it’s cheaper to build them in areas with lots of people around. So the concern does seem a little more irrelevant to wind farming as a whole than data centers.

It was a philosophical question posed about a technical matter.

Okay, succinctness aside, I get that you’re trying to imply that the kind of person who still uses Chrome is basically asking to be mistreated (I think?) - but the author’s point about climate impact depends on user count, not user personality.

68% of all browser traffic, with Safari at a close second with 17%