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You assume support agents don't hallucinate

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Nikola shorts profited from the company being a scam and being exposed. They did a useful service by driving the price down.

Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke' (www.businessinsider.com)

Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke'::After users complained Google's Gemini had gone "woke," the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.

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I mean, they went out of their way to generate black Popes

Probably not what you want

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How do you ban a VPN? If I connect to a server that's a big cloud provider, how do you know the connection is to a VPN or a website?

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Again, how do you track a connection to a data center? VPN software is freely available on GitHub. Are you blocking GitHub too?

Even China can't do it fully

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China is not successful in it, since you can still use a VPN in China. You can even self host

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No, nobody cares about Canadian law

How do you know an IP is a VPN? I can change the address of my VPS at any time

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They will comply, but the users won't. Pornhub can't tell you're using a VPN

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Only works if you use a protocol that can be detected.

https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/ has been defeating Chinese censors

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It's a Canadian law, wouldn't affect America. America banning VPNs would be much more dire

Also having a VPN in the country where pornhub is banned would be pointless for the purpose of going to pornhub

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It's technically impossible without blocking cloudflare and breaking most of the internet. You can route your VPN through cloudflare, so there's that

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There are commercial xray servers where you just share them with people for a subscription price and it automatically updates with the freshest info

GBs of data from a connection is not that uncommon. There's a thing called cloudflare and you might already be hitting those IPs for gigabytes per month. You can route the VPN through cloudflare so it just looks like you're visiting a lot of websites hosted by cloudflare

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Can we get away from email?

It's not a secure form of communication anyway. I want my messages to be e2e encrypted so I know I am the only one that can read them

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Oh no, profiling. Google can read your emails directly

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Yet everyone sends me one time passwords in plain text

iopq ,

Okay, but unless all of your communication is e2e encrypted, your provider can read all of your messages. They can even show you ads based on the contents. Oh, you bought vitamins on Amazon? How about some minerals?

If I send messages with matrix, the matrix server admin cannot read them. If I cared about them seeing who I'm talking to, I would run my own server

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A phone is a product, and it solves a lot of problems.

I used to print out mapquest directions to wherever I drove. Now I can just use navigation so I seldom miss turns on dark streets anymore.

Products can solve problems, that's why people pay for them

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China already produces more carbon by itself than the entire West combined

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/

That just shows you can still use electricity, as long as it's not from coal

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It's obviously made for porn only, that's they only thing you can do with it

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AI will be great for translation of webpages locally instead of sending content over the wire

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That's not the only use case. It could read a 400 page pdf locally and summarize it for you, answer questions and find which slide the data you want is on.

The use cases are only limited by how powerful the AI is

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How is that libertarian?

Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...

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They would just set up in Kazakhstan or something. How does that help? There's no way everyone in the world passes the same law

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

iopq ,

That's how productivity growth is achieved, a smaller amount of workers do the same task.

Or course, the created wealth is again invested back eventually and new products/services require new jobs.

For example, right now we have some of the highest labor participation in years, despite rising productivity

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It's a capitalist company that funded him to go to Florida and bought him the machine to do his work.

Where do you think he would get the 3 million the company gave him? It's the company that spent that money to bet on innovation and they got a return on investment

Capitalism never chooses the best path, but neither does any other system. We haven't invented a perfect system, and it's probably impossible. Sounds like a strange critique since we'll never reach perfection

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It's the opinion of one person at the company. Under socialism there are also people who decide which research deserves funding.

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Who funded him to go? It's not like he paid for the trip out of his pocket

The company could have also just fired him for not listening to orders. But I agree that they didn't compensate him enough

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Yes, but in any system some guy will decide which research is important. And that guy can't possibly make correct decisions every time.

I don't see a way to improve on it

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That could happen in socialism, where a government grant runs out and research is no longer funded because the person in charge of funding science changes.

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The founder was acting in the company's interest, that's why you fund research.

He was actually not cut off either, he wasn't fired when he continued his research despite being told not to. He still received a salary and was able to use the equipment purchased with company funds

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There's absolutely no law preventing you from starting a company like this

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Then invest in a company that is structured that way, there's no actual constraint on how a company is organized in capitalism

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Capitalism doesn't force you into a particular corporate structure

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Airbnb actually provides a useful service, unlike PayPal which only extracts fees

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Didn't say that, I'm comparing companies that do nothing useful to companies that do something useful

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Because those companies can't go to booking.com if there's no airbnb?

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For what crime?

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Never said that

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Air bnb is not evil, it's people exchanging services for money. They just resolve disputes, show reviews, etc.

The difference with PayPal is that they are not in any business, so they can't necessarily resolve disputes other than relating to the payment itself. But the credit card issuer has exactly the same job, so PayPal is an extraneous intermediary

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Not building enough proprieties is destroying the housing market.

Even if you ban airbnb, it doesn't solve this fundamental issue. Stop blaming businesses for NIMBYs voting to stop housing development.

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Follow Ukraine news, economics, etc

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It's better than you at chess:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LDaY7X2qGk

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I see we have 5 GMs who disagree

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I did, it played very well in the middle game, already out of book

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The entire post is exact details for why he decides each rating for each query

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Oh, then that's a bit inconsistent

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Who said femboys cannot have wives?

Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc?

I've tried getting into peertube to have something to watch. I'm exploring copyleft music on open audio / funkwhale. I'm on here in lemmy as of this week. I'm playing with mastodon and the fediverse. I've tried studying psychology and psychology-adjacent territory like Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault and Derrida so I can break...

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  1. You can just download the movies, don't let some service hold you hostage. But if you need to buy Amazon stuff, there's no problem with that

  2. You can also try Nostr, I've scrolled around the whole feed before and found interesting stuff

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