MalReynolds

Actually pretty damn close to a perfect song, period, IMO. YMMV. Jeff Buckley's cover is awesome too.

What are the odds SAltman and the circular investment crew are pivoting to a pump and dump scheme on server hardware (as well as just GPGPUs) after finally admitting to themselves LLMs have hit a wall not even trillions of dollars will fix (architecture failure, no AGI for you, no getting away from those pesky workers like promised). If everything pans out nicely the world will end up with a bunch of new chip fabs (a real bottleneck) and nothing to use them for, cheap computers for all. Probably won't, instead we'll get a geopolitical shitshow as China (and hopefully Europe) will have functional, actually producing valuable stuff, economies. What happens to the US is left as an exercise for the reader.

You're not wrong, but it's buying in to the 'think of the children' misdirection while privacy rights are snatched away from the entire population. Fight this on privacy (on the internet) grounds, find better ways to require effective moderation (for example) instead, if it's bad for kids it's likely bad for adults, but not for the profit of the corpos that will just step around or wear the fines while hoovering more personal data. Think in terms of car companies creating jaywalking and then getting the scouts to promote the idea.

English Folk Verse (c.1870)

        The Fifth of November  

Remember, remember!  
The fifth of November,  
The Gunpowder treason and plot;  
I know of no reason  
Why the Gunpowder treason  
Should ever be forgot!  
Guy Fawkes and his companions  
Did the scheme contrive,  
To blow the King and Parliament  
All up alive.  
Threescore barrels, laid below,  
To prove old England's overthrow.  
But, by God's providence, him they catch,  
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!  
A stick and a stake  
For King James's sake!  
If you won't give me one,  
I'll take two,  
The better for me,  
And the worse for you.  
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,  
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,  
A pint of beer to wash it down,  
And a jolly good fire to burn him.  
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!  
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!  
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray! 

Guy Fawkes Day is the Fifth of November, when the English (used to, wouldn't be surprised if it's banned now) let off lots of fireworks to remind the government of the peoples power, or vice versa depending on your proclivities.

More recently the comic (Alan Moore, knows the score) and the movie 'V for Vendetta' both featured the
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
as a significant thematic refrain. Both are well worth your time. The mask on the left is from the movie, and also used as a symbol by the cyberactivist group 'Anonymous'

While I want both to be true, he's betting against governments wanting actionable intelligence on each and every citizen (although the moat there is shallow, easy for someone else to start a race to the bottom) and massively parallel processors becoming less valuable (remember how smoothly they switched from crypto to AI?, remember when you could buy a gaming video card for less than the rest of your computer, likely another bubble in the wings) plus the whole circular investment is propping up the entire US economy situation, the epitome of too big to fail (without the whole US economy going tits up, which given the current situations is distinctly possible). Actually 8:2 sounds ballpark, but I doubt he's not hedging his bets.

I wish someone would give them enough critical thinking skills to be hard to manipulate, it's an ask, given the advancement of advertising / propaganda over the last century, but I wish.

needs more jpeg...

but that probably helps.

:)

Sure, but stay with me here, how about keeping the writers room on for long enough to finish the story as text, it's gotta be pretty cheap good will. I for one would be grudgingly accepting of that as an alternate until the streaming late stage capitalism shitshow realizes that while the quarterly might go up, killing shows willy nilly also kills networks long term. But, wish in one hand, spit in the other and see which fills up first. Sigh, Almost Human was gold.

Again, weapons without human in the loop needs to be against the Geneva convention, yesterday. Or articles of war , something. This is a tractable problem, that needs attention, now, It will not end well and can actually be (mostly, by honorable armies) fixed.

Cis male FWIW (think of myself as an ally to all), nothing here appeals in any way, unless I'm digging a hobbit hole, and I'd rather a treehouse, and even more a solar boat...

Obligatory (sigh) hope I'm actually talking to a person, not an AI...