2008, 1980, 1929, 1907… Its an old playbook.

Knew a guy who said he was descended from some European family that had been nobility and they used arranged marriages to strategically change sides during major conflicts; thus maintaining their wealth/status for centuries.

I have my doubts about his heritage but I don’t doubt that rich people did/do that kind of shit with impunity.

They aren’t trying to be profitable.

They’re buying up all the computing capacity now while the global supply chain for it still exists.

Profitability can come at some unspecified later date and they probably don’t even have concrete plans for that right now.

Not concrete but have the same playbook they always use. Monopolize, Pump & Dump, Buy the Dip.

The AI bubble won’t pop until the shareholder class decides they’re ready to leave us holding the bag. They’ll sell off their stocks, crashing the market and ending VC investments. Companies will go bankrupt and their assets will be liquidated. Land ownership, hardware inventories, pre-purchase orders, etc will be purchased for pennies on the dollar by the same shareholder class who owned them prior but under different corporate ownership.

Their goal is to monopolize the future of computing and prevent the future of the internet from becoming an open source decentralized network.

Nobody said the word investigation.

guns aren’t common glovebox item in CIVILIZED SOCIETIES

America is a shithole full of assholes and bullet holes

America is such a shithole.

Even if they do join the UN. I just looked it up and transit states retain the right to ensure none of their interests are infringed upon. So basically AB will have even less leverage than they do now.

I have MAGA family in Alberta. They don’t want to join the USA but they’re pro pro-trump politicians.

I love em but they’re rather ignorant and because of the religion they don’t care about objective truth beyond their own confirmation bias.

So in that regard I don’t place a lot of value on the distinction between hardcore and mediocre separatists. IMO the difference comes down to incentives and who’s getting kick backs for saying shit.

Highly believable that a bunch of Albertans want to use Maritime law in a land locked province.

their borders

Teeny Tiny problem… The Government of Alberta doesn’t own the land that comprises Alberta. That belongs to the federal government as per multiple treaties with the First Nations.

So like, if the Albertan government leaves Canada they’ll probably be reduced to the municipal boundaries of Edmonton or something ridiculous.

Maybe I’m using it wrong, but every task I give copilot comes back with empty documents.

I dunno about copilot but I paid for GPT to do a bunch of document migration from legacy pdfs/papers for work. Saved me dozens of hours. Still it was also prone to returning blank or ridiculously bare documents that did not match the preview.

IMO AI would more aptly called IA, or Intuitive Automation. Basically the classic genie in a bottle granting wishes literally trope, but with python.

I’m a beginner>intermediate coder. But thinking about projects and prompts in terms of, “how would I code this” helps a lot. I also try to prompt in a way that “grammatically” translates well to code concepts.

Complex projects inevitably will require multiple prompts. You’ll want it to generate a downloadable document at every step and if you’re working with data you need it to generate a master copy for reference… Sometimes you need to go back several prompts and change directions.

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Yes they even market panty liners specifically for this purpose.

The caretakers array that pulled them to the Delta quadrant is located 70,000 lightyears from earth.

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I agree but like that’s a much bigger discussion.

I think there is an immediate opportunity to mitigate harm in the long term that doesn’t require us finding a perfect solution to corporate-greed(capitalism).

Similar to how prohibiting tobacco sales to minors has drastically reduced the number of smokers. Ask anyone over 70 when they started smoking. Almost all of them started when they were young teenagers.

I’d like to see AI change blinker fluid or bring the foreman a bucket of steam

This whole conversation is such a false dichotomy. The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service.

But just like pollution and everything else we’ve let them push the buck to us.

The problem is that politicians don’t want to legislate enforcement/oversight entities as those would piss off their owners.

Democracies need to replace their lame duck politicians with ones that aren’t bought and owned by the shareholder class who also own the social media corporations.