Well mostly it comes from my memories of going to the pub before internet adoption was wide spread, Idiots were always the majority but you couldn’t prove them wrong and it was difficult to find anyone that would dare express anything but the dumbest groupthink opinion. Like even as late as the start of the Iraq war the level of discourse was unimaginably dumb even compared to your average Facebook group today.

They were even worse before the internet, it’s hard to deal with but this isn’t even close to as bad as humanity has been.

But only if you draw a very careful line around definitions, what musk does is very standard capitalist business and what jobs did is very much the behaviour of a classic conman. Apples whole business strategy is straight out the carnival con artist playbook, you’ll find all the same tricks at any market stall

Yeah fan boys are dumb but on the same hand I do think there’s a lot of obsessive negativity too, people act like he’s a bumbling clutz in every aspect of his life but I don’t think that’s really true either.

My evil, greedy and manipulative capitalist is better than your evil, greedy and manipulative capitalist!!!

I think when we have space based fuel and fabrication infrastructure we’ll be able to make some interesting projects, some huge thing that just burns its rockets at full power through the solar system.

Or a very robust probe fired from a giant nuclear cannon on the dark side of the moon. If you start the journey at top speed that cuts out all the acceleration time, we could have stuff popping off in every direction.

You’re suffering a condition caused by capitalist propaganda where even though you recognise it’s terrible you can’t imagine anything except capitalism.

You throw in some emotive nazi imagery and firebrand anticap talking points but your argument is nothing more than ‘capitalism is inevitable and our only option is to fight to be the beast consumer’

Technological developments have continually changed the world for the better, you have access to s standard of living which would blow the mind of a Victorian aristocrat, luxuries they could barely imagine. Access to information is better and far far cheaper than any time in history and by huge margins - go read Jude the obscure and try to find a single thing in that book which would be a problem today – the boy would be a Latin scholar for a start.

Ai has already benefited humanity in a myriad of ways and it’s going to continue getting more useful and making people’s lives better - especially those in currently deprived or underdeveloped communities.

That’s not a very accurate representation of history, the luddites smashed looms that when established lowered the cost of woven and lace products so significantly that even the poorest person could afford to be clothed in garments which only the upper class could afford before.

The luddites wanted to keep genuine and brutal privation in the world because they had what they felt was a privileged position and didn’t want to lose it.

Automated food production and service is going to reduce the cost of having a healthy diet and improved the quality of food for everyone which will have many knock on positive effects to the world - being against that because you want to maintain a system where an underpaid underclass toils to try and make ends meet is absurd and kinda disgusting.

As a member of that underclass who can’t afford to live more than the basest life I can tell you very clearly that this current system where the affluent mighte classes enjoy luxuries made possible by the suffering and privation of the lower working classes is not a system which anyone should protect.

Yeah and there’s a lot more crazy linked to right wing stuff, you’ve got all the Alex Jones type stuff and all the factions of q anon, the space war, the various extreme religious factions and various greek letter caste systems… Ad nausium.

If version two involves them biasing towards the right then they’ll have to work out how to do that, I bet they do it an obviously dumb way which results in it being totally dumb and wacky in hilarious ways

I do think part of it is expectation creep but also that it’s got better at some harder elements which aren’t as noticeable - it used to invent functions which should exist but don’t, I haven’t seen it do that in a while but it does seem to have limited the scope it can work with. I think it’s probably like how with images you can have it make great images OR strictly obey the prompt but the more you want it to do one the less it can do the other.

I’ve been using 3.5 to help code and it’s incredibly useful for things it’s good at like reminding me what a certain function call does and what my options are with it, it’s got much better at that and tiny scripts like ‘a python script that reads all the files in a folder and sorts the big images into a separate folder’ or something like that. Getting it to handle anything with more complexity it’s got worse at, it was never great at it tbh so I think maybe it’s getting to s block where now it knows it can’t do it so rejects the answers with critical failures (like when it makes up function of a standard library because it’d be useful) and settles on a weaker but less wrong one - a lot of the making up functions errors were easy to fix because you could just say ‘pil doesn’t have a function to do that can you write one’

So yeah I don’t think it’s really getting worse but there are tradeoffs - if only openAI lived by any of the principles they claimed when setting up and naming themselves then we’d be able to experiment and explore different usage methods for different tasks just like people do with stable diffusion. But capitalists are going to lie, cheat, and try to monopolize so we’re stuck guessing.

It’s not that they’re apple superfans that makes then like that or course, they’re apple obsessed because they’re fully brought into conspicuous consumerism - they love that apple is over priced and feature limited because it’s a way of demonstrating their excess wealth.

Airlines are big on this with their ‘show the world you’re special by spending more than most people do on their whole holiday just to get a slightly bigger seat and complementary drinks that you could have brought for twenty dollars.’ the same with cars that inexplicably cost the same as a house and why people need to have this year’s overpriced car.

Apple not being laughed out of existence is a symptom of our broken society, and yes I know people are going to tell me that they have some obscene reason for using apple but that’s just the very human trait of posthoc justification and rationalization of a choice made emotionally.

Didn’t they make one covered in diamonds? You’ve been watching too many of those ‘rich Vs really rich’ tiktoks

I had an arcos jukebox before the first iPod came out, every time they’d release a new version it’s big feature would be something my jukebox had always done. Except it didn’t have an awkward spinning selector wheel or celebrity endorsements.

I could connect it to the cd player and record the whole thing as mp3s, I think it even used to split the tracks automatically but I might be wrong. Plug it into usb and it’s a HDD ready to have anything copied to it without hassle… No need for shitty iTunes, no complaints about wav files and never found an MP3 it couldn’t play.

I remember thinking that surely people will realize over priced and feature limited products are an insult but no, the kids of the future I had so much hope for turned out to be gen z who care more about brand recognition than anyone ever before. I still think the feature rich generics will have their day, maybe generation alpha…

A lot of people seem to live in a delusional bubble where they don’t realize all the shitty things about apple products are by design.

I don’t understand? Is this a weird joke about women being attracted to violent guys or something?

I think you probably don’t understand the article because you only read the headline, the actual study is very interesting and solves a problem that was often talked about before. Those of us with an interest in this field recognise the advancement that’s been made are are interested in the implications,

The headline is like if every article about CERN, James Webb, and any other physics study was titled ‘could lead to unified field theory’ or if every time anyone releases a new machine learning model the headlines were all about AGI - Oh yeah, they do that one too…

So yes it’s a bad headline but it’s great science and we really are making great progress with printable PV - there will come a time where you start seeing it everywhere.

Much like AI people have known that the relevant breakthroughs have been coming for a long time but it’s not until a certain threshold is met that we see companies scrambling to stake their claim. Someone will make a factory producing one of the various printable PV methods and market it to a suitable situation, people will find other uses for it also besides the initial market and as demand becomes established others will leap on and start making their own variation.

I too hate when they make an article that uses science to demonstrate my assumptions were right, they should know that no one cares about the truth! we had our assumptions that should be enough!

What’s really hurting the numbers is the fact no one follows what actually happens in the world and just loudly puts on a performance of trendy rhetoric.

The maths are pretty clear though, we know consumers have the money needed to pay for blockbusters and that they don’t mind giving it over to view entertainment because that’s where the companies get the money from - in fact we know that there is excess because a large portion goes to shareholders as profit.

Collectively we could combine community creation, open source tooling and creator funding to make things on a far larger scale than any marvel movie, I don’t really think we should tbh but funding reasonable ventures, tools and resources is something we absolutely can and should be doing.

People need to start paying creators to make stuff for the public domain and refuse to pay to access anything that everyone doesn’t have access to.

I’ve given Wikipedia money, I’ll never pay for Netflix.