I would like to say no, but let’s be real. I can’t even be 100% sure that I am NOT already in a simulation. And if it’s a really good simulation… I mean I got hooked with effing Minecraft, what are the chances I would ever want to get out of the blissful one?

Note to the overlords: just put a meaningless counter on top and give me a way to “level up” sometimes and we’re good ok? Do what you want with my body. It’s not even great anyway, it spends a lot of time on a couch.

A sales person speaks to what you want, not what you know. You know you probably need to work, but a part of you rrally wants to learn that one weird trick ro earn lots of money with no effort or to get ripped with Tai Chi.

Ah yes, the pottery… You kittens of today wouldn’t undertand. Spoiled bunch, with your kitty snacks, squeaky toys and Amazon boxes. I usually slept in the barn, on the biggest sack of grain. And I feasted on real rats, quick, mean f#@ers with sharp fangs; but when I pounced, they didn’t even know what hit them.

I mean, thousands of humans do travel 14+ hours specifically for sex tourism.

“This is Captain Zyrqon. We have now landed on Earth, home to the finest anuses in this quadrant. Please make sure you collect all your probes when leaving the spaceship. We wish you a very pleasant stay”

Same! I got to the third paragraph of the article before understanding they were not planning to harass their customers (or at least not in new ways…)

English is not my first language and I’m a C- at best at Internet vernacular… what part of the song do you mean?

except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

Firet sentence in the article

Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.

Fun read! I think a closed fist with seven fingers would have been a better illustration tough…

If the other person feels the same about it and if you trust them and you are good friends and…

Come to think of it, to make this work in the long run, you need basically the same ingredients as a “regular” marriage.

if you’re far enough to the right apparently everyone looks like a Marxist. Even Hitler was a National Socialist (Socialist!)

Me: so rarely that I keep forgetting it’s a touch screen

My wife and daughter: constantly, so my screen is full of their fingerprints

I think that’s so type inference can work by just omitting the type, instead of having to use “var” or “auto” in front of the variable name

I think the EU are just trying to get some of the money quickly before Google spends all of it on AI

Not to be anti-AI, but… AI coding stats from a AI coding company are as trustworthy as studies from Marlboro on the health effects of smoking or from Volkswagen on car emissions.

I mean, it would still make more sense than SpaceX + xAI. Unlike a data center, a Tesla did actually go to space

There’s a financial bubble and a mental bubble. They are related and feed each other but they are not the same and might not blow up at the same time.

The Market, according to the article, isn’t losing its faith in AI as the Ultimate Technology (the mental bubble or “AI psychosis”). It’s just questioning its belief that one or two companies might be able to squeeze massive profits out of it (the financial bubble).

Investors thought one AI winner would emerge relatively quickly, a new SuperGoogle or HyperAmazon that would make all the money in the world by providing access to AI to every other company. The AI winner would then gleefully enshittify their product while making it more expensive over time, eventually turning huge profits (even including the Trillions of investment spent to get there).

Now, with multiple companies that are offering an almost equivalent product and are forced to compete on price while already bleeding billions every quarter, everyone might just run out of money before the winner is declared. Not a scenario many are willing to invest in.

But the idea that AI can do everyone’s job or give anyone 100x superpowers will still be out there. And all the CEOs and CTOs who thought they would look like thought leaders if they bet everything on AI will not easily change their minds all at once. They will still be easy marks for the next snake oil salesman, selling them a product based on cheap, less powerful models or whatever they can insist can still perform the 100x miracle at an actually bearable cost.

Some might actually be useful products, it’s just that if the mental bubble, overinflating what AI can do doesn’t blow, they can still be sold way above their actual worth.

they are hiring more, so they can reach their layoff targets

almost the same: “the ding-dong is dead”

Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by [Musk’s] “High Demand” for more money

FTFY