I think the question really being asked is... will AI create the scenerio that was in end of sillicon valley. In short, the AI they made, basically was capable of breaking every form of encryption in seconds. to which I would say, I don't think gen AI is the key to that. Super computers specialized in it, would likely have found weaknesses in the current encryption forms if they could. I don't see gen AI doing anything close to the power of the resources dedicated to it could if they were specialized for it.

yawn... let us know when the actual human scientists actually verify it, and figure out a use for it. In a world where we already have an excess of bored media producers releasing. "Scientists think this might lead to a cure for cancer". Highlighting some piece of research at stage .0001 of determining if there's even a direction to work with, now we've got reporting coming giving us something at the stage before it gets to the scientists that can start speculating on whether it might lead to something.

I'm about 40, and yeah I can say that I used old google. But I would actually defer to someone 10-20 years older than myself, because I was pretty young during most of that time, and I have to say when I rewatch a lot of things from that era, I realize that 10-18 year old me, has some pretty rose colored glasses.

Damn liberals always telling you what to do.

Conservatives just make it prohibitively expensive to do what you want to do.

Well yeah but that's the overall problem with the world in general right now. Basically the whole concept is "right now there's less job opprotunities", so companies can race to the bottom, let people underbid eachother. But in the future... there may or may not be opprotunity to advance.

What makes it scary is basically the industries statement is "yeah we're cutting jobs here... but historically we've always come up with new jobs to replace the ones we get rid of", but now there's just no real indication of that to be the case. There's obviously a tipping point to that, we can't manufacture everything infinitely and there always be a market. Especially when disposable income for the average person is rapidly declining as everyone's putting most of their resources into essentials.

Companies generally like to hire from within because they can often pay below market average. Just treat those jobs as an internship, pad your resume, then start looking for better opportunities.

That works sometimes and backfires others. No shortage of companies that make the exact opposite call. "well the guy working in department A is more qualified than this outsider... but then we have to find someone to do the job in department A, an outsider lets us just replace the one piece that's missing".

I mean maybe it can work, I'm a 40 year old IT vet, every upward move I've ever made in my life involved switching companies. Bosses always tell me I'm too good at what I do for them to want me to move up.

Now maybe some do. obviously no matter what the advice we can find someone it worked for, and someone it worked against.

Neil de grass tyson may be a bit of a blowhard, but I think his point on this issue was pretty damn valid.

No matter how you slice it, sports working is all about drawing random lines to categorize people to be able to compete with eachother. Boxing, wrestling etc... have weight classes. Point is there's not any specific reason why "biological sex" is the chosen category, and admitted there's not a reason why it should be. Do cis men overall have inherent advantages over women, yes. Do left handed baseball players have an advantage... seems to be the case for some reason.

not sure how that could be done in 6 months. Tearing down can be done in weeks, but building with any level of quality takes years. Also as much as I would love to burn down everything that reminds us of trump. I want the next president focused on cleaning up the trump messes that are ruining all of our lives, rather than making the whitehouse look good.

Where I don't think I see it. Is the question of does it actually stop what it says it does. Christians themselves hold the moral double standard of "but it's not about works". They tweak their interpretation of everything to make whatever they were going to do anyway acceptable. Just look at what they justify now. Supporting genocides, oppressing others.

I don't know... I will admit the reason he's fair game and relevant is because he has gone on campaign tours with el sayed and gotten interviews with other DSA candidates. I'd say he's not relevant to the democrats as a whole, but individuals who bring him to campaign events... are liable in the same way that any republican candidate that invites Kanye or Fuentes is accepting some baggage from them.

That being said, I'd also point out Pikers baggage is just plain stupidly overblown as well. The guy streams for like 8 hours a day. The main "ammunition" against him, is one statement he made 8 years ago along the lines of "America deserved 9/11". which he admitted he admitted was more of a misphrasing, and meant it as "america is responsible for the conditions that made 9/11 an inevitability".

If you have the executable from a trusted source, then you don't need to spend your time determining if a version you got from an unsafe location is legitimate, you'd just make a copy of the trusted original and throw out the bootleg to be safe.

There's a number of downsides with the AI systems, that IMO are features for the ones involved with AI development. Say hardware costs putting gaming and high end computer hardware out of our pricing hands.

Amazon, Microsoft and google, all have the desire to move you to cloud computers, Think of it, instead of owning a computer, you can rent access to your computers and storage, prices can be raised over time once you are locked in. All of them have been sticking their toes in this idea for decades, heck Amazon and Google both tried and failed to make streaming consoles. The only problem, people like owning hardware, and they can't really compete on price against actual owned hardware. But... if they can't bring their price down, maybe they can bring the price of owned hardware up until the equation shifts.

Sadly I feel like that's the ultimate pivot point as well, if AI never turns profitable at least not at the scale they are building, they'll keep the data centers going under this pivot, and everyone else going all in has their own motives to love the pivot. If the movie and music industry can't profitably get rid of troublesome writers and actors demanding better treatment. Imagine how much easier policing piracy will be when your hardware is all in the hands of trusted large corporations with media investments. Totalitarian governments will love it even more, on top of whatever survives of AI being able to run flock cameras etc... Microsoft and Amazon will happily give them back doors to everyones computers.

But don't worry, I'm sure china's going to ramp up chip production to counter the hardware prices. No way that can be countered by either extreme tarrifs, or just outright laws banning their use in the states like they've done with Huweii devices or BYD cars.

So yeah I also agree, slop and misinformation intentionally burrying legitimate sources is just one of many things that we all see as a "bug", that probably are real "features" to the Epstein class.