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You can't eat AI slop

Taste changes. Teslas now feel like janky, shoddily assembled, cheaply sourced ipad cases with wheels and a passenger compartment. Novelty wears off.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

This particular technology has been trained by explicitly ripping off a lot of peoples' friends, though.

Understood, apologize for my misconception of your assertion. Mass media, of course, is only too happy to cultivate such misconceptions on the part of the public.

Maybe don't be so dismissive of that which you lack a thorough understanding. Recommend reading "Against the State" by James Stout, wherein he describes history of various Anarchis…

If we need to check everything AI produces, every reference and factual assertion, where is the value in what it's producing? Why should we spend the money on producing this, and t…

Equities are underlying collateral. Prediction markets are literally just betting on an outcome, no underlying asset exists.

He could be right, or he could just be a phone company CEO trying to get you to buy a new phone, or he could be both.

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Take it a step further. Words, in the financial world are largely used for obfuscation, marketing, concealing of the truth by financially motivated actors. Thus, financial literacy…

The whole idea that pushing back against resource exhaustion and planned obsolescence is inherently apolitical is bunk, in fact. Politics are only "extra" and "bolted on" when you …

Absolutely, and exactly my point. This boils down to wasteful make-work again. As the bard said, brevity is the soul of wit.

And they are generating the longer version with AI, that you are then using AI to summarize. This is not adding value for anyone except people whose function is to look busy, and p…

UnusualWhales begs to differ

Because your fear is their marketing, is their valuation. There, saved you a click.

“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot…

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Many people struggle to differentiate between illusion and reality, these days. There's a sucker born every minute, after all.

Who's going to enforce antitrust laws in this environment, pray tell?

It's like low-background radiation steel. There's a finite amount of information out there that's not ai garbage, and the percentage of scrapeable information that isn't tainted gr…

This is not creating widgets or lines of code, not creating a product for consumption, this is fostering the development of inquisitive minds, hopefully encouraging them to become …

Corroborates that zero-trust until now has been largely marketing gibberish. Security by design means incorporating concepts such as these to not assume that your upstream provider…

I will sell you hotdog default swaps. Even if I lose, I win.