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Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’

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You know it's time to take a break from the internet when you get so upset that you start with the keyboard tough guy shtick. Hope you feel better soon.

If you don't have the courage to voice your opinions in person, you're just a coward that knows very well has socially unacceptable opinions :)

Re: Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’

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It's all a grift. The whole economy is grifters grifting grifters, a game of musical chairs that's going on ever since the stock market was first invented. Probably even before.

I tried to get a really tiny crack in my windshield repaired yesterday. Something coincidentally went wrong during repair, so I have an appointment to get the entire windshield replaced next week!

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Re: Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’

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It's all a grift. The whole economy is grifters grifting grifters, a game of musical chairs that's going on ever since the stock market was first invented. Probably even before.

I tried to get a really tiny crack in my windshield repaired yesterday. Something coincidentally went wrong during repair, so I have an appointment to get the entire windshield replaced next week!

... Cool story bro?

Wrong comment?

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Adobe's moat is that GIMP still cannot properly edit 4-channel CMYK images. And none of the competitors can print with ICC profile correction. I kid you not, there is no way around Adobe for any kind of serious image editing. Adobe's second moat is PDF. And it builds upon their imaging moat because companies want their product boxes to be sharp and with accurate colors, so there is an entire industry built around PDF…

CYMK and ICC profiles are irrelevant in gamedev and vfx industries though.

You need ICC if you want your digital to film printer to generate accurate results.

But yeah, for gamedev Adobe Photoshop doesn't have that much benefit over specialized tools like Substance Painter .. oh wait, they recently bought that company ;)

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You know it's time to take a break from the internet when you get so upset that you start with the keyboard tough guy shtick. Hope you feel better soon.

If you don't have the courage to voice your opinions in person, you're just a coward that knows very well has socially unacceptable opinions :)

That people don't have to be miserable with greed and envy of people who have more than they do? It's a very common and socially acceptable opinion actually.

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Who decided that only level 5 qualifies as "self-driving"?

This comment is pretty funny in the context of someone starting out by claiming no cares “whether it meets your personal definition of "self driving".”

No, you said that I changed the “actual definition” of self-driving from Level 5 to something else. I’m asking what makes Level 5 the “actual definition” and not just an arbitrary point that you’ve personally decided means self-driving?

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> The concept of anyone being the boss of anyone else is extremely recent. My guts tell me it's as old as humankind. Citation?

> The freedom to abandon one’s community, knowing one will be welcomed in faraway lands; the freedom to shift back and forth between social structures, depending on the time of year; the freedom to disobey authorities without consequence – all appear to have been simply assumed among our distant ancestors, even if most people find them barely conceivable today. Humans may not have begun their history in a state of pr…

Is there any evidence of this? How do we know they felt self-conscious?

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The man who takes credit for those things? Things which are the work of others? No, I do not find that inspiring.

Would SpaceX and Tesla exist without Musk?

Yes? Most likely as better than what they are now. Musk is a net negative.
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