Yeah, that’s another big one I didn’t think of.

I’m also concerned about AI being used to generate non-consentual nude/sexual images of real people, and of minors.

I’m not even concerned about it replacing jobs, it has proven to be shit at replacing real intelligence, and making the LLM bigger is not a path to AGI. Also my job requires hands, which copilot doesn’t have, so maybe I’m biased.

But I’m concerned about AI being used to spread disinformation and control narratives in favour of the ruling class. I’m concerned about AI datacenters exacerbating climate change. I’m concerned about even further erosion of privacy and mass surveillance. I’m concerned about the inevitable economic crash that will come when they eventually accept that this mess has no path to profitability. I’m concerned about AI psychosis and the way chatbots can seriously mess up a vulnerable mind. I’m concerned about the effects AI will have on children who grow up using it. Probably a few other things too that I’m forgetting about right now.

“…to first face that challenge and to overcome it in some way that suits them as a player.”

Honestly when that player is me, this is just going to mean playing a different game. I’m old and busy, I really don’t have the time or energy for hard games.

Ok but if you’re nervous, presumably there’s an expectation that it might not go well…and then you’ll want to leave…in your car…while all that vodka seeps into your brain.

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I would think, as a Venezuelan living in Venezuela, your main problem would be the USA.

The US has been the main villain ever since they inherited the role from the British. None of this is surprising if you’ve been paying attention.

When I was a kid, I thought this line was a joke

Scraggly cats are adorable. But this one looks like she might also need the occasional butt shave.

When I was a kid, the Lion King was my favorite movie, and when Mufasa died, I knew he was dead because his whiskers were wrinkled, and I knew I had never ever seen a wrinkled whisker on our (alive) cat. Now I learn that alive cats can have wrinkled whiskers…was anything ever true?

I guess maybe some of us are more sensitive to sulfur than others. I’ve never had an egg that didn’t seem at least a little bit farty.

Ah no, definitely not losing your mind! I wish you luck (and infinite patience) in talking some sense into your friend.

“Crony capitalism” is a term invented by defenders of capitalism so that they can put all the bad parts of capitalism in a separate bucket and say “that’s not real capitalism.” It’s a “no true Scotsman” fallacy.

In Ontario, we have “provincial offences officers”, aka “POOs”.

I mean that would be a little bit more plausible, although the article claims the opposite—that the device is super mysterious and the Americans don’t even know how to use it.

It sounds like someone pulled off a sweet scam though, getting “eight figures” for what sounds like a backpack full of cobbled together radio hardware.

Havana syndrome is a joke.

The Steam Deck’s AMD Custom GPU 0405 also saw a sharp dip in this revision going from 21.41% now to 13.37%.

I would have thought the Linux share would be mostly made up of steam decks, but seems that’s not the case!

The people have to do it.

Maduro’s leadership is a helluva lot more legitimate than the orange pedophile.

So when the US “neutralized a Venezuelan tanker”, that wasn’t an escalation, but now when Maduro takes measures to prevent this happening again, now it’s a “significant escalation”??