Wait, I'm so confused. Aren't we mocking anyone "stupid" enough to believe in conspiracy theories but now you're telling me I need to believe Russia conspired to interfere with the election?
Aren't we meant to label anyone dumb enough to believe in conspiracies as alt-right or something? But now you're telling me groups of people do conspire to do nefarious shit?
Yes people. Conspiracies are real. People form groups and conspire to gain power and money every day of the fucking year. See spy agencies, the mafia, the triads, the yakuza, bikey gangs, drug cartels, corporations, blah blah blah blah...
The fact that anyone is naive enough to think that conspiracies aren't a thing just goes to show how effective a tool the media are at squashing and ridiculing anyone who tries to shine a light on any of the various shitty things powerful assholes are trying to get away with.
Speaking of conspiracies, I've heard this crazy one that rich and powerful people have been getting away with fucking children for decades. I know, crazy right?

Unless you're planning on retiring some time this year I'd guess you're being very optimistic. Good luck though. I'm in the same boat.

I say the following as someone with natural left wing socialist tendencies verging on being a commie bastard.
I know it's cool to hate on capitalism and billionaires at the moment but simplistically in a capitalist society people can acquire vast amounts of money by producing something that other people get value from more efficiently than their competition.
The more capital those people acquire, the more they can put to good use doing other stuff. If they succeed they make more, if not they lose it.
Contrary to how people like to imagine wealth, rich people don't have it stuffed in a vault like Scrooge McDuck, they have it invested all over the place. The smarter you are with money the more you get to control where it flows, and the more likely that money will flow somewhere that produces the most efficient work and everyone benefits ideally.
I don't have a problem with successful capitalists getting richer and controlling more money (since they are obviously the best at allocating it) as long as the living standards of the poorest people rise as well via taxes. Of course this argument goes out the window once you have crony capitalism and an owned corrupt government that refuses to fund welfare and just siphons money off to their owners. This is the real problem.
I don't see billionaire's wealth as the problem unless they're using it to corrupt the government. The only way to stop this is to elect people with integrity. If the existing major parties refuse to put up people with integrity for election than create a new one that does. If the electorate are too lazy and stupid to do that then they get what they deserve.

If taking an input of one hundred thousand lines of text which happens to include complicated C++ code, some questions and some log files, and being able to recognize the code, the questions and the logs as being distinct, and being able to analyze the code and logs, analyze the question and then answer it showing all reasoning used in the process doesn't meet your requirement of a feat of intelligence, by all means give me an example of something that does.

Wow, 5 insightful. Surprise surprise, Slashdot is mostly populated by Luddites and naysayers. I'm shocked I tells ya.

This guy disagrees with you but he probably doesn't know shit about AI...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nextbigfuture.com%2F...
Anyone that claims that current AI chatbots aren't intelligent obviously aren't using them in any meaningful capacity. They are absolutely mind blowing. You can give one million tokens of a very complicated C++ project (at least one hundred thousand lines of code) to Gemini Pro 2.5 Experimental and tell it about an issue you're having and give it some logs to examine and within a minute it will start showing you deep insights into the code and what is probably causing those issues.
If you think that's "useless" then...umm....
Anyone who hasn't realized that shit is about to get real...fuck me you're in for a surprise.

The uniparty's main concern is shifting money from the tax payer to the military industrial complex. That's pretty much it. Wars, weapons and fear to drive up that military budget. As long as that's happening a rabid squirrel can be sitting in the White House for all they care.

Tell that to Assange or anyone else that threatened the uniparty.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fg...

Agreed. After more than 30 years as a professional coder I'm thinking it's time to pivot to a trade.
The days of high paying contracts will be coming to an end very shortly. I always assumed my skills would be of value until the day I died.
The power of these new AIs is absolutely mind blowing.
Society as we know it is in for a massive shakeup.

Don't forget IBM. I think it's awesome that big behemoth companies get taken over by MBAs and run into the ground as soon as the founders retire. It gives more innovative smaller companies a chance to compete and makes things interesting. Of course they'll usually repeat the same mistake once they become too big.

Sounds more like anarchy than fascism to be honest.

Anyone could have forked the entire project when it was public.

Ah, so laws represent decency? That's cute.
Just out of curiosity, let's say it's your job to write the laws around the downloading of copyrighted material.
If your son was to download a copyrighted book from a publicly accessible URL, but then delete the file without sharing it, what should his punishment be?
What if he downloads a zip file with 1000 books?
What if he downloads a zip with every book in existence?
What if he writes an app that allows people to search for the title of a book they're looking for?
What if he builds a honking big neural network and trains it on all the books and makes it publicly available?
I'm guessing different people will have different ideas of what the law should be in each case. It's up to the law makers to write laws that serve "the people's" best interest. Obviously in the American system "the people" are the corporate donors, so we now get a showdown between Meta, Microsoft, X, Amazon, ChatGPT vs book publishers. Gee, I wonder who's going to win?

Naturally. Every country that doesn't bend over to receive a fisting from corporate America is the enemy and is just gagging for sanctions and regime change.
We must never let another country become more powerful than us because we know they can't be trusted to become even more psycho than we are with our foreign policy. Can you imagine? Fuck that noise.
Trying to live in peace with anyone who isn't exactly like us is just fruity hippy talk.

Well at least fascists got something right hey?
All main stream media from MSNBC to Fox should go die in a fire. When you got from pretending to have some semblance of neutrality to "our side" won or "our side" lost than you're no longer a journalist really are you?