I would like to argue that the printing press allowed for more freedom of thought and intellectual discourse. That it resulted in a bunch of religious zealots murdering each other over their gods was a feature of their religion, not the printing press.

Storing information and being able to retrieve said information is and always will be valuable to any intellectually rigorous society. imo AIs can poison that capability quite easily and so far undetected by a vast majority of people.

I'd argue that AI is, in fact, regressing us back before the printing press. The internet is being poisoned by slop and the 1% want this so they can retain control over their riches. An uninformed public is the best kind to manipulate.

I didn't think Slashdot could do it still but it looks like nso.edu (or at least the images) got slashdotted

Musk is anti-humanist, otherwise he would be spending his money on people instead of hoarding his wealth for glitzy looking bullshit projects. SpaceX somewhat gets shit done in spite of him and Tesla is absolutely overvalued. Twitter is dead. Musk is a drug-addict and serial philanderer, who believes in his own genetic superiority.

The fact that Musk is "worth" so much is a solar-flare level indictment of the USA shell game known as the stock market imo.

Maybe you need to elect better politicians

OpenAI are bullshitters and scaremongers, they make big giant scary claims about their product being vital or targets of nation states or some shit like that because it makes them money and makes people believe their product is somehow game-changing. All they have is a stochastic speech mannequin.

We all know CEOs firing people in favour of implementing a more expensive and shittier option are idiots - I don't know who's giving them a pass other than other CEOs doing the same thing. It's a giant circle jerk of jerks.

I mean, the stabbing is usually themselves, in their own dick, but yeah

It's about how much money you have, always has been.

What an idiotic strategy. How the fuck is anyone supposed to take him at his word? Why should we listen to a single goddamn thing he says? You're essentially saying he's just wasting our fucking time by breathing sounds into a microphone.

This says everything

As always, Microsoft can't help but punch themselves in the dick, and it's been like this for decades. They have the option to provide services to leading agencies and they somewhat provide it because people who write these fucking contracts say Microsoft can be "accountable" but I've never seen any actual accountability. Has anyone in government actually recuperated some of the costs of dealing with Microsoft's bullshit?

Microsoft doesn't provide a good service. They don't deserve our tax dollars.

EA is perfectly fine to burn through their developers like this - there are plenty of people who still think it's "prestigious" or desirable to work for a games company, and especially one that is "successful" enough that people would be clamouring for the opportunity. The absolute churn I see with these companies is insane.

So, they're spending billions and billions of dollars, kneecapping hardware markets, and poisoning the internet, all for either questionable or negligible increases in productivity.

genuinely curious: are you paying for AI? What models are you using for this?

LLMs can be confidently incorrect - I would hope that teachers are teaching this in classrooms as much as they poo-poo'd wikipedia a decade or so ago.