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Sues. Lawyers do discovery. Tencent refuses. Court fines Tencent in contempt, rules in favor of the government. Tencent tries to bribe Trump with something.

I feel like in a post-global pandemic world, where we have AIs that can pass the Turing test, VR world's where we can do global virtual raves, and if one cobbles enough cutting edge tech together one can say "earl Grey, hot" and a 3d printer can print up a model of a tea cup... I think scifi writers have to come up with what is NEXT.

No more "Oh this logical robot which can either be a metaphor for autism or enslaved people want to be free and human". Give us projections on our current technology and social evolution. Shows set in the year 2200 shouldn't just be dealing with the emergence of AI and still have only straight nuclear families.

I can understand "not doing things" like censoring anti-LGBT stuff, because that cost money. But this COST money to change.

Just give firefighting responsibility to the cops! Then they can show up to your kitchen fire, put it out, shoot your dog, and arrest you for complaining all in one trip!

You may think that the punishment is nothing, but this level of punishment if he was an immigrant would be enough to deport him under Laken Riley Act. And if you think "Oh, they won't pass that, the democrats are filibustering it, well..."

Let us just thank him for letting Harris try this time. If Biden had continued and lost to Trump, Harris would have 4 years to convince the DNC that it is "her turn".

And in this reality she lost to a convicted criminal - imagine if she was running against a competent opponent in 2028. We would have to wait until 2032 to get someone with a possibility of winning.

There seems to be two ways of viewing generative AI. The first, which many anti-AI people take is that Generative AI will be captured by big business and will decimate the creatives financial streams. The outcome will be less art with less meaning and shallow profit seeking art will rule the world.

Then there is the flip side. Everyone in them has a story they want to tell. Everyone has a artistic vision they want to produce. Everyone has a song they want to write and sing. Everyone, if given enough time, talent, practice, resources, and yes, money, could produce something beautiful, deep, and unique to themselves. But they don't. Why? Because there are barriers. Barriers among barriers. It is the hope of the "AI bros" that AI will tear down those barriers and allow more people to create.

But because these people have never created before, their work will obviously not be up to pair with professionals. Just give it time. In the words of Randall Munroe: If we want to write Ulysses, our generation might not be sexting enough.

VR Metaverse would have worked if they let people have legs.

Meta would not have liked WHY it would have worked, however....

Wait, they blew up their own people?

If this was just McDonalds, shouldn't there be a Burger King that didn't raise prices to try to gain back market share?

And if this was all fast food joints, is there a common reason besides greed that it happened? If it was just greed, you would think one of their competitors could WALMART (lower prices until competition dies) them.

Manager: Before we put these models into something that can implement code, we should test what it would do.

LLM: Tries to do bad things, but it can't because that functionality hasn't been implemented

Researchers: We found it doing bad things. Perhaps fix that before function implementation

This thread: The researchers are lying! It didn't do bad things because it can't! That isn't implemented!

Manager: Yes... hence the test.

Wait, I came here to make a joke that he had the same name as the former Lib Dem leader.... it actually is him?

They saw what happened to NC governor candidate. They made it illegal for anyone in the future NOT to use a VPN.

Perflogs/

I am reminded of Willian Jennings Bryan, who in his old age advocated for the eight-hour work day, a minimum wage, the right of unions to strike, women's suffrage, and then Alcohol Prohibition and of course Anti-Evolution.

Even the most progressive will turn to "I am old and don't like new ideas!" as they age.

This thread: "Just have someone go over and try to collect! It isn't that hard."

Meanwhile, in another thread: "Russia fines google a Trillion Trillion rubles for having gay stuff on it." That thread: 'Good luck collecting that! Google isn't even located in Russia!"

People vote for change. "Nothing will fundamentally change" is not a winning strategy. People will argue about WHAT to change, but supporting the status quo is nevertheless a loosing strategy.

We put out a job listing, had thousands of applicants, didn't hire any of them, and then concluded no one in America wanted the position!

Strangely, that is a lot of who is complaining. It was a Faustian bargin: draw furry porn and earn money but never be allowed to use your art in a professional sense ever again.

Then AI art came and replaced them, so it became loose-loose.