It’s almost like unregulated capitalism is a certain highway to oligarchy and authoritarianism.

This isn’t typical price gouging. It’s an industry moving away from consumers because our buying power is nothing compared to large corporations running on AI circlejerk VCs.

Yes, I will concede to that. Supposedly LLMs help a lot in certain scientific research domains replacing tedious manual work.

The thing is, the prevalence of good vs bad scenarios are inversed between GenAI and aviation I would argue. Due to lack of legal regulation we see insane amounts of funding being given for the most greedy nefarious purposes, like the elimination of the working class or artists, privacy violations for the sake of control and literally weapons out of dystopian scifi.

It’s really not the same.

I hate both the AI bubble (not the science behind it) and private jets and billionaires if that makes you feel better.

Also, global aviation serves an extremely useful function. Not sure that compares to fancy code autocomplete and media generation that either invalidates digital evidence in legal courts or looks like an insult to life itself.

A bunch of desktop apps use electron anyways as a runtime. WASM could allow us to have better/more reliable software that doesn’t rely on JS, which isn’t ideal for many use cases.

Is it efficient? Definitely not, but for system apps we have other choices which are more performant like C and Rust. These days 90% of the software people use are either web apps in a browser or web apps with an electron gui running outside their browser but inside the Electron browser: P.

Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.

If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.

The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that’s the point.

Don’t fucking tone-police me. I’m not a politician idgaf about being palpable or “appealing to all sides”.

Being rude doesn’t make someone wrong and appealing to everyone doesn’t make one right either.

I want socialism, education and welfare and decent living standarda for all. I want fascists and the multimillionaire class to stop existing. That’s it, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it.

People need to be willing to accept that their votes have been supporting fascists and going against their best interests and they need to be willing to consider a different perspective for that. It’s not my responsibility to cater to those that spent their lives shitting on the very possibility of critical thinking.

Very possible yes, it’s been a awhile since I saw it.

Depressing bit of the day: I don’t have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.

Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.

I’d argue it does. You can’t improve things if you don’t first identify what the root cause of the problem is.

Frankly, between blaming welfare and going for eugenics or blaming capitalism and going for socialism I’d much prefer the latter.

To be fair, Poe’s Law on the Internet has been at the peak of its power in the recent years due to AI and geopolitical events.

It doesn’t have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.

Try searching for the theory of “bullshit jobs”. It’s all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.

IMO if your “A*” style algorithm is used for chatbot or any kind of user interaction or content generation, it should still be explicitly declared.

That being said, there is some nuance here about A) use of Copyrighted material and B) Non-deterministic behaviour. Neither of which is (usually) a concern in more classical non-DL approaches to AI solutions.

Sounds like win-win really.

Yes and idfaf. Work as much as you want to. No one gets a second home before everyone has at least one. That’s my position.

If we had a fair distribution of wealth I wouldn’t care about either of these really.

Most artists care about attribution/fame somewhat but if they could live comfortably they wouldn’t care about royalties much or others using their art.

Likewise for AI, automation is an amazing thing for civilization but when it is gatekeeped and used to make the rich richer it’s just exploitation of workers everywhere since they have to work as hard as they did one century ago with, arguably, less buying power.

Now I wish we had riscV mobile phones too…

The 9070xt is a very fine exception for efficiency really. I was able to cap mine at 230watt with a minor underclock and it barely lost 5% perf compared to stock.

Even base models were clocked way too high, probably to help it ensure vfm victory over NVIDIA midrange in the market when reviewers were looking at it.

Ofc, how didn’t I even consider ff7 in the literal post with title

Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year

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