OpenAI had their little failure of a presentation recently, and they’re introducing a “fast response” tier for 6x the current subscription cost. This is their attempt to get people used to higher pricing. They are bleeding money, and they will need to raise prices sooner than later to start attempting to make it back.

Once they do, a good chunk of their customers will simply stop paying, forcing the AI companies to further raise prices, causing more customers to leave, etc.

AI companies are trying (and failing) to be indispensable, and they need that to have any hope of survival. It’s only a matter of time before they collapse, and only then might we see what’s actually beneficial about machine learning.

Dr. Zed did say that his first iteration of zombies craved a diet of bran and raisins, so this tracks.

Boo Cloudflare, but I still love the idea. Given that I’m not planning to turn in this current phone for a few dollars of “credit” when I need to replace it, this seems like a cool weekend project!

It’s simpler than that. Humans have a negativity bias, which has generally served our evolutionary ancestors by avoiding any “rustling in bushes” as potential tigers. These days, it’s weaponized by social media platforms and news outlets to seize people’s attention and manipulate their perceptions.

And given that most people have no idea how AI actually works, when the news reports the claptrap that the people making it are “”“worried”“” that their creation will imminently kill us all and please invest more money in this see how capable it is please god we are bleeding money, people take it as gospel that our demise is imminent and are looking for ways to avoid it.

It’s worse than that. Not only are people going with the AI Overview as gospel, the search results themselves have nothing to do with the normal SEO that’s been the standard for the last 20+ years. People are picking the AI Summary, because the search itself is fundamentally broken.

Gone are the days that website content + traffic determine the order or relevance. Now websites have to include specifically formatted fluff that the AI summarizers like in order to show as relevant results. Just ask Louis Rossman.

It doesn’t help that the people currently in charge are fucking stupid, trigger happy, and emotionally insecure.

To paraphrase Strong Bad: “Your [car] has too much computer in it…and not enough typewriter.”

More like somebody taught their calculator to spell OBOE ShOES. It’s still a calculator.

Certainly a cool idea, and I hope it succeeds and turns out to be what it seems.

No price listed on their crowd fund page, so who can say what this might cost? Uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W for the brains and a STM32 for the cartridge board.

I read something similar more recently, and it was about $250k then. It’s probably even more at this present moment

1000% they are. Since bumper stickers, etc. commonly stay on a vehicle until the elements disintegrate them (vehicle or bumper sticker), and because they’re often uniquely placed, they’re basically unique car tattoos.

According to WHOIS and ICANN, they’re a relatively young Cloudflare customer (just registered this year). Consequently, Cloudflare has an abuse number you can call…

Disagree. It was a marginal tax rate for income over $400k. There were relatively few millionaires back then, so with the current runaway class income divide, it would assuredly do something regarding modern multimillionaires and beyond.

The solution would have to be twofold: tax the wealthy properly and close the loopholes (like taxing unrealized gains).

Though in general, I’m not a huge fan of this solution, because it’s still pro-capitalism, but it would be a step in the right direction at the very least.

If the US would fix its tax system, such that the wealthy paid 90% after a certain amount again (as they did under Eisenhower) without all these loopholes, the wealthy wouldn’t be so dangerous.

They could easily be rendered toothless before even worrying about how much time they deserve behind bars (which is still a lot).

That’s the core problem. The wealthy capitalists both own and drive the development of ML right now. I agree that machine learning algorithms (AI) in a vacuum aren’t inherently a problem, but that’s just a hypothetical position versus the material reality we all face every day.

Maybe we’ll get global Socialism or Communism someday, but trying to convince people that AI is fundamentally good underneath it all is putting the cart before the horse; AI as it stands is a symbol of Capitalism and the problems it embodies.

Worry about the nuances of AI after you’ve dealt with the rot.

And paying for the capitalists’ tools is no protection from their practices.

It should be a huge red flag to everyone that he seems to identify with the bad guys in stories. And yes, I include the aforementioned “imaginary friends.”

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I think they might mean that Windows is ultimately a dead end. I agree that its far from dead, but Valve really got the ball rolling with Proton.

Now that there’s a bunch of bigger influencers “trying Linux” as a daily driver and often having a good experience, coupled with Windows/Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot every other month, I think we’re seeing a shift in people’s perception (at least regarding what their possible options are). That said, Linux still has a ways to go until it even breaks 10% desktop share, and I don’t think it will be a threat even to Apple until Linux hits 15%.

Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?

I seriously don’t understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to “mismanage” it.