Are you asking how you would confirm without your phone or asking about someone stealing your credentials or impersonating you?

To the first I’d ask how do you confirm identity if someone steals your wallet? But also, I’d probably be able to confirm with my watch as well.

To the second, my phone would be a brick before they ever got it unlocked.

How many people do your think they employ? Because I performed seconds of painstaking research and came up with 80k, so I divided $40B by 80k employees and I get $500k/worker.

They could afford to give everyone a 25k raise and it would be 20 years before it cost them a dime.

That doesn’t seem like a smart business decision.

AI:

AI researchers are the worst. Some of them, anyway. Asking an AI about itself is just inciting it to write a fiction that matches the context it is given. It cannot think, plot, plan, feel, expect, want, need, hate, love, or respect people. It doesn’t have any ability to query its own mind because it doesn’t have one, but it will happily invent fiction about its thought process (not unlike humans in that respect).

There are certain positions I would probably be very good at from a technical perspective that I avoid because I know my myself. I could never work for the CIA or FBI for example. I don’t want to know their secrets because they could have me weigh a duty to execute my job and protect my family against my duty to humanity. I don’t know which principle I would betray, if grappling with it didn’t kill me first. Some might think that’s an easy choice but the personal cost is extreme — look at Snowden.

No, keep me far away from that shit. Let me grapple with intellectual problems all day long, but moral quandaries paralyze me.

We try to cancel every once in a while, but somehow within the following 30 days someone always has one thing they want to watch. It’s like they watch for us to cancel and then send an ad to one of the kids, “Hey, all the vtubers are watching this thing, so you want to right?”

Glad to have you. Honestly, I think the smaller community makes it better. Even if there is no unending firehose of memes and shitposts here. You can run out.

Same.

shrug Fuck that place.

Open app.

See this.

Close app.

I’ll try again in a few months. Maybe.

Are these the same researchers baffled by fucking magnets?

Well it all depends on your perspective of what “everything” is that needs solving.

It’ll keep happening even after the day you don’t wake up. Life is insidious that way.

Nah, actually I enjoy life more days than not. But opinions vary.

So let’s say for a brief moment that I want to wear an AI around everywhere I go. Of what use would it be to have all of them? Am I supposed to poll Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT and majority wins? Or do I just pick my favorite answer? Are they going to argue it out?

I can’t keep the names of my kids straight when I call to them, why the fuck would I want to remember a dozen more names?

Shit, I could’ve answered that particular question for free had anyone asked.

Honestly, at this point I think MAGA are just fin-subs and like it that way. Keep sending Daddy Don your social security checks you little fin-cucks.

I would grant them a modicum of grace if they hadn’t had 40 fucking years to see what he was about. But they had it. And they chose this.

CONGRATU… lations. Sorry about the job, mate. I hope that turns around for you.

My wife and I both work from home, and we have a PHEV. Of course gas prices will trickle down into transportation costs which raises the cost of non-local goods, and that affects us, but it’s nice not to feel the first-order effects of Trump’s imbecility.

I use Suno a fair bit from time to time. I spend a lot of time refining the lyrics and then I play around with music generation until I find the right vehicle for them. It really scratches an itch because I haven’t written poetry for decades and I’ve never been able to write songs.

The result is music I really enjoy listening to and is meaningful to me (“meaningful” in quotes because some of it is just pop fluff). But one else wants to listen to it. And that’s fine, I’m really just doing it for me.

I have yet to hear anyone else’s AI generated songs that I gave a shit about, either. I think it’s like the uncanny valley, except I can’t tell the difference between generated and real music. But there’s a je ne sais quoi that real music has generated music just… lacks. And it’s only in the process of working on a piece that it takes on that quality, but only for the individual — probably because they attach to their input rather than the generated quality of the rest.

Anyway, people will get away with AI stuff in the background where something real commands attention, but if you ever make it a focus, i think people will tune out. You can just feel the… soullessness.

That would’ve been brilliant for Firefly.

We (my company) are trying to create agents that read a story and translate that into prompts, then execute said prompts, then review the output. The only piece missing is accepting the merge.

I’m not anti-AI, but a human needs to be involved at every step because a minor mistake made at the first step will amplify through the agentic pipeline.

A human should review every single thing that comes out of AI — especially if it is to be fed back into AI.