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It depends on how sharply to pronounce the C

Trump means fart in English as well.

I don’t think long term any of the AI companies are going to survive. The more the costs go up the more incentivized someone is to come up with a more efficient model that doesn’t require the Earth into a planet-sized data center. Obviously the likes have open AI don’t want that because then they’d lose control.

So just capitalism then.

The problem is that for less than a year’s subscription I can just buy my own equipment. So yeah it would be more sensible to centralise everything, but as you say the prices are too high.

I keep saying this, AI is not commercially viable yet, it should still be in the lab and they shouldn’t be trying to sell it as a product. Maybe in a few years they’ll be able to distill that down to something that will run on a reasonable amount of hardware and subscription prices can become sensible. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them $200 a month to automate something that I do actually know how to do myself. You can still run out of tokens despite giving them $2,400 a year, so where’s my incentive to not just go and buy a Mac mini?

Alright let’s centralize all of the AI into one big data center, the cheapest place to put that would be in China so let’s build it there, no need for there to be lots of different companies either, nationalised all of their assets.

Are you happy now Sam?

I just like the fact that they’re not apparently confident in their ability to dig a hole, and feel like they need practice.

Apparently he is just really ugly.

I don’t know why they think they would need mass graves, the US military has some of the most advanced steam catapult technology the world has ever seen.

Don’t put it in there then.

I and I guess itch.io as well but that’s mostly because of how easy it is to get a game on the platform so it’s really good for small games and demos.

Not everyone is

Perhaps businesses should have a rule that investors can’t take money out for 10 years. Perhaps then they would actually engage in some long-term strategies.

Well that’s because pretty much all of the competition are terrible.

There hasn’t really been much innovation in digital market space since the concept arose. Valve started it and a few other companies over the years of tried, including Microsoft and all have failed.

I think valve succeeded because they weren’t trying to make a digital market place, it started out as just a distribution platform so not every decision was about how to make the most money out of the customer. You make the money on the games, not the platform and then you build up from there.

So they want me to use an AI to do my job. But at the same time they haven’t fired me so presumably they understand that the AI can’t be used exclusively to do the job. So doesn’t that mean that they accept that I have better judgment than an AI and therefore my decision not to use said AI shouldn’t be a problem for them.

I would love to see them actually try articulate exactly why the above is not true in an employment tribunal.

Yeah because I really want to match with people who use ROBLOX as a dating platform. That’s exactly this sort of person I want to go out on a date with.

I don’t know if that’s the takeaway from that story.

What’s it going to do anyway?

Are you seriously suggesting that we don’t need competitors to Apple in the phone market?

You realise that pretty much every innovation in iOS has been in Android for years sometimes decades before implemented by Apple. I think the last major innovation from Apple was iTunes, and it was crap.

I’ve had many foldables and I’ve never broken them, and I’m not gentle with them, it’s not in a phone case, and being dropped several times. I think if it was dropped in the open state that might be a problem, but when it’s closed it’s actually protecting itself.

In some ways you’re more likely to damage a traditional phone screen since it’s always on the outside and it’s made of glass and more likely to crack when dropped.

There’s no scratches on mine but it is a fingerprint magnet. That’s what you get for having a plastic screen.