Presumably, the same guy who botched Elon’s junk. It must grate, seeing this doctor whenever visiting the Orange House.

I hope that we get a Star Trek Offline from this. I want to play the game, without FOMO and humanity making me feel miserable.

“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It.”

Corporations are people. The death of such people is pleasing to see.

These distractions are DANGEROUS. Humans thought this was a good idea, and went ahead without thinking about what it entails.

Executives should be forced to drive home after work, so that they can understand what they are demanding.

Considering that each chaebol owns many industries, that money goes right back into the pockets of Samsung. The chaebols effectively include company stores, with their own versions of KFC, Wendy’s, Krogers, Wal-Mart, 7-11, and so forth.

It is that never-ending greed of the rich, that makes them dissatisfied with merely getting most of the money. I suspect that even if they got everything, the executives would demand the flesh of the workers - because 100% isn’t enough, it must be MORE.

I bet all of them will end up in Trump’s treasury.

Give out copies of Larry Gonick’s textbook?

All sorts: the Epstein Class, corporations like Blackrock or Blackwater, the Heritage Foundation, cults, corrupt government officials, grifters, and so forth. They might not be physically in our rooms, but their influence colors our everyday life, in ways great and small, often beyond our perception.

Fact of the matter is that there are many forms of power and methods of applying it - AI is no different. Like any tool, it doesn’t care about how it is used or abused. Humans have to decide whether they wield the power of the tool, and to what end.

A shovel can dig gardens and mass graves alike. A good person tries to prevent whatever causes the latter outcome, and encourage the former.

I want both nuclear power and AI to be commonplace.

Where the latter is concerned, it should be decentralized by law: Individual households can own a home server, and in turn, rent or loan their compute to organizations. The reason for this, is to limit the power of corporations and force them to abide by the will of ordinary people, rather than being able to hoard technological power to fuck over the government and citizens. The same applies to robots capable of replacing human labor.

We should not reject AI nor automation, and instead seek to ensure that they can’t be used against the interests of the public good. Mindless rejection, just ensures that bad actors will eventually have sole mastery over these resources.

Never forget, it was Taco Bell that won the Franchise Wars.

I think the United States as we knew it is dying. I feel no kinship with the MAGA nor the Epstein Class, my desire to be kind and fair towards that lot has long since evaporated. Odds are, many folks in Tennessee and Minneapolis feel the same.

I think that the Trump Regime has inadvertently created the communities that will resist them in the future: former military staff of good character and skill have been exiled, as have many government workers. These people will form the backbone of future governments.

The Trump Regime has self-selected for corruption, cowardice, and servility, while creating foes that very much lack such qualities.

My prediction: California will someday be the capital of a great nation. Vance, will have no nation left to call his own.

You do realize that you can use an AI model for many mundane things? Accounting, coding, scheduling, That leaves humans free to do human things like socializing and learning. The reason why Musk and company is so powerful, is because they can use their wealth to delegate tasks away from themselves. Time is a resource, and the wealthy are able to save much of it by not having to do the things that the ordinary person does.

I have 128gb of DDR4 RAM, a 4090, and a 3060. While certainly not weak, my computer is some generations behind. People, real people, can run a model inside their homes. Provided you limit the context and get a midrange quantization, you can run a Qwen3.6 35b on a midrange gaming PC.

Given time, we will someday run DOOM Eternal in our pockets, and be able to talk with the demons.

IMO, I think that artists, like any other person, should have wealth and income limits imposed on them. No one should be rich enough to buy influence, and artists would be especially dangerous if they had mogul money and the ability to popularize ideas through their works. JK Rowling, Ronald Reagan, Kanye West, Alex Jones, and others come to mind.

The answer isn’t to make artists rich, but rather to eliminate poverty and provide a baseline of living that allows anybody to succeed at life.

He loves gold, and will have golden dentures. Not even kidding, that is just the Trumpian way of being.

AI isn’t the problem, it is just an excuse to abuse and gaslight people. If AI didn’t exist, some other card would be played.

Instead of destroying the looms, we should take them over and make our own products. AI can be incredibly useful and might allow cottage industries and smaller communities to become strong enough to contest the powers above us. The big constraints is just the affordability of local hardware and the development of sufficiently powerful models.

Things are moving quickly, especially in the local AI space. Two years ago, fitting a 70b was difficult in my hardware, which had 4k context capacity, could take an hour to output, really sucked at calculating numbers, and was censored. Now a 122b can be uncensored, allow for 256k context, takes less than two minutes to output an lengthy response, and is much smarter.

What I am saying, is that we shouldn’t reject the power of AI. We should use it ourselves, and become the equals of the elite. If we foolishly abandon power, the wealthy will just continue bullying us.