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Jesus. This puts workers at, what, 150-200k laid off this year? Awful.

But I do like that part about mandatory power grid guarantees. If we lived in a reasonable country that would be a federal regulation.

Indeed.

Still shocking he never hired a designer. Even an idiot fraud like Elizabeth Holmes knew to do that.

Now if the world were only truly a meritocracy.

“American man” is all the explanation you need here.

It’s really not. AI Psychosis is not exclusive to the US, nor is LLM use. These products are every bit as harmful to everyone else outside the US.

I’m of two minds about this.

Part of me wanted to blithely reply that “nothing of value was lost”; However, it’s undeniable that this is a societal problem and this person is a victim every bit as much as someone who gets injured in a Tesla because it decides to run a red light and slam into a tree after a bad software update.

These products are built to be manipulative and harmful in the long-term, and by rights, should be regulated into oblivion. The LLM companies are just in the process of calibrating and tweaking the product so it kills more like cigarettes and less like interacting with a Terminator, and for that to happen, a few people have to die. They’ve almost certainly calculated out the potential litigation costs and accepted the risk.

And most of us can’t avoid these products entirely because our job requires us to develop a basic proficiency in their use.

Oof.

I sold my shares years ago, when Musk started to show his first signs of becoming radicalized. Looks like it was a pretty good call.

Granted the value isn’t guaranteed to go down

Nothing is really guaranteed in investing (unless you’re in public office and can insider trade or you’re a billionaire), though the post IPO dip has happened often enough that, yes, it probably isn’t the worst idea to have a plan.

Only if they sold.

And I hope they did. Squeeze the bastards.

And all he had to do was hire a competent designer and his product likely would have turned out significantly better.

With each passing day it’s amazing to me that the world ever considered this Nazi motherfucker a visionary.

I hate to admit it, but you’re right.

It’s going to take global upheaval to claw power back from the billionaires. They live in a world where they are completely divorced from any kind of public infrastructure, and that wasn’t the case the last time this happened in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Everyone with a brain cell predicted this when Flock began to become infamous earlier this year.

If your cameras are “AI-Powered” and collecting billions of data points on people, it’s just going to equate to (at least) tens of thousands erroneous identifications due to the limitations of the software.

And that’s unacceptable.

Nintendo being anti-consumer is no surprise, but it’s nice to see someone tried to hold them to account.

So glad I personally didn’t buy a Switch 2.

There’s also federated social media. If anyone needs a primer, I made a video on it. No AI. No Ads. Just great communities and human moderation.