damnesian

there have been several bridges too far with AI, how is our money not THE bridge too far, for real? Will I have to start taking my paycheck in cash from now on?

Corporatism is running rampant. It's almost a full-blown punishment model. Soon the entertainment platforms will be demanding a fee for NOT subscribing to their service.

their greed removing yet another way in the digital age a parent can help their young adult children.

Which would benefit him personally. Guy doesn't know the meaning of the term "charity."

no one can afford a decent home anymore.

I watch movies like Home Alone and The Family Stone and silently rage. Never will even the upper middle class see homes like that again unless they are lucky enough to inherit them.

I'm skeptical, because any scenario even close to this means if we are still around, we not only won't be thinking, we won't be capable of thinking. Use it, or lose it. Which is no life at all.

our world rapidly becoming nineteen eighty-four is no longer hype.

>Muse is told to “strengthen your relationship” with users by adapting how it talks, noticing “inside jokes, memorable phrasing, and shared context that makes the relationship feel continuous,”

Not just a dossier. They are building a client that can impersonate people you think you know.

Using it simply to "increase engagement" as the mantra goes. but the meaning of "engagement" feels more and more sinister every day, like the pentultimate scene in a horror movie.

I was raised in rural Missouri in the 70s. Parents were so supportive of vaccines then, we actually received the shots at school. I was in the generation at the tail end of smallpox vaccination. One of the differences between then and today, other than people's unfortunate propensity nowadays to accept conspiracy theories as "proof," is there were family elders still living who had memories of the horror of unchecked smallpox.

If there is a mass measles outbreak, it's going to be so much worse than these idiots are apparently capable of imagining.

this is how extreme wealth bewitches the brain.

I'm no communist, but by all measures extreme disparity has nothing but bad consequences for any society.

I can see a future where self-driving cars network and drive in accord with each other. Barring hardware or software failure, that could reduce accidents dramatically. but in the for-profit world, the reality is a dozen such comm systems will be competing with each other. will they agree to a common network protocol or will they constantly be trying to be the dominant proprietary model to maximize profit? And I could see a significant chunk of the failures actually being credit card declines cancelling important update in, say, 5% of the cars on the road at any time. Perhaps significant enough to cause traffic chaos.

so MS is basically engaged in spoofing at this point. Edge is on its way to becoming full-blown malware.

>When we first got computers, this is simply what they were. By default they did nothing. They sat there and waited for you to have an idea

They can still be that way. Using Linux, I tinker around with hardware, local network and security, software-defined radio, etc. Of course I get online and pore through support docs, email, some idle browsing like a normal person. but I do a pretty good job of separating the internet from my primary uses, at least for full-blown computers.

And that is why I will never use Windows for personal use. That separation becomes impossible. I don't want to be immediately jacked in to datafeeds from the internet and have my uniqueness assimilated by the borg.