jalapenos

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Comment · 7 months ago
The article as a whole. Like, life shouldn't be that harsh.
Comment · 7 months ago
I think it'll get approved for sure. It'll be one more vector for the EU to ~loot~ fine US tech companies, so win win for both sides.
Comment · 7 months ago
Like most matters concerning the UK: unless your feet are touching their territory, the correct response to their actions, inactions, or very existence, is: "fuck off"
Comment · 7 months ago
One of the most depressing things I've ever read
Comment · 7 months ago
Could insert most countries names and be equally right.

All so that keep one's unabridged freedom and get extra money to freely piss away on crap and narcissistic indulgences, or on some comically priced house you carefully use contraceptives in.

Comment · 8 months ago
What are the odds, would you say, that the US don't have a team constantly trying to breach China's networks?

Hence the framing of these articles always strikes me as dishonest by omission. The titles should all append "(similar to what we do)".

Comment · 8 months ago
I don't think people get to those positions by having firm principles
Comment · 8 months ago
Why only have the cake when you can eat it too
Comment · 8 months ago
And then Microsoft forced him back in on the grounds of: he's a scumbag but he's our scumbag so he's untouchable
Comment · 8 months ago
Altman is a snake who uses words purely instrumentally, and this is well known.

He basically takes advantage of people's limited memories and default assumption that when a person says something its honest.

Comment · 8 months ago
The stupidity of this is that cops literally used to not exist. People used to have to arrest people themselves and drag them to a magistrate and then prosecute them themselves. Didn't mean society was mad max.

Doubt you'll find many cops who'll know that though.

Comment · 8 months ago
> managing earnings to sustain equity valuations

That's an interesting take, so eventually they'll just run out of these tricks and at that point the valuations will burst?

Comment · 8 months ago
I'm not sure if there's a name for this yet, perhaps "AI shit-eating grin artistry".

But the way you do it is: try to make the most aggressive, gleeful statements about people losing or will be losing their jobs, and in fact entire careers.

Make it as obnoxious as you and your AI can make it. Make references to burger flippers being more valuable than software engineers.

Make really flippant comparisons that deliberately and dishonestly mischaracterise the role. Refer to nonsense like LOC output rate as a proxy for value, or point at things like its ability to clone quickly as if that were where value comes from.

And then of course, double down at every criticism of the position.

Comment · 8 months ago
Maybe it's like a kind of brag?

Like, it the monsters massacre people and no one's left to report on how awful it was then they kind of "lose the gloat value" to a degree?

Comment · 8 months ago
I say a lot? You took two long paragraphs to carefully say nothing.

Efficient means their value outputs are high relative to their inputs.

If they or their voters say homelessness is a problem, they don't burn billions on grifting "consultants" and produce no change, they spend a few millions and cut homelessness in half.

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