neonstatic

"Were we on the brink of that thing that we already did in Japan and nothing happened a few times? Oh my god, I need to hide in a cave and never do anything outside again"

I can play that game, too.

I merely pointed out, that there is real growth behind this - 50$ from my wallet went to this, that did not go towards it at any point in the past. Your argument that my 50$ is not enough is duly noted, but also intellectually lazy.

This month I spent $50 on OpenRouter credits. I find it very useful for coding assistance (not coding per se). It's $50 that I never spent before on this kind of service. That's what we call growth - it quite literally came out of nowhere.

The Cold War was an arms race that gave us wonderful things: amazing technologies we still use today (GPS, the Internet) and the collapse of the soviet union.

Oh, that's easy. Bernie will pick 11 volunteers and together they will be dropped off behind enemy lines. Let's call them "the Dirty Dozen". They will capture the evil bastards who violated American law outside of US borders (that's just evil) and bring them to Justice™ (Impossible is nothing. Call 1-800-JUSTICE. Conditions apply).

> the obvious international treaty

That's even easier. We just take the international treaty on cloud computing as a base and...

> my impression is that the tasks that users there give their models to try them out lean towards rather simplistic, on the reasoning side.

That sub is games, porn, and complaints about not having money. A waste of time.

> Do I think Buddha is God. No.

Neither did the Buddha

And rightfully so. Unfortunately, they are perfectly fine with a marxist-leninist AI, and that's troubling.

That would require one to have robots, leaving Americans and Chinese in the mix. Unless you mean biorobots, then it's nothing new and there's no need to be alarmed.

> For all the feigned outrage, people want this, and will work hard every day to pay for the next iteration of the surveillance apparatus.

My sad realization is that the Buddhists were right all along. The primary drivers of human mind, before self-purification, are greed, anger, and ignorance. What you are describing here is greed. People want to get useful things for free. This is the core of the problem. If people were, by default, expecting to pay for everything they use, spying on them would not be accepted. Instead, they want stuff for free and they choose to be willfully blind to the spying.

> interrogate the shit out of the customer until they finally reveal the true requirements.

Or are forced to figure them out.

You can't fight with the times. Kids want colorful mods, dance moves, and other stuff like that. Girls also play, they won't play things like the original Doom or Quake, and boys don't get to meet girls much if they are not playing the same games.

> “the end of you”

Then I will entertain you with another Buddhist objection - there is also no "end" since the conditioned "you" exists in the beginningless, endless cycle of samsara, while the unconditioned you (Nibbana) is unborn, unbecome, unmade, unfabricated.