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Comment · 9 months ago
Uber was a mistake. Shut it down.
Comment · 9 months ago
Yes
Comment · 9 months ago
The police should be banned from using AI in any form
Comment · 9 months ago
What nuance is missing? The above comment is a list of facts.
Comment · 9 months ago
Do their boots taste good?

Just because you are nice to the oppressors, doesn't mean they won't come for you too.

Comment · 9 months ago
I think they know exactly what they were doing with the naming. They were and are absolutely ok with the evil connotations and uses
Comment · 9 months ago
Because this is what capital has told us. Capital always wants to reduce the labour cost to $0.
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm not sure there is much worth in imitating a Roman Emperor. They were violent megalomaniacal psychopaths to a man. There is little, about Marcus as a human being, I would consider "successful". Just because he was a good Emperor doesn't mean he was a morally successful person.

To me, successful "mind hacks" help us become more success at being better people; not enabling a horrible empire.

Of course the final word on Marcus should go to Mary Beard, the best classist of her generation:

--->“I have never understood what people get out of him. It’s a bad book. It’s hard to argue about it — it’s so evidently garbage that it’s hard to sit down with somebody who doesn’t think it’s garbage and fight it out. He’s a terrible writer."

Comment · 9 months ago
Given the documented behavior of ICE that is clearly false. They arrest people here legally all the time, torturing them.
Comment · 9 months ago
ICE should be disbanded and most of its leadership jailed for their crimes.
Comment · 9 months ago
Anything bad for Wall Street is generally good for the rest of us.
Comment · 9 months ago
Completely agree. It is deeply irresponsible for OpenAI to release this product.

They should held liable for malpractice for every incorrect statement and advice provided by it.

Comment · 10 months ago
Beyond the ad driven internet, ad driven content has been at least 150 years old. Ever seen a photo of a pre-WW1 baseball stadium? Or soccer stand? Covered in ads. Old newspapers are awash in ads. Day time TV soap operas are so named because they were sponsored by soap companies.

All a giant waste. Just propaganda blasted at our eyes and ears all day, a drum beat of distraction attacks on our attention. Almost all forms of advertising should be banned or regulated till they are as quiet and unobtrusive as possible.

Comment · 10 months ago
Then a new regulation is needed; one that caps the ratio of seconds of ads to minute watched.

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