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Imagine having a personal assistant paid by a sketchy surveillance company. They can't do personal assistant stuff without full access to your email, calendar, etc., but the company paying them wants to harvest your personal data.

Personal assistants are realistic for very rich people because they can be paid an extravagant wage and punished for disloyalty. A personal assistant costing pennies to someone else, with access to data worth more than its salary, makes no sense.

Would you rather live in Arkansas or Mississippi instead of Slovenia or Slovakia? (I can't be bothered to look up the median European country by median GDP, but you are welcome to do that.)

Has Europe turned into a Galt-deprived cesspool of "takers" in the last few weeks? It seemed like a decent place last time I visited.

Those utility monsters contain about 9000 grams of protein apiece when fully grown! They're a bargain compared to your typical protein powder.

vibe-ls(1) - often list directory contents, but maybe do something else.

Where can I get this amazing technology?

Google is pretty much just a wrapper around DoubleClick.

> Anything in the browser: not my private space.

Google’s main business is ads, ie running hostile code on your machine.

> benevolent AI assistant?

“Volent” is the problem there. Whose fault is it that someone was tricked by a boy?

Humans will give a slop machine control of a lab full of CRISPR machines because they think it might make them a dollar? It wouldn’t take Supreme Super Intelligence for that to go badly.

> Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money…

Or until actual people take the billions of dollars sitting behind those weak man-children. The US has fewer than 1000 billionaires now, and more than 300,000,000 people. That seems like a solvable problem.

That’s how units work, fitting the messy natural world into comprehensible numbers. A year is 365 days, except every four, except every 100, except every 400. A month is 30-ish days, and there are 12 of them in a year, because that roughly syncs up the orbits of the Moon and Earth. Except there used to be ten of them (“DECember”), with garbage time filling in the remainder of Earth’s transit around the Sun. A second is something related to Cesium-133, because it’s close to 1/(24x60x60) of a day, because Sumerians chose base 60.

Those are the people betting on a business model of “create Robot God and ask him for money.” Why pay attention to them?

Does it matter? The frontier models stole the whole internet, then the second-level models stole from them… It’s all theft.

I’ll believe Anthropic when they fire everyone making more than the cost of a few GPUs. Until then, it’s just marketing.

Well, Callum Locke has certainly torched his reputation. Not “spreading Santorum” level… yet.