Human brains also do processing of audio, video, self learning, feelings, and many more that are definitely not statistical text. There are even people without “inner monologue” that function just fine

Some research does use LLM in combination with other AI to get better results overall, but purely LLM isn’t going to work.

There are already a few papers about diminishing returns in LLM.

If we were serious about getting people to quit, it would be better to force producers to slowly decrease the nicotine content, and the other addictive additives used in cigarettes. Of course the producers lobby and sue governments trying to limit them in any way.

Just ban the filter. Let them smoke raw and unfiltered.

Within the billionaire bubble there was a lot of hype. Outside of that, not so much.

A new platform to colonize, gathering info on what people were looking at in the virtual world and selling that to advertising made their wallets go very erect.

And certainly never about the price of hydrogen. It’s either running the car on fossil fuels with extra steps, or on solar and wind electricity with extra steps. Extra steps cost a lot.

Relaunching Stadia?

The article does mention that when the AI bubble is going down, the big players will use the defunct AI infrastructure and add it to their cloud business to get more of the market that way and, in the end, make the line go up.

Electronic products and software should get a “at least supported until” label on the packaging and legally obligated to keep the servers running until that time.

The German population went through serious economic troubles. Wheelbarrows of cash to buy stuff. Economically troubled people get angry and revolt, and in democratic systems that means firstly voting for the extreme candidates, the ones with a good story. Anger shuts down critical thinking and they don’t think about other consequences of their vote.

That’s how many elections went in a lot of counties in the last few years too.

The TV is for the wife, but even she gets annoyed with the amount of ads and reruns to increasingly turn to streaming.

That’s how he runs. It’s like those people “summoning spirits” doing a cold reading, but in a much larger scale.

“I sense you are bothered by roads, airplanes, children, jobs”

“Yes, jobs. How did you know?”

“And it’s all the fault of trees, donkeys, cars, doctors, immigrants.”

“I really hate immigrants.”

“so we’ll build a bicycle, sidewalk, front door, barbed wire, a wall”

“Oh yes, we need a wall to keep them out. This guy is really telling it like it is.”

When asked later why he suggested a bicycle, this is vehemently denied even when recordings are shown.

Not really. Trump just adjusts his story when he notices it’s not well received. He even started to promote getting vaccinated to keep his base from dieing, noticed the pushback and changed his message to anti-vax again.

get in the vat.

Lots of Roger Rabbit energy there

Paying tribute to King Donald the First, pledging fealty and be granted the title Duke of Cyberspace.

Seems these systems don’t need to shoot. It has interceptor drones. These can fly into the spy drone, so the rich guy can just claim it was a mid-air collision and offer to pay back the owner if they just identify themselves.

That’s Accelerationism for you. The goal is to totally distort society and rebuild in their image

the feed sorted by “new,”

Yeah, and it went from “let’s just add some stuff” to outright “we will force feed you this slop and you will like it” from there. It felt like you were a goose being prepped for Christmas’ foie gras.

Ah, an upgrade for Lenny the chatbot. It can drive scammers nuts.

The equivalent of dukes, barons and other modern nobility need to pay tribute to the new king. It’s a tradition as old as humanity itself.

Those goes back to the concept of anacyclosis, or social cycle theory. After democracy comes ochlocracy, concentration of wealth and demagogues, what turns into a form of monarchy.