There’s a huge rabbit hole with HDMI certification…

Like, display port is better in everyway, but people make a shit ton of money off putting “HDMI certified” on products, so that’s still the default.

If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

But if it works…

Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.

The US is doing a pretty good job of replicating one era of Roman history…

https://youtu.be/dpn5Rff4gUk

You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

We have a lot more than five senses…

Close your eyes and clap your hands, now how did you just do that?

Proprioception is a sense of where our body parts are in relation to each other, and how we can walk without staring at our feet the whole time.

What you’re looking for is a “gut feeling” which is often your subconscious, but your gut has a shitton of neural cells too. And can function like a “minibrain”.

https://www.science.org/content/article/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

Most likely it’s an actual “proto-brain” hold over from before organisms even had heads.

But anyways, most likely it’s coming from your subconscious, there are things it puts together and recognizes, and especially if danger is around then it’s just gonna flash a warning light and not walk your conscious mind thru the logic that tells you why there’s a warning light. Because it’s better to respond fast and later work out why the warning light was flashing.

So, an example would be before I learned about the correlations between prenatal testosterone, in group bonding, and facial width; it was a joke among a specific friend group that “don’t trust guys with skinny faces”.

Not that low prenatal testorone makes someone untrustworthy, just that in situations where you need to 100% count on people to have your back, the people most likely to not are the ones that are not biologically wired to blindly defend what they recognize as “us”, their in group.

But this is a thing on a wider social scale, guys with “rat face” are often cast as villains and betrayers in media, because on some level even tho we consciously don’t recognize why, we all just instantly distrust to some extent. Not from conscious logic, but individual lifetimes of experience and us just automatically picking up the pattern.

Prenatal androgen exposure, approximated via 2D:4D, was associated with prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous research in older children, higher exposure was related to stronger prosocial tendencies, which corresponds to earlier findings on fairness in adults. Our findings point towards a potential role of sex steroids in the early development of children’s social behavior, but they have to be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size of the current study. Nevertheless, they underscore the importance of integrating biological and psychological perspectives, while also highlighting the significance of studying the development of prosocial behavior within peer groups.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001245

Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

No, it wouldn’t.

I think search engines didn’t work with it;

No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea

If it pops it takes the whole stock market with it and no one is retiring, probably ever again. Same with home ownership, it will exacerbate every problem we’re currently facing.

But if it actually works…

Corporations will fire virtually all their employees, what few jobs remain will see their wages crumble because there’s so much compeyfor such few jobs. Just instead of all of us being fucked, only 99.9999999999% of us will be fucked and a very few people will have successfully hoarded the wealth of an entire planet.

What else are we going to do? Stop spending hundreds of billions a year on a pipedream?

Then what? Spend it on education, housing, Medicare, and a functional society where everyone fundamentally has enough to lose that crime basically elimates itself?

Ironically enough it all comes down to the message from that Movie where Ferris Beuller played an AI at video games:

A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY

It doesn’t need RAM…

But the people who make RAM, are switching to what AI wants instead.

Crucial was one of the biggest names in RAM for decades… They just closed down so the parent company can make AI memory instead. Then of course it uses the same resources too.

You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

Very few of those green states are for electricity

And if you just meant:

Non profit = good

Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

Bullshit.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

they still have Respawn making Star Wars games.

I mean, that’s an exclusivity thing again…

From 2013 to 2023 only EA could work on Star Wars games. It was supposed to be a bunch of high quality epic games…

We got a couple that were decent because there’s no alternatives. And most of the time was wasted on battlefront and it’s terrible micro transactions.

Like…

"The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

Literally came from the beginning of that exclusivity deal…

EA:

We can go lower

Like, everyone knows that EA is a terrible company, but it’s insane how they continually lower the bar. It’s honestly impressive how EA keeps innovating new ways to piss off consumers.

If they ever lose their sports exclusivity contracts, they’re cooked.

Madden and FIFA is why they’ll never stop being profitable

The sentiment is shifting from anti-russia to pro-russia.

What shit hole corner of the Internet are you hanging out where pro-russia content is becoming the norm?!

And why would you think AI chatbots would do better against them than actual humans?

Oh…

Dbzero0.com

Yeah, just make a new account on a new instance and block your old one

You really need to specify where you’re talking about…

In America there’s no limitations on federal murder, but some states do

Know good review sites

Rtings and Tom’s Hardware are usually all you need, but for niche things you need to branch out

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Most oxygen produced on earth and CO2 consumed is done by algae.

Thats more because of total biomass, and the difference is we’re basically a ball of water.

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.