On social media the standard is to call everything AI by default. It’s nearly impossible to prove otherwise before people lose interest in the thread, so you can feel right every time. Nothing but win!

Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

Yes, I don’t get how watching videos on tiny screens is so popular. Seems like self-imposed misery.

Looks the same to me on a PC. Up/down arrows still adjust the volume. Scroll wheel on my mouse scrolls the entire screen as always. Do the changes only affect touchscreen devices?

Why does a calculator need my fucking email address? We’re not pen pals, just do this arithmetic.

If society collapses, the time until people forget enough to make whatever’s on the hard drive a rare information repository worth its weight in gold will be a lot longer than the working lifespan of a typical hard drive.

Have to admit, the name “Recall” does have a better ring to it than “Take a Screenshot Every 3 Seconds”.

At last, hardware built to run my code!

“Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need.”

Fear = Profit!

Would you like to know more?

Puti - we hrd u lik blowin up stff so we blw up ur stff

The washer, dryer, dishwasher and fridge my wife had when we got married were already old and all lasted 20 years more. The fridge was the first to go, and in the 12 years since then they have all been replaced twice.

Not really, it means mechanically working longer not forever.

I’ve heard this from service techs who have worked on my refrigerator and dishwasher - major appliances in America last a third as long as they did 10 or 15 years ago.

Imagine, government of the people, by the people, and for the people - that’s crazy SoCiAlIsM talk!

1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
2. Nintendo doesn’t seem to GAF
3. Trump says he’ll talk with Nintendo if they call
4. Nintendo doesn’t call
5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

If average comments/post is lowest on .ml, medium on .world and highest on hexbear, it might correlate those instances with post meaningfulness, or with the innate tendency of their users to comment. Or with both, or some other thing entirely. All I can really say about it is, “Huh, interesting.” Not interesting because it leads to any particular conclusion, but interesting that there’s a pattern.

Please do! Are we talking about Microsoft Bob or what?

While I was there they were working on integrating presence detection. I saw some demos where lights would go on and off when you walked from room to room, and music you were listening to would follow you. If you were using a computer your desktop environment would migrate to a computer in the new room. Never saw that hit the market in any way I was aware of.

Lots of stuff MS Research did never saw the light of day. One time when my kids were playing Toontown I found a bug that let a player slip behind the graphics. You could see that the clerk at the store was just a legless torso floating in the air, and you could even go behind the walls and fly backwards into empty space until the whole world shrank to a dot. This same bug was present in a MS project called V-Worlds I had worked on a couple years earlier, so I always wondered if they had made a deal with Disney to use the code or if it was just a common graphics bug.

Very intelligent article in terms of painting a richly detailed picture. Falls short in reality awareness tho.

For example, it’s easy for people like the author who are immersed in using information tech to imagine everybody lives that way, but about 2/3 of all jobs still involve working directly with physical objects and materials. Of the 1/3 of jobs that could be done entirely online, only about 1/3 of those actually are. The author mentions that we also interact with our personal lives solely through electronics - to communicate with each other, manage our schedules, our lists, etc - but we used to do most of that on paper. Electronics didn’t replace direct interaction with reality, it just replaced paper and pencil.

Recognizing this takes most of the wind out of the author’s sails. Silicon Valley, the label they seem to lump modern technology in general under, which most people see as a handful of IT companies, didn’t start this phenomenon of insulating ourselves from the real world. We’ve had telephones and radio for about a century, paper for centuries before that, and all kinds of powered or motorized appliances and other conveniences all our lives. How many of us still have living relatives who ever depended on fire-based lighting or animal-powered transportation, for example?

Anyway, tl;dr I think this article is a fine example of stylishly writing up an interesting and stimulating point of view, which doesn’t really have a solid basis but is written well enough to convince many readers that it’s insightful.

Musk saying something doesn’t reflect on the quality of the idea itself. For many thousands of years people freely imitated whatever they saw that worked, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”, which turned out pretty well for humans. At some point somebody figured out they could get rich by selling copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittence, aka “royalty”, and boom, IP laws were born, and so was the concept that imitation = “stealing”. So now you’re evil if you rub two sticks together without paying somebody - unless they’re evil, then you’re fighting for social justice. It all makes so much sense.