They people who famously hate QR codes and couldn’t use them if they tried?
They will just not go to that website.
That does sound more correct
I just noped the fuck out as soon as I saw “scan a website QR with your cellphone”
Like, imagine all the fake captchas that will compromise your phone…
Youd have to be an idiot to think even authentic ones are safe, they’re gonna tie your browser to you to help AI datacwnters consolidate information on us.
Pretty ironic the author used AI to write a slop article about how no one wants to see anyone else’s AI slop…
Completely and utterly unaware that she’s still flinging AI slop and people feel the same about hers that she feels about everyone else’s.
This requirement will kick in the moment the system suspects suspicious activity. At that point, reCAPTCHA will forgo the old image puzzles and require you to scan a QR code with your smartphone to prove you’re human. Although this will stop an autonomous bot in its tracks, it also adds another step to verification. But the problem runs a little deeper than the annoyance of a single additional step.
Fuck all of that noise…
If chrome starts asking people to pull out their phone and scan a QR code, people are just going to stop using chrome…
It’s still fucking ridiculous that billionaire literally just bought the world’s computing supply for a decade to build something no one wants and no one even knows how to make profitable…
It’s getting to the point where it only makes sense if they don’t want us to have computers anymore.
Evolution always finds a way…
Buddy…
What about “take all their shit”, wouldn’t include the means of production?
It’s incredibly easy to fix tho…
A progressive federal government can seize their domestic bank accounts, can seize all their stocks in the world’s largest stock exchange, they can seize land/property, they can sanction specific overseas accounts or just every small country who has “hiding money” as their main economy.
That’s all shit a government can do
And we’re pretty fucking close to it, closer than we’ve been since FDR.
The billionaires know this, and that’s why there’s a massive push to make people give up on the DNC, and there will be thru the presidential election.
As Dougie Houser MD once said:
It’s all a giant circle jerk where they just hand money to each other.
People always think it’s just the same briefcase being passed around, but it’s not.
Because what’s really happening is they all own stock in AI, and if AI crashes then that stick is worthless. And because they took loans out on that stock to buy more stock, it could domino into a lot of the world’s richest people, just suddenly going broke…
As normal people invest their pennies, it just pushed the stock price higher and higher. But it’s still not creating wealth, just transferring it to the wealthy who already have 99.999% of the stock
99% of opinion polling is propaganda.
I mean, if you invent ones that frequently, yeah, but who cares when people who don’t know about stats make up stats?
That’s literally the point I’m trying to make here,you’re so close to getting it
I won’t die if I give up on stats.
Society, especially any remaining vestiges of democracy would…
It would mean a population of voters informed solely by propaganda or not at all.
Like, I get what you’re saying.
But youre thinking about a personal level, which the cupcake example was.
Polling/democracy is a societal level, and starving there is the full on death of democracy. And all the assorted damage that comes with that.
I’m sorry I didn’t make that clearer, I thought the personal/societal jump was implied
Your problem isn’t with stats, polls are still valuable.
Your problem is political think tanks that pay for biased polling that reflects what they want instead of reality. And billionaire owned media presenting those biases stats with a straight face and hoping no one notices.
Imagine your back in college and the water bottle you just chugged had vodka in it.
That’s a bad bottle, but the take away should be “verify it’s water first” and not “never try to drink water again”.
Meaning you shouldn’t disregard all polls, it’s just responsible to take a real.looknamd not just believe headlines or even articles.
Voting for the lesser evil is still evil.
Even if you’ll never vote D in a general, there is literally no downside for voting for the left most candidate in the next Dem primary. Hell, you could even try voting for the left most candidate in the Republican primary instead, I don’t think that would be as effective though.
After all, it’s the first step in Marxism-Lenism:
Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism
Personally I want to exit ramp before all the Stalin stuff, but you can’t argue that it didn’t work for him.
First off, got a chuckle from the bot check…
The story quoted new poll findings by a company called Aaru, representing them as research based on the feedback of American adults. But according to an editor’s note, the piece had to be “updated to note that Aaru is an AI simulation research firm.”
In other words, Axios had failed to disclose that it was citing alleged “polling data” that wasn’t drawn from human respondents at all. Instead, it was dreamed up by a large language model —yet the latest sign of every imaginable industry trying to leverage AI, even when doing so makes absolutely no sense.
This was/is a problem, but giving up on stats because bad stats exist, is like refusing to ever eat food again because someone got you to try a sardine and spinach chocolate cupcake one time.
In fact, the first, last, and most often brought up topic in graduate level statistical analysis isn’t about getting numbers, that’s easy. The hard part is finding the flaws in numbers, even in your own that proves yourself wrong.
The vast majority of people never learn that, or learn that bad stats have been a problem as long as stats has existed. Even making it thru peer review doesn’t always mean anything.
Like, every single time an article links to a study, do the due diligence and click, so what’s going, what the numbers really say, and search who funds them.
It’s not like you’ll even know what to look for at first, but if you never try you’ll never improve.
It’s worse…
I remember something about them preventing states from regulating them too.
They’re gonna say only Grok level chatbots are “real” be ause it’s constantly tweaked to stay right wing
They know the type of people who us AInare incredibly gullible and prone to being manipulated.
So they’re going to force ever American chatbot addict, to use chatbots that only reinforce maga propaganda
This isn’t trump making these decisions, they’re too logical. It’s likely Peter Thiel.
No shit…
If a private corporation with zero oversight has the keys, they’re gonna take it for a spin. And once they do it the first time and break the stigma, they’re quickly going to get used to it and just do it all the time.
The company could 100% fix this with oversight internally, but clearly they won’t unless someone makes them.
Everytime someone looks at any camera, and Everytime they stop, just needs to create a log entry. Set the system to flag whatever, and confront employees for abusing it.
Literally all it takes, but these surveillance corps won’t put in it any oversight, be ausenits better to pretend the problem doesn’t exist
but Chinese chips are still a few generations behind and will remain that way for a while.
Buddy…
That’s the problem.
China has “worse” chips, but they’re finding ways to make them beat the “best” chips…
If China still used Nvidia, then others could rip off their gains in code and training.
But once Chinese chips are different enough, then all of the Nvidia line the west is sinking money into at an unprecedented rate becomes the guy who sank his inheritance into a Betamax rental store.
All those data centers, manufacturing, everything, obsolete.
But American companies won’t admit that, because then they stop making money. And they control the American government, so no one will stop them.
We’re going full speed towards a massive technological deadend, because the people driving the bus know that if they crash, they can make the government use our tax money to bail them out.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company’s market share of AI accelerators in China has now dropped to 0%. The drop is staggering, given that the company owned a lion’s share of China’s AI accelerator market just about two years ago.
“In China, we have now dropped to zero,” said Jensen Huang in an interview with the Special Competitive Studies Project, a bipartisan initiative by American lawmakers aimed at ensuring long-term competitiveness of the U.S. “Conceding an entire market the size of China probably does not make a lot of strategic sense, so I think that has already largely backfired. Maybe it made sense at the time, but I think the policy really needs to be dynamic and needs to stay with the times. I think it would be fairly safe to say that having American chip companies and other companies in China makes a lot of sense.”
It never made any sense…
China used Nvidia because that’s what it had, but they have virtually no patent law and a giant workforce experienced at making chips
Any idiot could have predicted if you cut China off from Nvidia chips, they’d use their own, quickly surpass Nvidia, leaving Americans not being able to ripoff Chinese progress, unless we get our hands on the new Chinese chips if they’re not direct ripoffs of what Nvidia is doing.
Even if they start that way, it’s a fork. China will do things that Nvidia isn’t.
Eventually they’ll diverage enough to separate, unless Nvidia is copying China, which means they’ll always be a lag.
American’s corporate structure is what can’t compete with China. Our corporations own our government, in China the government owns the corporations. And with a one party government that doesn’t have to worry about elections, they can plan decades or longer at a time. Corps by definition only care one financial quarter at a time.
Both countries have rampant corruption and can do a lot better, but having a government in charge of corps will always work out better than corps running a government.
The problem is American corps would rather lose if the only way to win is give up their power in America. Hell, we already saw with Chinese EVs that corps can just make the government outlaw competitors so they don’t have to compete and maintain profits.
If a government controlled corporations, theyd be ok with domestic companies being forced to adapt, or go out of business and be replaced by a new one. In America corporations can no longer fail, and that will eventually cause the country to fail if it’s not fixed.
Right now it uses hydrogen, some day that runs out.
Then primary will be helium, and shit will suck but we can probably maintain life on Earth… But Mars would like be in flames.
Then the helium burns off, and a heavier element becomes primary fuel.
At that point, the flames of the sun likely extend out to the Earths orbit.
I skip steps sometimes and like I said, long enough timeline.
But you skipped the entire “red giant” step…
Before it can become a white dwarf, it’s gonna barbecue our entire planet as a red giant…
Eh, there’s like five other catastrophes between now and then…
Right now it’s 100% an inevitability, but if we fix the shit that will fuck us before that does, we can just fix that at the same time.
Like knowing eventually the sun will run out of helium causing it to grow in size and destroy the entire planet. It sucks, but we got more pressing matters.
Don’t waste energy warning people about Skynet, focus on getting rid of billionaires. If we just stop the killbots, the oligarchs will just kill us a different way.
Killbots just leave a better planet behind than nukes or viruses
I legitimately don’t know what the big deal is, Ive had a Steam Controller for years…
But yeah, I thought dualsense/dualshock was bad, but steam controller/steam controller is goddamn ridiculous