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Ponzi's going all out, huh? Unbelievable ...

You don't need alignment if you don't go all the way to super-intelligence aka free intelligence. And since nobody is gonna let that happen ever, #mass_surveillance, nobody needs alignment.

So all these centers and centers of centers are just more opportunities to sell hardware and take away actually necessary jobs. Like two different commissions in one Bundesland to assess whether the measures during the corona pandemic were "xyz". JAAA. NEEEIN.

I would say gg, Ponzi, but you are not a winner or an authority if you beat the shit out of and poison pups and think you're a champ when you keep them in cages once they grow up.

This is all so weird. What the fuck xD


This is a satire site. That doesn't make what it's based on any less weird.


nonsense for the public. they are Amazon, basically. they take the loss so the overall ecosystem ( x'D like with crypto ) can gain massively, onboard all kinds of target noobs, sry, groups, brutally prime users, discourage as many non-AI processes as possible and steer all industries towards replacing even those processes with AI that are not worth being replaced with AI, like writing and art.

of course there are a lot valuable use cases. irrelevant in the context, though.

the productivity boosts in the creative industries will additionally lower the standards and split the public even further, ensuring that if you want quality, you have to fuck over as many people as possible, so that you can afford quality ( and an ad-free life, of course. if you want a peaceful peripheral, pay up. it's extortion 404, 101 - 303 already successfully implemented on social media, TV and the radio ).

they don't lose. they make TONS OF FAKE MONEY everywhere in the, again, cough,

"ecosystem".

It's important to understand the Amazon part. The amount of damaging mechanisms that platform anchored in workers, jobbers, business people and consumers is brutal.

All those mechanisms converge in more, easy money and a quicker deterioration of local environments, leading to worse health and more business opportunities that aim at mitigating damage; almost entirely in vain, of course, because the worst is accelerating much quicker; it's easier money.

At the same time peoples psychology is primed for bad business practices, literally making people dumber and lowering their standards to make them easier targets. Don't look at the bottom to see this, look at the upper middle class and above.

It's a massive net loss for civilization and humanity. A brutal net negative impact overall.


Thank you for writing this. Your point about "quicker deterioration of local environments" is thought-provoking.

My key technical complaint about LLMs to date is the general inability to add substantial local context. How can I make it understand my business, my processes, my approach to the market? Can I retrain it? Or make it understand my data warehouse?

I think you are explaining why LLM providers don't care about solving my concerns, generally speaking. This is sobering.


someone has to prove illicit connections to private companies and potentially black markets. the data is guaranteed to end up in the wrong hands which will have a worse impact on the lives of citizens, workers as much as educated ones, and definitely officials; how to better gain dirt on someone if the law supports breaking encryption and they falsely believe their state of the art messaging app is worth more than the skeletons in their closets?

at the least the basic human rights and privacy laws should be on everyones' side ... except rapists, the many kinds of violent abusers, murderers, especially the genocidal kind, drug punchers, and these fuckers roofying kids in clubs and bars just to have sex ... I probably forgot some ... sorry I didn't stay on topic.

As Freud wanted to let us know, the ageing rich are perverts with enough means to hide any crime ... then they made him bend over and invent the Oedipus complex, ffs

the only way for them to create an argument for ChatControl is more terrorism or some fucked up crimes against children so this damn thing is a sure-fire shitstorm with recursive, bad yields.



big thanks.


Another one of those things that will separate humans on different levels of consciousness even more.

Enough people simply don't want to train their minds. For a lot of people, IT is just a job. Programmers, consultants, ... CEOs and CTOs, people want money and that's fine. Some just don't want a boss.

Some of these people will replace the training of their minds with other stuff, pure experience and laughter. Somewhere else all the time. Other will only train specific parts of their minds, actively or passively.

The big question is, IMO: what will the young face when they enter school, when they enter university, the job market. Will humanity be able to keep the variety it is currently maintaining or is the reduction one of the first steps towards singularity?

All above is rather obvious but the side effects of outsourcing much of everything systematic and structural to AI will build up. Will people care less or more about law and justice? Or just the same? Privacy? Safety? Morals and ethics?

MITM already create a rift between customers and companies. AI will make this rift bigger.

So it's not just the training of the mind that we can't circumvent, it's the (heartwarming I know) the heart as well. How to care for your creation, product and customer if your are completely alienated from almost everything except the balance sheet? Ah, wait, there are a couple of million people like that already. So we'll just have more of those. But don't they read a lot and cooperate and mentor and fiddle with politics, investments and are life long learners and stuff ... I wonder.


It's not that strong of a claim. 6 years ago I noticed stuff on the net that is now marketed as the cool, new thing. The quality is quite something compared to what individuals are banging out with publicly available tools, with or without their own training; a lot of which looks nice.

It's so annoying to try to find adequate words, but I have this weird feeling that something is off, something that isn't worth thinking about "because future" and at the same time ruins way too much fun to not be concerning.


3D printers and all that tech around tiny container-sized nuclear plants + all that cool MIT stuff to desalinate water should solve that problem rather quickly, when it becomes a problem, no?


Would someone mind sharing an archive link?


Now ... of course.

And do they mention anything about how much of the work is going to be outsourced and where to? Or are they gonna import workers to do the job and send them back home when their local AI can replace most of the easy and tedious stuff? Or are they gonna use local models to do all that right away?

The site is loading ...


Idea: workshops for teachers that teach them some kind of Socratic method that stimulates kids to support what they got from G with their own thinking, however basic and simple it may be.

Formulating the state of your current knowledge graph, that was just amplified by ChatGPT's research might be a way to offset the loss of XP ... XP that comes with grinding at whatever level kids currently find themselves ...


All the time is not a number but in Germany it's common that your legitimate insurance claim gets rejected at first and then you appeal once or twice and do the paperwork and document the proof again, citing all terms & conditions that apply and you get what you are owed or you get a lawyer to do the whole thing again and get what you are owed then.

"Arbeitsbeschaffungsmassnahmen" ( German for "employment creation scheme" ) in an industry where there is not enough actual work for--and or to justify the--number of employees. One of the more useful Ponzi schemes; if you are not a real capitalist, that is. Because if you are, then this shit is just fugly drag.


I have had this experience, but not with healthcare insurers (in Germany). I cannot remember the last time I had to contact them - the last two times they contacted me, was to explain to me, that they have expanded their preventive care offerings and they recommend I go and get them.

Blanket rejections are an extremly efficient measure from the perspective of an entity when the consumer has nowhere else to go and you don't care about ethics. Just tell them no and many people will just give up. If they appeal, you can invest the work to fob them off properly or just pay and not deal with the hassle. I can barely tell the difference with the many public healthcare insurers in germany - if my insurer were to try this nonsense, I would be gone the next month. Universities, some agencies and especially the god-damned GEZ on the other hand...

What frustrates me more, is that it often turns into a class indicator: Do you know how to word your letters or to handle yourself in a way that indicates, that it will be more annoying to not-deal-with-you than to deal-with-you? And if you don't: Do you have a access (network/money) to someone who does?


> is that it often turns into a class indicator

Oh, man. One could rant for hours about this. You are absolutely right. But in the end it's not really a class indicator because info about this particular and similar schemes could theoretically be packed into a weekend long workshop. In any small company or big factory, and definitely in schools as early as grade 10.

But it's a matter of character and you have to be damn lucky if you get a teacher who cares that much. Even neighbors will more often than not, NOT enlighten "the less fortunate" about stuff like this. It's pathetic.

But that's why this cascade works so well to keep almost all of the "more fortunate" under perfect societal control by which I don't mean some mythological conspiracy but "Steuerungsmechanismen" (some dude who got out of some cult beautifully explained this but I forgot both his name and the title of the book), keeping almost all of them in line, mostly silent, and alienated from the inter-generational usefulness of critical thinking.

And there is no irony in all this. Too many peoples mindsets never left the modern dark ages. One can only raise a brow and chuckle at all this.

It's a class indicator for sure, but, in my opinion, not class in the sense of hierarchies but of intellectual style, niveau. These tactics are low, like punching drugs.


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