RandoCalrandian

Probably is.

As someone who was raised in a cult, having voices willing to publicly challenge the orthodoxy does way more than it appears to unplug people and get them to acknowledge the abuse

They’re always trying to convert you

“Planting seeds” and all that

Stop pretending people who still believe in Santa clause have or even follow any sort of moral high ground

Destroy and replace, to turn our brains into running simulations of the chosen deity.

Essentially, religions try to turn their members into components of The Matrix

That’s so weird. Here I am thinking being religious should disqualify you automatically from public office!

I mean, at least an atheist isn’t specifically putting some made up bullshit ahead of their constituents.

Wait… does that mean we can take out anti-religion ads?

I mean, if you try to do that to Islam it’s a hate crime, but maybe we could get away with it targeting a paler demographic

glad to see i'm not the only one who see's exactly how this tech will be used.

Now they won't even need to create political ads, they can generate the most manipulative and effective ones with AI for the highest bidder!

I find it immensely useful.

I run copilot-equivalent things locally for code autocomplete and suggestions. It's about even in terms of language specific snippets in terms of productivity gains there.

I've run my resume through it to have it inject HR buzzwords into all my bullet points, and i think it looks much better as a result. (The AI is way more flattering about my work that I am, myself). For something like ChatGPT specifically, i hand it my resume along with job listings and have it rate my fit, give explanations as to why, and highlight areas the company would like to know about, which makes writing cover letters trivial.

Nvidia has an AI feature that guesses and fills in frames, making it so a game only needs to generate about 30fps to get the user equivalent of 120fps, drastically improving performance on both low and high end machines even adding in the cost of running the neural net.

You're limiting your view of "AI" into what enters the news cycle, and like most things in the news cycle, they're almost completely off the mark and more focused on the doom and gloom aspects.

My future career is perfectly gears towards integrating AI into people's normal workflow so people can work with the accelerating affects of technology, instead of feeling replaced by it.

All that being said, jobs like screenwriters have good reason to be worried. Even a bad AI can make a better script that 80% of what comes out of hollywood these days.

Google "Cambridge Analytica"

That was an org that trump paid to do what facebook has been doing on their own for over a decade to push politicians that help prop up it's business.

"Amusingly", people were all up in arms about election interference and bypassing election advertising rules all up until they realized their own preferred politicians had been doing the same thing extensively even back in the obama era.

People got real quiet about it after that, but facebook is quite clearly the greatest election manipulation machine ever created or conceived by mankind. Other social networks are close behind.

You’re trotting out Biden as an example of “decent president” in a thread about blatant political corruption and the willingness of politicians to sell Americans out for money?

Bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for him

Might be a good opportunity to drop some toxic games at the same time

Have you heard of our lord and savior, Factorio?

Same.

Even for gaming, switching all my desktops to Linux was a breeze.

It’s mobile im struggling with

Yeah… I went Apple to get away from Google, but now I’m looking at de-googled android options

Pretty shit all around. Almost like millions of wealthy and powerful people don’t want anybody to have private and secure phones.