I love that studies have shown that a 4 day work week boosts productivity AND salvages some of the living in the work life balance, but rich people went with AI because it doesn't boost productivity AND it consumes exorbitant amounts of water.

Just my two cents but as others have said, not being publically traded helps a lot. The focus on short term benefits that come with shareholders stops "master plans" when they come with mistakes. Learning from relative failures, like the steam controller and the like, ultimately contributes to major successes like the steam deck. Being able to stay committed to improving the software experience over time, instead of killing the product when it didn't immediately succeed, is fairly rare in the tech industry. And in all honesty, it would be better if they released a polished profuct, but being committed to it made it a success.

I feel like the pressure to have a majorly successful product day one means that smaller companies can't innovate the way they want to, so they have to find other ways to produce revenue. Huge companies, like Apple can afford to do both but still stumble, like with the vision pro. Maybe it'll be a success, but for now its not great and iteration makes it more difficult to maintain the original vision.

Christmas Day would be the ultimate present. Oh you don't like us celebrating on the day he died?? Who's waging a war on Christmas now?

Kinda crazy to depict trump walking on water like Jesus. I know its a cult and they treat him like Jesus but still

I use Linux at home but my work computer uses windows. Work just bought me a new laptop with windows 11 pre-installed and I got ads to upgrade to a new "AI capable computer" on the login screen. This computer is maybe 3 months old and there are already ads telling me I need to get a new one.

Carl Sagan, in 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

I really hope this is able to set a precedent. Would be great to not inflict this guy on people.

He had Charlie Kirk on before he got kirked. Said that democrats went too far on trans rights, I believe

Not to get too tinfoil hatty, but I imagine this is a bluff. He can say let's do this in public because he's not in power. Trump/republicans can't really agree because then Bill will expose Trump. Bill gets to say I have nothing to hide and Trump can't make Bill actually testify publicly because then they would both be exposed. At any time, Bill could go to any journalist and explain everything. Its honestly pretty smart if you know that the republicans will never sell trump out, which is a pretty safe bet.

Very interesting. I appreciate the additional information. Saying its for AI but moving it to overseas contractors instead of actually moving it to AI that is actually overseas contractors (like that one AI company that was outed as being 700 Indian developers) is honestly kinda funny. AI is enshittification given form, I suppose.

I hate this age-based bullshit. I was born in 2001 and drank from the hose whole childhood. Its not called being old its called being stupid.

The idea of spending two minutes to think of "precisely the information I need" is so funny. Like... Yeah dude. If I needed to know an exact piece of information, I could probably just search for it in the regular way. Reading a book, especially a nonfiction book, teaches you a lot about the subject and allows you to back up your answer and understand the context. Having an AI tell AI to compile information that an AI will then turn into a summary is fucking useless. Just search for it on the internet if you know the exact information you need. Not to mention that if there are that many layers of AI, it would be very difficult to separate the hallucinations from the 'good' information presented. But yeah homie you're an expert

Yeah, all of them.

If someone met them i n public, they'd be too busy looking at the honkers to even notice who the guy is

So funny to be like AI can retrieve facts in .3 seconds. First of all, no it can't. Second of all, can't search engines do this? Haven't they been doing this for years? Like AI is slower, less accurate and more wasteful than duckduckgo. Shouldn't all her points have been true years ago?

So fucking crazy that a south African who lives in America is telling Germany not to mix cultures. Doesn't really make sense until you think about the fact that they're just talking about being white.

No I had not heard about this and fuck you for showing me lol

Crazy that swearing in front of kids is bad but watching their dad fight someone is good. Maybe less about protecting his kids and more about insecurity.

What a fucking insane take. Also, their concern about immigration is wacky as fuck too. 'The ones I know are great but we can't let them in because we don't know them'. What does that even mean?

Also, what are you worried about illegal immigrants doing? If you can excuse raping kids, what line could you be afraid of them crossing? Or do you just need to be a white American to rape kids, otherwise its a bad thing?

The logic is honest to god fascinating. The example people give for who deserves the death penalty is usually a child predator. If you can include that in the 'just human nature' category, what are humans capable of that would be outside of their nature?

Remember when they said it was about their freedom to choose? When they said they're problem was that its not right to force it onto people? Obviously lies and bullshit then, but what's the argument here?

Like seriously, what's the argument against letting people choose? Isn't that what you wanted? Because when there is tons of evidence that vaccines are good and safe, you can still choose to not have them. So, hypothetically, if that flipped and they were able to get some "evidence" vaccines are bad and dangerous, wouldn't it still be your right to choose? Just like it was their right to choose, even when it shouldn't have been.

It goes without saying, obviously hypocrisy, but holy shit. And the unfortunate thing is that it is much easier to prevent vaccines than it is to supply them.