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[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's obvious that this question was written by a child or someone learning the English language, given your spelling mistakes, grammar use and references, however:

ELI5:

The answer is yes, we can have "good AI" like JARVIS, but AI is still early and doesn't make money for companies.

Companies make money selling a product, and AI isn't a product because it isn't something that belongs to them. So they sell people's information that they get when people talk to the AI.

But that doesn't make enough money to pay the bills for AI, so they charge subscriptions. People who pay the subscriptions want to use the AI "for evil", as you put it.

So in the end it's about "making money" with the AI, and JARVIS does not make them money.

If you learn a lot about computers, you'll have your own JARVIS. I have one. It takes dedication, like anything else in life. Good luck with your school project.

Exhales

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Damn. Really? I guess I'm lucky. I specifically avoided watching Deep Space 9 as a kid because TNG was on.

I'll live your dream for your buddy; I heard the show's about a non-moving ship, which still has a captain for some reason, Benjamin Sisko or something

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

I've been laughing at this quote for 5 minutes straight

It's so good

He knows he's right

Also: I code sometimes, and all of my code is of masterpiece quality. I cannot debug my own code, I ask for outside help and we have to dismantle the NT kernel to find out what's gone wrong

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Given your vast experience and that your distro quest is over -- what did you settle on?

Sincerely, Win10+Kubuntu user

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

That's the origin of the superstition, don't cha know?

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

inhales sharply

Don't violate causality, don't violate causality

Don't tell them about the event

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

I walked into a big bank ™ once looking to take out a loan.

They said: "Sorry, we don't do personal loans anymore."

I blinked for a moment and went: "You are a bank -- who doesn't do loans?"

She blinks back and says: "We do business loans, and we have mortgages but that's all online. You can download our app."

I'm like: "Yes, but I came into the bank, to take a loan, in person."

She just stood there and smiled.

I felt like I was taking crazy pills, but she told the truth. Most banks are for/about business transactions. Our personal accounts are a drop in the bucket for them. Even if they stand to make ~10% interest on a giant loan -- it sometimes doesn't pay for them to bother.

That's why capitalism will fall apart eventually -- the idea of "too big to fail" and capital concentration removes the fear from these institutions in carrying out their basic purpose as defined in their corporate charters :)

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

they live like miserable gods preoccupied with escaping from reality

It's because they realize something as they age: For all their wealth, they are still mortal, their physical bodies will decline, and their egotistical, narcissistic lifetime will ultimately amount to absolutely nothing as they rot in the ground and cease existing like everyone else.

Mortality puts things into perspective for those people because they're driven by a philosophical imperative that's borderline pathological in nature:

Donald Trump watched the video of himself almost getting headshot on repeat, 9 times a day. Some said it was PTSD, but that's assuming a lot.

Elon Musk is quoted as saying in The Atlantic that he's "rigged for war".

Well, what war? War against who? Against what?

"Escaping from the matrix seems like "a war against reality itself".

We can only be so lucky that none of those fucks will ever attain apotheosis or immortality no matter how hard they try.

Maybe that's why they're so bent on destroying the planet -- if they can't have it, so can't you.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago

That's a hell of a vacuous argument. Would you rather get seen outside of a window or let into the store?

Nobody gives a shit about the non-voting numbers or third party ballots, if anything, their response is negative, not positive: They claim people aren't exercising their right to vote, or that someone has "spoiled the election".

Meanwhile, those aligned to parties are forming orderly queues and voting consistently.

Which strategy do you think is more effective, from a political science and historical perspective?

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it's definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling -- you can't have it if you didn't have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it's almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

Unfortunately, even with a "time machine", we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won't ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but...

Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's an interesting hypothesis you've cultivated. It needs additional testing, however, I'd like to add on the impact of intergenerational trauma and genetic drift, there's systemic runoff of abuse which impacts future generations within a specific animal group, resulting in evolutionary and social adaptations.

Enough of these adaptations kill a planet or a species, I'm afraid.

[-] Naz@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

I learned this technique -- we called it "cutting off the head of the snake".

Traffic moves like water, and becoming fluid and just rolling sometimes can kill traffic completely, I was on a stretch of bright red (5-10 mph) that began moving at 55 MPH after patiently rolling -- there was no actual reason for the traffic jam.

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