I have the disposable income and would still not pay 2k USD for a phone a FWIW. But I spend that on other hobbies (just ordered a programmable power supply and an oscilloscope earlier this week, close to that price when taken together)
> The benefits of a mass surveilled world are enormous - epidemiology is gonna rock in 20 years.
If you suggest mass surveillance as a "solution" to the next pandemic (I might be wrong on this and maybe I've misread your comment) I'm afraid that the world won't just stand still and face it. The recent pandemic has proven it, we're not all Australia/China.
> Advertisers on Google should be paying a lot less than they were a year ago.
I wonder how the Google Search page traffic has been affected by the recent AI surge.
Very anecdotally, of course, but in my social circle (middle-class urban Romanians in their late 30s and early 40s) almost everyone I know has replaced a phrase like "I googled it and I found this and this and this" to "I chatGPT-ed and I found this and this and this" (where "chatGPT" can also be sometimes replaced by Claude and, not that often, by Gemini).
I agree, this is pure (US) boomer behavior, they still think that the world will care about them almost a century into the future from the moment of their deaths. The world won't do that, one of the reasons being that said boomers have been quite talentless given their resources.
Vanity is not a trait exclusive to people born in an ill-defined interval of time. You internet using people need to come up with a better term for people you want to blame for everything bad in the world. Jobs, Wozniak, Berners-Lee, or that Ethernet dude, Metcalfe, are not responsible for the end of the world.
I like low prices, but I'm not looking forward to the chaos (political, social, what else) and deaths which I'm guessing will affect me within in the next 10 years.
The chaos is already here for us, the majority who are suffering the higher prices. Why do you think we're voting for the "extremist" parties? It's not because of "Russian propaganda", it's because life for the majority of us, normal Europeans, has become quite dreadful, economically and not only.
You're commenting on a comments thread about the possible desertification of Europe, a conversation we're having in the context of the record hot summer.
The extremist parties offer scapegoats and solutions for the unthinking ("The brown people! Remigration! The elite, except we're getting funded by the elite and we'll protect them and fuck you!"), and sadly there's too many stupid people who can't be spoonfed any concept of "think deeper" that like buying those...
> so the non-LLM options here are some posts that are much sloppier than my normal posts (in a human slop kind of way), or almost no posts.
I'm a little confused, but as far as I understand this is a LLM-written post, isn't it? That would explain the very big length of it. Or maybe I've understood things wrong, in which case my excuses to the writer (which, in that case, could reasonably be called a writer).
We did grab pitchforks further East, in Romania, they were called Mineriads (the last one took place in early 1999 [1]), it's only that the Westernized elites painted that as barbarism (i.e. the miners were seen as barbarians) versus them, the Westernized elites, and with Western money on their side said elites prevailed in the end.
A pedo talking about AI is still a pedo and his opinion should be discounted on the spot. You know, because of him being a pedo. Unless you entertain discussing the opinions held by pedos, in which case I have nothing to add.
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