Echo Dot

Yes its everyone else’s fault

I am waiting for the Linux phone to get released. Waiting been the operative word because they’re taking their sweet time with it.

I cannot get over how basic iOS is, it’s not in decline it’s just never been that good.

That will inconvenience the Apple map user. I’m sure they’re devastated by this news.

What do you want about? I don’t even know what miracle whip is, I’ve never heard of it, but the picture is of Hellman’s which is definitely mayonnaise and not salad cream or anything else

No idea what that is, but the picture is very much of Hellman’s mayonnaise, which is the most mayonnaise of all the mayonnaises

What? Mayonnaise is absolutely still a thing.

People take epilepsy risk a bit far. I mean I get it they don’t want to kill someone but people with epilepsy know how much flickering is required to be a problem and honestly it’s a lot. That flickering would be extremely annoying but it’s not going to be dangerous to me.

Although I must say I’ve never actually seen this issue and I watch a lot of YouTube because of my job which requires me to be on call but not actually doing anything.

There is an issue that YouTube occasionally has where a video will lock up for a couple of seconds and it always locks up at exactly the same point, and always recovers at exactly the same point, but that’s a very rare issue, isn’t flashing so is unlikely to cause epilepsy, and has been around for years now so is nothing to do with AI.

And thanks to the fact that they’ve now brought cryptocurrency into economic calculations, any financial crash will take down cryptocurrencies too. So the one thing that they kind of do actually have a use for, protecting financial assets from economic collapse, will be destroyed as well. Fantastic.

Everyone should probably just start investing in gold or something.

Got it, don’t invest with JP Morgan.

Why are they doing this this is a seriously stupid idea. “Will need some collateral for this mortgage, but don’t worry we’re perfectly prepared to take this completely unregulated highly fluctuating pseudo currency”. There’s a reason steam stopped accepting cryptocurrency and it’s because it’s unworkable.

Well we are on our way to WW3 so perhaps we’ll get there.

Far be it for me to point out that the “godfather of AI” has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.

There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn’t instantly materialise.

Why is it that every time they say stuff like this it always sounds like an advertisement.

“Our product is going to bring about the end of days, buy it now!!!”

I’ve never even heard of the person pictured so I had no idea how to pronounce their name, so that didn’t help.

Well you etch pits you don’t actually use numbers. Also it’s not a spiral, it’s not a record player it’s not been read by physical stylus so you don’t need a guide, they’re just concentric circles.

You start the disc off as a zero, then whenever you need to transition to a one you etch a pit, then it will continue to read that as one until you etch another pit and flip back to zero. So the sequence 0111001 would be etched as _.__.__.

Discs can also be overwritten, and used multiple times, you just wipe the entire top layer off and start again on the layer below, only really cheap CDs were single use.

As for the future there are already experimental crystal storage solutions (made out of artificial diamond so it would be essentially indestructible) which really are single use, but they can store hundreds of petabytes of data so you would probably just treat them as if they were rewritable. There’s also DNA storage but the equipment to save and read the data is nowhere near commercially viable yet.

Fortunately he isn’t going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can’t imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they’d probably fall over.

There has never been another individual who’s ability and ego are so at odds

Didn’t Amazon kill people because they wouldn’t let them go home in a hurricane? That’s not on the individual managers that’s corporate policy.

But that’s the thing, that doesn’t matter. Because as soon as anyone comes along with a policy of introducing universal basic income, it doesn’t matter how entrenched the political establishment are, people will vote for that if they are losing their jobs.

Most countries political systems are not as completely dysfunctional as the US system. It is possible for independence’s and new parties to arise provided there is enough support. Not being made homeless through no fault of your own is a pretty big motivator to change your historical political leanings.

The place where I work has recently introduced to AI but I’d be amazed if the staff could become more stupid. They already don’t know what an ampersand is, so I can’t imagine the bar can get any lower, it’s already a tripping hazard.

When they redid the web blockers a couple of days ago it accidentally blocked corporate co-pilot which is the only AI they’re authorised to use (as if it’ll make any difference at all to data protection), the amount of whining I got about it was unbelievable. Why can’t they just go back to doing their job the way that they presumably were doing it before AI?

I love that we’ve come up with a slur for AI, but I do think it’s kind of stupid. Clankers are robots, but there’s plenty of AI taking people’s jobs that has no effective physical presence. We need something more original.