No surprise, I always thought 2025 was at sixes and sevens.

That is not a K-car. It’s a kei car.

Elon cares deeply about the truth and seems as if he has boundless energy to devote to suppressing it.

Look out! He’s got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!

Sure they’re utterly boring and stupid now, but just wait until next year when Sirius Cybernetics finally launches its Genuine People Personalities models.

AWS sign-up requires that you have a valid credit card on file.

Right, that’s the question — where can you do that and get a VPS with sufficient bandwidth for $5/month?

Bear in mind that paying with crypto doesn’t make you anonymous unless you’re careful about it and use monero or something. If you did that and avoided giving any other identifying info to the provider, I’d be curious to know where to sign up for that.

Come to think of it I was wondering how Elon Musk would go about turning Starlink, his massive international ISP, into a tool for oppression. Get the government to outlaw all the ways for its customers to shield themselves from its data collection, I guess.

Yeah it does look like maybe that’s got easier since I looked into it, although the prices I see are maybe 3x the cost of the average VPN and of course being securely anonymous is still beyond the abilities of most of us.

You ever tried setting up such a server anonymously in a way that can’t be tracked by American authorities? It can be done, but they’ve already made that difficult and/or expensive.

What I’m thinking of depends more on the training methods and data used. But I guess it’s too early to say much about what strong AI would be like, we’re not really close to it yet.

I mean some of it might turn out to be “profitable” in the narrow sense of earning financial returns for somebody, but that does not mean it will be a profitable endeavour for humanity in general.

I would take issue with your implicit suggestion that humanity becoming slaves to AI would be fine if the machines doing it weren’t under the direct central control of their elite owners. The gradual replacement of human thinking with rapid low-cost mediocre pseudo-thought is a problem for more than just the worlds of media and art, no matter who’s nominally the owner of the process.

This looks a lot like they’re just trying to squeeze a bit more public relations juice out of last year’s news.

Hooba-dooba-dooba!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/search?query=copyright

As someone long accustomed to ISP bills that say little more than “you owe us $60 this month for 1 Internet” I’m finding it hard to imagine what is going on over there.

It seems possible that there might be better ways to ride a hot waterbed.

All you need to do is say “AI” enough times.