HEART: But want!

BRAIN: But price.

HEART: But WANT

Do you really think that there won’t be multiple models even if the bubble bursts? The “best” models are from China and are open source. “We” don’t control China at all! So I don’t see this as likely.

There likely will be a few models remaining when the dust settles, but considering the sheer cost, scale, and power requirements of the data centers the current ones need, I could see one company buying up the rest when the bubble crashes. I don’t want this to get political, but the models coming from China are incentivized to follow the government’s policies regarding information control. They already answer certain questions with government sanctioned answers, or outright refuse to answer. I don’t see them remaining open source for long, and their datasets even less so.

What I DO have an issue with is Mozilla turning its users into training fodder for the AI companies - instead of just building that private AI they keep jawboning about.

This is a fair concern. I don’t use the AI chat bots, and I try to not use the AI answers that pop up with searches. And I refuse to use the generative AIs. But I’m a minority it seems. Thousands of people use these AIs everyday, many of them by choice. So the real question becomes, do we want them using browsers like OpenAI’s new browser, that will likely mine everything they do for their datasets? Or do we want a browser that can limit what these AIs can scrape up, like Firefox?

We’re losing the battle against AI. The amount of people using it keeps growing. Just look at the people using Grok to argue with each other on Twitter. Or the students getting ChatGPT to write their essays. We need to build alternatives that aren’t controlled by billionaires, massive corporations, and venture capitalists. But that’s going to take time. And until we get there, we should be mitigating the damage as best we can, by giving privacy-focused alternatives when using AI.

These aren’t great choices. But if I have to choose between them, I’d rather back Mozilla.

Why not both? (I know lots of folks will hate this take, but please hear me out.)

Because let’s be real: AI is not going away. Yes, we’re all waiting for the AI bubble to bust. And I really want it to, these companies are getting so terrible. But when it bursts, AI isn’t going to disappear. It will condense down to a few companies, or even just one. Do you want one company controlling all the AI out there? Controlling all the answers AI gives? Saying how you or others can use it?

Mozilla claims they want to develop responsible AI. They say they want to make their AI private, and work on-device. I believe we should be encouraging this, so that we don’t end up with control of AI in the hands of Google, Meta, or Musk.

We need alternatives, badly. Because AI is here to stay, no matter how much we hate it. This Pandora’s Box has already been opened, and things aren’t going back.

While I subscribe to that same kind of thinking, others will not. They will see it as being forced to share the rewards of their hard work with others who, in their opinion, didn’t work as hard. Put another way, they see themselves as having taken on the responsibility of caring and providing for themselves, and policies like that would force them to also care for someone else who isn’t meeting that responsibility.

It’s a simple take, but not completely wrong. There will be people who will take advantage of others generosity, shirking the responsibility to care and provide for themselves, and keep demanding more. And there’s also the reality of government waste and corruption siphoning that “hard work” away.

It ignores the many realities out there, like how not everyone gets the same starting point in life and not everyone has the same abilities. But its simplicity is its strength. It explains things in a way that is easy to understand. I worked hard, they didn’t. I didn’t get handouts when I was struggling, so why should they.

This is why I think the way to convince these people to do the right thing is to reward those who do vaccinate with a tax credit or payout. It makes it fair across the board, and makes those who still choose not to vaccinate understand the cost of that choice. Or at least see that there is a cost to the choice.

A study, that could give a hard number of the average cost per patient, broken down by vaccinated and unvaccinated, could go a long way to proving the point. The recent measles outbreak would be a great place to start.

I wonder if the numbers could back that up? Like the cost of treatment of an unvaccinated child getting a preventable disease, versus a vaccinated child getting the same disease? Also, the number of children in each group? No vaccine is 100% after all.

There could be an actual cost to the healthcare system for choosing to not vaccinate. If that’s the case, creating an incentive like a tax credit for vaccinating could be an effective way of reducing cost overall.

I’d like to see someone study this, if they haven’t already.

Yes

So the investigation, with built in blinders and no ability to actually investigate or force the truth to come out, found nothing.

Looks like the system is working as designed. Designed to keep the public in the dark, and the money flowing.

That’s quite a click-baity title.

Drumpf and his tariffs are fucking up production, distribution and supply chains should be the actual title.

I wish they had kept everything here in Canada, or just stopped shipping to the US, but that’s just not realistic. I think we will see more companies doing this unless there’s a new trade deal soon. And if Drumpf starts fucking with CUSMA next year, it could start all over again.

I hate that I laughed at this.

Carry on, shitposters.

This one was a nice challenge!

You should check out a book called The Flavor Bible.

If you think about recipes as programs written by other people, it should begin to make sense why it’s hard for you to parse. The “code” is laid out differently than you would have done.

You could spend the time to rewrite it into something that’s easier for you to read… or you could simply write the recipe yourself.

This book can help you do that by telling you what flavours work well together and how to get the best out of them.

ROCK AND STONE!

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Why are you trying to bypass a security feature of your bank? Because that’s obviously what this is, so that nothing shady can happen in the background without your knowledge. This post seems pretty suspicious to me.

Maybe your interests are completely innocent, but this kind of bypass can and likely has been used nefariously.

OP, please stop linking to your posts. Cross post the original. Doing this stops folks on other instances from interacting with the original post easily.

More than meets the eye…

This is really cool. I could see a lot of uses for this, from deliveries by drone to a bigger better Mars quadcopter rover.

First of all, there’s no “one size fits all” approach to flirting with women in my experience. So if things aren’t going well when talking with a woman, understand it might not be something you’re doing wrong, you may not be compatible with them.

If I had to describe confidence, I’d say it’s a quiet thing. It’s not loud and brash, bragging about your accomplishments or your belongings. It’s not the clothes you wear or how much you go to the gym (while these things can help you to feel more confident, they don’t create confidence that’s not there). Confidence is feeling comfortable with yourself, comfortable in your own skin. And here’s the weird part: confidence is letting go of the desire to be with the woman, and just letting the conversation go where it goes. By not focusing on your goal, you free yourself to enjoy the moment and you will find it so much easier to have that conversation.

I was happy that you were back, Stamets.

Was.

Mostly just kidding!

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Oh Markdown, why must you make line breaks so weird.

What is this… Let them cool? This is a foreign idea to me. You’re supposed to “cha-cha-cha-cha” while you enjoy them fresh from the oven. The second and third degree burns are part of the experience!

I didn’t see it suggested yet, but you should check out Selaco. It’s a fairly new FPS with tight gunplay and retro graphics. The enemies AI is well made, they will work together to hunt you and try to flank you. The weapons are a mix of standard fare with some new stuff, and you can modify them with upgrade packs similar to how Doom 2016 does it. The upgrades give each weapon a good variety for different play styles.

The first chapter is released and playable, and there are 2 more chapters coming. The first chapter has a good amount of gameplay, I put 35 hours in it.