there are plenty of "honestly-pretty-good reasons" we plebs shouldn't have access to general purpose computers, and we're only a few decades away from them reclassified into the equivalent of fully automatic rifles.
smoking, alcoholism and obesity are fiscal positives, not negatives.
smokers pay obscene amount of money in cigarette tax for decades only to die in their 50's or 60's instead of collecting the benefits of having also contributed into social security all their lives. most of them die suddenly from a heart attack or after a short illness.
Its not that simple. Smokers that dont die suddenly (how many are those actually?) dont die much earlier because healthcare improved and also:
- kill/cause damages through passive smoke
- can/do cause enormous health bills (my dad struggled on for almost 6 years)
- cleaning up their trash costs money
- set fire to stuff with thrown cigarette butts
- often dont just die and just cant work anymore thus stopping working earlier, create less value in general
I'd love to read up on current studies/research but lots of studies are 10+ years old now but the damages seem to outweigh them not having a retirement.
I guess it depends on your perspective. If you're Chinese, graphite is abundant and available as 98% of processing currently occurs in China. Lithium, not so much which is why it is Chinese firms leading development of sodium ion battery technology.
As with the rare earth minerals, the supply of graphite, cobalt and nickel is vulnerable hence the designation as critical minerals by Western Governments.
>Here’s where we push back. Reddit told the press we ignored them when they asked about licensing. Untrue. Whenever anyone asks us about content licensing, we explain that Perplexity, as an application-layer company, does not train AI models on content. Never has. So it is impossible for us to sign a license agreement to do so.
I wish they had told reddit to go fuck itself and taken that to court.
unlike the new york times lawsuit - where the platform owns their content and training is a gray area - reddit doesn't own shit. and if they insist otherwise - bye bye section 230 protections, no? they now retroactively own every post in r/jailbait and r/coontown.
Without gating AI scraper access, Reddit’s enterprise value based on only ad revenue is greatly diminished. If the AI folks impair Reddit’s economics through their maneuvers, that might not be so bad (as Reddit’s behavior of late has been “all this user generated content belongs to us to monetize as we see fit”).
They would most likely use the browsers they offer users to scrap and stream the content back to an endpoint for ingest and processing as users browse Reddit, think Recap the Law extension for Pacer (which scrapes Pacer while a user browses it and ships the data to the Internet Archive) or ArchiveTeam’s Warrior VM. You can’t defend against scraping when every user browser, that looks like a human because it is a human, is a crawler node.
At least, this is how I would engineer a public browser operating as an adversarial distributed crawler network.
you're seeing them on reddit and twitter. they aren't normal people. normal people don't run a background check on $thing and its creators to determine whether they are allowed to like it or not.
that comment doesn't "defend" AI girlfriends, it points out the absurdity of condemning AI girlfriends in a world where porn and prostitution exist and are widely accepted by the "polite society".
also, case in point, normal people don't dig through a random stranger's post history to look for an ad hominem opportunity, and instead evaluate individual posts by their contents. lol.
The combination of a brand new account with an incredibly juvenile username and careless writing (lack of capitalization in your case) usually is a red flag for a spam account, so yes, in these cases I usually check comments to see if I'm wasting my time with a troll.
Porn is still taboo. It's understood that most people use it, but it's not exactly something you bring up in polite company.
Where on earth do you live that prostitution is "widely accepted by polite society"? You can go to jail for it where I am.
And I did address the rest of your comment. As I said, in my experience "normal" people do object to AI content. I don't know where you got the bit about "background checks" and being "allowed" to like stuff. Nobody I know had to be told to have an aversion to AI "art", it's a natural reaction.
half the internet is porn. people and companies legally produce and distribute videos of real 18 year olds of both sexes doing things like ass-to-mouth on camera for money.
and here you are, clutching pearls about AI girlfriends. lol. lmao.
They make money trapping minors and lonely adults in fake relationships with models that push users to get intimate, while harvesting and selling the data. The issue isn't AI girlfriends or porn, it's the unethical business model. If they ever get hacked, there will likely be a lot of suicides. It makes the data harvesting of social media look comparatively innocent.
>He could be forced to shift to conscription for the frontline, which would jeopardise support for his regime.
blyat, хахахаха.
of all the bullshit I read about Russia these days, the persistent insistence that the regime has any support at all at this point is by far the most infuriating one. the best it can get is tepid "the devil you know" from the 40+ crowd who had lived through the 90's and are justifiably terrified of another violent collapse.
most people who click a random article from an unknown author don't sign up to read an essay worth of purple prose to get the (actually tiny amount of) useful information teased in the headline.
the OP is right - (virtually) no one is reading all that shit.
I maintain my point: it's prose, not even too complicated at that. The fact that many people have a hard time understanding it, is understandable, but not a good state of affairs.
there are plenty of "honestly-pretty-good reasons" we plebs shouldn't have access to general purpose computers, and we're only a few decades away from them reclassified into the equivalent of fully automatic rifles.