They started with the mobile division only, and eventually bought the whole company out.

Still wouldn’t trust them. They had installed a Microsoft-aligned CEO prior to their acquisition.

Doesn’t Microsoft (an American company) fully own Nokia now?

Gated communities and Homeowners Associations were originally invented to keep black and hispanic people out. Simple as that. They are still used as tools of segregation from a paranoid populace.

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You literally right click and remove AI in the context menu, what’s this bullshit on about “no gui to remove it”? More like pulse of clickbait.

I just went back to pirating everything using the *arr platform. No ads, I don’t have to worry about which service has it this week, and I’d rather pay a VPN company than media conglomerates.

Oh man, continuous 500hp, 1k short burst at each wheel. I think my car caught fire just thinking about it…

You can set them up so that they don’t do that. It’s just the companies running the chat bots set them up that way because that’s what people expect now.

Did you think I didn’t know that or something? Trains are worse than cars. How do you not see so clearly the argument I’m making here?

Holy crap the world is in trouble with people like you around.

“hurr durrr I hate teh US” is not a valid argument against cars; it’s a trite attempt at derailing the subject and attacking the person making the argument instead.

Ask me how I know that you’re prejudiced.

Because there are different “types” of AI, and some of them are genuinely impressive. I don’t see AI as inherently stupid; I see that the way it’s being implemented and abused as stupid.

Kinda the same way I see humans. MOST of them are pieces of trash, but there are some diamonds in the rough among them that are absolute treasures to be around.

Yeah, lets take cars…

and make them worse!

This whole comparing AI to only the best and brightest humans at their absolute pinnacle is so tiring.

Humans are stupid, they’re aggressive, they’re ignorant, they’re inattentive - so comparing only to the educated, civilized bits is just selective bias. Humans are wrong. Humans are bad drivers constantly. They think Vaccines cause 5G and that being gay is transmissible.

Fuck Humans.

Nothing says ‘I’m shitty’ more than naming yourself ‘Nothing’.

I mean…that’s an odd take. Don’t know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.

Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.

No arguments there though.

So I’ve been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.

I’ve been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they’re already off the market for me.

There’s all sorts of reasons taxing all compute over a certain threshold is stupid. I ignored it because it’s ignorant of the facts at hand.

At one point or another, compute was scaling exponentially for customers - one day that might begin to happen again. Laws move slowly - and will stupidly end up at a point where the average joe has that level of compute in his phone. Congrats, now you’ve decided to tax everyone because of “compute over a certain threshold”.

Being written in C++ doesn’t keep it from being reverse engineered in exactly the same way. All code can be reversed. It’s a little easier with Java because java isn’t turned directly into machine-code at compile-time.

You have to tax something that they are doing that an individual is not. If you tax “all compute” then they’re just gonna pull the same shit they do with straws and blame the individual.

You have to tax the action that is replacing a human worker. If a human job is displaced, it gets taxed. Want to AI generate some massive image through prompts? How much would it take a human to complete the job? Take some % of that, and charge it. Play it somewhere along the lines of “Intelligence deserves pay”, and since it’s artificial intelligence - it doesn’t have rights to spend its own pay (or the need to) so put it into a universal income fund.

We’re reaching a post-scarcity society now. We should be making lives easier for everyone.

This is straight out of Russia’s playbook. Putin taught him this.