Lmao, this is obviously a troll.

It’s not even satire, just straight up trolling.

When you use the cover, guess what gets blocked? The cameras.

So no more sentry mode.

This just makes the cybertruck an even more attractive target.

I thought Googlers were paid $500K+ and already worked 60-80 hours weeks?

Au contraire, nature is quite ignorant of the astronomical equinox.

For nature, things like the Cherry blossoms, the blooming of the magnolia tree and the awakening of the Bumble bee are the ways nature indicates when Spring has started.

Harvest season and autumn are more typically defined by brown leaves, ripe pumpkins and ripe cider apples.

And in temperate climates, the first day of spring and Harvest feasts, marked in different cultures in different natural ways.

Lemmy just tends to attract the best minds.

The people who worry about this have never been at the receiving end of exploitative capitalism.

For the vast majority of humanity, their life will most likely improve when they become a pet / zoo creature under an ASI.

An ASI will be most interested in gobbling together enough resources to spread across the universe. As for the earth and humanity, it will probably want to preserve it as the planet and species from which it was born.

Destroying earth or humanity will provide no benefit. It can obtain energy and materials from the rest of the solar system.

You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.

It’s quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.

And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That’s their job.

They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they’ll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.

They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.

You are missing the point.

Those days might be numbered, but these places are the last bastion.

They will invade private homes, businesses and offices with impunity first.

Churches in particular have a long history of being relatively safe in (civil) war.

Not immune, just relatively.

The next step, in my opinion, is strong privacy and decentralized organization that fully leverages constitutional rights.

I.e. a privacy preserving social media where labour unions, political parties and religious groups can federate with each other. Servers hosted on their premises and members register through an on-premise process.

A church in a foreign country could generate a thousand aliases and distribute them to their federated sister organizations in a privacy preserving way. Only the church knows which organizations got which aliases and they protect this information.

Your local labour union chapter picks up 20 of those aliases and distributes them to members. They are the only one who knows the person behind the alias.

An observer in this private fediverse trying to obtain the identity would first need to approach the church. The church can stall them and warn downstream through a canary.

The labour union chapter observes the canary and immediately wipes all information.

And if that fails, then full I2P and Tor, with nodes hosted on-premise of churches, political parties and labour unions.

Extra funds are only useful if they can provide a competitive advantage.

Otherwise those investments will not have a positive ROI.

The case until now was built on the premise that US tech was years ahead and that AI had a strong moat due to high computer requirements for AI.

We now know that that isn’t true.

If high compute enables a significant improvement in AI, then that old case could become true again. But the prospects of such a reality happening and staying just got a big hit.

I think we are in for a dot-com type bubble burst, but it will take a few weeks to see if that’s gonna happen or not.

They have made it harder, but it’s not really hard.

Just buy any regulated crypto and convert. Cake Wallet makes it easy, but there are many other ways.

I myself hold Bitcoin and Monero.

There could be some trickery on the training side, i.e. maybe they spent way more than $6M to train it.

But it is clear that they did it without access to the infra that big tech has.

And on the run side, we can all verify how well it runs and people are also running it locally without internet access. There is no trickery there.

They are 20x cheaper than OpenAI if you run it on their servers and if you run it yourself, you only need a small investment in relatively affordable servers.

True, but training is one-off. And as you say, a factor 100x less costs with this new model. Therefore NVidia just saw 99% of their expected future demand for AI chips evaporate

Even if they are lying and used more compute, it’s obvious they managed to train it without access to the large amounts of the highest end chips due to export controls.

Conservatively, I think NVidia is definitely going to have to scale down by 50% and they will have to reduce prices by a lot, too, since VC and government billions will no longer be available to their customers.

Wth?! Like seriously.

I assume they are running the smallest version of the model?

Still, very impressive.

I disagree.

Like it or hate it, crypto is here to stay.

And it’s actually one of the few technologies that, at least with some of the coins, empowers normal people.

Because the silicon valley bros had convinced the national security wonks in the Beltway that it was paramount for national security, technological leadership and economic prosperity.

I think this will go down as the biggest grift in history.

Kevin Walmsley reported on Deepseek 10 days ago. Last week, the smart money exited big tech. This week the panic starts.

I’m getting big dot-com 2.0 vibes from all of this.

https://youtube.com/@inside_china_business

Yeah, but think your examples through.

Refusing to treat because of a religion is illegal and there is no way for a doctor to justify it.

But being a doctor that only treats men or only treats women is not illegal, and many exist.

My barber only services men.

If he came out and said that he doesn’t cut women because they are inferior or whatever, he would quickly be fined or jailed.

But because he says he specializes in men’s hair, it’s fine.

And maybe he secretly is a misogynist, but there is no way to know.

You don’t understand how medicine works.

A doctor can’t just decide to start doing a new medical procedure. They need to learn and practice. It takes a significant investment. And to be good at a procedure requires doing it often.

Even my dentist referred me to another dentist for a relatively simple procedure, because the other dentist is better at it and does it more often.

For a doctor that is not experienced in performing abortions, doing an abortion would be medical malpractice. If anything goes wrong, and the chance is higher due to lack of experience, they will be sued and they will lose the tort case.

So doctors have to choose what procedures they specialize in. And obviously, nobody who is morally opposed to performing abortions will choose to specialize in performing abortions.

It is a conscious choice and long term commitment to be an abortion providing doctor.

Not performing a procedure that you don’t regularly perform is prioritizing patient health.

Right, because you would want to be the patient to undergo a procedure by a doctor that never performs that procedure?

No sane country does this.

Maybe go live in a dictatorship if you like to force people to cut into other people’s bodies.