Ogmios

There is a certain, disturbingly large, segment of the population which doesn’t even appear to attempt to think for themselves.

Petition calls to ban hurt feelings

tech-laden “AI doctor’s office,”

For those wondering what they did,

Because people have forgotten that bad actors exist.

Hahaha, that’s cute.

Dude looks like an AI generated human.

Just because someone tells you something, doesn’t mean they actually know what they’re talking about. fyi

We know such an infinitesimally small amount about what is actually happening in the universe that any claims to be capable of predicting it’s end are patently absurd.

It also makes a pretty bold claim about us actually knowing the lifespan of the universe.

Or they’ll be fined 0.005% of their revenue for the quarter.

It’s amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.

This is the kind of shit many of us have been trying to warn about when we push back against language police. It may be an easy argument to swallow when examples of actual bigotry are held up for you to see, but the systems which are created for such a purpose can and will be used to hide serious matters.

You would be correct.

They “trust me” dumb fucks

May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.

Edit: O&O Shut Up is a free tool that helps you easily turn off/disable quite a few of the worst “features” on Windows.

That’s unironically a very interesting topic. There was actually a landmark court case which insisted that a CEO must prioritize profits over human welfare.

If you think this is a partisan issue you are woefully naive to the nature of those people who seek the sorts of powers that big tech promises.

I wonder if you can get it to say anything bad about any specific person. Might just be that they nuked the ability entirely to avoid lawsuits.

Because being an industry leader is more about controlling people rather than whatever it is that your industry produces.

They’re both essentially vaporizing a metal with high heat to deposit upon a substrate above. Early smelting was just looking to purify the metal and remove impurities, and now we’ve refined that same technique with strictly controlled parameters to deposit exactly what metal we want to have where, to build the microscopic features of modern computer chips.

One thing that really got my attention when I studied nanotechnology is how many original technologies we still use regularly, just in a refined/modified form (Chemical Vapour Deposition, a technique used heavily in the production of many ordinary products from computer chips to chip bags, is fundamentally the exact same technology first used to smelt ore). It actually wouldn’t be hard at all to transition to lower impact technologies in a lot of places if people were okay with not electrifying/connecting everything possible.