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Yes this right here the context the people are actually missing is that these trips are going to be proprietary to Apple products.

The last Apple product that I purchased was a iPod mini in 2008.

It shouldn’t be up to discord or any other internet entity to verify the age of its users.

Parents. Parents should be monitoring their child’s Internet usage.

Appliance repair guy here and I have only one thing to say: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Me using unlicensed windows to jerk off for the 4th time at 3am.

So hear me out.

From a purely strategic standpoint, the ultimate goal is artificial general intelligence. Eventually, humanity is going to get there. The question is who gets there first, and what they do with it.

The country that achieves genuinely transformative AGI first could potentially gain an enormous strategic advantage. And if AGI is capable of significantly accelerating AI research itself, that advantage could compound very quickly: AGI helps develop better AI, which accelerates scientific and technological development, which produces even more capable AI.

Whoever gets there second may not necessarily be permanently incapable of catching up, but they could find themselves facing a massive technological and economic gap that becomes increasingly difficult to close.

And here’s where I think things get uncomfortable.

The countries competing to develop this technology are not necessarily going to have the same restrictions. Some countries may be considerably less concerned about copyright, training data, ethical restrictions, censorship, or what subjects an AI is permitted to discuss.

I’m not saying those concerns aren’t legitimate. They absolutely are. But from a purely geopolitical standpoint, there is a potential danger in one country imposing significant self-restraints while its competitors don’t.

Because if AGI really does become as transformative as many people believe it could be, this isn’t just another technology race. It could become a race over scientific advancement, industrial capacity, military technology, economic productivity, and potentially the ability to develop even more advanced AI.

And, honestly, I would rather the United States and other democratic countries reach that point first than China, North Korea, or another highly authoritarian state.

That doesn’t mean I think democratic countries are incapable of abusing powerful technology. Of course they are. The point is that who controls a technology this powerful matters enormously.

So when people talk about AI development purely in terms of corporate profits or whether AI companies should be allowed to train on particular datasets, I think they’re sometimes missing the much larger geopolitical picture.

We’re potentially talking about a technology that could fundamentally alter the balance of power between nations.

That’s a very different conversation.

Disclaimer: I’m not necessarily advocating for AI or LLMs here. I’m simply trying to look at the situation from a purely strategic/geopolitical perspective and consider how governments and other actors might view the race toward AGI.

I’ve tried everything it eventually doesn’t update all on its own regardless of you wanting to do it or not. So I just stop trying to fight it.

For the people not using Linux in the comment section, you can’t skip a Windows update. It’s going to happen no matter what.

I mean I guess you can adjust the registry or whatever but 90% of Windows users aren’t going to do any of that.

I could have done it and I didn’t. I updated and now my cursor is all fucked up.

I use qwen for my sex bots.

No they would have to prove that what was on his phone was evidence in the first place. Which is why arrest and search warrants list all kinds of potential evidence and if it isn’t listed in the warrant they can’t collect or use it against you.

I’m not exactly sure how this works during a border patrol search. It’s technically his phone and if it’s locked they would need his permission or a warrant to search it.

I have a very serious issue with this!

What about the profits for coal companies! How are they supposed to make money! What if they go out of business!

WON’T SOMEBODY THINK ABOUT COAL INDUSTRY PROFITS!

I just paid $80 for one year of proton. 2 years ago I paid $40 for 2 years.

Use information however you will.

This is the way.

I mean it’s definitely pretty phenomenal. I actually still have an 80 gig iPod from back in the day. It is a superior music player.

But I just can’t see myself carrying that around and my phone. Nowadays, most of the music that I listen to is Pandora or YouTube music.

I have a mp3 collection on my phone but it’s very curated.

Studies show that using a bulldozer for plowing a field decreases the farmers muscle density after just one day of use.

Christ. What a load of shit.

I’m assuming these are porn sites? If the site isn’t hosted in the US they have no obligation to comply. The hell are they going to do.

You’re saying that people who own corporations would replace every worker with 8 billion autonomous robots just to avoid paying wages.

Do you see how flawed that argument is? Did you read my original point, that without workers earning income, there would be no one left to buy the products or services these corporations sell? The entire global economic system is based on consumption. If people aren’t making money, how exactly are they supposed to consume anything?

You’re essentially arguing that corporations would eliminate their own customer base before considering the consequences to their business model.

These companies generate billions precisely because they understand how markets function. Undermining demand on that scale would be self-destructive, not profitable.

I’m sorry I have to be the one to tell you this but you’re stupid. You know you’re stupid because you deleted your comment on bad faith so others wouldn’t see it. The fact that you’re self aware is even more distressful because you obviously want to say what you want to say regardless of how idiotic it sounds. Omg. You’re a rare sort. I don’t think I’ve ever come across someone like you yet!

(Bellow is what the above person wrote to me. This person likes to comment then delete what the wrote which to me is in bad faith.)

Wow, loser response. Enjoy being that way.

You were correct in deleting your comment. It was complete bullshit.

(Bellow is what the above person wrote to me. This person likes to comment then delete what the wrote which to me is in bad faith.)

Let’s hypothesis for a moment. Let’s pretend tomorrow there was 1 humanoid robot with above average intelligence for each working class human. The robot costs 10% of what a human costs and is owned by the ultra wealthy. Before we consider who’s going to buy products and pay rent ask, with that amount of power and the ability to command nearly 8 billion robots, do they need the anyone to buy their products or pay the rent? They can get whatever they want from their robot army that working class people could provide and for a fraction of the price.

You’re absolutely right! Can’t argue with this.

What you’re describing is it pursuit of short-term profits. This pursuit is often categorized as an actual mental disorder.

What this article is describing and what the people in this comment section are describing is a complete replacement of employees by AI. Which just isn’t a thing that’s going to take place.

This argument falls apart the second you think it through for more than 30 seconds.

If AI were to “replace the working class” outright, who exactly is left to pay rent, buy products, or participate in the economy at all? Companies don’t operate in a vacuum, they depend on mass consumption. No working class means no customers. No customers means no revenue. It’s not a controversial take it’s basic economic reality.

The idea that large corporations are collectively marching toward eliminating their own consumer base is not just wrong, it’s absurd. Firms adopt automation to reduce costs and increase productivity, not to self destruct their own markets.

What’s actually happening is far less dramatic and far more grounded,  specific jobs get automated, new ones emerge, and the labor market shifts. That transition can absolutely be messy and uneven, and yes, it can hurt people in the short term. That’s a real conversation worth having.

But this “AI will wipe out the working class entirely” narrative isn’t serious analysis, it’s just lazy doomposting dressed up as insight.

If you’re going to criticize AI, at least engage with how economic systems actually function instead of defaulting to an echo chamber of half formed panic.

You’re drawing a line that sounds principled, but it’s actually pretty arbitrary.

You say “real life is real life” and don’t want it “corrupted,” yet you’re perfectly fine immersing yourself in music and movies,things literally engineered to manipulate your emotions and perception. That’s not some pure, untouched version of reality. It’s curated fiction designed to make you feel something.

The only real difference here is that those mediums don’t talk back.

Chatbots make you uncomfortable because they simulate interaction, not because they’re uniquely fake. But calling that “corruption” while giving a free pass to every other form of emotional influence is inconsistent at best.

If your stance is “I don’t want anything artificial affecting me,” then be consistent about it. Otherwise, just say you don’t like this particular form of it instead of pretending it’s some hard philosophical boundary.