Based approach. Put money on the table and let them look at the market themselves. Worst case, you get a good deal.

I don’t think the kinds of people who still complain on CS via phone are the ones giving sony a PR crisis on Twitter

I don’t think it’s inherently bad. We don’t need to use double the world’s energy to power it (as we see with open weight models) . We don’t need to centralize it in trillion aire companies. We don’t need to leverage an entire global economy on it. We don’t need to use it to replace human labor without a proper economic model.

Those are all aspects of greed and stupidity. None of that is inherent.

But we very much do enforce times on when not to use calcs. Thars the whole point here.

nothing is good nor evil, but thinking makes it so.

But i see the issues on both sides of the aisle. Kind of like how social media is a great tool that brings about instant worldwide communication. But those merits don’t cancel out how it’s been used to exploit the human psyche, influence elections, and even coax genocides.

In this case, the downwind effects from encouraging use by mature professionals is impacting the impressionable future. And no one seems to care about the future anymore.

Bro. The kids are alright. Not pristine perfect beings who will being about a new era of prosperity.

Besides, why you putting it on “the kids discovered vaping”? That sounds like something a billionaire would say to deflect from the huge lobbying campaign they made to distinguish vapes from cigarettes.

with about as much irrational hate as the people they despise, like Trump.

Thanks for outing yourself. Makes it easy to just skip the conversation and not bother trying to open up a conversation made in bad faith.

You don’t see the contradiction in those two concepts?

No, not really.

I was hoping you’d take a look and figure it out but let me explain, and hope you get it.

Why would I when you didn’t give me the same grace? from what I said upstream

I just want to make sure we make distinctions between general ideas and why we actually hate the concept in the modern day.

Well here we are arguing definitions and ideas and not the reasons within these modern ads are oppressive. Not talking about the algorithmic nature of mass surveillance and privacy breaches needed to power modern ads, but “no this ad is different” surface level thinking. But if you want to talk about it, so be it.

‘Telling someone to come to your house’ specifies someONE to whom you are directing the invitation

Okay. make it a group you’re at. Throw a flyer on a telephone pole. Same deal. We had ads before the interet.

You are trying to combine two contradictory levels of specificity.

I don’t think the levels change the intent and definition of an ad. You want to tell people about a thing, you use something to tell them thing.

An ad is an ad. It being a bad idea doesn’t change that fact 🤷

describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance.

Meets the definition. I just want to make sure we make distinctions between general ideas and why we actually hate the concept in the modern day.

I’m heavily downvoted in this comment section because I dared ask a hypothetical philosophical question?

If you do it in a way that feels like you’re “just asking questions”, that’s a dishonest gesture often used in alt-right pipelines to astroturf discussions. sealioning is what it’s grown to be called.

If you were being genuine, I’m sorry you weren’t believed. But this is sadly an increasingly common internet tactic out there.

old school 80’s/90’s sci-fi humor. They’d often use some superpower or new tech with “x-ray vision” that can conveniently see through clothes but not skin…

I imagine the rest can be left to your imagination on how that humor was utilized.

I don’t hate tech. But we are definitely in time of techno robber barons who have long drained any benefit of the doubt. Meta especially deserves no grace.

There’s a clear disctinction these days bewteen “Tech” and “Big Tech™️”. This is firmly in the latter.

Are there alternatives outside of paging. I know the risk of texting sensitive information, but I figured there’d be a more modern system than paging.

Because at this point, with this comic, it’s not about holding him to account.

To remix an old saying: “A controversy can travel halfway around the world before the apology has time to put on its shoes”. Sadly most outlets who reported on Hank’s AI accusations aren’t rushing to say “oh yeah he apologized”. Maybe they stick it in an update in the article without changing the headline.

The world sucks. So this will stick around much longer than it needed to.

Hank makes a video that appears to have AI assistance, and people are ready to drop them on the spot like none of that matters.

Trust takes a lifetime to build and a second to break. This is no different.

Hank even apologized for his reliance on it. Gave receipts that it was never used in any of his other works. Used his experience as a cautionary tale of how AI it take over a process, and promised to do better.

That’s all I care about, though. admitting fault and bettering oneself. I’m not one to think using AI once taints you forever. It’s just a slipperly slope to outsourcing your brain, and I don’t think Hank is doing that.

frames one and three should not exist anyway. They are advertising. It was already malign before generative AI.

Advertising as a concept is needed, though. Telling someone to come to your house on Friday is technically advertising.

We certainly need to regulate the shit out of mass advertising, but I always found the small flyer on a landline pole very homely.

Socialize the losses, privatazie the games. It’s crazy when people complain about socialism while these billionaire companies get to reap the best parts of it.

at least you don’t become deadweight in the economy

In theory, yes.

Reality: we already have shit welfare programs and I doubt UBI will fix it. I also doubt we’ll even get to a point of UBI in my remaining career time. At least not without a lot of blood.

The present as is is pretty bad, I’d hope we can fix that before theorycrafting the future. economists 100 years prior theorycrafted 15 hour work weeks, and look how far we’ve come.

It’s more of a vent than a joke. “In private” with trusted friends. If this was something said out loud or even on a public tweet I’d get it. But this seems to fall closer to something like confiding in therapy than that.

Ofc, a trained therapist would understan this is a rant. The AI does not, and the FBI couldn’t care less about context.