If the bomb goes off AI companys’ enterprise customers will die like flies. That’s not good for business. If they scaled up too fast, AI companies can’t get a return on their investments and die with their clients.

Depends though, because companies like Google and Meta are still ad platform companies first when looking at profits.

Pretty much. I used Linus as a template.

There’s always a reason, but it doesn’t need to be entirely rational. Kellogg was a nut, but that’s a different topic, no?

Thanks for citing this, but it still doesn’t explain why this custom has developed.

Jokes on you, I customized the personality of mine so it still insults me for my stupid mistakes.

It’s the one thing preventing me from getting depressed using it.

I was looking for a tech positive outlook and found solarpunk for myself. Since then I’ve learned a lot that doesn’t have to do with tech, but also on the topic of how technology can empower people. It helps I was already an environmentalist before.

I started looking a lot more into contributing to open source projects. I started looking into decentralized networks like lora radios. I self host a lot more. Got rid of Google on my phone…

Biggest issue is the job. With my attitude change my well paid corporate tech job has become soul sucking.

If you don’t differentiate and keep the two in the same pot you won’t be able to fund research into the useful stuff. It’s true that consumer hype and research funding decisions are not the same, but they may be indirectly linked. A public fund may fear public outrage if it continues funding X millions of AI projects even if they’re not LLM related.

So the reputation damage may affects viable, net positive applications.

I don’t think utopias are a bad idea in general, but if they somehow are only reachable by collapsing most of the current system before any groundwork can even be attempted… a form that can be developed in parallel and take over at some point makes much more sense.

Think about the transition and hopefully it doesn’t require nuclear war.

Check the rotations settings. It’s off by default.

I can still do this with my FP4 running e/OS. Just had to put a checkmark at 180° in the rotation settings.

It’s a too snarky/cynical thought. Waging wars, destroying infrastructure etc. all have huge environmental costs. The US leaving the Paris accords, blocking clean energy adoption, cancelling projects as well as Trump’s anti-renewable propaganda has a net negative effect even if an oil crisis and economic recession is good for fewer carbon emissions as well.

Biden’s IRA had more positive potential.

I’m not sure this is still true in the industrial era where human impact is responsible for habitat loss, monocultures, mass extinction and loss of biodiversity and reduction of undomesticated biomass in general.

Beavers actually build spaces that allow for more specialized species to thrive. We could do that too, theoretically.

Soon you’ll have to pay for the privilege of communicating with a human instead of an LLM chat bot.

Edit: I realize I need to specify because I forgot to add relevant context.