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Well yeah why do you think they get the CEOs from?

It will.

Power corrupts, you can see it all around us once you start looking.

Yes, but also the corporate world has a nasty tendency to promote psychopaths to CEO positions because they think a lack of humility is the same as competence.

I’m never going to buy an expensive internet package, a badly designed car, or go into space, that’ll show him.

This point I feel like the grim reaper owes us a few dead billionaires after been a dick all year.

I don’t think long term any of the AI companies are going to survive. The more the costs go up the more incentivized someone is to come up with a more efficient model that doesn’t require the Earth into a planet-sized data center. Obviously the likes have open AI don’t want that because then they’d lose control.

So just capitalism then.

The problem is that for less than a year’s subscription I can just buy my own equipment. So yeah it would be more sensible to centralise everything, but as you say the prices are too high.

I keep saying this, AI is not commercially viable yet, it should still be in the lab and they shouldn’t be trying to sell it as a product. Maybe in a few years they’ll be able to distill that down to something that will run on a reasonable amount of hardware and subscription prices can become sensible. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them $200 a month to automate something that I do actually know how to do myself. You can still run out of tokens despite giving them $2,400 a year, so where’s my incentive to not just go and buy a Mac mini?

Alright let’s centralize all of the AI into one big data center, the cheapest place to put that would be in China so let’s build it there, no need for there to be lots of different companies either, nationalised all of their assets.

Are you happy now Sam?

Not everyone is

So they want me to use an AI to do my job. But at the same time they haven’t fired me so presumably they understand that the AI can’t be used exclusively to do the job. So doesn’t that mean that they accept that I have better judgment than an AI and therefore my decision not to use said AI shouldn’t be a problem for them.

I would love to see them actually try articulate exactly why the above is not true in an employment tribunal.

Yeah because I really want to match with people who use ROBLOX as a dating platform. That’s exactly this sort of person I want to go out on a date with.

I don’t know if that’s the takeaway from that story.

What’s it going to do anyway?

Are you seriously suggesting that we don’t need competitors to Apple in the phone market?

You realise that pretty much every innovation in iOS has been in Android for years sometimes decades before implemented by Apple. I think the last major innovation from Apple was iTunes, and it was crap.

I’ve had many foldables and I’ve never broken them, and I’m not gentle with them, it’s not in a phone case, and being dropped several times. I think if it was dropped in the open state that might be a problem, but when it’s closed it’s actually protecting itself.

In some ways you’re more likely to damage a traditional phone screen since it’s always on the outside and it’s made of glass and more likely to crack when dropped.

There’s no scratches on mine but it is a fingerprint magnet. That’s what you get for having a plastic screen.

Don’t worry, they still have the Apple phone sock to keep them company in these dark times.

So the maximum number of folds it could take was 10,006. Unlucky.

99% of the budget went on advertising, 0.9% went on tokens to Vibe code the engineering and 0.1% on manufacturing

I think thorium reactors are more complicated though. You have to achieve very high pressure or they don’t work. They just hasn’t really been an impetus to develop the technology.