definitely_AI

Maybe they don’t know about cURL, and that’s why they don’t use it.

A better thing to write would be: try cURL. It is this and that, bla bla bla.

You are absolutely right.

I hear you, every bit of it. We are letting ourselves become carbon copies of carbon copies.

Then again, I doubt this is the final form of AI. They are building those data centers for a reason. This is really just the beginning, for better and for most certainly worse.

Yep! That’s my problem space right there. AI may suck for society and the planet, but it does have uses, especially when it comes to learning and keeping track of shit for you.

Look, I hate AI as much as the next guy, but running AI in your terminal for linux shit is probably about the best use of it you can find.

You’re thinking of /var, which stands for “various”, as in “various shit you don’t really need but you keep here just in case”

this guy doesn’t use arch btw

Ackshually it’s a file

Annoying little stickers telling me things I already know about the hardware I own do not belong on the fucking hardware I own. I meticulously remove that shit before I even turn on the computer for the first time.

Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.

My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is plowing soil.

Anyone care to join me for a belt of whiskey?

I’d rather be depressed and know what is coming than stick my head in the sand and blame immigrants/trans/Iran/whatever.

Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.

The funny thing is, mergers basically aim to create monopolies, where on a long enough timeline a few handful of people have control over the whole financial system and the capacity for production. Kind of like under communism, except instead of elected leaders it’s held by a totalitarian elite of private citizens. So, also kind of like communism.

But think of all the pedophiles it will stop! Surely you don’t want pedophiles to get away with their crimes*? What are you, a pedophile?

(* T&C apply, if you are a +1B shareholder, please disregard)

This makes me nauseous because of the reality.

That is precisely correct, capitalism is in some sense like a story, I don’t remember who wrote it, in which human scientists ask a semi-omnipotent AI to answer some question, and the AI decides that in order to solve it, it needs to transform all the matter in the solar system into an even greater AI, and calmly treats human extinction as an irrelevant side effect.

“Maximize profit forever” is a bad algorithm if the goal is to sustain a thriving human society. It has no goal state. Just more, forever. Capitalism is fundamentally flawed in its core design and central idea, that somehow, by creating ever more “wealth”, everyone gets richer as a whole, while not taking into account the societal effects of some getting vastly richer than others, compounding over time unto infinity.

I could go on. But capitalism is a fundamentally broken idea that will implode on itself as a matter of causation as it plays out over time, it is logically and physically incapable of sustaining itself. We are seeing the late stage effects of it play out before our eyes right now.

The capitalist imperative is: make as much profit as you can as fast as you can.

The fastest way to make as much profit as you can is not to create the best possible product. Sure, that’ll get you far enough- but in capitalism there is never “enough”. For instance, you could use the capital you amassed to buy up all the competition and create a monopoly and hike prices to whatever you like because people will have no choice but to buy it from you, especially if it’s something essential like food, energy, housing, or what have you.

Of course, monopolies are illegal. Not because capitalism says so, but because society says so, in order to contain capitalism, which would otherwise consume society even faster than it already does!

Monopolies are just one ugly example, there are other ways of making super much profit super fast. Like, stealing! That, too, is illegal, because it goes against the very concept of living in a society, which itself is predicated on the idea that we are stronger and better and happier when we come together and pool our resources.

Alas, I wax verbose.

Funny you should mention that! The Phoebus cartel formed in 1924 by major light bulb manufacturers, because they were at a point where they were producing light bulbs that could last for decades, and they realized that this would kill their profits because nobody would buy bulbs because they lasted so long, so they made rules to deliberately make the bulbs fail after about 1,000 hours and fined members for making bulbs that lasted too long, effectively creating the concept of planned obsolescence as a business model.

See? Capitalism promotes innovation! In how to profit!

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel