I don’t get it, why you’re being downvoted for saying something true? Ars was much better years ago

Ars itself has become pretty enshittified. It doesn’t hold a candle when compared to itself 10 years ago. Also, they mentioned Doctorow several times but apparently they couldn’t be arsed to put even a single link to his blog… why?

A thing I want to point out about publicly traded companies is that they are legally required to maximize shareholder profit.

that’s not actually true, friend (unless the law changed, the article linked is a little old)

I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both

he’s not a Tesla founder, he only bought it

corrected… I guess maybe my IQ isn’t on the right side of the bell curve too

You need to make sure you film yourself doing this and then post it on social media Truth Social to an account linked to your real identity.

only room-temperature IQ nutjobs like those would act like you described

Adopting capitalism colonialism early on is about 75% of the reason the West is at the top of the modern world order

every deepseek model comes with a dedicated chinese spy, who will log all your data and send it back to CCP who will use it to plot the destruction of the western civilization

there’s no need, western civilization is collapsing by itself

Why do you think using energy is bad by itself?

Building infrastructure has an environmental cost. Even if they’re building them for themselves, wasting the energy produced on AI and some other bullshit will worse our climate catastrophe while delivering nothing useful in exchange