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You mean they couldn’t just stop paying their workers?

I thought AI was supposed to replace all that FTE overhead that gets in the way of shareholder profits!!!111111oneoneoneoenone

Business morons who don’t understand tech is what this bubble is all about. I can’t believe so many businesses have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into technology that fundamentally cannot do what they fantasize it to do.

Jesus christ. This madlad gave me my cornflower blue icon.

It depends on the thickness of his ear hairs and the density of the hairs. Also depends on how much ear wax buildup there is. Chekhov is quite old at this point and that changes over time.

There may also be a very rare chance that the ear canal may be nonstandard due to a genetic mutation. I recommend scanning with a tricorder just to be sure. Not a medical one, we are talking about structure.

The saucer section has never been so… stylish.

I wonder if I can get it in purple.

I’m just happy to see you.

Please hands off the smartees I hoard in pants.

He even looks like the stereotype of a Reddit mod.

Unbelievable.

Do you collect? what do you think it’s worth?

Certainly looks to be corn-fed.

I know a guy who removed his motorcycle’s muffler and rode around for a couple of days. He can’t really hear in his right ear much anymore (because that’s where the pipe was cut off, to the right of the bike.) I did ride for a time, but always wore earplugs even if I wasn’t going on the highway.

I don’t really like large crowds or bars either man. I like 1:1 conversations and interactions. My heavy bar scene and parties only lasted maybe a couple years and I was always a +1.

My wife took me to a wedding where her cousin was getting married and the volume was cranked to 11. I sat through a two hour catholic service before the party which was fine. We got to the party afterwards and I just wanted to go back to the room and sleep. We were traveling, I was sick from what I thought was the food or having some of the local water but it later turned out to be full blown covid… but I was trying to be supportive and there for her because her enormous extended family was just meeting me for the first time.

I was in line for food since we hadn’t eaten, and the speakers were to my right. The noise was so loud you couldn’t hear someone yelling “what” at point blank range. I only stood in that line for a minute before leaving and my wife gave me so much shit for leaving, even though it was after her own father left. I wouldn’t be surprised if some or even most of my tinnitis came from that one party. I’ve never told her about this suspicion though, but I still remember it as I notice my ears ringing, right now. The right is substantially worse than the left.

Anyway, fortunately the tinnitus is extremely mild and I generally don’t notice it. If I start thinking about it, it gets worse and very persistent until I manage to distract myself. It’s always there, pulsating to the beat of my heart, and will not go away until I die or go deaf.

Shit happens.

I have crowdstrike. I have no plans to drop them come renewal time. I had to work overnight to recover some things but I still believe they are one of the best at what they do.

It’s not like this is a common occurrence.

Weird, my friends and I may occasionally talk about the bad stuff, but there’s always something good going on. We can be excited for upcoming things too.

I like being able to have conversations at bars and restaurants. In my bachelor days when I was dating an amazing person she knew all the good bars and restaurants that you could actually have conversations in. We always knew going in to a social thing if it was gonna be a good conversation or just yelling and “what?”

Plus the ear damage from the loud shit is no joke. Tinnitus started for me by mid 30s and I never listen to loud music or do stupid stuff, beyond bars and parties.

It’s just so… weird. I swear every time i’m watching one of those crazy episodes a meme comes out and it’s just like… is there really four lights?

I swear to Christ I’m literally watching the mind prison episode.

A ton of factors have increased energy costs on the web over the years. It’s insignificant per person, but bandwidth is exponentially higher because all websites have miles of crud formatting code nowadays. Memory usage is out of control. Transmission and storage of all the metadata your web browser provides in realtime as you move your mouse around a page is infinitely higher than what we had in the early days of the web.

The energy cost of ML will reduce as chips progress, but I think the financial reality will come crashing down on the AI industry sooner rather than later and basically keep it out of reach for most people anyway due to cost. I don’t see much of ROI for AI. Right now it’s treated as a capital investment which helps inflate company worth while it lasts, but after a few years the investment is worthless and a giant money sink from energy costs if used.

Genie is out of the bottle forever unfortunately.

They could have instituted a system of genuine authentic reviewers who manually curate content so that your search is great, but that would result in less clicks. Less clicks means less revenue. They’re financially incentivized to make you click as much as you’re willing to.

I don’t think so man. They were just started to mass train on SEO in the ad industry 15 years ago. Now it’s practically a household term.

Google had very different goals and ambitions early on. Things changed. Now they’re like any other giant soulless corpo. Their goal is revenue, which as their platform has grown we’ve seen a metamorphosis from a focus on interesting things to a never ending professional jester troupe on every endpoint still making pennies on the dollar compared to what google earns from advertisers. They’re the middle men and should be making next to nothing since they produce next to nothing of value, but advertising sells.

Google Search revenue was something like 175bn in 2024. A tiny fraction of that is paid out to websites from clicks. Someone with a proper LLM tuned for SEO can churn out hot garbage nonstop and fill up results in perpetuity with a guaranteed revenue stream far in excess of what is possible as a worker in something in the overwhelming majority of the world. There’s just more garbage than everywhere… and people have found exactly the right formula to rise to the top despite human-useless content. Google doesn’t think of it as a bad thing, 175bn in revenue from search! lol

You misunderstand. I’m not saying AI’s chats are better than a quality article. I’m saying their search results are often better.

Don’t look at what they SAY. Look at the links they provide as sources. Many are bad, but I find I get much better info. If I try google I might try 10+ links before I get one that really says what I want. If I try a chatbot I typically get a link that is relevant within one or two clicks.

There is no shortcut for intelligence… but AI “SEO” has not been perfected yet .

Better search results than google though.

EDIT: DO NOT LOOK AT THE CHAT. LOOK AT THE SOURCE LINKS THEY GIVE YOU.

Unless it’s a handful of official pages or discussion forums… google is practically unusable for me now. It absolutely exploded once chatgpt came to the scene and SEO has gotten so perfected that slop is almost all the results you get.

I wish we had some kind of downvote or report system to remove all the slop, but the more clicks the more revenue from referrals… better to make people click more.

Almost all recipe sites now give me “We see you’re using an adblocker!” until I turn on reader mode on my phone now too. Pretty soon that will be appropriately blocked and I guess i’ll go back to cook books or something?

While Falun Gong has been persecuted in China, look no further than their news outlet The Epoch Times (which is mentioned in the wiki article) for the wonderful things these people promote.

Looks like they’re following the murdoch strategy of all-in on news media to eventually manipulate and control national politics. They’re quite successful too, I know a super white dude from a vhcol area working in a tech adjacent role who can’t say enough good things about their content… he doesn’t trust fox anymore (nor reuters, ap, bbc, or countless other outlets), but he trusts them lol.

Low and slow is the way.

I do like the chef john method though. Crispy cheese on the outside and gooey cheese on the inside. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/236502/inside-out-grilled-cheese-sandwich/