Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

We should develop a way to genetically put a cap on greed, and puff, all our problems dissapear.

Here is the video link

They control the online discourse.

We might have to leave the virtual social networks and start building real ones.

Yes, but the fact is there was such a difamation campaign on the left, that divorcing from the term seems super healthy.

Most people would agree with the majority of leftist principles, but will shun them immediately if you told them that’s being the left.

Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of centralisation.

6 months ago you could set up a server for running a decent local llm for under 800.

By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.

I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.

Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that’s done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.

I get your point that this last part doesn’t scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.

Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.

Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).

But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…

Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!

My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

That’s my best case.

Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.

Thank you for your hearthfelt and conscious comment.

You made your point exquisitely and now you are fucking blocked.

Not sure about that.

Nuclear energy is safer than ever.

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

Clinging to oil is like refusing to replace your horse with a car.

Yeah, except the ones eating shit are the rest of us…

Now I get it!

They are not stupid. They firmly believe that happy people are not productive at the level they want. And they want our 150% because they are hoping for AGI and other holy grail technologies to happen in their lifetimes. When you have everything the only goal left is to avoid losing it.

I’m fundamentally against death penalty, but in the case of Billionaires I believe we can and must do without whatever genetic or psicological traits they carry. We simply can’t afford that level of selfishness to survive as a species.

They’d rather poison the earth and make it uninhabitable than being constrained in any way or form.

Because fuck corporate social networks.

Shout out to this peaceful protester. It must take some massive balls to stand in front of these goons unwavering like they did.

You have to be blind to think he was in danger.

Out of the car’s way, and wheels are turned in his opposite direction.

No intention to “ram into him” whatsoever.

I never in my life would have imagined that Idiocracy Movie would be used as a playbook to USA politics.