I know someone who in the 1980’s/90’s used to run a society for the abolishment of TV because he saw it as the worst things that could have happened to society. Nowadays he is absolutely beached on the shores of social media slop beyond reason.

Dodged one bullet but took the next.

*** Angry Karl Marx sounds rising! ***

Why has it taken me so long to hear the term Slop-bowl’s. I love it!

Does that make delivery drones, Slop-birds?

And they say spotting Psychopaths is difficult.

David Graeber might have something to contribute to this subject.

We could call it the Intel Principle. ;)

To be pedantic, value is in the eye of the beholder. Cost is how much goes into something, Price is how much someone wants to pay, Value… that is much more subjective.

Oil costs $50 a barrel to pump, priced at $100 on the market but when it comes to value could be seen as providing $20,000 of human labor.

Not trying to defend AI junk, like seriously people, just do the work yourself. But value is such a hard thing to quantify.

About the only time I have been like ‘Yeah alright, I get it’ is if you have a sort of writers block. Get a rough draft spat out but then bounce of that, but do not rely on LLM junk for anything more than that.

Five figure!? That’s a bargain. many are going well into six figure territory nowadays.

Have said it for ages, it is End to end encryption, the question is if they are the end or you are? Is it Your end to Apple, Apple to them? Plausible but hard to verify.

For all the problems of Steve jobs, he at least kept the company fairly honest in this sense. But the instant he died, Tim cook immediately rush ed to install PRISM backdoors into all their systems while still carrying the image of privacy.

To answer what other have missed, if you run Linux then that will fix this.

I had always wondered why so many people have had compatibility issues with Linux systems, that was until I realized that because I am basically a computer scrap-man, I almost always a decade behind and everything had been long hardened by then.

I will not post a link to it for privacy reasons, but I wrote an article on this the day before the original M1 was announced warning of this situation. Apples move to their own chipset meant that any attempts at maintaining compatibility would always end up behind the curve.

I am surprised that Apple manage to keep their chips constantly changing as much as they do between generations. Most others seem to be on the ‘same but more’ path nowadays but Apple is still shifting the baseline almost yearly.

The real issue will come if they lock down the boot loader.

Ram man Sam should fall into a Dam.

It was Douglas Rushoff who said something like, Some people do Ayahuasca and they figure out their place in the universe. Tech bros do Ayahuasca and they are just tech bros doing Ayahuasca. That is, there is no deeper layer to them that they can access.

And in typical Aussie fashion, we ripped that off for ourselves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfBxs53vBo&t=149s

You think this is bad, the guys at OpenAI probably realized they are cooked! IPO is a way to cash out and flee to Argentina, instead they might walk face first into a combine harvester that is the remnants of the AI market. Poor Atlman can sell some RAM.

I think the issue is that the drive train below them is the same. Who is in charge does have a BIG impact on some very key points but the larger general shape of something cannot be changed drastically.

Alan watts once said that you would have to mad to want to be President because it is like nominating to be in charge of a runaway truck with no breaks. You can steer it in different directions but you also have somewhat limited agency. So long as the core funding structure below persists, you can only nudge things.

I am not 100% convinced that if Democrats won 2024 election that we wouldn’t be in Iran right now. That said, if we were in Iran, it probably be a lot more sedate and measured. Probably be Also that is a big IF. I mean Democrats were the ones that spent 2 1/2 years negotiating a peace deal with them only to have Trump rip it up in his first term. I’m not saying it would be the same, but there would be the same pressures from below.

So in that sense, it does matter who is in charge but we also need to tackle the base drive train.

It was Nate Hagens (The Great simplification podcast) who said this when he worked at Lehman Brothers about confidence. Don’t worry, he learned quickly that he was the bad guy and changed his ways completely.

Anyway, when all the new recruits came in they gave them a pop quiz. It starts off simply “What is a derivative?” “How to bonds work?”, and with everyone being young an confident they all answer enthusiastically. Eventually they drop in a question that is really difficult and oddball that nobody would know, naturally everyone starts trying to formulate and answer only to have the teacher stop them. Teacher just says, “Don’t try to fake it, that helps no one. What you say is. I don’t know, I will find out, and I will get back to you.”

You don’t have to have an answer to everything.