No one knows what the deal is with that relationship. Maybe this is all part of their plan, maybe Elon has dirt on Trump, maybe he’s brainwashed and neuralink is more advanced than is publicly known. Maybe they’re both being blackmailed, and Joe Biden is the one really pulling the strings, and he’s trying to destroy the country as revenge for Harris?

There are a lot of equally likely possibilities here, so we shouldn’t try to jump to conclusions.

As a software engineer who started programming when he was 11, I get what you mean about “ladder climbers” feeling alien (my elitist term for them is “9-to-5ers” or “pedestrians”).

However, I think this question is dumb at least so far as it won’t work to weed out the people you think it will. I don’t read fiction often, and the only scifi books I remember reading are Dune and Prey, but that’s very out of character for me. It’s pretty much luck that I read those, and more a factor of me just being an old fart (I’m almost 30, and that’s a lot of time to stumble upon at least one scifi book). Ask me this question a few years earlier and I’d draw a blank.

Both were good books, but nothing that would consider a “favorite”. Dune is memorable to me just because it very clearly was based on Lawrence of Arabia, which I found neat. As for Prey, I only vaguely remember something about killer nanomachines, and that it was a fun read.

But if you’re specifically looking to hire someone you can talk scifi novels with, then it’s a very good question (as long as you’re mature enough to hire someone who says their favorite book is one that you hate).

Literally nothing. A corporation, especially a publicly traded one like that, can’t do much but maximize (ideally long-term, but usually short-term) shareholder returns.

The Activision-Microsoft merger is a good recent example of this. During the anti trust trial, the CEO of Activision literally came out and said that he believes it’s a bad idea that will be bad for the industry and bad for the company in the long term, using the impact of consolidation in Hollywood as an example, but he has to side with the board. He’s basically legally obligated to.

I’m not saying it’s unjust or a bad system (and I’m definitely not trying to paint Bobby Kotick as a good guy), I just want to point out that corporations are very simple in their purpose, and nobody should be expecting anything more from them. If you’re disappointed that Google made this 180, that’s on you for falling in love with a corporation. They’re useful tools for producing goods and services, but terrible as a political tool for democracy.

But for some reason, it became popular to fetishize tech companies, and that spawned megalomaniacs like Elon, Zuckerberg, Horowitz, Thiel, etc who feel like they should be the supreme rulers of our civilization.

Elon over here pulling the old “I know you are but what am I” strategy. Truly a genius.

gun ownership is support of child murder.

It is, and you’re a limp dick loser for owning them. Its a hobby that routinely leads to school shootings and mass murders, and defending it means you’re either a selfish moron, or a truly evil person.

…But the democratic party hasn’t disarmed anyone. No serious effort to do so ever goes anywhere, and any attempts to regulate guns usually fail or are ineffective. Even when they had a majority, they didn’t ban guns. To think this is something they were ever seriously interested in is silly, and probably a sign you’ve been spending too much time on internet gun communities (which are pretty much all far right conspiracy shit holes)

While it’s true we’re a very litigious country, it’s also a meme that blows the reality out of proportion. In my circle of friends and family, the only lawsuits have been insurance related (car accidents, etc), or financial stuff (sued by a corporation for not paying a debt, suing employer for unpaid wages, etc). All of that is pretty standard stuff.

I’ve never met or heard of anyone near my circle who has sued another person over some personal issue/grievance. If you run over someone’s foot with a shopping cart at the supermarket, you’re more likely to get into a fist fight (or a shoot out) than a lawsuit.

waste of time and money

Well, the legal system here is relatively efficient, and if you do decide to take someone to court and win, there’s a good chance it’ll be worth it. If anything, the large number of lawsuits is a testament to how well the legal system works. If it didn’t, people wouldn’t use it so often.

You can bring a stupid frivolous lawsuit intended to waste everyone’s time and money, but those can get dismissed quickly.

Calculators made mental math obsolete. GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own.

Maybe those are good innovations or not. Arguments can be made both ways, I guess.

But if AI causes critical thinking skills to atrophy, I think it’s hard to argue that that’s a good thing for humanity. Maybe the end game is that AI achieves sentience and takes over the world, but is benevolent, and takes care of us like beloved pets (humans are AI’s best friend). Is that good? Idk

Or maybe this isn’t a real issue and the study is flawed, or more realistically, my interpretation of the study is wrong because I only read the headline of this article and not the study itself?

Who knows?

There’s so much misinfo spreading about this, and while I don’t blame you for buying it, I do blame you for spreading it. “It sounds legit” is not how you should decide to trust what you read. Many people think the earth is flat because the conspiracy theories sound legit to them.

DeepSeek probably did lie about a lot of things, but their results are not disputed. R1 is competitive with leading models, it’s smaller, and it’s cheaper. The good results are definitely not from “sheer chip volume and energy used”, and American AI companies could have saved a lot of money if they had used those same techniques.

The model weights and research paper are

I think you’re conflating “open source” with “free”

What does it even mean for a research paper to be open source? That they release a docx instead of a pdf, so people can modify the formatting? Lol

The model weights were released for free, but you don’t have access to their source, so you can’t recreate them yourself. Like Microsoft Paint isn’t open source just because they release the machine instructions for free. Model weights are the AI equivalent of an exe file. To extend that analogy, quants, LORAs, etc are like community-made mods.

To be open source, they would have to release the training data and the code used to train it. They won’t do that because they don’t want competition. They just want to do the facebook llama thing, where they hope someone uses it to build the next big thing, so that facebook can copy them and destroy them with a much better model that they didn’t release, force them to sell, or kill them with the license.

Same, it has been years since I’ve watched any Star Trek but every now and then I’ll dream about an episode or just randomly remember a scene or quote.

Maybe a rewatch is exactly what I need to restore my faith in humanity right now?

Why would the pedophile Matt Gaetz be offended by a song dissing pedophiles?

But also fuck this type of partisan rage bait article. This type of writing is what divides us, even if it’s saying things you wanna hear.

Any Fedora Atomic desktop, or any UBlue one.

Immutable distros are the future of the Linux desktop. They work and they never break (I dare you to try).

Wow. This comment is one of the stupidest, most embarrassing comments I’ve seen on the internet. This comment is such a sad representations of ignorance and complicit brainwashing. Really dumb dumb comment right here.

Man, Trump really flooded your zone, huh? Seriously, stop following the news for like a day or two. I don’t even understand what point you’re trying to make here, but the passive aggressive seething is palpable.

Most of what DOGE is doing is probably illegal, most of Trump’s executive orders are going to get blocked by courts, and many have already been rescinded. The point is to demoralize people so they don’t bother voting or fighting back. I’m getting the impression that the strategy worked on you.

Stop it. Play video games, draw pictures, watch porn. Whatever you do, disconnect from the fire-hose of outrage coming from the whitehouse. It’s all bait, and you’re gobbling it up.

I remember my 6th grade civics teacher (a black man) was angry and depressed when Obama won, saying that republicans will never win another election again.

Fuck yeah.

For anyone out of the loop, look into Freetube and Grayjay. There are other apps that do the same thing too, but those are good to start with.

Good to know! I also hate illegal immigration, which is why, at least on this issue, I’m voting for democrats for the foreseeable future. The republican party is hell bent on increasing the amount of illegal immigrantion in this country, and I just can’t support that. Of course, the dems would never go so far as to eliminate illegal immigration completely (by adopting open borders), but I’m confident they’re at least more open to finding a middle ground that makes most people happy.

So you don’t care about immigration, you only care about the “illegal” aspect of it? Does that mean you’re pro-immigration reform, so that more people can immigrate to the US without “breaking laws”?

but I’m struggling to find a reason we shouldnt deport illegal immigrants.

Are you specifically concerned about illegal immigration, or just immigration in general? Because if it’s the former, that’s a silly distinction because the government (we the people, aka Elon Musk) decides what is illegal or not. If the next wave of politicians decides we should have actually open borders, then there would be no such thing as “illegal immigration”.

I’m concerned that illegal immigrant labor is akin to H1b or prison labor, where the worker has diminished rights and is abused more than other groups.

Do you have specific examples in mind where immigrants are exploited? If you do, look at those examples and ask yourself: “could we pass laws to protect these people from abuse?”, and you’ll find that the answer is obviously yes.

Maybe your definition of “abuse” is that they need to work harder to earn less? Well, that’s the society we live in. Capitalism has its problems, but it has worked good enough for us for the past 248 years. For the immigrant, US minimum wage is likely far better than whatever they received in their home country, and I suspect most would happily take that deal. I think that’s what they’d call “the American dream”, as their children will be able to go to school and have a better future than they did.

…If your issue is with immigration in general, then I don’t know what to tell you. That’s entirely opinion based, and nobody knows what the correct answer is (despite what they might claim). 100% open borders has risks, 100% closed borders has risks.