Agreed. There’s no way AI would have generated the undisputed best stock photo model of all time:

Fuck off. Like you’ve never said you want to throttle someone without ever actually wanting to.

Wait, they have even less feelings than typical executives??!!!?

I am in favour of having the AI defend itself in court just for the lulz.

None of that shit needs the Internet.

Yeah. Games are a different beast, and teach you some good skills.

I would encourage gaming over, say, watching lots of Mario and Spongebob and Minecraft videos on YouTube in a maddeningly random walk where nothing ever finishes and there is never a plot. AAAAAAGH!

My partner’s kid, seven years old, does this. I try to stay sane throughout, and watch along, to see if I can understand why they do this.

I sometimes suspect it’s a devious experiment to see if an adult brain can be literally cooked by its own rage and confusion.

The Frameworks represent the bleeding edge in my mind. The laptop I’d get if I was suddenly wealthy. This one looks cool. New RAM type sounds interesting. Anyone here had experience with it?

To explain why you did so well, so the chumps who didn’t bother have to go and sit in court sometimes, which probably gets them loser points at the next child raping party.

Fuck, this is dark. I’m gonna go hug someone.

I wonder if they just throw a dart on a map?

Wtf did Mali do?

He thought Nazi racial supremacy was lame.

Guy might actually stay imprisoned this time. Unless he’s got the pull with Trump to resist extradition.

Some people need to go, for family etc. I agree that we should rapidly try to cut all ties and get everyone out who we want to save before it’s too late.

The beauty of it is that it doesn’t need tracker shit. It works to destroy the US AI bubble even without anything malicious within.

And considering how hard the US researchers have been trying to control the output of their general LLMs, with little success, why would the Chinese have found a way before everyone else even thinks it’s possible?

You did not look it up, did you? We’re talking about today. Which country is worse for the world today?

If you want to bring up Mao, I could bring up Kissinger and Nixon’s bombings of Laos, or the obliteration of the cities in the Korean War, or the United Fruit Company.

See, I did not even mention South America in my question about the last fifty years. Look at the numbers, honestly compare. There have been millions of deaths in the Middle East from the US wars there. Sanctions have killed millions more. You have to realise that this actually happened if you want to honestly understand why people might see the US on the same level as China. It did not start with Trump.

I do acknowledge Mao’s killings, the killings of intellectuals and landlords and ethnic minorities who refused to submit, and dissidents who died in camps, and pregnant women given forced abortions, and gay people imprisoned for deviancy.

However, that was not the point of this discussion. The point is that things have changed.

The US is seen as the monster now, because it is more dangerous to other countries than China.

Also, China’s repression has slowed down a lot, so the increasing repression in the USA is alarming everyone who used to see the US as a reliable if warlike friend.

How many millions died in the Middle East because of the US in the last fifty years? And how many Falun Gong and Uighurs and Tibetans died because of China in the same time?

Compare those numbers, mate. You may be surprised.

Then you live in America. I do not, and buddy, we do not like your government.

Well, is horse porn a want or a need?

It’s because they do not claim to be moral in the first place. They are vehicles for the flaming ire of resentful voters. Destruction is their goal.

They may suffer criminal consequences (although the entire point of having a rich billionaire friend is not having to obey the law) but they won’t lose votes.

So Russia is still advancing? Huh. Expected them to stop, after all the supply line attacks from Ukraine.