Bobby_2021

If you need a superior understanding of the world, you would need to hold a lot of information in your mind even before they start making sense. Only then, after tons of hours of contemplation, will things start to make sense.

That guy is me and you are missing the point. Your mind is a mess and is not optimised to hold information. I can recall almost every significant event in my life with the exact event and dates because I trained me mind to do it. My brother can easily recall the number plates of cars even if he saw that once. The point is to optimise your mind to do it. Don't try too hard if it doesn't feel too natural to you. Anything I think is relevant stays in my mind. I am not saying that you should hold useless information in your mind like phone numbers or appointments. The fundamental reason why you cannot hold things in your mind is because you think it's somehow irrelevant. That's the problem. You think the image of your hand is somehow worthwhile while paying your rent tomorrow is useless and you struggle to hold the useless part of the information in memory. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening here. Your mind is biased against one thing. You have no problems holding the memory of your mother or spouse in your mind. Your mind does it for you. All I am talking about is to extend that capacity to more stuff around you. But you have to train your mind to do that. And don't try too hard if you can't, because you are not interested. You cannot force yourself to hold information in your mind which becomes torture.

I don't know man. I don't think I will make it past 30. Got to make the most while I am still here.

They are contemplating a move to gtfo Romania. https://x.com/MozzarellaJimmy/status/1764838173224456439?s=20

I just don't get how it isn't true. Talk by giving examples to support your claims. Check the software biggest companies by market cap. All of them started in a garage or someone's dorm room. Msft, Nvidia, Amazon, Google, Meta, Tesla all had very humble beginnings. Aka a small business. But there were no govt regulations to pester them while they were growing. They made the most of the wild west. The VC funding comes only when the owners can prove that they can have viable profit generation scope in future. They still start off as small business. No one will throw money at you for fun and those that do are highly likely to fail. All big money starts off somewhere small. Still it's something to think about when government props up regulations, we are not seeing garage based businesses succeed like they used to.

The point is efficiency. Not efficacy per say. Big corporations have plenty of red tape and decision makers to go through to get something done. That's not the case with smal business, especially if they are run by talented individuals.

This particular point being true isn't even relevant. The government should not oppress small business regardless of whether they are efficient or not. All big corporations started off in someone garage. They are not going to grow and disrupt if government is going to oppress them.

Less regulation for small businesses and more regulations for giant corporations. The problem is when giant corporations lobby the government to bring more regulation for the small businesses as a means to drive out competition and increase the barrier of entry. I am taking the example of corporations in the tech, IT and services space. If government is doing a shitty job in enforcing laws, then it the fault of the government. I do agree that you need strong laws against insider trading and stock buybacks. But that falls under the responsibility of the government. Absolutely. But you are forgetting that small businesses are much more efficient in producing value far more than these giant corporations. Government is not doing a good job of representing them. Monopoly will eventually result in less value added to the economy so the government has to support all the businesses to ensure a level playing field. The government sets the rules of the game. So it a corporation is abusing their power it is because the government intended to be it that way. So, the government is killing the small business in favor of big corporations. Like you said, the government should represent all of them equally as a means to amplify the economy and maximize the value added into the economy. So, the government is doing the actual abuse. The do this by adding more legal fees and overregulating small businesses and threatening to close them down for not paying some stupid fee wherever.

Society will not criticize wokeism for nothing. The wokies are insufferable, naggy, intolerant, insensitive, hypocrites and bigoted. Stop being all of that and society will not humiliate you. These people act like they are the top of the world and needs to lecture everyone on how to live and govern themselves. No thanks.

And all those agendas also had their own backlash. You are right. The problem is when you think wokeism agenda should be above any backlash. Which is clearly not the case. The more ideological you are, the more backlash you have to face from society. It should be a reminder to you to look into your own ideological dogma instead of blaming and labelling the cultural phenomena as a flimsy right wing cultural backlash. No sane person will nor should put up with this bullshit. If you display racism or sexism on media, you will have backlash. Blade Runner 2049 got plenty of backlash for sexist portrayal of Ana De Armas. Same with racism or any sort of insensitivity or immorality. I have accepted all that. No one is denying the backlash for racist portrayal of blacks. If you did propagate racism, you will be subjected to severe backlash and even cancellation. All those backlashes were totally valid. See here is the problem. When someone like Will Smith who is a black actor who should be against racism in real life promotes places like Dubai which were literally built using slavery from the third world. This is wokeism and peak hypocrisy. They preach equality, feminism, women's rights, climate change and in real life, they live on yachts fly in private jets and promote slavery. It is so easy to see through all this facade. IF you think people are dumb, you are sadly mistaken. They notice everything you do since the advent of social media. The hollowness of the woke message is too damn clear to ignore. I can give you 20 examples off the top of my head, and I do not even pay enough attention to this bullshit. Imagine the sheer wokeism the average person is exposed to. It will drive them mad. Hence the backlash. It is up to them how far they want to go. It's fine man. The further you go the more backlash you have to face. If you do not want backlash do not go too far. Simple. This is false. There is literally no one on the internet who produces the same content as Leo. Sometimes there are no multiple options. If James Cameroon spewed a bunch of liberal dogma in your face while you are watching Avatar, you simply do not have anywhere else to go watch Avatar. You will be destroying the brand, which is what Hollywood is doing with these big budget releases. The high budget woke bullshit is destroying their own fan base. Absolutely. Earnest viewers of the channel would also despise him. You do realize this is what happened to actors like Lily Singh who lost her entire fan base to sheer nothingness because she decided to go woke. She went from being relatable to insufferable and irrelevant. Wokeism teaches you that women should be accepted for who they are and if they are not, they are subjected to sexism. This is pure victim mentality. Which would make her unable to produce authentic content and gain viewership because her victim mentality is insufferable. This is how wokeism destroyed a true artist. I can name many more cases like this. Man, it is not that difficult, just do not be ideological. OR is it? Christianity is still the biggest religion in the world. It is far from dying out. It survived by being less ideological. Wokes have to turn down their ideological dogma similarly. This is why they need to look at themselves and be less ideological.

That 1-2% of wokies are fabulously wealthy. They exert overwhelming control over the populace via the media. They inject woke agenda just everywhere. Just look at Hollywood. Imagine if Leo lectured you on feminism, gays & trans rights in every video 3 times. The viewers will be fed up with this. And there will be a huge push back. And imagine if he labelled everyone a racists for a push back while offering no explanation whatsoever. Which is the puch back that wokeism is receiving right now and it's totally fair. Honest green people take it as an insult that green values are shunned on by society. It's not the case. It's just that you are hypocritical about the way you deliver your message. The wokes should take the message and reorient themselves.

It's out of possibility that we regress back to some 1800s capitalist hellhole. The modern capitalism has changed so much that they are pro regulation. The mega corporations want more regulations not less. And Govt is the one who is entrusted to not let corporations oppress the people. But somehow everyone likes to blame corporates when it's corrupt govt officials that take bribes and oppress people. All problems with the corporations comes from govt not doing it's job well. Simple as that.

And whose fault is that? Maybe try not putting the government on sale?

wokeness is being ideological about green stuff.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-artificial-intelligence-regulation.html It's a pure myth that giant corporations are against regulation. They are using regulation as a means to drive out competition from the little guys and increase the barrier of entry. The government is who abuses the free markets to oppress the small business folk. They call the process euphemistically as lobbying. To make it sound cute and less threatening.

Yes you are correct. The enslavement comes from the government, not corporate. Capitalism and free markets have built a functional organic system that provides valuable goods and services to people. Government comes in between and takes those stolen data for surveillance. That's the scary part. They use the corporate data just to spy on you. That's far more sinister than anything that the corporations are doing. Corporations have no choice but to bend to the whims of the government since they have a monopoly on violence. You criticised Facebook for rigging the 2016 election as if it was a problem with Facebook. In reality it's always the government systems, that too a democratic one, that abuses the corporate systems and then blames the corporations.

Also note that all these advancements in AI would not have been possible without "stealing" the data. If they can steal my data and make something as incredible as an powerful LLM, then I support stealing those data. How incredible it would be if could make use of code written by other people in my own work? That is the magic of capitalism. Data is collected to improve that service. IF you do not want that, use cheaper stuff that exists, that do not steal your data. It is out there. No one is forcing you to give up your data. Even if 10% more people were concerned with their privacy than now, then we would have been living in a much different world. Open-source ecosystem would have made even more wonderful software you all can make use of. But people do not care about privacy or transparency. So the capitalistic free market gives them exactly that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The whole problem lies when govt increases the barrier of entry for small businesses. That is the thing that we should be really scared of. And avoid obvious market manipulation like stock buybacks & insider trading. ALl of these are problems with the government, not with capitalism.

Listen there is a lot of unrolling to do because what you said contradicts itself. 1. Why do Facebook and google "steal" your data? They sell that data to businesses owners who are providing some sort of product or a service to people. So they still get rich from buying stuff from the store. FB is solving a difficult problem in the market. If you have a product that people love, and there are people who love your product, how do you reach them? By collecting their data and selling it to business owners who have something to sell. The data is valuable only because it facilitates sales. So, they still get rich from connecting people who would eventually buy from their store. If you are a small business owner who wants to sell electric kettles, then you could do an ad campaign that targets such sort of people. Now could be help combat climate change by selling solar panels over Facebook as a small business owner. All of these are doing incredible things for the economy. It's not just mega corporations making each other rich. It is putting power in the hands of small business owners who can now deliver a service or sell some cool shirt. This would be impossible without collecting or "stealing" user data. -------------------------------------------------------- 2. Is it really stealing if you had given them consent to access your files and your data that you willingly entered into their platform? So technically you did consent, even though their manufactured content in a sneaky way. You cannot install these social media in your phone unless you sign their terms and conditions. It clearly says that they have the rights to use the data of their users to improve the services they provide you. --------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Consent does not matter anyway since most people simply do not care. They would rather have their data taken and get a better service than not have their data taken at all and be given an OS that they could custom design. Capitalism does not never give you options. It is up for the market to decide what options to choose from. Apple and Microsoft collect data to improve the services they give you. Are you pissed off? Use Linux. The solution already exists. Why do you waste your money and time to pay for Microsoft or Apple? Because collecting user data helps them make an OS where most of the problems faced by the normal folk are already solved by the corporation selling them. Linux does not collect any data. But you need to learn more about computers to install and use Linux. They want a solution that works out of the box without worrying too much. You cannot force Apple or Microsoft to solve a problem that does not exist. This comes back to the question of freedom & responsibility? Do you want freedom from mega corporations tracking you? Use Linux. Do you want mega corporations to collect telemetry and records user behavior, but will give you a readymade OS that you could start with without learning much about it? Use Apple or Microsoft. But you do realize that Apple would need to collect user data to design a system that. Most people do not want responsibility that comes with freedom. So, they choose to go with having less freedom and less responsibility. It is not like alternative solutions does not exist in the market. It does an its free. Just that it does not interests people.

If they suck up trillions of dollars, then someone has to give them trillions of dollars. Will you give up trillions of dollars for free? only if you get more than a trillion dollars in value. I will be glad if a trillion dollars of value is pumped into this economy. That would do wonders to the economy in a scale more than you could imagine. If he is raising a trillion from investors. I couldn't care less. Let him do it. In that case he is making himself a slave by being in debt to those investors. There will be a lot of investors, which is not going to be a problem. There is a chance that none of this will pay out and the money will be locked up in research & development. That is good. If he gets a trillion-dollar contract from the govt, then you should be concerned. Because that is the taxpayer money of the people. Government contracts are scary. In that case, you should blame the government for empowering trillion-dollar corpos. If the "little folks" can get a share of the trillion dollars in value, then that would empower the little folk. You can use Ai without having a single penny. You should look forward to increasing competition in the market by having more players and easing the regulations. That way no single corpos can increase the prices inorganically. Stop seeing everything from the eyes of the Karl Marx. Even he would change the mind on capitalism based on whatever that is going on at the moment. He got billions because you keep sending him money. You keep using his products even when you can choose not to. He got billions from solving real problems. And you use the products of people who exploit their workers. If you want to mass produce anything, you need to exploit the labor. This is altruistic exploitation and a necessary one. Do you want to exploit people and build cheap solar panels, nuclear plants and electric cars to produce clean energy or die from climate change? The exploitation is not done from a shameless attempt to get rich. He is solving genuine problems, and the market prefers exploitative solutions by wanting cheap cars, solar panels etc. He can pay his workers more if you are willing to pay more for a Tesla. So, you are doing the exploitation by buying apple and tesla. If it is exploitative, you can choose not to get exploited. No one is forcing anyone to work for a billionaire. But someone has to make the food with capital as cheaply as possible so that people can be fed. The AI companies can never enslave you on their own. They do not have the monopoly on violence. Government is the one responsible for ensuring the law and order. The best that AI companies can ever do is to get lots of paper money. That paper money is valuable simply because the government says so. If the government is easily corruptible, then you know where the problem is. The real problem is when you are squeezed out of alternatives because the government increases the barrier to entry for smaller business by increasing regulations and random stupid fees for doing business. That way you are allowed to buy services from one mega corporation. All problems of slavery come from the government not doing it job or when the government is handing out contracts worth billions to these companies or lobbying to kill small business by overregulating them. Most problems would instantly solve if you were not going to pester small business from providing services by making use of AI. This is how you democratize AI and put power in the hands of the people.

Dude what I am saying is that AI treaty will not be singed by countries powerful enough to develop their own AI. They will literally ignore the treaty like India and Israel ignored the NPT. The countries who did sign the treaty were too weak to develop their own nukes. It's not like they had the capacity to do it anyway. And you do realize that even Russia violated the treaty and US pulled out of it. That's how petty these agreements are. The moment it's inconvenient for you, you can pull out of it. You will be shooting yourself in the foot by not developing your own AI. For eg Ukraine didn't develop their own nuclear weapons for honouring some shitty treaty and now they are paying a hefty price for it. Nukes could have easily prevented this sort of Russian invasion. That's what's going to happen to countries that doesn't pursue AI. They will be overshadowed by countries who do develop their own AI. The intended effect was to prevent more countries from developing nukes apart from the existing ones. They clearly failed at that. North Korea signed and later pulled off. Because without nukes, they would they would be under the control of the US or bigger powers. They don't have to be enemies to not cooperate. They could simply follow their own interests which is to develop their own AI. The laws that you make only apply to a certain jurisdiction. They would do all the same in a different jurisdiction. It's so easy to skid these laws. Which are meaningless anyway.

Exactly. The treaty was signed to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons. And what happened? India, Pakistan, North Korea and even Israel developed nuclear weapons anyway. Even US and Russia withdrew from the treaty. Which is why all such treaties are utter trash. The exact same thing will happen with AI, now that corporations are playing the game. So, they would absolutely zero flying fucks about any "treaty". If you try to regulate them too much they move to a country that does not try to regulate them and train their AI on all the data they can get their hands on. I oppose all regulations that increases the barrier to entry to AI. Some basic regulations are necessary. I do not doubt the sincerity or good will of your arguments. Just that it will not produce the intended effects that you are looking for.

Why would you even want to stop it? It's so ridiculous. We need to build zero trust systems that could operate without being fooled by a freaking AI. "As a species" Do you even realize how silly this sounds? Do you think China/Russia is simply going to put a halt because someone fearmongers about it? Do you think even the companies in US are going to stop it? Stop the fear mongering for a moment . Whatever problems we face, we will solve it then. Just like we always did it.

I don't think so. It's hard to operate in the AI industry without a solid profit motive. Not that it matters. Either way I am happy with more AI tools available to me. What concerns me is they putting guard rails on AI because of woke stuff and now it's doesn't work as it used to. Even now chat gpt is not nearly usable. It's giving trash responses and less relevant information and declining answers without explanation. Another instance of why socialisms/communism/wokeism would never produce the intended outcomes.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tyler-perry-ai-alarm-1235833276/ Now we all can start a film with a keyboard and some creativity instead of relying on Disney to give lectures on wokeism shoved in their movies. You do not need to invest 200 million in capital to make a movie. The cost should come down with AI. There should be some impact that put some power in the hands of the people. All these tools are out there for people who want to use it well. These are more reasons to be optimistic. -------------------- Government regulation of small business is the biggest thing that you should be scared of. You should lower the barrier to entry for small businesses. Regulation should be done in a less disruptive way. That is the real danger in the room.