Not social media per sé, but definitely “the algorithm” that was introduced around ~2014 and has been tweaked by the likes of Cambridge Analytica to now provide us with endless ragebait.

MySpace was social media and had none of the toxicity.

Sure would be nice if Creative could deliver a driver fix for my soundcard’s channel swapping. Thing isn’t even a decade old.

The effects that worry me most and are arguably the best studied are those on the human endocrine system. It unarguably interferes with our hormonal system, although it is not yet known to which degree or how it impacts each individual separately. Most likely this will go the way of cigarettes; with the world “knowing” it’s poison but not taking action until the effects can absolutely no longer be ignored. By which time it will be too late for many.

I hear you but nah. We have more than enough “realistic” and “gritty” shows. The whimsy of X-files was what made it tick. Taking that away would just make it boring which is the worst possible outcome for such a show.

Shitty ads/malware incoming in 3…

I’m sure that’ll bring them back up to par with AMD. Oh wait…

Not ghetto but simply very basic, rural living. The house I grew up in did not have indoor plumbing. The toilet was outside in an outhouse, just a plank with a hole in the middle above a cesspit. My parents were split up and my mother got the absolute minimum pay and my father wasted his wages on alcohol and women. So there were few luxuries during my youth.

Today I’m 41 and I’m BARELY above that level of poverty. If I lose my job for whatever reason it’s back to that kind of life.

That was in the '80s in Western Europe, by the way. Today this situation has become a lot more rare but it’s not gone yet.

So AMD now dominates (or almost) both consumer and server cpu market. Not surprising, considering the offerings from Intel at this point. Man, Intel has fallen. Fully expecting them to be bought by qualcom or broadcom or similar soon.

4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.

Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.

User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.

Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.

End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.

Civil war. Not exactly looking forward to it per sé. Just expecting it.

Look, in today’s world, you get to choose who spies on you depending on your chosen platform, but spy on you they absolutely will. Wether it’s the Russians, the Chinese or USA. The only way to not get spied on is to not use electronic communications at all.

You’re probably not wrong. It’s definitely along the same lines… although the repercussions of this particular one will be infinitely greater than those of the industrial revolution.

Also, industrialization made for better products because of better manufacturing processes. I’m by no means sure we can say the same about AI. Maybe some day, but today it’s just “an advanced dumbass” considering most real world scenarios.

Because the goal of “AI” is to make the grand majority of us all obsolete. The billion-dollar question AI is trying to solve is “why should we continue to pay wages?”. That is bad for everyone who isn’t part of the owner class. Even if you personally benefit from using it to make yourself more productive/creative/… the data you input can and WILL eventually be used against you.

If you only self-host and know what you’re doing, this might be somewhat different, but it still won’t stop the big guys from trying to swallow all the others whole.

14GBps ssd is fast enough to keep the existential dread away. Usually. Maybe not when updating Windows.

There’s a website with “Google’s graveyard”, containing all the services they shut down over the years. We need something similar for all AI failures.

There are ads but they’re subtle enough that you don’t recognize them as such.