TheRealKuni

I don’t assume they are perfect. But I do absolutely believe they are significantly better on privacy than any other major player in the smartphone space.

Even if you don’t pay any attention to their policies and programs, the mere fact that iPhones aren’t running an OS owned by an advertising company should be enough to demonstrate this.

Fun fact, the chants in that movie are the same words, just different chant tones.

“Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest”

When the monks are smacking themselves in the face, it’s a very mournful tone (fitting, since these words come from the Requiem, or funeral mass).

Monks: “Pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem” *smack* “Pie Jesu Domine” *smack* “Dona eis requiem” *smack* (repeat

And when the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is being brought forth, it’s a call and response chant with a much more triumphant tone (which doesn’t fit the words, but is comical):

Call: “Pie Jesu Domine:”

Response: “Dona eis requiem!”

(Repeat)

You aren’t!

Pronounced “shitter.”

But they really only unfreeze people who knew Richard Dawkins and Mrs. Garrison. Then laugh at you when you want to play Nintendo Wii.

Just gotta lower the clock speed enough for us not to notice. As long as we don’t interact with the outside world, just other stored human brains, it can be slow as molasses and we won’t notice.

I called this about 10 years ago when working in a call center during college.

I said, “In 10-15 years, this job will not exist. It will be done by AI.”

People disagreed with me. Said, “There are ways I can get a survey complete that you can’t program an AI to do.” And “People don’t want to talk to robots, they want to talk to real people.”

No, no one wants to talk to robots OR real people. They hate us. Also, anything you can do (at a call center job) a properly trained AI can do, and probably better. It was just a matter of time for machine learning and voice generation to get there.

I’m sure as this type of AR tech evolves that’s the kind of thing we’ll see. It’s pretty cool.

Apple Vision is not the game changer, it’s an expensive dev kit. The tech still needs to shrink quite a bit.

That’s remarkable.

Now you have two trolls. Like starfish.

Make sure the new head sees you first, then it’ll think you’re its mommy. Repeat until you have an army of trolls to take down the first head (and its new body).

Edit: it’s -> its

“Your face is red! Like a strawbrary!”

(I know, I know, different show.)

See Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson (although it has a lot of required reading to reach it, being a novella set between books 3 and 4 of the Stormlight Archive.

you always get a generic impressionist painting you don’t get Picasso

You mean that it’s far more like a human then, since there were hundreds of contemporaries of Picasso who didn’t create cubism?

From my understanding, unless ChatGPT spits out the copyrighted work, they don’t have a case here.

Using copyrighted works to train an LLM which can then generate similar works seems pretty solidly to be fair use.

I am not a lawyer though.

I made an autohotkey script years ago that I just run at startup on my machines which lets me press a hotkey to set whatever current window I’m in as “Always On Top.” I forget that it isn’t a baked-in hotkey because it’s so useful.

Also Yelp sucks. People rate things on Yelp when they’re angry. Ratings are almost always lower on Yelp than Google Maps.

I suspect this is because Google Maps reminds you to rate places you’ve been later, whereas Yelp is what people go to when they want to bitch about a place.