Did we ask god 1.0 the meaning of life and expect the answers to be more accurate than ‘42?’
Gizmodo is doing something important here. Everyone is in dismay over how powerful AI is. But it’s largely just a bullshit machine.
The Israeli remote machine gun assassination trick isn’t being pulled off without lots and lots of humans working behind the scenes. Our focus should be on leveraging AI to resist the fascist machine wherever it is rising, which is everywhere. The environment is gonna have to waitgoddamnit
Imagine the pressure of safeguarding the only true hope of freedom from capitalism. One cannot underestimate the importance of open source. His ego does get in the way because ultimately, everybody is replaceable. But very few could be as militantly focused on the importance of the mission. When you remove money, all the motivators are different. His ability to get results from bullying and public shaming should be studied for how its outcome is different than typical bullying. And he even went to therapy specifically to work on this. Fight another battle.
That was my next device too. I still have my Google G1 running some archaic version of CyanogenMod (I think android 1.6 donut?). I want my next device to be a Linux phone with that style of keyboard.