LurkingLuddite

Global warming due to the co2 we’ve already dumped will destroy us anyways. The “AI” slop is just the cherry on top that will guarantee societal collapse instead of just mass migrations and water wars.

They’ve definitely cut back on flavor this past year. Not just on pizza flavor. I stopped buying any of them because they’re not worth it any more. Bunch of extra calories for no taste? They can fuck off and die.

That might be the words they said while completely ignoring the examples, but those examples made it abundantly clear that they meant gendered pronouns.

You can address someone without gendered pronouns… they even gave examples.

Again, you’re not arguing with me, but with the companies that will spend millions to save pennies…

The US is special in that bribery is (now openly) legal. These corporations will not change just because Congress says so. They’ll just change congress.

Most people with half a brain. Besides, road signs was just one example about cost, not feasability. Other industries, like construction, have a whole lot more invested in specific units.

Again, yes it’s possible to switch, and I think it’d be worth it, but… again, go convince those industries that do everything possible to save pennies per product and tell them they have to change…

I already said it’s an effort I think is worth it.

Go ahead and try to convince the thousands of corporations that are willing to spend millions lobbying Congress to save pennies per product that they suddenly need to change over such an arbitrary detail…

Not US ones. Not the US wing of international ones.

Seriously, you do not fathom what I’m talking about…

For ONE example: Road signage. There are millions of mile markers in the US alone. That doesn’t include bigger signs, like, “X service in Y miles”. That doesn’t include a lot.

Do you know how much each mile marker sign costs, let alone the much bigger signage? Even at tens of dollars, that’s a lot of money, for one type of sign.

How many industries and other areas of daily life so you think include such verbiage?

Besides, I already said it’s an effort I think is worth it, so you’re just being a shithead.

You know what I mean, dammit. lol

Your eagerness to fool yourself is beyond sad.

The real answer is entire industries are already set up to produce certain measurements of materials. Outside of all the idiots whining, it would cost trillions to change many industries over to cleanly divisible products that would fit cleanly through the rest of supply chains.

An effort that I think should happen, but… well…

They don’t “learn” anything, though. They’re ‘trained’ (still a bad term but at least the industry uses it) to spit the correct answer out.

People, especially CEOs and advertising firms, need to stop anthropomorphizing them. They do not learn. They do not “know”. They have statistically derrived association and that’s it. That’s all.

Holy hell ELIZA effect is in full swing and it’s beyond sad. They don’t build the association themselves. They don’t know what the representations mean. They absolutely do not know why two words are strongly associated. It’s just a bunch of math that computes a path through that precomputed vector space. That’s it.

Even simply using the word “know” is anthropomorphising them and is wholly incorrect.

You are suffering from the ELIZA effect and it is just… sad.

Having a number that relates words to other words is not understanding words. Stop believing the hype for fuck’s sake. What they ‘know’ is NOT knowledge. They do not know anything. Period.

There is a reason they start to fail when trained on other slop; because they don’t know what any of it means!

Their ‘knowledge’ comes from the basic weights of what word is most likely to follow. Period. The importance of that weight comes from humans. It is not intrinsic knowledge even after training. It is pure association, and not association like you or I do word association.

Everyone is focused on the exit, when clearly there is still a vulnerability to the entrance side. If someone is identified as a bad actor, you do not want your own personal address showing up all over in the logs of who they’ve been conversing with… Regardless of what can be proven as to the nature of conversations, you will now have eyes on you.

So yes, a VPN is useful, just not for all the reasons the comments so far are addressing.

Nice! Sound like you’re on the right track, though might want to keep a live cd image on hand in case Windows decides to take over your boot options until you can finally squash it. xP

Try out some live boot disks then. Several flavors of linux will just boot up, and give you the option to install from within the booted OS. I forget which ones lwt you change things and basically treat them like normal, but some will even carry over any made changes right through the install (if you tell it to, anyways).

Then, you’ll just have to identify any critical applications you need and see if they run on linux, or have any viable alternatives that do, or worst case try to run the windows flavor through Wine or proton or so.

If you need stability above all, I’d recommend avoiding the bleeding edge distros or the young ones that are changing a lot. It sounds odd, but I’ve been digging MX Linux a lot, and I’ve tried a good few flavors over the years. It’s based on Debian Stable, so it’s repos won’t be the bleeding edge, but it has that classic Debian “Just Works” going for it. The only bugs I’ve had have been issues from Wayland that also affect other distros.

Don’t worry. At the rate we’re goíng, humanity will be long dead before “AI” is remotely sentient, let alone salty.

Capitalism. Not tech.

You know why: Easy money.