Dyskolos

Actually. You’re right. I kinda retract my previous statement. With a heavy heart, I might add.

People hate what they don’t understand. Like race or sex different from their own 😁 And “AI” surely is a difficult concept to grasp, even for techies.

Very rough, that’s not even 3 hours a day. Which, in my book, is very very little for a hobby. Compared to going to work for 8 hours :)

Nonsense. E.g. I do play a lot more than 20hrs and am not addicted. Wifey too. It’s a passion and we don’t work, so there’s plenty of time to do so. Like any other hobby.

Addiction isn’t measured by time but harm.

Oh no. God beware we would get really useful shit out of AI. Where’s the profit in that… Recently installed a mod for Cyberpunk, which used generative AI to voice 5 trillion text-thingies so you could actually hear the lore while continue gaming. One single person was able to voice tons of thousands of text-lines with many different voices, accents and flairs. THAT was an excellent use for AI and it is even very good voice-“acting”.

So yeah, there are some really good ways to use it. But not in my toaster or toothbrush. And yeah, a basic LOCAL(!) AI on every computer I would appreciate. Focus here is LOCAL though. But again: where’s the profit in that.

Not intellectually. But mathematically. Most humans at least. Me for sure, I can’t even add two 1-digit-numbers in head without thinking :-)

Dude, you tell the truth. I did lie though.

Linux is great and all (i have like 20 machines here), but i don’t care for linux in regard to gaming. I need my soundcard and sadly the stupid games with anti-cheat.

I know what you want to tell me. But I buy product x, y and z and want to use one singular controlling software to, well, control them…

Right when you start it up. Right now it’s "just x their own products. But I’m sure if noone complains, it’ll broaden.

“Require” isn’t right OFC. But why would i buy one and use third party stuff that may or may not work with all features of a product?

Language, Book-print, fire, the wheel, lying on the internet…

Logitech went coocoo a while ago… But since they’ve put motherfucking ads in their driver (I have never ever thought i would say such a bizarre thing) I’ve thrown away my lg-stuff and replaced it. After like 20yrs of brand-loyalty. Ads…in…a…driver…which already sucked ass since the switch to lg-hub. Ugh.

You’re welcome. Trust? Well, trust is hard to come by these days on the net :) Airvpn is italy-based, so if privacy is important, take them. They’re here for a long time now, never heard complaints and founded by hackers/pirates. Also we (EU) have strict privacy-regulations. SolidVPN is based in the USA, so…I’d never use those for sensitive stuff. No matter what they promise. They’re forced to do so.

There are also Mullvad, Proton, Surfshark, etc.

If you’re REALLY serious about your safety and privacy is paramount: take one outside the 5/9/14 Eyes alliances, like CyberGhost (Romania). Generally Romania rocks in those regards. High speed, cheap prices, and most importantly: PRIVACY. Also you could torrent there, in case that’s of any interest and not allowed where you live (like here in germany).

Hope you manage to avoid your stupid OSA. It’s never really about “Safety”.

(AI will) reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027

Dude. It hasn’t even reached the capacity of a mildly intellectually challenged mouse.

I wouldn’t exactly state this as my main intention, but…if it would happen. As a by-product. Well

I’d do the no-accident-kind. Duh!

Die aber doch auch nichts nutzt wenn die, die es eher gucken sollten, es nicht gucken.

Ich schaue seit 25 Jahren keinerlei TV mehr. Wenn man mich mit Waffengewalt dazu nötigen würde etwas zu gucken, würde ich zwar die ÖRRs nehmen, aber die immensen Kosten, und insb. Die widerliche Art der Eintreibung rechtfertigt das irgendwie auch nicht. Zu den steuern hinzufügen und gut. Wozu der ganze alberne extra Aufwand?

Und du glaubst, genau diese Massen würden dann lieber ARD gucken?

As to your latter: reddit already partly does that AFAIK. At least for >=mods. An ai-summarization of a users political sentiment and more.

As to your argument itself: I don’t think you could even compare the net to other inventions like print media. In the end, even the dumbest dumbnut understands what a paper even is. The vast majority of the user in the net have not the slightest clue about any of the things we grew up with. “I thought it (the google app) was ‘the internet?’” Et al.

It doesn’t matter much if we had such a great news site we could trust, when most people will still only use the words from the big apps. This is intentional and nothing that you could just educate away. For every bit of education there will be thrown a ton of marketing against it.

Yes. We have seen the peak of the net. When everything was still great (content-wise of course, not technically). And this is not nostalgia talking. Everything slowly went to shit. We traded free, federated content for corpo-controlled bullshit that is just more flashy. Usenet for reddit, IRC for discord etc. A simple web-search (“just search, nothing more, nothing less”…you member?) For a parasitic poisonous spider that infects everything everywhere. Can’t even enter 90% of the world’s web anymore without solving a recaptcha (=working for free to train googles AI). And this is just the surfaces problems everyone can see but still won’t really notice.

Now we are controlled and monitored by a handful people. Except some stupid old farts like me, who will finally soon die out. And with them the only urge to gain back control and freedom. Nay, the acknowledgment of the loss to begin with.