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It’s worth noting that the city says it was denied because their application was missing required information, not due to the large public outcry. They further noted that the company can fix those issues and ask for the application to be reconsidered, which would skip further public input.

Sounds to me like they might just be making sure there’s no technicality issues to protect from possible lawsuits after they ignore the public and allow it anyway. We’ll see, I guess.

Well, obviously an adult, but I admit I’m a little unsure about which one. Hope that helps.

I like the thought, but it won’t work. The big websites won’t be willing to lose money they don’t have to, and like ID laws that give them reasons to extract more data from users anyway.

Musk and team: “OpenAI was founded as a non-profit, and turning it into a for-profit corporation with shareholders is a betrayal of its founding, and humanity itself.”

Altman and team: “Musk is just big mad because he wanted to control OpenAI and we didn’t let him.”

I suspect that they’re both, uh, mostly not wrong on those points.

I’m sick of it too. From now on I’m going to max as little as possible. I’m calling it minmaxxing and no, it has nothing to do with RPG character stats.

Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.

The headline is misleading. The pardon was for the 3 year prison sentence for $39 Million dollars in tax fraud for stealing his employees’ payroll tax withholdings.

This will be an important test for local governments holding federal agents responsible of unlawful behavior. I expect the Trump crowd to all out fight this, both in court and media.

I mean, I don’t actually want to talk you out of your vow there, but I’m fairly confident this was from a random troll with no affiliation to the actual company. Now I don’t doubt they’d do it if they thought it would be profitable, but even if they did foolishly think this would work, I’d be shocked if we’re even on their radar.

Sounds like she didn’t have any problems spending her husband’s porn money before. It’d be a bit hypocritical if she suddenly has a problem with it now that it’s her hand on the tiller. To be fair, big life changes like the loss of a loved one often makes people rethink things in their life. If she does have an issue with that business model, she’ll probably just sell her stake so she can remain uninvolved, but still be rich.

As much as I hate these assholes coopting Tolkien’s works, it is a really apt name for this company. In the story, the Palantir were wonderous tools for communication until they were corrupted and taken over by literal evil, turned into tools of surveillance and control.

I dislike that the article refers to Thiel as a Libertarian without putting quote marks around it. While he is firmly opposed to governments regulating businesses, he makes and sells the tools to help governments exercise more authority over private citizens. I know the term has also been largely coopted by fascists, but it still annoys me.

Some of the services supposedly built on AI have turned out to be exactly that. The AIs themselves aren’t though. They’re dumb in a way that is very distinct from the way we humans are dumb.

A TV doctor snake oil marketer turned MAGA official.

Mr President, if we get to November of [2026] and people’s 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10–20% at the supermarket, we’re going to go into election day, face a bloodbath

Wow, I agree with something Ted Cruz said. That doesn’t happen often.

fuck you, Ted

And I agree with something Trump said? On the same day, no less. What are the odds?

We do understand exactly how LLMs work though, and it no way fits with any theories of consciousness. It’s just a word extruder with a really good pattern matcher.

I like the comparison but LLMs can’t go insane as they just word pattern engines. It’s why I refuse to go along with the AI industry’s insistance in calling it a “hallucination” when it spits out the wrong words. It literally can not have a false perception of reality because it does not perceive anything in the first place.

This feels to me like a common folk saying from somewhere translated into English. It’s also a very apt and appropriately vulgar metaphor for the situation.