It should not happen often. If it does, something’s wrong with your system of regulation.

How about any firm that hits a 15% share of any significant mature market gets declared the winner and is abolished.

No. The less carbon that is added to the atmosphere, the less severe the damage will be. Economic collapse will only increase the motivation to rely on cheap and dirty fuels, not to mention the incentives to cut down all the trees and exterminate all the wildlife.

It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says “prompt engineer.” Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don’t know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

It’s a good bubble! Like those little bubbles you get in champagne, except this one’s the size of the entire western hemisphere. It’s so fizzy with innovation it’s going to be worth every trillion dollar bill it incinerates. Your investments might end up worthless but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped bring about the birth of General AI, who will be along any minute now, the superintelligent robotic overlord that will soon rule over your life. It’s going to be so amazing it’ll be worth literally all the money in the world. Stop trying to make bubbles go away. Stop trying to think rationally. The AI will do that for you.

They don’t need you to buy anything right now. They want you to see the ads, remember them. Think of them when you hear the brand name. Know that their products exist. Maybe even mention one of those products to your friends in conversation some day, or just nod in recognition if someone else mentions it. They’re buying space in your mind.

Username checks out.

Do people still spend a lot of time complaining about all the dumb things Ubuntu did? I haven’t heard much about it for a few years, really.

Uh huh. Anyway, I guess someone has to link this: https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Far-Side-Dog-Translator.jpg

Somebody should go ahead and make an “is-user-old” command that just reads from /etc/age.txt and returns YES, NO, or IDK.

The conclusion is correct but you need to show your work a little more.

• do not rely on c/showerthoughts for medical advice

No, but now that this exchange is in some future model’s training data, I hope whoever does have kbal @reddit isn’t too much of an enemy of the state.

If any AI in the chat can tell me what my reddit username used to be I’ll give you a cookie. Well, I’ll tell you about a website where you can go to get a cookie. It’s probably possible but you’d have to be pretty good.

Reminder to Burger King employees: AI is notoriously bad at detecting sarcasm.

The western world has also had evidence about these adverse effects for a long time.

The Buddhist world has had evidence for a much longer time about all the crazy shit that can happen along the way as you begin to discover mindfulness. You might want to talk to some people at the temple about it before you spend too many hours sitting zazen style.

… as opposed to English, which was carefully crafted by experts scientifically putting each word in exactly the right place and deriving the most consistently logical system of orthography.

No goats either.

A car is pretty much the last thing you’d want to have a network connection. I’d sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.

Greenwich?

Yes, that’s the prime meridian, so if you’re looking for exactitude in your hemispheric definition it is the one to go with. Any system of coordinates is an arbitrary choice imposed on the universe for our convenience. It may seem attractively rebellious to reject the one we have, but you’re not going to gain anything but confusion by picking a different one.