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These sorts of studies, on medicine, economics, etc. get a lot of coverage in the Guardian and on the BBC.

I'm always left with the impression that they wouldn't give a shit if they weren't affecting women.


I agree that there's very often a "world ending, women most effected" tone in the media, but... doesn't this article explicitly go against that? It's not complaining that women aren't being equally enticed to throw away their money gambling.

You're commenting on a study that says something is affecting mainly men.

China has 100% started wars. The Sino-Vietnamese War for starters.

Not in the same sense the US or Russia. The Sino-Vietnamese war was brief, about a month. Compare that to US or Russian wars. Now, Im not saying that China won't start wars since they've become a lot stronger. Just looking at it through a historic perspective.

I'm sure that the people of Tibet at the very least would feel strongly about the notion of a peaceful, non-expansionist China. You could ask the people of the Philippines as well, or for an admittedly more complicated answer the people of Japan and the RoK.

China is also happily supporting Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, which makes the "not waging war" distinction a bit academic.


I never said they were peaceful and non-expansionist, just that it's unlikely they'd turn to war for those gains.

They also have fought wars, and my wording was admittedly bad. They haven't fought a serious war in a long time, and their military activity in general has been limited to a few border standoffs which I certainly wouldn't take as an indication of its willingness to fight for something like expansion


Even better, what if you transform that stolen CD into an MP3, so the data isn’t the same as a lossy process was used, then share the MP3 with the world as your own work?

I don’t get why the training process doesn’t count as any other form of transformation but then I’m not a lawyer.


Wow, really going for those white collar jobs. This is going to be an interesting few years.

What will happen is what has happened for the past few years: mostly nothing. People employed, things keep trucking forward.

LLMs do not change the equation all that much: human's ability to imagine is the most scarce resource on the planet and LLMs will not help all that much with it.


Just a natural rebalancing of the Rise of the Laptop Class. I think we'll get more productive as the white collar jobs become more efficient, and less days with 8hrs of meetings and responding to emails from people too lazy to look information up themselves.

I mean it’s no coincidence that Labour adopted the Tory Online Safety Act and at the same time as Keir Starmer started pushing Blair’s old National ID system again.

They’ve wanted total surveillance for quite a while. Now politicians and billionaires are talking about making it happen.


“A senior engineer’s job is mostly the parts that don’t show up in the diff.”

Agent Skills is Addy’s attempt to kill that job too. Cheers Addy. :P


Then as a minimum the report should act to encourage car manufacturers to use less boilerplate and be more specific in their terms.

This “we reserve the right to do everything” bullshit has got to go.


Why would they give up legal liability if they didn't have to?

To avoid reputational damage for something they don’t really intend to do.

In case of Nissan they’ve claimed they don’t really want to sell information on customer sexuality to advertisers.

If that’s really the case they should stop claiming that unnecessary right.

It makes them look pretty sinister as it stands.


I prefer a society where people are liable for the awful shit they do.

For my business and that of everyone else who stops forking over their money in these one-sided, despicable agreements.

It would be a great idea for a website to sell the latest versions of cars, used or new, that didn’t feature enshitification tech.

Maybe it’s not a huge market but I bet there is some market still for a quality experience.


That sounds like a lot of liability. For one thing, it almost certainly means that the vehicle is being sold without the manufacturers warranty. It also might mean that the manufacturern won't even support the vehicle for service. And finally, by disabling OTA updates there could be safety implications.

Who said anything about disabling or modifying anything?

You just look for older car models that don’t snoop.

Cars made before about 2017 for example.


I see what you're saying now.

In my opinion, a regulation that would require such surveillance tech to be disclosed, not unlike tobacco warning labels, would go a long way.


> …our principals…

Principals my hole.

OpenAI is a business based on stolen work run by a man that’s busy stealing scans of people’s eyes.

Actions speak louder than words.


Over the years I’ve acquired road bikes, MTBs and time travel bikes. Of all of them the only little kids regularly tell me is “sick” is my Brompton.

It paid for itself in saved fuel and parking fees in the first year I had it.


I’m a Brompton admirer but if your kids rate it higher than time travel bikes they have no taste.

Haha, cheers Apple.

A time travel bike would be pretty cool… I could go back fix all my typos. :P


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