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Thank you sir, I didn’t know the way to fix ailing welfare states was to make ChatGPT available to all.

It is truly the ultimate technofix.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

If I remember correctly, Sam Altman's idea of UBI was people buying stocks and trading them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I thought Thatcher on Acid was a band from the 80s, not the EAies' approach to economic policy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Let me sell mine for bread/rent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

unbelievable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Can I use it for groceries?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Is this the guy that kindly asked for 7 trillion? Of course he doesn't want UBI, because he wants to vacuum up all the money to dump it in his robot girlfriend.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People without an imagination trying to imagine what a prosthetic imagination would look like

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

That’s also why they get so excited about the current chatbots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"I know not with what technology GPT-6 will be built, but GPT-7 will be built with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein probably

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

@200fifty @Amoeba_Girl "GPT-11 will be built entirely out of sound waves from the sustain" - Nigel Tufnel, probably

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

With a face drawn on it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just wait til they figure out what number comes after 7. IOS is up to like what, 20? There's a lot of numbers they have to learn before they can compete with the big boys.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The greatest version number war of our age is between Chrome and Firefox, nowadays both of which get a major version bump around once a month. Firefox is on 125 and Chrome is on 124.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems ridiculous since a full version updates used to mean something

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

They're probably some sort of semver now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Odd take, but if we zoom out,...

access to internet, and functioning computing is increasingly important for everyone. It obviously doesn't rank about healthcare, safe housing, and foundational income.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

nobody is obliged to construct a less stupid version of the stupid claim, though

if he meant a less stupid version, he could easily have said that

Extremely quotable and vastly applicable.

This post may be the epitaph of our civilization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm speaking for myself, not him. People need internet and such, but it's not the first thing on the list

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but has 'lack of compute' ever been an issue for people online? Really weird to do a 80/90's university style supercomputer computing time per department distribution style system in 2030.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Usable fibre broadband is part of the universal service obligation for British Telecom landlines now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Thanks Sam!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I'm gonna use my compute to break the encrypting that guarantees that everybody gets an equal slice an then the compute is all mine! MINE!!! My next step is going to be autotuning a proper evil villain laugh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Turns out my slice of the "compute" is worthless and his is worth billions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Is this the onion or

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Instead of Universal Basic Compute, where everyone gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and is about as useful to the average person as a waterproof mop, there should be Universal Basic Income, where everyone gets a guaranteed stipend so they aren’t required to work in order to have a quality existence, and would, to the average person, be about as useful as clean air.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I will be so happy when we stop hearing about this "AI" nonsense for literally everything. The only good thing is that at least there are less wankers trying to throw "block chain" into everything

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

they are the same wankers

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Ubi is meant to provide people with basic survivability in an increasingly automated world.

I cannot imagine a worse idea than putting basic survivability in the hands of a shareholder bound corporation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Instead of Universal Basic Income, everyone should be given a small stipend to pay tribute to I, Sailor Sega Saturn. I demand tribute!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

セガサターン、しろ!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so when you can't get the retail and/or enterprise markets to give you enough money to get dem gainz you were hoping for on your grift, ah yes naturally it should be government money that bails you out. got it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Hey it worked for that other fascist guy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

These people are so or of touch with reality it's cringe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is part one of enshittification: You give your service away to get users, and cater to their wishes. Then once they're hooked you can do whatever you want because they can't leave.

Just more technofeudalism from a technofeudalist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's more insidious: it's not giving it away. it's subverting the "hmm UBI is good actually" argument and saying that people should receive compute instead of money, with a quiet "oh and naturally someone will have to pay us for providing them that compute"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

not that I'd bet against them pulling a lock-in move down the line as well (or upsells or any number of other exploitation plays), mind you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Is he trying to reframe the concept of a free trial as if it's some altruistic thing?

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