We understand reasoning enough to know humans (and other animals with complex brains) reason in a way that LLMs cannot.

While our reasoning also works with pattern matching it incorporates immeasurably more signals than language - language is almost peripheric to it even in humans. And more importantly we experience things, everything we do acts as a small training round not just in language but on every aspect of the task we are performing, and gives us a miriad of patterns to match later.

Until AI can match a fragment of this we are not going to have an AGI. And for the experience aspect there’s no economic incentive under capitalism to achieve, if it happens it will come out of an underfunded university.

It still solves one end of the problem. The cable problem probably needs enforcement from law side.

Like all dating apps they have a strong incentive to promote superficial short-term connections over long term relationships so they have repeated customers. The worst thing that can happen to a dating app is their users finding a long term partner.

In other news, asking Nick Clegg before emptying out his home would kill the robbery industry.

They seem to be claiming Llama and Epic broke the collective agreement with the union.

You don’t buy an iPhone, you pay a tithe to remain in the cult.

That’s not inflation works. Inflation shouldn’t apply to everything at the same rate.

My first computer costed the equivalent to 1000 euros. Do you think the average desktop should cost 3000?

The tariffs changing every other day depending on how the orange toddler feels like is a much bigger problem than the value of the tariffs. If the tariffs where 500% for 10 years they could just be included in the price, but when you don’t know what the tariffs are going be on arrival it’s impossible to properly set the price.

Brand recognition. Which apparently is the only thing that matters these days.

There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce “engagement”.

Valnet websites are much worse.

Moving around in “peaceful” should be ok as a playground for learning the controls.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

For $666 they could afford to ship a SD Card and an USB card reader.

It’s basically the same thing as gambling but with less regulations and social stigma. It’s not going to get better if no one does anything - and it’s not going to be the unregulated casinos cosplaying as gaming studios that will do it.

It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.

It’s exactly because we live in capitalism that, as consumers, we need to punish greedy behaviour.

Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.

Just for reference in case someone needs it, Nintendo is “offering” free joycon replacements in North and South America, most of Europe (EU+EFTA+UK), Australia, and New Zealand.