When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?

I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.

Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.

So he’s trying to declare Game Over to avoid accountability? Fuck that.

The other end of that is just as bad. The Saudis raise cattle in the desert because their government wants to encourage its citizens to consume more cow’s milk (you can also buy camel’s milk in supermarkets but it’s very much an acquired taste). There are vast structures to provide shade, and misting systems to keep the cattle cool, all of this in one of the hottest desert environments on earth. The farms are manned by low-paid TCNs who live in abysmal conditions. And the water? Saudi Arabia is mining subterranean aquifers at a mad rate, and it’s not in any way sustainable. So both ends of the supply chain are wasteful abominations.

Shutting down the irrigation of all golf courses would be a big win too.

And if you thought there was some natural end point to enshittification, here’s your evidence that there’s no such thing.

An alarming number of them believe that they are conscious too, when they show no signs of it.

Kill off crypto mining and you’ll save even more. Charge a premium for use of LLMs and you’ll be orders of magnitude less wasteful.

Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.

They’re probably laundering Trump’s ill-gotten gains.

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That category also includes a number of things that will lead to the deaths of large parts of the US population.

So what’s the great challenge with blocking it phoning home, or even better, subtly fucking with the data it sends back? For example, Winnie the Pooh-themed fisting videos.

I just want to know who provided them with funding and other support.

Rights are unchangeable based on circumstances.

Absolutely false.

They can never be revoked.

They’re regularly revoked in all developed countries, mainly as the result of criminal proceedings. Unless you think that prisoners are afforded the same rights as the rest of us?

And the Enlightenment notion that there are inalienable rights endowed by the Creator is about as quaint as the idea that there’s a Creator. Rights are ideals that must be continually fought for and expanded, not the gift of a beneficent Alpha Male in the Sky

In the sense that it’s flagrant bullshit, yes.

“It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person doing it!”

Just open the felching hatch and have a spittoon handy.

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The problems however are not unsolvable

Meaning that they are not solved. I don’t want the grid in my country powered by tech that is not proven safe, reliable, and with a good ROI.

Much much safer than the uranium we currently use

Potentially. It’s not a technology proven in large-scale operational use.

If they make it work at scale, China becomes the first country in the world that essentially has unlimited energy.

If my aunt were to have bollocks, she’d be my uncle.

The “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence. And “unlimited energy” is a gross exaggeration. There are still downstream costs and environmental damage.