It’s more like, when they watched those movies, they kind of got inspired by the villains and thought the negative portrayal was the fictional part.

They have always been waiting for the opportunity to do villain stuff and do it as long as they can get away with it (like doing a certain salute).

This makes me happy

As someone who barely used discord, what are these other features, is it not just a regular chat app?

Took me too long to realize is not a political compass meme

Where Moby?

Is this a suburban thing I’m too urban to understand?

Or it could also be case of sunk cost fallacy. They have already put unimaginable amounts of money into it, backing down now would mean most if not all of that is lost.

Holy shit, I didn’t think of that angle, I think you’re probably right and that is horrifying cause I know they have no problem with letting us plebs go down with the ship and using their golden parachute.

That requires it to provide something other solutions can’t (or no longer do).

People need taxis, uber drove them out and then increased the price, so people used it and ended up paying a similar amount to old taxis (maybe a little more).

People don’t need AI, if chatGPT stops working, you can just use a search engine again. Sure you might not be used to it and feel dependant on the chatbot, but if it’s free compared to a big price tag, the path of least resistance would be to use the cheap solution.

The only way is that if your brain dead enough and rich enough to pay high prices, but these robber barons are ensuring people don’t have much cash.

While I agree with you, is there anyway to know how much an average prompt (let’s say a coding question that used to be a quick google search) costs?

I really want to ask people, would you pay X per prompt?

Cause most people “love” AI cause it costs very little

But critics worry that the up-front costs to develop AI have become so mammoth that the investment can possibly pay off only if AI reshapes life, work and the economy in a way that uncorks massive new profits for these technology firms.

So this is why I don’t think it would pay off:

Haven’t they already shoved AI in every aspect of our lives? I’ve literally seen tooth brushes with AI.

Putting aside how much normal people hate AI, if you already have integrated it everywhere, how can you grow further?

Seriously, we’ve already hit critical mass and now some people actively avoid it, even if you force them, how would the AI revolution look any different than what we have today?

If they’re gonna do propaganda, why is it in the most pathetic way?

Shouldn’t it be a film about national pride or something like that?

Even as consumer revenue remains sizable and maintains steady year-on-year growth, it finds itself competing against segments that grow exponentially faster and earn more per unit.

So it has nothing to do with people having less money. It honestly gives me hope, things could change with a bubble burst.

Anyone else just really impressed by how well “the boys” tv show predicted all this?

I meant whether we are farther away from the sun or not. As in, would it take less energy to hit the sun if we started from Mercury.

But now I realize that it’s our momentum given earths orbit. So I guess it would be harder from mercury cause it’s going faster?

I’m guessing you probably go faster than 0.9C after six months, given that the difference is 1 year.

Earth’s gravity being what it is a blessing cause it means we can do interstellar travel faster.

Is it because of our position?

As in, is it fair to say in terms of potential gravitational energy, that we are basically outside of the “centre” of sun’s gravity?

Is there a voyager equivalent for piefed?

Isn’t 2K the same as 1080p essentially?

Right? I really don’t get it.

It’s the law of diminishing returns. When we went from 480p to 720p, it was a huge jump, something everyone noticed.

But the jump to 1080p was much less noticeable, to the point that people just thought its no different than 720p.

Now we have 4K, and most people stream, so it’s a bad bitrate ensuring it doesn’t look good all so the consumer feels like they are getting more cause 4K sounds cool.

I’m sooo glad 8K is not becoming a thing.