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They just do it at scale and make a lot more money than the people who actually used to commit arson so they could collect and sell nails. (Nails were quite expensive like 300 years ago. The daily wage of a laborer was enough to buy something in the vicinity of 20 small nails, maybe less.)

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Like I'm sorry, I think we should punish the kind of people who do stuff like burn down buildings people live in so they can rake through the ashes and collect the nails that were in the buildings. And that is the level of antisocial behavior the tech companies routinely engage in at this point.

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This is a thing that specific companies are doing to people and communities for their own gain and they don't give a shit who they hurt. The only good outcome of this is going to be if we end up holding them accountable and stop letting people do this kind of thing.

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We are all under a kind of an informational assault and it's causing people to engage in a bunch of maladaptive behaviors of various sorts. Some of those behaviors include attacking each other. Others include ruining their life by becoming obsessed with a chatbot or disengaging from communities.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 11h

I think this actually understates how bad things are. People are getting accused of using AI in their art just because their art is good and people are paranoid about getting fooled by the misinformation machines pumping out worthless garbage and trying to force feed it to them.

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A friend of mums, also short like my mum: “Dana how’d you get so tall?” Me: “Spaghettification in a black hole accident” Mum: “a black hole went pasta” Friend of mum’s: *blank stare*

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But it would be pretty amazing for him to get lost for a day or something because he was out in a Lamborghini and the internet and phone network went down and he didn't know how to ask for directions home. Especially if he doesn't carry any emergency cash for gas or food.

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I'm guessing the only time Huang is out sans assistants and bodyguards is when he's joyriding in his cars or maybe some other recreational activities. Partly because the only story he had about having a problem was having to give his zip code at a gas station.

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And this isn't meant as a criticism of neurodivergent people who can't remember their address and stuff or navigate. But like I'm friends with some people like that and while they can't remember it they do make sure they can access it in an emergency.

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And it's pretty plausible the US could be in a larger war basically any time completely at random. Like if he thought making up that story was making some kind of useful or charming point he should fire the PR people he has minding all of his interactions.

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Especially you know if you live near a major metropolitan area in a country that's fighting a war, which he currently in fact does. It is not wildly implausible that Iran or say wildfires could cause a bay area wireless or internet outage.

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That is really bizarre if it's true and such an insane story to tell if it isn't. And like he should have someone write his home address and important phone numbers in those leather jackets he always wears like you sometimes do for small child (or you do for a pet). Because outages are a real thing.

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He would probably have to ask for directions or directory assistance if the phones are working to reach an Nvidia facility or somewhere else where one of his minions is, and then go there or call there and wait for there to be someone present who knows where he lives.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 16h

So according to Jensen Huang he doesn't know his address or telephone number or his way around town but he still goes out by himself sometimes. So if he is not lying and there was a major internet outage while he was out he would have absolutely no idea how to get home or contact anyone.

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I mean you really could have just added a word here and there to the dialogue.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 16h

James Cameron's Avatar would undeniably have been a much better film if they had made a few minor changes to the script, cast Samuel L. Jackson as the lead, and titled it Paint With All The Colors of the Wind Motherfucker.

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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 21h

I have that genetic aldehyde (and some keytone) sensitivity, which tends to make me very averse to tasting soap. Not all soaps have aldehydes in them, but it's very common. That's why they say people with aldehyde sensitivity think cilantro tastes like soap (though it's not exactly the same taste).

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None of that will happen. But I guess it's good to know that almost no matter what happens to them they're going to be getting away with murder basically.

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But like the scale of the routine deliberate knowing harm to users is off the charts. And it just seems impossible to argue that the penalty shouldn't massively exceed their net valuation.

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And for a bunch of the responsible executives to spend a lot of time in prison and also probably be financially wiped out (maybe by the shareholders suing). And of course whatever is left of the companies has to be broken up as well.

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