Just the other day my uncle said “I’ll never drive an EV because they’re doing all these subscriptions to them”, and that’s what I’m arguing against though. Yes it happens to EVs, but by not being more broad and including ICE vehicles they’re doing a disservice to EVs.

I disagree with this a lot. The article unfairly calls out EVs. EVs are just newer and getting flack. all cars are going this way. Buy any new ice car and they’re going to treat it like a smart phone as well, extras, add-ons, and 2 years in the future they’ll deprecate it all saying you need an upgrade.

Honestly I’m surprised they’re still thinking about that. The last major release they had was RDR2 in 2018. That was 7 years ago now. In that time not only have handhelds and more PC devices exploded but also PCs as a whole thanks to COVID. It’s just more popular than it ever was. If they go forward with console only they better have a massive kickback from Sony now that Xbox isn’t playing as much, otherwise they’re missing out on tons of sales.

Edit: Actually writing that out, I bet the PC port is planned a year behind and always was, but GTA 6 was planned years ago before the boom. I wonder if we’ll see RDR3’s PC come at the same time.

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They said they were open to it but they had zero priority of doing it themselves, and essentially “submit a PR if you want it”. A shame really, their interface is great, and such an easy setup. If they implemented either xmpp or matrix I would switch immediately. All of my friends want a discord clone that “just” works, but no one wants to go to this server for this group and then login to that server for that group. They want a single-pane interface like what discord offers.

Shortsighted to not implement that IMO.

Problem isn’t that, since the handheld is just running windows it can only run games with a PC release. If the game was never ported to PC they currently have no way to play it. They really thought through the whole release real well.

I was! Until they continuously kept making their products shittier

Yeah I would assume if anything they would have helped them bring federation

Yeah that seems like the perfect sort of thing to give away as a free benefit to people, but then charge big healthcare for the overall datasets to do analysis on. Fully anonymized of course. If I, someone who actually cared about privacy, was going to do it that’d be how.

I can kind of see this as a positive, where tracking health is useful…

But I’d have to let go of literally every corporation who has tried to be altruistic and then burned me later. 150 a year (let’s be real too, per user probably), is too much for a monitoring service like this. Not to mention, you notice blood in your stools. Unless you just ignore weird feelings and just never turn around when flushing you’re gonna notice. You don’t need a service for that, just go to the doc immediately.

Yeah yeah yeah but ignoring that… Would you?

We’re already in the dystopia

This one is pretty clear. Tencent is saying that Sony is trying to copyright an entire genre, like sci fi.

In reality it’s more like if Sony made Star wars, and tencent made the star of death with the jidoos with lasersabres. Tencent is just trying to say “how dare you trying to copyright sci fi!”

With AI you can fake engagement, which convinces shareholders you are much valuable. Share price go up, free money

You mean sarcasm is nuanced and LLMs have no real thought, missing all nuance?

Leopold Aschenbrenner (born 2001 or 2002[1]) is a German artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and investor. He was part of OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team before he was fired in April 2024 over an alleged information leak, which Aschenbrenner disputes. He has published a popular essay called “Situational Awareness” about the emergence of artificial general intelligence and related security risks.[2] He is the founder and chief investment officer (CIO) of Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund investing in companies involved in the development of AI technology.

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So, I’m calling bullshit. I’ve read the papers, I’ve kept up on everything. I run AI models myself to keep up with everything, I’ve built my own agents and my own agentic workflows. It keeps coming back to a few big things that unless they’ve suddenly had another massive breakthrough - I don’t see happening.

• LLMs already have the vast majority of data associated with them, and they still hallucinate. The docs say that it will take exponentially more data to train them on a linear trajectory. So to get double the performance, we’d need the current amount of data squared.
• LLMs and Agentic flows are very cool, and very useful for me. But they’re incredibly unreliable. And it’s just how models work - it’s a black box. You can say “that didn’t work” and it’ll train next time that it was a bad option, but it’s never going be zero. Businesses are learning (see Taco Bell and several others), that AI is not code. It is not true or false. It’s probably true or probably false. That doesn’t work when you’re putting in an order or deciding how much money to spend.
• We’ve certainly plateaued with AI for the time being. There will be more things that come out, but until the next major leap we’re pretty much here. GPT5 proved that, it was mediocre, it was… the next version. They promised groundbreaking, but there just isn’t any more ground to break with current AI. Like I said agents were kind of the next thing, and we’re already using them.

This whole new version of material is god awful. Makes all my apps look like they’re for preschoolers. Marketing and design had to justify themselves again

Welcome to the family! I can’t remember the last time I needed windows for a game!

They said it’d be on par with a Pixel, so either a reasonable Sony or not Sony…

So who do we think? It’s not Fair phone and it sounds like it’s not oneplus. I’ll be needing a new phone within the next couple of years, if they roll it out soonish