Thank you! I made a similar comment elsewhere. This was a chart for sales, and because generative AI can’t even be copyrighted there is no reason to purchase it. This has publicity stunt written all over it.

man made or not.

If there is a silver lining to any of this AI nonsense it’s that it just might wake some people up to the fact that they have been fed corporate slop for decades. AI changes nothing except it makes slop faster.

I don’t wanna defend pop music too much but “catchy” is one of those aspects of music that’s easy to immediately recognize but extremely hard to pull off. In order to be catchy a melody needs to be both wholly familiar feeling but also juuuuuust different enough to surprise our ears.

I’m not saying a generative AI couldn’t ever pull it off if you drained enough lakes to do it, but while it’s very good at producing the “familiar” it’s very very bad at producing anything “surprising”.

Also, the one feature I’ve come across (long press a link for a preview) is actually pretty useful sometimes. I’m actually impressed they discovered a use for generative AI that isn’t annoying and stupid.

For a long while I wondered what would happen when Apple (a company who prides itself on it’s products “just working”) inevitably collided with the generative AI hype train.

At first I thought they might stay away of the whole thing, but they didn’t and it’s been funny watching them struggle to integrate even the simplest aspects of generative AI into their products. Anyone who knows how LLMs work know that it is wholly different than the natural language processing that goes into Siri.

Me personally I don’t have a Pixel but I looked into Graphene and I’m told banking apps don’t work and also tap to pay.

Linux works on pretty much every PC ever and every app can be installed. It would be nice to have that for phones!

End-to-end encrypted messaging protects against eavesdroppers in transit.

But if the ENDS are both compromised… I wish there were more/better custom ROMS out there. Hopefully Linux Phone gets some love.

Odd that it’s on top of a sales chart when AI music can’t be copyrighted, so anyone could just get it for free. It makes me suspect it’s presence there might be inauthentic.

Oh man, I suspected that was artificial! 😡

I’m wondering if you have the “cookie notices” and “annoyances” filters disabled? They are not checked by default. It’s under settings > filter lists. FWIW the page loaded cleanly for me.

They’re essentially making the argument that if you accept that a civilization can eradicate itself (via nuclear war, climate change, plague, a generation of ipad kids, etc etc) even if you calculate that chance of eradication to be infinitesimally small, then given cosmic time scales it becomes a near inevitability.

But if you choose to believe (without evidence) that an interstellar civilization exists that definitionally can’t be eradicated by any means then yes, definitionally that civilization will persist.

Sort of. The article is making the argument that on a cosmic timescale, one won’t even need a “great filter” to explain Fermi’s paradox. Any civilization with even a minuscule chance of eradicating itself will eventually do so given billions of years.

We don’t have evidence that civilizations on other worlds exist at all, but you are saying we should be working under the assumption that these things we don’t have evidence for can’t self-eradicate?

Nobody is stopping you

If they are coming from Windows: Kinoite

If they are coming from Macintosh: Silverblue

Something I’ve been realizing lately is that fascism’s whole deal is adopting the appearances of trustworthy institutions like universities, activism and TV news (and apparently scientific papers) but the goal isn’t to inform it’s to persuade. All the bullshit ultimately leads to the same path.

I have every single one memorized but typing the entire paths in with my TV remote is taking a long time.

The paper this article links to just assumes a “probability of self-annihilation” without actually addressing the “how”

Is that really such a strange perspective? Surely you must accept the idea that even without knowing every possible mechanism of death, the probability of death for every lifeform we have ever encountered approaches 100% over time.

I’m guessing you didn’t read the article, but the answer to your question is “sort of” if the “filter” in question is civilization itself.