A Google employee claimed in 2022 that they had sentient AI. He was sacked. What were his motivations? Do you believe he was right?

They aren’t a homogenous group. They don’t all believe this. The “AI will kill us all” narrative just sells really well.

When trying to organise colleagues you need to exercise a certain level of trust or it will never get off the ground. Unfortunately boot lickers will take advantage of that. It’s to be expected.

I really enjoy your posts. Thank you! Are you a local or a traveller?

Google the history of Facebook. It’s on the wiki. It’s in the film.

I don’t like the clickbait titles that DDN use but they do a decent job of reporting on stuff the MSM ignores.

The fact that in the UK you can be found guilty by a jury for vandalism and a judge can then unilaterally promote this to terrorism is chilling. If the Courts and Tribunals Bill passes the jury portion could be skipped altogether.

I think you’re jumping the gun a bit. They’re just saying that requiring a phone number added a barrier against spammers and they want to be sure this change doesn’t open the flood gates.

From the article:

"We gotta figure out some way to induce a cost for signing up without a phone number”, Kret said.

It’s unclear whether this means that registration without a phone number will become a paid feature.

However, “cost” does not necessarily mean a monetary fee; it could also refer to another barrier designed to prevent abuse.

I’ve noticed this sort if thing becoming more common and I think it is very much related to bots scraping the web. I’m sure they’ll be happy to sell access to that data though.

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