Whenever I read anything like this, I am reminded that everyone should see Adam Curtis' "The Century of Self" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMi95tfgP4) which is about how Sigmund Freud's nephew created the cancerous style of marketing that is ubiquitous in our society.
Yes, this should be required viewing in high school imo.
As someone who used to think I was generally “immune” to advertising, I have come to realize the influence goes so much deeper than “see ad on TV, go buy product” and is instead a much, much darker sense of “the only way to get rid of this anxiety is to Buy More Stuff.”
His more recent Can’t Get You Out of My Head is also fantastic about how we got from There to Here from WWII to present day.
It's a tactic, agree to the deal, the US ignores us. Allow the deal to get destroyed in parliament and the courts and it has no effect. The deal was a means by which to get enough time to figure out the correct response. We've been doing this kind of thing for decades.
This is the way. The current US administration is a 2 year old with ADHD and shiny distractions abound. Agree to deals and let him claim wins, and then bury it in bureaucracy and common sense.
This is, essentially, how the US government survived Trump 1.0, and is why Trump 2.0 has been so concerned with gutting bureaucracy and placing vapid yes-men in the cabinet, but they can't really do that in Europe.
It's one of the few times where EU bureaucracy is a huge advantage.
This was all an EU tactic, we do it a lot. Agree to the deal, Trump shuts up and ignores us, destroy the deal in the courts, no real effect of the deal.
Regulation exists to help balance out the power disparity between consumers and corporations that sell AI. The EU wrote a good AI law, it's mainly focused on access to goods and services and the impact that AI can have in those domains. Among other things, it almost entirely bans surveillance pricing. Makes companies liable if an AIs discriminate on their behalf. Also restricts the use of facial recognition.
This is it's role, to equalize the power disparity by prohibiting companies that do business within the EU from engaging in these predatory practices.
They recognise that the larger bubble is in the datacenters.
Most of the hardware we are using was designed for computer graphics not AI. Now that China isn't buying Nvidia any longer and actively trying to get their own companies to produce hardware, what happens to all these datacenters when a company produces a device that has 80% of the performance of the current Nvidia hardware but 20% of its power consumption?
Even double the energy consumption is not that bad for half the price. at 20 cents per kWh over 5 years 1 kW load would be 8760. So from 30000 to 15000 you would still come ahead in cost.
Large entities aside, I would use this to mark my own generated content. Would be even more helpful if you could get the LLM to recognise it which would allow you to prevent ouroboros situations.
Also, no one is reading your resume anymore and big corps cannot be trusted with any rule as half of them think the next-word-machine is going to create God.
This is exactly why I didn't buy an Amazon product as an eink reader.
I want control over the things I own, I don't want them to exist locked up in a walled system where corporations can yank my ownership of something I paid for whenever they feel so inclined.
The people who were warning us about DRM back in the 90s exactly expected this future.
I have a kindle for more than a decade and I never bought a book on amazon or anywhere else. I use it as a reader, it's never been connected to internet
Note that if you ever do, it'll delete stuff you've added to it. I connect mine to the net every week or so (I like the translate feature, and use some pocket-to-kindle thing), but if I ever leave it for over a month or so it deletes my books.
(Fortunately it's easy to get them back from calibre, but very annoying.)
Where do you source your books? I love my Kindle as an ereader and I get the books from my library, which sends them to my Kindle via Amazon. So I am connected to the internet.
I read classics and old books, the authors are long dead so I don't feel bad about downloading these. If you mostly read niche or brand new books it probably isn't as good. You can find a lot on project Gutenberg, archive.org, &c.
Same. The blog says, "Download & Transfer via USB" option will no longer be available, but "You can continue to sideload e-books on your Kindle via USB cable".
What is the difference? How is sideloading different from normal USB Transfer?
You can transfer books you make or download elsewhere to the reader over USB but Amazon is no longer going to let you download the files from them. Amazon books will only transfer directly to your reader over Wi-Fi.
My Kobo Clara 2 shows up as a USB mass storage device, and I can just drag and drop pretty much any kind of document.
There's also a sqlite database in there that contains, I think, all of the device's settings and other data, including some crypto stuff for the DRM books that I bought in Kobo's store.
It did insist on an account when I first used it, though. This can be worked around by fiddling with the sqlite database, but I just signed up instead.
Download over usb allows you to download the kindle ebook purchased on amazon to your computer. That gives you an offline copy of your ebook. You can then download it to your kindle over usb.
But since you have the file, you can ALSO send this file to another ebook reader. I believe some ebook readers like pocketbook can read .azw files directly. Readers like kobo might need conversion to epub or kepub.
No I will not tip in app, that is obviously a scam.
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