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A website advertising the rallies lists what it sees as the dangers of data centers: secrecy, water use, air pollution, national security, energy, land use and noise.

This sounds great!

If you go to their website and see some more valid concerns mixed with these valid ones. Noise pollution. Children being driven to suicide. But wait, there's some weird stuff.

if we lose control of superintelligent AI…
[ellipsis theirs]

And then you look at their call to action, and it features nothing about water, air, noise, energy, land pollution, child abuse, suicide. The only part left is the wacky stuff, warning AI will become super powerful and begging for strict regulation and testing that would squeeze out anybody but the biggest AI companies.

This project is a fucking bait and switch.

The video gets deleted, they say. But they don't say what happens to the data derived from that video. Training models and such.

I'm not an economic genius, but this doesn't seem like a great idea.

At current valuations, the sovereign wealth fund that would be created under this legislation would be worth an estimated $7 trillion.

Are these companies really worth what their valuations claim to be?

The Independent Commission would use voting shares in these companies to block decisions that hurt the American people and to push for policies that help them.

Wait, who's purchasing the shares in these companies?

it would require large companies that operate both AI and non-AI businesses to break up those businesses, ensuring the public receives an ownership stake in the AI business.

Separate the profitable part and let the oligarchs keep that for themselves??

ETA: Bernie Sanders has been mislead by an actual AI doom cult leader, so the AI-is-inevitable lobby's foot is already in the door with him.

Then I mentioned the Uniphone S22

Is the camera $350 worse?

Only if the T9 software is good though. KaiOS, a Mozilla initiated project to get web apps on T9 capable phones, absolutely failed with simple things like capitalizing the word "I" for example.

I didn't realize how unintuitive dumb phones could be until I was trying to explain different functions that were triggered by different arrow keys on a KaiOS phone to an elderly person

II get the appeal of a flip phone, but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS. There's a whole brand called Qin (https://qinphone.com/) that sells Android phones with T9 keyboards, and I can find weirdly named Chinese flip phones like the Unifone S22 for just shy of $150. Sure, they run dated hardware and software, but there's no guarantee they would perform any worse or get any shorter battery life than whatever Commodore is proposing.

Commodore is just giving us Jolla with a hefty freaking price tag.

I understand custom hardware isn't cheap, but this comes preloaded with WhatsApp apparently. Surely there's a little kickback from Facebook for that.

Being a flip phone with a T9 keyboard is already a lot of built-in friction. And some people want a device that might intentionally limit them further. But I must admit, this phrasing (and a lot of their phrasing) is kind of weird.

You just know that video is going to be turned into training data of some kind or another. I think visual and audio versions will be around forever, and I hear that you can enter inaccurate words in the audio prompt and still get through. Might as well train it funny if you must train it at all.

200 is over sixteen dozens

What

unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about "certain parts" of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.