abigscaryhobo

Yep. Language can be funny like that. You are either modifying the adjective "lockable" with the prefix "un-", or you are modifying the verb "unlock" into an adjective by adding "-able" at the end. Words can have multiple definitions, yay!

I always took it as "if you do your best you'll never be without what you need" but that could still have a lot of broad interpretations

For me at least I feel like it was when the American dream turned from "anyone can do it with hard work and dedication" to "anyone can do it if they exploit others, get lucky, or come from money".

The dream used to be "work hard and this will be yours" and it seems to have been turned to "work hard and dream about it someday, and maybe you can get close". And it definitely changed over time. People often forget when the "American dream" came about it wasn't "get a degree, and be a white collar worker for a chance" like it was with people my age. It was "go to work, wherever, with whatever skill set/background, contribute and you get a piece of the American apple pie". Over decades though those goal posts have been shifted further and further.

Earning the American dream used to be a given for everyone if you worked hard and contributed, but over time it has devolved with a bunch of extra conditionals of "well that doesn't count either" until we are left with "the dream exists, but only for a few who can actually get it."

People these days are turning to betting, day trading, side hustles, and extreme budgeting to even be comfortable in some cases. That's not how it used to be. You could work any job, minimum wage or not, and the benefits were supposed to be for everyone. That's not the case anymore, and the American dream has faded along with it

Sure, let's whataboutism the discussion, love that.

It's always been a shithole. The good part was the freedom, you used to be able to be exhasperated and complain to your friends. But we decided instead of improving society that some of us would rather give a bunch of facists cameras and microphones and turns out, those facists are the evil kind of facists, not this mythical "only here to protect us" kind.

With this though I think there is legal stance because prohibitively high prices can be used as grounds to say that a product "can't be repaired". The legal precedent is there, you can't just say "technically we give you the option, it's just $2m".

I'm not sure what I got "duped" by. AI in the wrong hands is dangerous. They're playing with tools that can breach other companies systems with relative ease and they keep getting caught going "oops it got out". You can argue that it's manufactured actions meant to make people afraid but the fact of the matter is AI is here and it has dangerous capabilities when used against systems that aren't prepared for it. Make whatever judgements you want from there, but that is a factual statement.

No I'm not saying the AI did it of its own volition, we aren't dealing with a Terminator scenario. I'm saying whatever instructions they gave it during testing they either 1. Didn't expect it to get out or 2. Didn't expect it to get caught either way, their actions resulted in a system with "a very particular set of skills" acting maliciously towards another uninvolved entity. Like a mutant science experiment breaking out and attacking.

I'm not saying the AI masterminded it's way out to do the evil it wanted to do. I'm saying they made a very dangerous and capable tool and failed to maintain proper security and safety for it.

My go to was once it turned into troubleshooting I said "$55 an hour, that's my rate". If they said "why so expensive?" I'd follow up with "because I don't want to do it." Usually got a laugh and if they were actually willing to pay then they actually needed help, not just "why computer no computer gooder"

Probably made me look like an ass a few times, but I'm at the cookout, I don't wanna work on your busted-ass Chromebook from 2013. I want to hang out, eat a burger, drink some beer, and not work.

The problem is these idiots aren't treating this stuff like a weapon or hazardous material. They could've properly isolated it, heck you could physically isolate it if you really wanted (and they should have).

But it seems like they left a supervillain in a room with a locked door and a rocket launcher and said "now we are gonna close this door. You're not allowed to leave" then got shocked when it broke out.

Then they went "oopsie, guess that rocket launcher had the safety off, sorry guys"

That's not that unusual. In the Midwest it can go from 0f in the winter to 100f in the summer, which is beyond this range anyway. 30c is about 86f which is nice weather to me. I wish we only peaked at 30c. So yeah, 30f to 30c would be just dandy

What sucks is you know the US is going to put it in their cars "to simplify production" and we dont have GDPR to protect us, so you know that data is going somewhere.