Nah, I'm thinking much bigger. I've got an AI that can transcribe video, I'm working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I've got one that can hold a conversation, and I've got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces

The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I'll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed

Then, I'll send it off to find content. It'll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting

I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I'll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home

I've been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I've got most of the key pieces already.

And that's the bubble of Internet I'm building - AI curation of my Internet life, it'll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet

How many people? Or corporations? Or did you mean politicians?

It's quite possible, although I'm inclined to blame it on turnover and pressures for deadlines

I've come to see software kinda like a plant. If you neglect it, it rots, because all software is contextual and the world moves on. If you keep growing it, it starts to rot from the inside. If you carve out down to something smooth and streamlined, it can last a long time and just need TLC to bounce back

Ultimately, if you want something to be big and to last, you have to prune it, transplant it, and continuously work on it. There's no direct money to be made there though

And it helps a shit ton to have people around long-term. It can take years to learn a big stack, but having someone go "wait, if we do this we need to rexamine how we delete photos" is how you avoid fuck ups like this

The imitation game had such a good portrayal of it... I've known the story for a long time, but Benedict Cumberbatch really made it hit home

Seriously... The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind... Not for a paycheck anyways

We're getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family

Tomorrow I'm finishing up a game jam with a friend, then Sunday I'm driving for like 12 hours to visit with family

In our current economic system? Absolutely, declining population is a huge problem.

As far as physics? The world doesn't care about imaginary human numbers. Production continues to soar through the roof

We made all of this up. At any point, we could say "hey, this is a dumb game that's making people suffer, let's figure out something else"

It's called "monopolize gaming without paying for developers". The beauty of it is, if you ruin all of modern gaming and buy out all the existing hits, you can shove in monetization and project insane profits

At least until indie gaming takes over, your stock price will go to the moon

I had the original with the expansion, I used to play Tony hawk online

There was no psn back then though, you just plugged in and were good to go

I'm just not seeing the risk here..."oh no, we wasted our time on a green tech that we didn't need"

This is going to take time to learn to scale up, and even if it turns out not to be useful energy-wise, it'll still create jobs now and have alternate applications down the road

I'd personally love an ev bike, but it'd be wasted on me right now. I really want an electric car because you could run the AC all night and power a computer - I want a little hotel on wheels

That title is amazing

Ultimately, do they care? Most shareholders are in it for the stock price, this kind of thing might affect it slightly but I doubt it'd shift the needle much

No one wants to work, which is clearly a human trait despite the fact we do work like this constantly, across the board, for fun

I feel like I've been going crazy, web searching as a developer has become a daily nightmare and all the devs I ask are like "yeah, maybe it's gotten a bit worse? Haven't really noticed"

Just pause awkwardly for a second, long enough to be felt but not long enough for them to start talking again, and bring up something unrelated

It'll hit them with the feeling of social rejection, but without the confrontation or giving them anything to latch onto. Nothing to get offended about or argue against, there's nothing to react to there

It might take longer, but it's not a request to stop - it's training them to not bring it up. It'll make them uncomfortable to talk about it - even if they force themselves it'll be uncomfortable for them

(Unless they're high on the spectrum, in which case direct is better all around)

Desensitisation therapy of course

Exactly... And ultimately they are beholden to shareholders. Which are largely in it for the stock price, not the dividends - they want numbers to go up, and they don't care if it crashes the company in a few years when they're no longer holding the bag

Money today is worth more than money tomorrow. With enough data and analysis, riding companies into the ground is the optimal way to make money

My older brother used to make me memorize random things. When he took me to practice driving, he'd quiz me on the color and type of cars around me. He'd ask me license plates of people in the parking lot or to remember long combinations of words letters and numbers

At one point, I could glance at an SSN or credit card number and remember it for a while... I can't do it anymore, but my passwords are great. It's amazing what the mind can be trained to do

We also came up with this stupid super long url, I still remember it decades later but he can never get the whole thing right. One of these days I'm going to buy the domain name and put something up there, it's almost a password in itself

At this point? The moment I hear the heritage foundation is involved in anything, I either think "of course they would be" or "what hidden implication am I missing?"