it’s kind of a critique of the three laws of robotics. it’s main point is the effect that those laws would have on the people living alongside robots governed by them. the primary issue it points out with the 3 laws is basically that if people have an abundance or free labor that is strictly bound to do everything for them and protect them from all harm then they basically become slaves to their own servants (the books use that phrasing, probably because the characters narrating don’t see robotic labor as slavery). they’re not the best books I’ve ever read but I think they make a really good point about how ai/robots should be governed and about what the difference between one of those and a person even is (or rather if there is one at all, save for the three laws), and they are decent just not the best.

you should read roger macbride Allen’s caliban series

hopefully this goes through and all of the ai vc sink companies collapse and take their founders with them

forgot that part

1. we just learned how to make them fairly recently
2. expensive to build
3. expensive to run
4. fucking massive if powerful enough to be useful

I don’t hate AI as a technology/tool. I hate cloud-based and corporation driven/controlled AI. I hate that companies are shoving it down our throats and implementing it in the least useful and most destructive ways possible.

if I could get (for a reasonable price) a computer powerful enough to actually use some light agentic ai locally I could probably find a bunch of shit it would be genuinely helpful for. however, due to the current state of it all you can really do in most cases is rip off art or almost get a straight answer on a simple question, and it always goes through a massive datacenter halfway across the country (or globe, depending on where you are).

I watch subbed because the dub is almost always shit. only problem with that is the subbed voice acting tends to be a lot hornier

you forgot to mention the hurdy gurdy

you can get cheaper prices elsewhere all the time. look at humble bundle (idk if they’re still around but thats where a lot of my games came from a while back), green man gaming, or any of the console app stores. depending on who has sales when games are cheaper all the time. y’all are falling for propaganda trying to discredit one of the only decent companies left in gaming written by their competitors and their competitors’ friends. try thinking a little before just following the social media hive mind because you’ve spent the last couple decades seeing proof that this is a blatant lie.

I’m not gonna sit here and argue about whether it’s ok to eat meat or not. the point is that supporting cloud-based AI is taking up a ton of resources and isn’t providing much benefit for it compared to local AI. not sure why you took it in that direction in the first place, but using up nearly all of our ability to manufacture computer parts, large areas of land, lots of electricity, and lots of clean water, all for barely any benefit, is much worse in terms of resource usage (again, not going to argue about the morality of meat here) than sustaining cattle.

that’s basically what the fw desktop is meant to be. idk how good it is at it but the pricing tends to be 2-5k depending on your options, so similar to a mac mini.

I mean the meat industry (fucked up as the factory farms are) produces food. that’s very different from the ai industry, which in it’s current state produces nothing of value. I get your point, but comparing where a lot of our food comes from to the ai industry isn’t really a fair comparison.

only in our dreams

I guess they found a use case. I kinda use Gemini as one sometimes for pulling stuff from a picture of a PowerPoint and putting it in my schedule or for aggregating info about a group of products I’m trying to choose between. personally I don’t see much use for ai in general beyond menial stuff like that but that stuff actually is pretty nice aside from the whole ‘destroying the environment, economy, and several industries’ part. almost makes me want to get a computer that can run it locally just so I can try and find a use case without the destruction.

oh, well in that case the framework desktop might be in line with what your looking for. it’s like 1 liter in volume so not very big and it runs a pretty powerful processor with very fast ram and a very similar layout to how macs tend to be set up. it is expensive but not too much more than a mac.

any usage of ai that allows it to execute tasks beyond simply outputting something to the user. if it interacts with stuff (especially with some degree of autonomy) it’s an agent.

I would look at framework. more repairable, more upgradeable, and they’ve recently taken steps to make their products closer to a max level of quality (including the option of a haptic touchpad on their two main models)

yeah the framework 12 doesn’t make a lot of sense bc the price point is way too high. kinda sucks bc if it was at more of a Chromebook type of price point it would be undoubtedly the best option for schools.

I’ve recently found using my Skullcandy crushers to play music in a manner that would make a nightclub blush while studying can keep me from constantly looking around at everything but what I’m studying

yeah, shows that they actually give a damn about what they sold you. always nice to know that they’re gonna make sure what I paid for will still work right. it’s part of why I love indie games so much. you can reach out to the dev like 10 years after they stopped working on it and let them know about a minor bug and it’ll be fixed like the next day.

edit: spelling