And BAM, just like that, the term “Butlerian Humanist” was born.

Don’t worry, they have all the data on that, and I’m pretty sure they thought of it.

Fact is that most visits from search engines don’t go very deep anyway. They are allowing a brief glimpse at one page before they start prompting you to log in, and that is likely driving logins while barely shortening those SEO visits, which are not of great value in the first place.

It may come as a surprise but websites often have traffic they don’t want. I recall once my boss noticed there was a non-negligible amount of traffic from parts of the world none of our advertisers care about. He built an endless revolving door of promo offers and directed this traffic into it. It didn’t generate much money but it made the rest of our traffic look higher quality right away.

Shhh everyone’s trying to have a two-for-one here where they hate on AI and the US as the same time. Don’t ruin it with facts!!

I just tried it from the US and it told me unequivocally that Joe Biden won.

However it didn’t automatically show the “AI mode” result when I searched. It sometimes does and other times doesn’t, depending on the search. But when I tapped “AI mode” I got a straight answer. Not even a mention of fraud allegations.

It’s not the difficulty of the thing. It’s the fact that it’s thing 1,000,001 for me to remember to do in my very busy life. We can’t all be like you, sitting around with nothing better to do than keep track of shit like this.

I was already about to say “go watch some more movies” and then your comment finished with a movie reference :D

I’m downvoting it for the unreadable typography, suppressing the web page reader view on my phone, and that pretentious first paragraph. Not reading further. If people think this rant is great, great. If you disagree with me, please don’t tell me.

I never forget to update my credit card expiry date and have to buy my gmail address back from a squatter.

Yep he didn’t build Instagram, WhatsApp, or even the Facebook ad engine, which is arguably Meta’s actual product.

Just because we don’t know what it is doesn’t mean we can’t know what it isn’t.

Even incapable hands can do more than they could before. The problem is when they attempt far too much.

Oh well that string of profanity really convinced me. Thank you for clearing that up.

The taxi doesn’t just get dropped on the curb when you arrive. It leaves to go serve someone else.

No they don’t. They cut down on walking.

Better only for the person who drops it right where they arrives at their destination. That is almost never also a sensible place for these things to be. What if everyone just got out do their car the second they were in front of the building they want to go to? That would be so much “better” for them!

What’s your tally of FTEs who are wholly dedicated to developing internal AI tools for the company now? We’re at a couple dozen at least and one of them is a new fucking VP. That shit ain’t cheap either.

Ugh the rental scooters. Thankfully I’ve seen this dying down. A more common sight in my city now is parking spaces getting turned into bike rental stations. I’m all for that.

I found myself wondering about this. If you stand blocking the entrance to a building, and won’t move when the police tell you to, I guess I can see them turning that into a disorderly conduct charge. Of course we are solely debating whether blocking a robot is a crime, but their rationale iin court is probably going to be more based around obstructing a place of public accommodation or something like that.

This is a good one. I don’t even mind if it requires a repair shop, as long as it’s a modest cost. I realize that a battery you can just snap off the back would be easier but I honestly do worry that could make the phone larger or the battery smaller.

The US is a big place with many responsible, caring people in it, so it can’t be characterized all in one stroke. But when this goes wrong, it goes really wrong.

Many are actually allergic to the idea that they are even supposed to care about others. “I’m not my brother’s keeper” is a prominent attitude here.

They see this as an impingement upon their freedom. Like having a deadbeat relative you’re stuck taking care of for the rest of your life. That kind of burden.

They have some notion of family and community but it’s very local, and I mean just the people in their lives. Anything beyond that turns into 1984 for them. Not agreeing with them, mind you, just describing.