FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"He who relies solely on antivirus is destined to be defeated… by his own impatience with the pop-up alerts." - The Art of Cyber War

i said elsewhere but there is a distinction between things being commodotized and things being democratized

sure enough there's a new low cost bidder in town and things are a little more affordable to some

but we all know those prices aren't sustainable, and i'm pretty sure that when the prices go up, and the adverts appear, the world won't be much better off for it happening

i give it a year before your representatives are cutting library funding "who needs it when we have ai"

similarly, i've heard a few times that "we might cure cancer", and sure enough some brute force computation can fold proteins fast

but in practice it is more likely these tools will be used to fabricate experimental results, push dietary supplements and other snakeoil cures

and more coarsely, ai isn't pouring funding into the CDC, ai isn't reversing the destruction of the FDA, and is more than likely going to be used to justify those things

i've heard a few times that "waymos will make streets safer" so i went and looked up sf's traffic fatality statistics and they're pretty much identical

i mean, there is a slight increase over the last two years but there's sufficient variance to avoid suggesting a trend

as i understand it, waymos tend to take people off busses and other forms of transit, rather than out of their own cars

so i'm doubtful it will lower deaths on the road, just the number of busses