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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • Yeah, I thought it was usually just:

    Pay yourself in stocks.

    Be rich enough to take loans from the bank regularly, living off debts that you periodically clear.

    No income = no income taxes to pay.

    Banks love you, as each loan gives them money and borrowing capacity.

    If your company goes into terminal debt, create a new company to buy the debt so your company survives!

    Keep control of the board of directors so that you can convince them to give you huge bonuses paid in stocks!

    Pump up the stock price and then dump it before it drops in value.

    Lobby the government to keep this system in place.

    Donate to political campaigns so they understand they won’t get elected without you!

    Off shore accounts for the really illegal shit.

    I’m so rich the laws don’t apply to me!

    I wonder what it’s like to have sex with underaged girls? Or to kill a peasant?

    I’m gonna hit on a Jr. staff member (I can’t really date), we’ll make an agreement then I’ll name the kid after something dumb from my hobbies.

    I refused to pay anything in the divorce.

    People hate me, but money makes me happy! I’m just going to keep buying other companies rather than improving anything.

    Oh using green energy means I can sell carbon credits to my other company that’s actively killing the planet AND my company gets a tax break for it!

    I love my yatch. I’m so far away from everyone. I do actually hate being alive still. Maybe the Ketamine and cocaine is fucking with my head. Glad I’m exempt from customs, I’m never going to change… Oops I got angry and hit my wife (who is young and far less wealthy).

    I’m just going to hire people and management firms to do everything on this list for me. Including partying with me, and fighting with the wife.












  • Your examples are about AIs costing police departments money, which is what I’m saying. I’m saying it won’t be a viable use long term, BECAUSE of the blow back in time, lawsuits, and money.

    As I said earlier; “Again, mis-matches and police time checking the AI are going to cost too much, and those programs would cost big money in lawsuits and time. It’d be the first program cut by most departments.”

    More likely uses are jobs that burn through a lot of copy writers: spam/marketing, realestate ads, search engines and researching, little buddies and toys, publishing (sadly), video games, weather bureaus, text transcription and translation, scams and telemarketing. Things there’s lots of data on, and close to zero risk with.



  • Mass surveillance, is of questionable value beyond just creating a database of footage. Police DON’T aim to “solve all crime and be good guys”. They barely aim for investigating all crimes, and most crime they’d just need a time and date for to look at the footage only IF and WHEN a crime is reported. They’re not going to spend police resources to have cops sift through footage the AI has guessed there’s crime in every day. That would just cost time/money. At best it might be used for facial recognition at protests - but facial recognition systems predate AI, so it’s superfluous.

    war games, takes appropriate training data which is increadibly difficult to simulate and get the right answers from. There are already various war-gaming departments who have been trying to do this. The YouTube channel People Make Games has an episode on this - war just has so many variables that beyond the basics of troops numbers and geography it’s kind of difficult. But even if this becomes a use, it’s niche, it wouldn’t require a large amount of compute, each country only has one military… And spending on research projects (eg. DARPA) isn’t new. It’s not enough to be a “big win” for 3 AI giants, it’s more a step back to where they came from.

    predictive policing (and population control) hang on, wasn’t this your first example? Again, mis-matches and police time checking the AI are going to cost too much, and those programs would cost big money in lawsuits and time. It’d be the first program cut by most departments.

    I see nothing realistic here.

    More likely uses are jobs that burn through a lot of copy writers: spam/marketing, realestate ads, search engines and researching, little buddies and toys, publishing (sadly), video games, weather bureaus, text transcription and translation, scams and telemarketing. Things there’s lots of data on, and close to zero risk with.